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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.

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
Interviews

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
News

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
GONZALEZ-TORRES’ SWEET REVENGE IN MADRID UNRAVELS THE CURATORIAL NARRATIVE

The Museo Reina Sofía presents a selection of more than fifty participatory, reconfigurable and conceptually driven works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, activating a contemporary reading of his practice that exceeds both curatorial boundaries and established discursive frameworks.

 

By Álvaro De Benito
Reviews

GONZALEZ-TORRES’ SWEET REVENGE IN MADRID UNRAVELS THE CURATORIAL NARRATIVE

By Álvaro De Benito

The Museo Reina Sofía presents a selection of more than fifty participatory, reconfigurable and conceptually driven works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, activating a contemporary reading of his practice that exceeds both curatorial boundaries and established discursive frameworks.

 

June 01, 2026
THE CENTRO BOTÍN REVISITS MARISOL BEYOND THE SCULPTURAL

The Santander-based institution proposes a curatorial reading of Marisol through a major retrospective of her drawing practice, understood as a fundamental axis of her work and as a means of articulating the knowledge acquired through her vital displacements.

By Álvaro De Benito
Reviews

THE CENTRO BOTÍN REVISITS MARISOL BEYOND THE SCULPTURAL

By Álvaro De Benito

The Santander-based institution proposes a curatorial reading of Marisol through a major retrospective of her drawing practice, understood as a fundamental axis of her work and as a means of articulating the knowledge acquired through her vital displacements.

May 26, 2026
SPAIN: ORIOL VILANOVA AND THE ABOLITION OF THE MUSEUM AND THE ARCHIVE

The Spanish Pavilion at the Biennale is transformed into an anti-museum led by the Catalan artist, grounded in the accumulation of postcards, memory, and a critique of the archive.

By Álvaro De Benito
News

SPAIN: ORIOL VILANOVA AND THE ABOLITION OF THE MUSEUM AND THE ARCHIVE

By Álvaro De Benito

The Spanish Pavilion at the Biennale is transformed into an anti-museum led by the Catalan artist, grounded in the accumulation of postcards, memory, and a critique of the archive.

DE AZAMBUJA’S “FOUNDATION”: INTERVENTION AND REFLECTION AT LA CASA ENCENDIDA

Fundación, by Marlon de Azambuja, transforms one of La Casa Encendida’s towers into a walk-through sculptural installation. Aiming to reflect on the act of founding and the search for what underpins knowledge, the work questions the divisions between reason and sensation and proposes the exhibition space as an experiential environment.

By Álvaro De Benito
News

DE AZAMBUJA’S “FOUNDATION”: INTERVENTION AND REFLECTION AT LA CASA ENCENDIDA

By Álvaro De Benito

Fundación, by Marlon de Azambuja, transforms one of La Casa Encendida’s towers into a walk-through sculptural installation. Aiming to reflect on the act of founding and the search for what underpins knowledge, the work questions the divisions between reason and sensation and proposes the exhibition space as an experiential environment.

GABRIEL CHAILE UNFOLDS HIS ARCHAEOLOGY OF MIGRATION IN LONDON

The Argentine artist connects memory and identity in a large-scale installation commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery, where adobe sculptures and collected objects examine the experience of displacement through a contemporary archaeological lens.

By Álvaro De Benito
News

GABRIEL CHAILE UNFOLDS HIS ARCHAEOLOGY OF MIGRATION IN LONDON

By Álvaro De Benito

The Argentine artist connects memory and identity in a large-scale installation commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery, where adobe sculptures and collected objects examine the experience of displacement through a contemporary archaeological lens.

TUNGA’S "YO, VOS Y LA LUNA " MAKES ITS EUROPEAN DEBUT

Supported by Collegium, the acclaimed installation by the Brazilian artist arrives in Spain with a sensorial and contemplative proposal in dialogue with the Church of San Miguel in Arévalo.

 

By Álvaro De Benito
News

TUNGA’S "YO, VOS Y LA LUNA " MAKES ITS EUROPEAN DEBUT

By Álvaro De Benito

Supported by Collegium, the acclaimed installation by the Brazilian artist arrives in Spain with a sensorial and contemplative proposal in dialogue with the Church of San Miguel in Arévalo.

 

THE CAAC EXPLORES “AMEFRICAN” CONNECTIONS THROUGH THE JORGE M. PÉREZ COLLECTION

Inspired by Lélia Gonzalez’s concept of “amefricanity,” Seville once again engages with the Jorge M. Pérez collection, bringing together American and African artists and proposals to question the historical, symbolic, and aesthetic links across both sides of the Atlantic.

 

By Álvaro De Benito
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THE CAAC EXPLORES “AMEFRICAN” CONNECTIONS THROUGH THE JORGE M. PÉREZ COLLECTION

By Álvaro De Benito

Inspired by Lélia Gonzalez’s concept of “amefricanity,” Seville once again engages with the Jorge M. Pérez collection, bringing together American and African artists and proposals to question the historical, symbolic, and aesthetic links across both sides of the Atlantic.

 

WYNNIE MYNERVA IN BERLIN: CONCEPTUALIZING LOVE AS COLLECTIVE RESISTANCE

Peruvian artist Wynnie Mynerva explores migration, love, and resistance in Berlin through Andean cosmology and social thought, interrogating which bodies become legible within regimes of recognition and how forms of attachment persist amid conditions of violence and exclusion.

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WYNNIE MYNERVA IN BERLIN: CONCEPTUALIZING LOVE AS COLLECTIVE RESISTANCE

Until 06/27/2026
Berlin, Germany
ARTIUM RECOVERS THE SILENCED DISSIDENCE OF JUANA CIMA

Artium brings back into the artistic debate the trajectory of Juana Fernández Cima, a body of work shaped by dissidence, identity, and spirituality that was progressively marginalized from the dominant artistic narrative.

By Álvaro De Benito
News

ARTIUM RECOVERS THE SILENCED DISSIDENCE OF JUANA CIMA

By Álvaro De Benito

Artium brings back into the artistic debate the trajectory of Juana Fernández Cima, a body of work shaped by dissidence, identity, and spirituality that was progressively marginalized from the dominant artistic narrative.

REINTERPRETATIONS BY DEMIÁN FLORES OF VIOLENCE, MYTH, AND REPRESENTATION

The Mexican artist reinterprets colonial-themed prints by Theodor de Bry to question the construction of otherness and denounce neocolonial violence and contemporary conflicts.

By Álvaro De Benito
News

REINTERPRETATIONS BY DEMIÁN FLORES OF VIOLENCE, MYTH, AND REPRESENTATION

By Álvaro De Benito

The Mexican artist reinterprets colonial-themed prints by Theodor de Bry to question the construction of otherness and denounce neocolonial violence and contemporary conflicts.

THE VENICE BIENNALE IN AN EDITION MARKED BY POLITICAL GAMES

The Venice Art Biennale is approaching the inauguration of its 61st edition amid resignations, protests, and controversies. Never indifferent to its time, its launch also converges within an intense context of wars, genocides, and geopolitical crises. From Arte al Día, we ask ourselves: how can we trace the relationships between politics and art?

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THE VENICE BIENNALE IN AN EDITION MARKED BY POLITICAL GAMES

The Venice Art Biennale is approaching the inauguration of its 61st edition amid resignations, protests, and controversies. Never indifferent to its time, its launch also converges within an intense context of wars, genocides, and geopolitical crises. From Arte al Día, we ask ourselves: how can we trace the relationships between politics and art?