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
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.
DAGOBERTO RODRÍGUEZ AND THE CARIBBEAN AS A TERRITORY OF INSTABILITY
SANDRA ELETA’S "LA SERVIDUMBRE": DIGNITY THROUGH DOMESTIC WORK
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.
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.
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.
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.
DANIEL JACOBY: THE PERSISTENCE OF STIGMA AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
WYNNIE MYNERVA IN BERLIN: CONCEPTUALIZING LOVE AS COLLECTIVE RESISTANCE
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.
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.
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?

