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BIENALSUR ARRIVES AT MUSEO MAR IN MAR DEL PLATA
Fragmenting Obsolescence. Silent Spring explores new ways of observing matter and time, objects and their durability, and the relationship between extinction and obsolescence.
AMAZONIAN MENTAL HEALTH AT THE ICPNA ENGRAVING MUSEUM
Luna Dannon presents an exhibition born from her experience leading a mental health project involving 105 Amazonian communities during the pandemic.
THE VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE: BETWEEN CRAFTS AND ANTHROPOLOGY
By Álvaro de Benito
The Casa de México Foundation in Spain presents Guadalupe. La Virgen de México (Guadalupe. The Virgin of Mexico), an extensive program of exhibitions and activities centered around one of Mexico's most iconic and anthropologically significant figures. In addition to lectures and various screenings, the program revolves around two main themes: craftsmanship and popular culture on one hand, and anthropology on the other.
POP BRAZIL: COLOR AND DISSENT AT THE PINACOTECA
The Pinacoteca de São Paulo, a museum under the Bureau of Culture, Economy, and Creative Industry of the State of São Paulo, presents the exhibition Pop Brazil: Avant-garde and New Figuration, 1960-70, in the Grande Galeria of the Pina Contemporânea building.
ACTION, STRUGGLE, AND LANGUAGE BY LOTTY ROSENFELD AT THE CBA
By Álvaro de Benito
The Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid is hosting the exhibition By Pass. La frontera del signo (By Pass. The Frontier of the Sign), a comprehensive presentation of the work of Lotty Rosenfeld (Santiago, Chile, 1943–2020), a key figure in Latin American video art whose practice emerged at the intersection of political activism and the creation of images as spaces of expression and freedom.
FIVE READINGS OF MASP: BETWEEN HISTORY AND THE PRESENT
Histories of MASP, Renoir, Geometries, Arts from Africa, and Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement are part of Five Essays on MASP, a series of exhibitions based on the museum’s collection that inaugurate the new Pietro Maria Bardi Building.
BIENALSUR CURATES LATIN AMERICAN VIDEO EXHIBITION AT THE REINA SOFÍA
By Álvaro de Benito
The Reina Sofía Museum, in collaboration with BIENALSUR, presents the exhibition Resistencia. Una selección de video sudamericano (Resistance: A Selection of South American Video). Curated by Argentine art historian Diana Wechsler, artistic director of BIENALSUR, the exhibition offers two complementary ways to engage with the works, both situated around the museum’s cinema hall.
COUNTER-EXPEDITIONS: CASTELBLANCO DISMANTLES THE COLONIAL IMAGINATION OF TRAVEL
At the Haus for Media Art Oldenburg, the artist turns movement across territories into an act of reciprocity, care, and deep listening.
MOON, MYTHS, AND MEMORY: PAULO NIMER PJOTA AT KUNSTINSTITUUT MELLY
The Brazilian artist presents his first institutional exhibition in the Netherlands with a collection of works that blend personal reminiscences, mythology, and urban culture.
GRACIELA ITURBIDE RETROSPECTIVE AT CASA DE MÉXICO
By Álvaro de Benito
The Casa de México Foundation in Spain is hosting Cuando habla la luz (When Light Speaks), the first retrospective of Graciela Iturbide (Mexico City, 1942) since she received the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts. Curated by Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, the exhibition brings together 115 works spanning from 1972 to 2017.
BIENALSUR CELEBRATES TEN YEARS WITH A NEW EDITION IN BUENOS AIRES
BIENALSUR Week 2025 opened with a diverse and expansive program at key venues in the city of Buenos Aires. It will continue throughout July and run until December at various venues.
VAREJÃO AND REGO, DIALOGUES AT GULBENKIAN
By Álvaro de Benito
The Gulbenkian Modern Art Center in Lisbon presents Entre os vossos dentes (Between Your Teeth), an exhibition showcasing 80 works by Adriana Varejão (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1964) and Paula Rego (Lisbon, Portugal, 1935 – London, United Kingdom, 2022), reflecting the production, themes, and interpretations of these two artists from different generations.
TERRITORIAL NARRATIVE FIGURES AT THE 12th SITE SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL
Once Within a Time inaugurated on June 27 in New Mexico with an ambitious exhibition that reflects on the many layers of history, identity, and memory that shape Santa Fe and northern New Mexico.
LISTENING AS A POLITICAL AND ECOLOGICAL ACT: MOMENTUM 13 IN NORWAY
MOMENTUM, the Nordic Biennale of Contemporary Art, inaugurated its 13th edition, Between/Worlds: Resonant Ecologies, curated by Danish curator and academic Morten Søndergaard. The show invites the public to tune into the quiet, the overlooked, the unheard; presents sound as a way to reorient how we live and as a medium for unprepared listening.
ALFREDO JAAR RECEIVES THE 65th EDWARD MACDOWELL MEDAL
Chilean-born visual artist, architect and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar is this year’s recipient of the 65th Annual Edward MacDowell Medal, for his outstanding contributions to American culture in the field of “Visual Arts.” His poetic photographs, films and elaborate installations confront the greatest socio-political issues of our time, including genocide, the displacement of refugees, war, corruption and economic inequality.
THREE EXHIBITIONS AT MAMBO: BETWEEN SHADOW, DREAMS, AND MEMORY
The second exhibition cycle of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO) in 2025 invites visitors to explore multiple ways of engaging with the visible and the invisible, the intimate and the collective. Through various disciplines, the exhibitions examine the relationships between image, memory, time, and sensory experience. Curated by Eugenio Viola and Juaniko Moreno, each show offers a distinct approach to the limits of representation and the role of memory as a form of knowledge.
SEEKING DIGNITY THROUGH CREATION AND RADICAL TENDERNESS: UNFES AT THE MADC
The Union of Feminists Engendering New Systems (UNFES) presents We Are Seas, Rivers, Flowers, Minerals, Volcanoes, Mountains, and Compost in all spaces of the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MADC) in San José, Costa Rica. The exhibition features more than 40 works created in Central America by feminist artists from the collective, allied collectives, and the MADC collection.
MYTH AND RESISTANCE IN NEREYDA LÓPEZ AND SANTIAGO YAHUARCANI, AT THE CBA
By Álvaro de Benito
The Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid presents Somos raíces (We Are Roots), an exploration of the creative worlds of Santiago Yahuarcani (Pucaurquillo, Peru, 1960) and Nereyda López (Pebas, Peru, 1965), two of the most prominent figures in contemporary indigenous art. Both artists draw from the oral traditions and cosmologies of their respective peoples—the Uitoto in Yahuarcani’s case, and the Tikuna and Cocama in López’s—to give voice to languages of resistance.
ART, COMMUNITY, AND ECOLOGY IN THE MYSTICISM OF THE JAGUAR, AT THE MUSEUM OF AMERICA
By Álvaro de Benito
The Museum of America in Madrid is hosting El sueño del jaguar (The Dream of the Jaguar), an exhibition curated by visual artist Fredi Casco (Asunción, Paraguay, 1967) and photographer Fernando Allen (Asunción, Paraguay, 1957), which brings together artistic, ethnographic, and scientific perspectives on the jaguar and its symbolic and ecological significance.
PINTA LAUNCHES ITS FORO CONVERSATIONS IN ON DEMAND FORMAT
Pinta, the leading platform for promoting art from Latin America and Central America, launches FORO On Demand, a new format that makes its conversations accessible anytime, anywhere.
INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIA IN JAPAN: FIRST NATIONS WOMEN ARTISTS ON VIEW
The work of First Nations artists from Australia is being given more importance and exposure than before as part of the recent international trend in contemporary art to reconsider works created in deeply rooted regional contexts.
100 YEARS OF A MODERN LEGACY: SZYSZLO AT MAC LIMA
The museum recalls the artist’s deep commitment to Peruvian art as a founding member of the Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo, which celebrates its 70th anniversary this year.
13th BERLIN BIENNALE: ART TRANSMITTED IN FUGUE
The 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, titled passing the fugitive on, opens on the evening of June 13, 2025, 7–10pm, at four locations in Berlin with over 170 works by more than 60 artists. More than half of the artworks are newly commissioned.
ERNESTO NETO IN PARIS: ARCHITECTURE IN CROCHET
As part of the Brazil-France 2025 cultural season, Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto presents the exhibition Nosso Barco Tambor Terra (Our Boat Drum Earth) at the Nef of the Grand Palais until July 25, 2025.
LIKE MIGRATORY BIRDS: THE 120 ARTISTS OF THE 36TH SÃO PAULO BIENNIAL
From different disciplines and territories, the invited artists propose the Biennial as a space of crossing, listening, and shared transformation.
PINTA ASUNCIÓN ART WEEK RETURNS, THE MOST IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL ART EVENT IN PARAGUAY
Pinta Asunción Art Week, formerly known as Pinta Sud | ASU, will take place this year from September 10 to 13, marking its fourth edition. With its extensive contemporary art and cultural programming spread across the city, the event invites attendees to discover an ever-growing artistic scene alongside Paraguay’s unique cultural, culinary, and tourism traditions.
A GAZE INTO SALVADORAN AUDIOVISUAL ART AT THE REINA SOFÍA
From June 19 to 28, Madrid’s Reina Sofía Museum will host Los reyes de la página roja (The Kings of the Red Page), a program dedicated to contemporary audiovisual productions from El Salvador. Part of the series Other Visions of Central America, this selection has been curated by Salvadoran artist Patricio Majano, this year’s resident at the Instituto Cáder de Arte Centroamericano—an initiative promoted by the Reina Sofía Museum Foundation and the museum itself to support research and dissemination of Central American art.
ARTISTIC ACTIVISM AT PROA21: THE STREET AS AN ARCHIVE
PROA21 presents Disobedience Archive (the street), a mobile and evolving exhibition on view until July 2025 that highlights the relationship between artistic practices and political action.
A GLOSSARY OF COMMONING TERMS: THINKING ART FROM A COLLECTIVE PERSPECTIVE
What does it mean to be hospitable, make alliances, or navigate conflict in the sphere of contemporary art? Five European nonprofit art spaces—La Escocesa, OFF-Biennale, < rotor >, Shtatëmbëdhjetë (17), and tranzit.cz—present a new publication for cultural workers, curators, and artists, that seeks to answer these questions.
STORIES BEYOND THE HUMAN AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA
Terraphilia—a term combining terra (earth) with philia (love and friendship)—evokes a deep-rooted connection of affect, care, and responsibility toward the earth and its multitudes of inhabitants. In a time of planetary unmaking and gaping inequalities, the exhibition turns to art to orient us toward transformative ways of being—mobilizing interspecies kinship, new forms of collectivity, and practices of planetary love.
RITE AND SYNCRETISM IN THE DIALOGUE OF CALDERIUS AT THE CAAC
The Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art (CAAC) presents Sensemayá. Cánticos para matar a la Culebra (Sensemaya. Chants to kill the snake), the first solo institutional exhibition in Spain by Claribel Calderius (Havana, Cuba, 1986). Conceived specifically for the San Bruno Chapel, the project is a site-specific intervention that draws on the space’s historical and spiritual resonance—qualities that align seamlessly with the symbolic universe of the Cuban artist.
