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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.
SEARCHING FOR A REPUBLIC: PERU'S PAST AND PRESENT ON A CHESS BOARD
Gonzalo García Callegari presents his twentieth solo exhibition at the Inca Garcilaso Cultural Center in Lima. In the wake of Peru’s bicentennial of independence, he invites us—with his signature dark humor—to question the unfinished ideals of national emancipation.
LOURDES GROBET AND THE LTCI, AT CASA DE MÉXICO
The Fundación Casa de México in Spain presents the exhibition Lourdes Grobet y el Laboratorio de Teatro Campesino e Indígena, a selection of nearly seventy photographs from the project developed by Lourdes Grobet (Mexico City, Mexico, 1940–2022) around the Laboratorio de Teatro Campesino e Indígena (LTCI) (Peasant and Indigenous Theatre Laboratory).
A FESTIVAL AND AN EXHIBITION IN BERLIN: FROM THE TREE TO THE EXILED FLIGHT
From June 6 to 8, 2025, the interdisciplinary festival Once We Were Trees, Now We Are Birds will take place at Kunsthaus ACUD in Berlin. Organized by the Goethe-Institut in Exile in cooperation with the Martin Roth-Initiative, the festival showcases artistic perspectives on migration, belonging, and transformation. It complements the exhibition of the same name, on view at the ifa Gallery Berlin until June 8, 2025.
LIVING MATTER: MARLENE ALMEIDA AND WALTER LEBLANC IN BRUSSELS
Inspired by the visionary spirit of Walter and Nicole Leblanc, the Foundation launches a new programme of exhibitions, residencies, and events, reaffirming its commitment to artistic inquiry, international dialogue, and critical engagement with the urgencies of our time.
GALLERY 2025 INAUGURATES ITS TOUR THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF BUENOS AIRES
With the support of the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires, Gallery returns on Friday, June 6, 2025, bringing its iconic art circuit to the neighborhoods of Recoleta, Retiro, and Microcentro. The initiative aims to promote visits to artistic spaces such as galleries, museums, artist studios, and foundations, with the goal of bringing contemporary art closer to the general public and showcasing the excellence of the local art scene.
THE SILENCED WOMEN RAISE THEIR VOICES WITH TERESA MALUF AT PASEO DEL BUEN PASTOR
The Cordoban artist and architect Teresa Maluf presents Cuando el encierro es la salida (When Confinement Becomes the Way Out), a site-specific installation located in the chapel of Paseo del Buen Pastor in Córdoba, Argentina. With this work, Maluf pays tribute to all the women who, over nearly one hundred years, passed through this building—many of them deprived of their freedom.
PINTA PANAMÁ ART WEEK: THE CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRY PLACED ON THE GLOBAL CONTEMPORARY ART MAP
The first edition of Pinta Panamá Art Week was a collective celebration that transformed the city into a major stage for contemporary art and Central American culture. The event welcomed over 650 attendees at its official opening and thousands of visitors throughout the week, with daily activities including exhibition openings, talks, guided tours, and urban experiences. The week was marked by a strong commitment to strengthening and valuing local identity.
