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Up-to-date news from the Latin American and international art world: exhibitions, awards, acquisitions, and institutions across the contemporary art circuit.
SURREALIST IVÁN TOVAR RETURNS TO VENICE HALF A CENTURY LATER
The Iván Tovar Foundation presents Le Retour, a collateral event of the 61st Venice Biennale that repositions the Dominican artist within the global history of Surrealism.
THE WEIGHT OF THE OTHER AS ARTISTIC MATERIAL: IVÁN ARGOTE AT MAMM
The Colombian artist presents Sentir tu peso, a participatory installation on the terrace of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, his first appearance in the city.
THE ERASED COMMUNITIES OF THE PANAMA CANAL ARRIVE AT THE VENICE BIENNALE
In line with the theme of the 61st edition, the duo Messengers of the Sun turns hyperstition into a tool for rewriting an untold story: that of the peoples displaced by a mythologized feat of engineering.
CAROLINA CAYCEDO: BETWEEN VENICE AND SÃO PAULO, RIVERS AND RESISTANCE
The Colombian-British artist participates in the current Venice Biennale and opens Confluences at MASP on July 3.
POLAND OCCUPIES THREE NATIONAL PAVILIONS AT THE VENICE BIENNALE
Polish artists and curators are present at the Polish, Estonian, and Albanian Pavilions, as well as an official collateral event at the Procuratie Vecchie.
LIMA GATHERS SPECIALISTS FROM FIVE COUNTRIES TO DISCUSS THE FUTURE OF LIBRARIES
The 10th International Seminar on Library and Information Science – SIBI 2026 takes place on June 25 and 26 at the Goethe-Institut Perú and ICPNA Miraflores.
COLOMBIAN JOSÉ ROCA TO CURATE NEXT LJUBLJANA BIENNALE OF GRAPHIC ARTS
The 37th edition of the Slovenian event will approach print as technique, as a form of contact, transfer and inscription.
SPAIN HONORS SANDRA GAMARRA HESHIKI WITH ITS MOST PRESTIGOUS CULTURAL AWARD
The Lima-born, Madrid-based artist received the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts from King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia at a ceremony in Toledo.
CECILIA ALEMANI APPOINTED CURATOR OF THE 15th TAIPEI BIENNIAL
The Italian-American curator, known for directing the 59th Venice Biennale, arrives in Asia for the first time with a curatorial project of her own.
GUATEMALA PRESENTS “LAS INVISIBLES” AT THE 61st VENICE BIENNALE
Memory, identity, and abstraction intersect in the exhibition by Ana Lorena Núñez, Jorge Chavarría, Manuel Navichoc, and Elsie Wunderlich for the international art fair.
“EXIT INTERVIEW”: BUCHLOH’S CRITICAL LEGACY, NOW IN SPANISH
Alias editorial publishes the Spanish translation of the conversation between Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and Hal Foster, conceived as the farewell of one of postwar art criticism's central figures.
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.
LATIN AMERICAN TEXTILE ART AND KINETICISM CONVERGE IN CALERO'S EXHIBITION IN MIAMI
Curated by Katherine Chacón, Movement in Suspended Time activates a surface that evokes the loom as originary matrix, transposing onto the picture plane the tension between artisanal tradition and abstract modernity.
THE CURATORIAL TEAM FOR THE 37th BIENAL DE SÃO PAULO ANNOUNCED
Led by Amanda Carneiro and Raphael Fonseca, nine professionals from across the globe think of the Bienal as a platform for research, imagination, encounter, and meaningful engagement.
ALFREDO JAAR INDUCTED INTO THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS
The acclaimed Chilean artist joins the institution that brings together the most distinguished figures in architecture, visual arts, literature, and music in the United States.
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.
BUENOS AIRES DRESSES UP FOR NODO CIRCUITOS: FIVE ART GALLERIES TO VISIT
Meridiano's program brings together this weekend — June 4, 5 and 6 — a tour of galleries in San Telmo, Microcentro, La Boca, Villa Crespo and Retiro. The circuit offers an active reading of local contemporary art.
BEATRIZ GONZÁLEZ IN OSLO: THE MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE THAT CLOSES A LEGACY
Astrup Fearnley Museet presents 150 works by the Colombian artist, who passed away in January 2026. An exhibition she helped plan herself, spanning six decades of everyday images, political violence, and a palette all her own.
CAN YOU TRUST WHAT YOU SEE? LEANDRO ERLICH AT THE GRAND PALAIS, PARIS
The Buenos Aires artist has turned the prestigious French building into his new stage: climbable structures, houses suspended in mid-air, and impossible staircases, through September 6.
MILESTONE FOR SALVADORAN ART: SEVEN WORKS ENTER THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART COLLECTION
Works by Beatriz Cortez, Simón Vega, Walterio Iraheta, and Verónica Vides are now part of one of the most important collections in the world, thanks to a donation by collector Mario Cáder-Frech.
"VILLA PILAR": A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN WORK BY LEONORA CARRINGTON, PAINTED DURING HER HOSPITALIZATION IN SPAIN, COMES TO LIGHT
The exhibition Leonora Carrington: el surrealismo sintomático will include a painting the artist made in 1940 during her stay in Santander, a work that has remained hidden for decades.
JULIO LE PARC, THE MAN FROM MENDOZA WHO TURNED LIGHT INTO A WORK OF ART, HAS PASSED AWAY
He was 97 years old and had been hospitalized for two days at the American Hospital of Paris. On June 11, a major retrospective was set to open at the Tate in London.
NODO 2026: 67 GALLERIES AND SEVEN INTERNATIONAL CURATORS ON THE BUENOS AIRES CIRCUIT
This June, the program will tour seven neighborhoods across the city with free admission, and will include an institutional acquisitions segment and visits from professionals from Mexico, Colombia, Panama, the United States, Spain, Germany, and Brazil.
ON THE POLITICS OF SPACE AND GENDER DYNAMICS: PHOTOGRAPHY AT MoMA
The exhibition will feature a groundbreaking feminist work by late German artist Marianne Wex alongside works by seven contemporary artists.
A MENTAL GARDEN: HAITI AT THE VENICE BIENNALE 2026
Haitian artist Enock Placide's installation offers an immersive experience of time, space, and perception, on view through November 22 at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello.
WHAT IS "SEAWORLD VENICE"? THE INSTALLATION AT THE BIENNALE THAT STAGES ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL COLLAPSE
Florentina Holzinger represents Austria at the 61st International Art Exhibition with a live installation exploring water, purity and feminist resistance. On view through 22 November at the Giardini della Biennale.
JUNKANOO IN VENICE: ART, MEMORY, AND POSTHUMOUS COLLABORATION AT THE BAHAMAS PAVILION
The 2026 Venice Biennale hosts an exhibition exploring the Bahamian Junkanoo tradition through the work of John Beadle and Lavar Munroe — two generations of artists united by discarded materials and collective memory.
BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: CANADA BRINGS TWILIGHT TO THE VENICE BIENNALE
With Victoria water lilies as protagonists, Abbas Akhavan transforms the Canadian pavilion into a liminal space that invites to rethink humanity's relationship with the natural world.
US SCULPTURES AMID CONTROVERSY AT THE VENICE BIENNALE
No formal application, no galleries, and uncertain funding: the artist representing the United States in Venice explores the transformation of matter and the American landscape.
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.
NEW ZEALAND PHOTOGRAPHER FIONA PARDINGTON REPRESENTS AOTEAROA AT THE VENICE BIENNALE
A new series of large-scale photographs of taxidermied birds — some extinct, many endangered — explores the intersection of colonial history, Māori spirituality, and ecological loss.
LILIA CARRILLO IN NEW YORK: THE MEXICAN PAINTER WHO WAS AHEAD OF HER TIME
A new exhibition at Americas Society reclaims the work of a painter who defied muralism and held her own in dialogue with American Abstract Expressionism and European Informalism.
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.
