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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.
MASP PRESENTS INTERNATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITION “HISTÓRIAS LATINO-AMERICANAS”
Spanning five floors of the Pietro Maria Bardi Building, the exhibition brings together works by 148 artists, including previously unseen works, to examine how the idea of Latin America was constructed and continues to be contested today.
SANDRA GAMARRA HESHIKI CONNECTS CIVIC PROTEST AND COLONIAL HISTORY IN HER NEW SHOW IN LIMA
Construction of Events brings together Andean ceramics, archival appropriation, and clay mural painting at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima, tracing an arc of over four centuries of Peruvian history.
TANIA CANDIANI, LEÓN FERRARI AND SARA FLORES: THREE PARALLEL SHOWS IN ARDEZ
On view through August 31 in proyectoamil, the program spans video, sculpture, and painting shaped by ritual, material experimentation, and ancestral knowledge systems.
PAMM INVESTIGATES CARIBBEAN PERFORMANCE ART PRACTICES AND THEIR DIASPORAS IN “BEYOND REPRESENTATION”
The ongoing project, curated by Iberia Pérez González and presented by the museum's Caribbean Cultural Institute, combines live art events with a digital video-performance platform.
LONDON JUST GOT A NEW HOME FOR LATIN AMERICAN ART
Founded by Brazilian collector Flavia Nespatti, ANTESALA opens its doors on October in Fitzrovia with the inaugural group show Assembly Lines.
SOFÍA MULJAT'S WORK IS A TUG-OF-WAR OF CORNERED INTENTIONS
At Casa Santa Ana, Panama, the Argentine artist presents Este rincón, mi rincón through September of this year, a show that stirs a desire to sense in the air traces of vanquished scenes, as Muljat paints them.
THE BAHAMIAN HERITAGE THAT ANINA MAJOR SCULPTS AT PAMM
The Bahamian artist’s most significant institutional presentation in the United States to date transforms the museum’s waterfront gallery into a protective landscape of woven clay, bottle trees, and shells.
THE DA2 REVISITS CLAUDIA CLAREMI'S PROFOUND REFLECTION
The second edition of Contemporary Visions at the Salamanca museum revisits colonial memory and its impact on the present through the recent work of the Spanish-Cuban artist.
BERNARDO MEDINA'S JÍBARO POP AND BORICUA IDENTITY AT CASA DE AMÉRICA
The Puerto Rican artist explores in Madrid the historical, cultural, and political tensions that define the relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States through a highly symbolic visual language.
LANDMARK OLGA DE AMARAL RETROSPECTIVE DEBUTS AT THE PULITZER ARTS FOUNDATION IN ST. LOUIS
Weaving the Infinite brings together 86 works curated by Stephanie Weissberg and will be on view in September.
THE BOGOTÁ BIENNIAL RETURNS IN 2027 AND ANNOUNCES ITS CURATORIAL TEAM
The second edition of the International Art and City Biennial will take place in September 2027, guided by a curatorial framework centered on relationships between human and non-human species.
LATIN AMERICA RECONFIGURES THE CRITICAL FRAMEWORK OF THE CERVEIRA BIENNIAL
The 24th Cerveira International Art Biennial consolidates its commitment to contemporary art as a site of critical inquiry through a significant Latin American presence that interrogates territory, memory, and identity from decolonial and transnational perspectives.
ALEXANDRE ESTRELA BRINGS ART, SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY INTO DIALOGUE IN ELVAS
The Portuguese artist concludes his exhibition trilogy at MACE with a solo exhibition in which children's drawings, cognitive development and representation intersect with references drawn from art, science and philosophy.
TRINI ENERGICI'S POETICS OF MATTER AT LA NEOMUDÉJAR
A Madrid exhibition brings together Trini Energici's material research, in which her work explores the transformation of materials as a metaphor for memory, territory, and change.
RECLAIMING PAZ ERRÁZURIZ'S PHOTOGRAPHY OF RESISTANCE AT MUCAC
A solo exhibition in Málaga traces the career of the Chilean photographer and her ability to transform the portrayal of society's margins into an exercise in memory, dignity, and resistance.
SANDRA RAMOS IMAGINES NEW ITHACAS IN LAS PALMAS
The CAAM presents an exhibition dedicated to Sandra Ramos that positions art as a tool for imagining possible futures in the face of an unstable world. Through her work, the artist addresses themes such as identity, migration, and displacement from a critical and poetic perspective.
GETTY PUBLISHES “INSTANTE/REVELACIÓN”, A CENTURY OF MEXICAN PHOTOGRAPHY
The J. Paul Getty Museum's new bilingual book brings together nearly 150 images by Lola and Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Graciela Iturbide, and Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, among others.
CARLOS AMORALES’ BLACK CLOUD SETTLES OVER CASA DE MÉXICO
The renowned installation by the Mexican artist transforms the exhibition space into an immersive experience through the unsettling arrangement of thousands of black paper butterflies, exploring the tension between beauty, collectivity, and perception.
LATIN AMERICAN PROPOSALS AT SONSBEEK 2026
Álvaro Barrington and Jota Mombaça present architectural installations in the Netherlands that address the event's central theme.
MIAMI REVISITS MOMA'S HISTORIC 1944 EXHIBITION OF CUBAN PAINTERS
The exhibition brings together works by Wifredo Lam, Amelia Peláez, and Mario Carreño, preserved by private collectors for more than 80 years.
ADRIÁN VILLAR ROJAS TRANSFORMS THE ASPEN ART MUSEUM INTO GEOLOGICAL AND MYTHOLOGICAL CAVE
First Gods, Lost Animals, curated by Claude Adjil, traces the symbolic systems humans built to navigate a universe that exceeds their cognitive scale.
PINTA BAphoto 2026, LATIN AMERICA'S ONLY INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY FAIR, RETURNS TO LA RURAL
Curated by Irene Gelfman, this year's edition brings together the many faces of contemporary photography in Buenos Aires.
THE JUAN CARLOS MALDONADO COLLECTION ANNOUNCES A NEW CHAPTER: IT IS CLOSING ITS SPACE IN MIAMI
After a decade in the Miami Design District, the institution shifts its focus toward collaborations with museums, universities, and cultural organizations worldwide.
THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART RECEIVES NEARLY 50 WORKS FROM THE BEREZDIVIN COLLECTION
The gift by Diana and Moises Berezdivin brings works by Allora & Calzadilla, Rafael Ferrer, Damián Ortega, Chemi Rosado-Seijo, and Rosângela Rennó, among others, to the Washington museum.
THE TELENOVELA AS A SUBJECT OF RESEARCH AT AMERICAS SOCIETY
The exhibition in New York will feature more than 50 works from the 1970s to the present, including an installation commissioned from Mexican artist Pablo Helguera.
SÃO PAULO BIENNIAL'S TOURING EXHIBITION ADDS BERLIN, MEXICO CITY AND SANTIAGO
The show debuts in Germany and Mexico with curatorial input from Alya Sebti and Anna Roberta Goetz, following a main exhibition in São Paulo that drew over 784,000 visitors.
RAFAEL MORENO BUILDS HIS EVER-CHANGING UNIVERSE IN ALSACE
The Colombian artist's exhibition at CRAC Alsace constructs a universe in perpetual transformation, where the reuse of materials, the hybridization of disciplines, and underlying tensions invite viewers to reflect on the social, economic, and symbolic structures that shape our experience of the world.
FROM THE SUBTERRANEAN TO THE COSMIC: TERESITA FERNÁNDEZ REAWAKENS A DORMANT HOUSTON LANDMARK
After nearly a decade closed, The Menil Collection's Fresco Building reopens with a meditation on spirituality and matter.
ALEJANDRO CARTAGENA: A PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE FOR THE COLLECTIVE NARRATIVE
The Dominican-Mexican photographer explores the social and territorial transformations of Mexico through a critical and serial photographic practice in a major exhibition presented as part of PhotoEspaña.
TOMÁS SARACENO IN MUNICH: ECO-SOCIAL WAYS OF COEXISTENCE ON EARTH
"When the flame drinks from the stars and the spider weaves cycles of life, where the sky touches the earth and time expands like salt...", this is how Tomás Saraceno describes the exhibition Ancestral Futures at Haus der Kunst.
MACCHI, JEŽIK AND HERNÁNDEZ: RETHINKING THE CONTEMPORARY THROUGH MEDIA LANGUAGE
The Galician institution presents a proposal that connects the practices of Macchi, Ježik and Hernández with those of Alberto Ardid, bringing together critical strategies that engage with the construction of contemporaneity through media language and visual culture.
FERNANDO ALLEN REVISITS PARAGUAYAN ROCK ENGRAVINGS HERITAGE AT ALTAMIRA
The Paraguayan artist and researcher Fernando Allen engages with the rock art of his home country in La piedra y la luz, an exhibition that combines photography, academic inquiry, and contemporary artistic practice while reflecting on cultural heritage and memory.
THE DEFENCE OF THE GELMAN COLLECTION COMMENCES LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST BANCO SANTANDER AND THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO
The citizens' movement challenges the legality of an agreement authorizing the works to remain abroad until at least September 2030, in contradiction with existing legislation on the protection of artistic heritage.
