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Álvaro De Benito
Álvaro De Benito

Álvaro de Benito has a degree in Journalism and Communication and a master's degree in Cultural Management. A cultural journalist and correspondent for Arte al Día International in Spain and Portugal since 2005, he has covered the evolution of Latin American art and its institutional fabric from different perspectives, publishing numerous articles, critical reviews, and interviews with its driving forces. He is also the editor of cultural projects focused on promoting linguistic heritage.

RAFAEL MORENO BUILDS HIS EVER-CHANGING UNIVERSE IN ALSACE

The Colombian artist's exhibition at CRAC Alsace constructs a universe in perpetual transformation, where the reuse of materials, the hybridization of disciplines, and underlying tensions invite viewers to reflect on the social, economic, and symbolic structures that shape our experience of the world.

By Álvaro De Benito
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RAFAEL MORENO BUILDS HIS EVER-CHANGING UNIVERSE IN ALSACE

By Álvaro De Benito

The Colombian artist's exhibition at CRAC Alsace constructs a universe in perpetual transformation, where the reuse of materials, the hybridization of disciplines, and underlying tensions invite viewers to reflect on the social, economic, and symbolic structures that shape our experience of the world.

ALEJANDRO CARTAGENA: A PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE FOR THE COLLECTIVE NARRATIVE

The Dominican-Mexican photographer explores the social and territorial transformations of Mexico through a critical and serial photographic practice in a major exhibition presented as part of PhotoEspaña.

By Álvaro De Benito
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ALEJANDRO CARTAGENA: A PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE FOR THE COLLECTIVE NARRATIVE

By Álvaro De Benito

The Dominican-Mexican photographer explores the social and territorial transformations of Mexico through a critical and serial photographic practice in a major exhibition presented as part of PhotoEspaña.

ARCHITECTURE AND SPIRITUALITY IN ENGEL LEONARDO

In his latest exhibition in Madrid, the Dominican artist further develops his exploration of geometric abstraction from a Caribbean perspective, linking architecture, memory, and spirituality to examine the connections between history and Antillean identity.

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ARCHITECTURE AND SPIRITUALITY IN ENGEL LEONARDO

Until 08/20/2026
Madrid, Spain
CARLOS CASTRO AND THE REASSESSMENT OF COLOMBIA'S VISUAL HISTORY

In his solo exhibition at La Cometa in Madrid, the Colombian artist revisits the imagery of the landscape through a critical lens that interrogates memory, identity, and dominant historical narratives by appropriating and intervening images from the past.

 

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CARLOS CASTRO AND THE REASSESSMENT OF COLOMBIA'S VISUAL HISTORY

Until 07/31/2026
Madrid, Spain
MACCHI, JEŽIK AND HERNÁNDEZ: RETHINKING THE CONTEMPORARY THROUGH MEDIA LANGUAGE

The Galician institution presents a proposal that connects the practices of Macchi, Ježik and Hernández with those of Alberto Ardid, bringing together critical strategies that engage with the construction of contemporaneity through media language and visual culture.

 

By Álvaro De Benito
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MACCHI, JEŽIK AND HERNÁNDEZ: RETHINKING THE CONTEMPORARY THROUGH MEDIA LANGUAGE

By Álvaro De Benito

The Galician institution presents a proposal that connects the practices of Macchi, Ježik and Hernández with those of Alberto Ardid, bringing together critical strategies that engage with the construction of contemporaneity through media language and visual culture.

 

FERNANDO ALLEN REVISITS PARAGUAYAN ROCK ENGRAVINGS HERITAGE AT ALTAMIRA

The Paraguayan artist and researcher Fernando Allen engages with the rock art of his home country in La piedra y la luz, an exhibition that combines photography, academic inquiry, and contemporary artistic practice while reflecting on cultural heritage and memory.

By Álvaro De Benito
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FERNANDO ALLEN REVISITS PARAGUAYAN ROCK ENGRAVINGS HERITAGE AT ALTAMIRA

By Álvaro De Benito

The Paraguayan artist and researcher Fernando Allen engages with the rock art of his home country in La piedra y la luz, an exhibition that combines photography, academic inquiry, and contemporary artistic practice while reflecting on cultural heritage and memory.

GROUP EXHIBITION AT EL APARTAMENTO: CUBAN PERSPECTIVES ON PAINTING

Seven artists from the island come together at El Apartamento’s Madrid space to explore painting as an archive of memory, identity, and representation in contemporary culture.

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GROUP EXHIBITION AT EL APARTAMENTO: CUBAN PERSPECTIVES ON PAINTING

Until 08/01/2026
Madrid, Spain
GLENDA LEÓN IN BILBAO: SILENCE AS A PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCE

The exhibition at the Bilbao centre presents a broad selection of Glenda León’s multidisciplinary practice, articulated around “sensitive conceptualism”, in which sound, silence and perception interweave emotional experience with conceptual reflection.

By Álvaro De Benito
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GLENDA LEÓN IN BILBAO: SILENCE AS A PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCE

By Álvaro De Benito

The exhibition at the Bilbao centre presents a broad selection of Glenda León’s multidisciplinary practice, articulated around “sensitive conceptualism”, in which sound, silence and perception interweave emotional experience with conceptual reflection.

THE SMALL AND THE EVERYDAY AS SENSIBLE MATTER IN DANIELA LIBERTAD

The Mexican artist’s exhibition at N/F Nieves Fernández explores the relationship between the body, everyday objects, and geometric forms through a balance between the material and the immaterial, with a particular focus on the observation of the small as a trigger for experience, thought, and shifts in perception.

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THE SMALL AND THE EVERYDAY AS SENSIBLE MATTER IN DANIELA LIBERTAD

Until 07/31/2026
Madrid, Spain
FERNANDA DEL BARRIO: TERRITORY AND QUESTIONING THE IDEA OF HOME

The exhibition by Mexican artist Fernanda del Barrio in Madrid explores the instability of territory through installation, photography, and archival practices, proposing ways of inhabiting space rooted in the body, the ephemeral, and its relationship with the surrounding environment.

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FERNANDA DEL BARRIO: TERRITORY AND QUESTIONING THE IDEA OF HOME

Until 08/22/2026
Madrid, Spain
EL APARTAMENTO: THREE SENSITIVE CARTOGRAPHIES OF THE TROPICAL TERRITORY

The exhibition explores the tropical landscape as a space of memory, perception, and experience through the dialogue established between the works of María Ana Vasco Costa, Márcio Vilela, and Ariamna Contino.

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EL APARTAMENTO: THREE SENSITIVE CARTOGRAPHIES OF THE TROPICAL TERRITORY

Until 08/01/2026
Madrid, Spain
PAOLO SALVADOR AT CARLIER | GEBAUER: BETWEEN MATTER AND THE SPIRITUAL

The first exhibition by the Peruvian artist at carlier | gebauer brings together a series of paintings that explore the relationship between matter, symbolism, and Peruvian cosmology through hybrid figures and the integration of artisanal processes.

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PAOLO SALVADOR AT CARLIER | GEBAUER: BETWEEN MATTER AND THE SPIRITUAL

Until 07/26/2026
Madrid, Spain
JOTA MOMBAÇA IN SWITZERLAND: CHALLENGING THE COLONIAL LOGICS OF EXTRACTIVISM

The Brazilian artist links climate crisis, history, and extractivism in her solo exhibition in Bern, reflecting on the social, political, and environmental consequences of a model whose patterns continue to reproduce colonial logics.

By Álvaro De Benito
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JOTA MOMBAÇA IN SWITZERLAND: CHALLENGING THE COLONIAL LOGICS OF EXTRACTIVISM

By Álvaro De Benito

The Brazilian artist links climate crisis, history, and extractivism in her solo exhibition in Bern, reflecting on the social, political, and environmental consequences of a model whose patterns continue to reproduce colonial logics.

DAGOBERTO RODRÍGUEZ AND THE CARIBBEAN AS A TERRITORY OF INSTABILITY

The Cuban artist approaches the Caribbean maritime imaginary as a space of transformation, memory, and instability in Submersus, his first solo exhibition at Casado Santapau. Bringing together paintings, sculptures, and installations, the exhibition invites reflection on the fragility of forms and on the shifting boundaries between the visible and the submerged.

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DAGOBERTO RODRÍGUEZ AND THE CARIBBEAN AS A TERRITORY OF INSTABILITY

Until 07/25/2026
Madrid, Spain
SANDRA ELETA’S "LA SERVIDUMBRE": DIGNITY THROUGH DOMESTIC WORK

The exhibition by the Panamanian photographer at Memoria gallery reframes domestic labor as a transformative space of power and resistance.

 

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SANDRA ELETA’S "LA SERVIDUMBRE": DIGNITY THROUGH DOMESTIC WORK

Until 07/25/2026
Madrid, Spain
NURIA ENGUITA: “MUSEUMS DO NOT SPEAK FROM A NEUTRAL POSITION, BUT FROM A CONTEXT THAT SHOULD BE MADE VISIBLE”

Interview with Nuria Enguita, Artistic Director, MAC/CCB – Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture Centre (Museu de Arte Contemporânea e Centro de Arquitetura), Lisbon.

By Álvaro De Benito
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NURIA ENGUITA: “MUSEUMS DO NOT SPEAK FROM A NEUTRAL POSITION, BUT FROM A CONTEXT THAT SHOULD BE MADE VISIBLE”

By Álvaro De Benito

Interview with Nuria Enguita, Artistic Director, MAC/CCB – Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture Centre (Museu de Arte Contemporânea e Centro de Arquitetura), Lisbon.

MANUELA SOLANO’S PICTORIAL UNIVERSE ARRIVES AT THE CAAC

The Mexican artist explores the relationship between memory and identity in her exhibition in Seville through more than thirty large-scale paintings in which the visual language of pop culture invites viewers to recognize themselves and question socially constructed roles.

By Álvaro De Benito
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MANUELA SOLANO’S PICTORIAL UNIVERSE ARRIVES AT THE CAAC

By Álvaro De Benito

The Mexican artist explores the relationship between memory and identity in her exhibition in Seville through more than thirty large-scale paintings in which the visual language of pop culture invites viewers to recognize themselves and question socially constructed roles.

THE BUNDESKUNSTHALLE RECONSIDERS THE AMAZONIAN IMAGINARY BEYOND EXOTICISM

An extensive exhibition in Bonn featuring more than 400 works and objects presents Amazonia through the perspectives of its Indigenous peoples, exploring their cosmologies through a dialogue between contemporary artistic practices and historical artefacts. 

By Álvaro De Benito
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THE BUNDESKUNSTHALLE RECONSIDERS THE AMAZONIAN IMAGINARY BEYOND EXOTICISM

By Álvaro De Benito

An extensive exhibition in Bonn featuring more than 400 works and objects presents Amazonia through the perspectives of its Indigenous peoples, exploring their cosmologies through a dialogue between contemporary artistic practices and historical artefacts. 

TENDERNESS IN GÓMEZ LÓPEZ’S AFFECTIVE UNIVERSE

The Mexican artist departs, at Travesía Cuatro, from his established use of popular culture to embrace a more sensitive imaginary that explores tenderness, childhood, and reconciliation as forms of resistance against the contemporary world.

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TENDERNESS IN GÓMEZ LÓPEZ’S AFFECTIVE UNIVERSE

Until 07/18/2026
Madrid, Spain
THE QUESTIONING OF TIME, ACCORDING TO DÍAZ MORALES

The Argentine artist returns to carlier | gebauer to explore, through the creation of a suggestive environment, how we perceive and destabilize time and its interruptions.

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THE QUESTIONING OF TIME, ACCORDING TO DÍAZ MORALES

Until 07/25/2026
Madrid, Spain
TANIA CANDIANI INSCRIBES AN ECOLOGY OF THE INVISIBLE AT IVAM

Tania Candiani arrives in Valencia with an immersive installation that reimagines the subsoil as a living, speculative organism, where nature, technology, and memory converge to configure a hybrid ecosystem.

By Álvaro De Benito
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TANIA CANDIANI INSCRIBES AN ECOLOGY OF THE INVISIBLE AT IVAM

By Álvaro De Benito

Tania Candiani arrives in Valencia with an immersive installation that reimagines the subsoil as a living, speculative organism, where nature, technology, and memory converge to configure a hybrid ecosystem.

ANDREA CANEPA AT CRISIS: MOVEMENT AS MEMORY AND PERMANENCE

The exhibition by the Peruvian artist in Madrid examines, through mobile sculptures and mosaics, the ways in which movement and memory function as structuring forces of cultural resistance and continuity.

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ANDREA CANEPA AT CRISIS: MOVEMENT AS MEMORY AND PERMANENCE

Until 06/23/2026
Madrid, Spain
OSPINA AND GOLDSTEIN: TWO VISIONS OF PAINTING’S ZERO POINT

The two Colombian artists approach the exploration of painting’s zero point through separate solo exhibitions at La Cometa, responding from positions shaped by contemporary visual saturation and the suspended pictorial gesture.

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OSPINA AND GOLDSTEIN: TWO VISIONS OF PAINTING’S ZERO POINT

Until 07/05/2026
Madrid, Spain
DANIEL JACOBY: THE PERSISTENCE OF STIGMA AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION

The exhibition by Peruvian artist at Galería Maisterra examines memory, identity, and belonging through a literary narrative articulated across video and sculpture, interrogating systems of social classification and the cultural hierarchies that sustain mechanisms of exclusion.

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DANIEL JACOBY: THE PERSISTENCE OF STIGMA AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION

Until 07/04/2026
Madrid, Spain
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