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The Pinta Miami 2024 edition -from December 5 to 8- presents proposals that enhance the Latin American gene. Arte al Día highlights four galleries from four Latin American countries: Petrus Gallery in Puerto Rico, Proyecto H in Spain and Mexico, Salar Gallery in Bolivia and Judas Gallery in Chile.

The board of La Biennale di Venezia appointed Koyo Kouoh as Director of the Visual Arts Department, with the specific task of curating the 61st International Art Exhibition to be held in 2026.

Mirror of the Mind: Figuration in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, the exhibition at El Espacio 23 explores the entangled, inseparable relationship between the physical and emotional aspects of the body.

The Oolite Arts Board of Directors announced that they have selected national arts leader John Abodeely as the organization’s next president and CEO. He will take on his new role in January 2025.

The 2024-2025 rehang of Craig Robins Collection is titled The Sleep of Reason, based on Francisco de Goya’s El sueño de la razón produce monstruos, part of his major print series, Caprichos.

Malba announced that Rodrigo Moura (Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1975) will be the museum's new artistic director. With a solid background in important cultural institutions and an internationally renowned Latin American curator, Moura will be responsible for giving the museum visibility and presence on a global level, broadening the understanding and scope of the Collection and developing the program of temporary exhibitions at Malba and Malba Puertos.

The Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires presents two exhibitions: the first show in Argentina by US artist Onome Ekeh Especulaciones (Speculations); and El ritmo es el mejor orden (Rhythm is the best order), which brings together a group of recent drawings by Argentine artist Sofía Bohtlingk.

PAV Parco Arte Vivente presented the first solo exhibition in Italy by the Ecuadorian artist Adrián Balseca (1989) curated by Marco Scotini. The exhibition is an investigation into the role of the human being as an actor within the ecosystem, focussing on the relationships between the economy, ecology and memory as well as on the dynamics of power linked to the extractivism and exploitation of nature.  

Dim Corners is an evocative exhibition in Johannesburg featuring new works by Brazilian artist Leticia Ramos and South African artist Zen Marie. The exhibition takes into account the city’s frequent energy shortages, and also the recent blackouts that São Paulo had experienced since this project started, weaving a narrative that intertwines the immediate physical impact with the broader, insidious issues of climate change and environmental racism.

Barcelona's Center of Image La Virreina (La Virreina Centre de la Imatge) is dedicating an extensive exhibition to Regina Silveira (Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1939), one of the multimedia artists and key figures of Latin American conceptual art. Within the exhibition line of the center, which advocates the exploration of the aesthetic and ideological languages of images, this show curated by Isabella Lenzi covers a wide range of the Brazilian artist's research, experimentation and artistic production, particularly that developed with technical reproduction techniques and the circulation of images.

The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University announces Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver, the new exhibition opening on January 22, 2025. The exhibition, curated by Dr. Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator, will feature over 30 of Carrington’s spellbinding artworks, loaned from private collections, which have rarely been on public display.

NSU Art Museum at Miami presents three exhibitions: Rose B. Simpson and Vanessa German: IT INCLUDES EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE, ALWAYS; the first solo museum exhibition of artist Cici McMonigle Creatures for the divine; and Vicious Circles, the first exhibition in the United States dedicated to artist Jacqueline de Jong.

Fundación Casa de Mexico in Spain hosts the exhibition Modern Art of Mexico, with funds from the Blaisten Collection and curated by Daniel Garza Usabiaga, which takes an interesting look at the country's 20th century production through the eyes of Margarita Nelken (Madrid, Spain, 1894-Mexico City, Mexico, 1968).

Pinta Miami –the international art fair focused on modern and contemporary Iberian and Latin American art– celebrates its eighteenth edition from December 5-8, 2024. Through curated sections and a dynamic and contemporary interdisciplinary program, the fair reinforces its commitment to showcasing a plurality of art.

Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) presents Coordenadas claras para nuestra confusión (Clear coordinates for our confusion), by artist Julieta Aranda. This exhibition proposes to review the artist's production of the last decades from the perspective of her collaboration with time, understood not only as an object of research but also as an autonomous and active interlocutor. It is curated by Alejandra Labastida.

The 2024 edition of the Venice Biennale is coming to an end. Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Brazilian Adriano Pedrosa, offered a reflection through art about migration and borders, recurring themes in today's global discussion. Arte al Día was present to cover the 60th International Exhibition, not only to bring the work of more than 300 artists from almost 100 countries, but also to focus on the contribution of Latin American artists to the global scene, whose presence marked a high point in this edition.

Pérez Art Museum presents the exhibition José Parla: Homecoming. Featuring new works and a site-specific mural exhibition, it marks the artist’s return to painting and Miami.

The exhibition Beyond the Single Image. Spanish Photography from the Foto Colectania Collection, Barcelona, at The Marguiles Collection at the Warehouse in Miami, presents 150 works by 36 artists from the Foto Colectania Collection, that currently comprises more than 3,000 photographs by Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese authors, making it undoubtedly one of the most comprehensive private photography collections in the Iberian Peninsula. 

Isabella Despujols (Barquisemeto, Venezuela, 1994), Venezuelan artist based in Brazil, uses her artistic references for the realization of her latest series of works, a set made this year where textiles and embroidery are especially relevant, as well as the formal fact that they reflect. In them is palpable the conversation that he intends to maintain with those styles and languages that were fundamental in the countries to which he circumscribes his personal experience.

FACT Liverpool presents Cosmotechnics, a group exhibition by Latin American artists curated by FACT’s Curator-in-residence Beatrice Zaideberg. Cosmotechnics showcases a series of transformative installations featuring video, sound, sculpture, and digital media.

The Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales in Montevideo, Uruguay, presents the work of Mexican artist Adela Casacuberta. It is a site-specific installation Pink mushrooms in the museum's gardens and an exhibition of her most recent works.

Based on the biologicist theories on territoriality and the relationships derived from living beings with their immediate environment, the Angeles Baños gallery from Badajoz proposes an exhibition project to three Latin American artists so that, through their experiences and their personal vision, they can materialize and express those feelings of territoriality, and always from the parallelism of the human being with the rest of living beings.

The Museum of Pontevedra exhibits Vento (wind, in Galician), the proposal that the artist Alberto Baraya (Bogota, Colombia, 1968) has developed and now shows at its headquarters in the Castelao Building as part of the cycle of exhibitions Infiltracións. This program aims to carry out specific projects that have as their backbone the dialogue arising from research and work with pieces from the collection of the Galician institution to promote re-readings on it.

The Bass is presenting the exhibition asume vivid astro focus – XI, an enveloping installation of patterned wallpaper and decal graphics that spans floor to ceiling in a setting created for works by more than thirty artists. On view from November 13, 2024.

Inspired by the murals of Carl Abrahams lining the departures lounge of Kingston Jamaica’s Norman Manley International Airport, Hurvin Anderson presents a new, sixteen-panel, monumental painting in his first solo show at Pérez Art Museum Miami.

ICA Miami presents the first US museum exhibition of the late Afro-Brazilian painter Rubem Valentim (b. 1922, Salvador, Brazil; d. 1991, São Paulo). A singular voice in modernist painting and geometric abstraction, Valentim explored the medium’s formal concerns and social resonances across cultures and spiritual practices. This exhibition focuses on works Valentim produced in the 1960s, and the transformation of his work and thinking during this time.

On Saturday, November 9, 2024, a new edition of Gallery arrives to explore the neighborhoods of San Telmo and La Boca, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Gallery promotes free tours through art circuits where visitors can discover a great diversity of galleries, museums, artists' studios and foundations. A great opportunity to bring contemporary art closer to the general public and promote the extraordinary local offer.

Lisbon's MAAT hosts the exhibition Disco, a show with more than half a thousand works by Vivian Suter (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1949) with which the institution pays tribute to the pictorial production of the Swiss-Argentine artist and her particular exploration of the interaction with nature and the different techniques and possibilities applicable to painting.

Locust Projects presents Bare Tool (Herramienta desnuda), a new exhibition by artist Alexandre Arrechea that explores the action of a stone skipping across water as a metaphor for “social sculpture” and the resulting ripple effect, which the artist envisions in three acts: “The Tool,” “The Action,” and “The Implications,” unfolding as a large scale, immersive multimedia experience that invites reflection on the power of individual acts.

The Copenhagen Planetarium opens a permanent installation by Tomás Saraceno, Cosmic Threads, where the public is invited to reflect on the enigmas of the universe and human responsibility for the future of the planet.