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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.
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.
"GALLERY": AN INVITATION TO ENJOY CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE CITY OF BUENOS AIRES
The first 2026 edition of Gallery arrives in Recoleta, Retiro, and Microcentro. Organized across different circuits, this major free event has been showcasing the best of local art scenes for over two decades.
DENMARK’S PAVILION AT VENICE BIENNALE EXAMINES PORNOGRAPHY, SCIENCE, AND HUMAN REPRODUCTION
For the 61st edition of the world's oldest contemporary art exhibition, Denmark selected Maja Malou Lyse and curator Chus Martínez to represent the country at the Giardini.
GABRIEL CHAILE UNFOLDS HIS ARCHAEOLOGY OF MIGRATION IN LONDON
The Argentine artist connects memory and identity in a large-scale installation commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery, where adobe sculptures and collected objects examine the experience of displacement through a contemporary archaeological lens.
TUNGA’S "YO, VOS Y LA LUNA " MAKES ITS EUROPEAN DEBUT
Supported by Collegium, the acclaimed installation by the Brazilian artist arrives in Spain with a sensorial and contemplative proposal in dialogue with the Church of San Miguel in Arévalo.
THE CAAC EXPLORES “AMEFRICAN” CONNECTIONS THROUGH THE JORGE M. PÉREZ COLLECTION
Inspired by Lélia Gonzalez’s concept of “amefricanity,” Seville once again engages with the Jorge M. Pérez collection, bringing together American and African artists and proposals to question the historical, symbolic, and aesthetic links across both sides of the Atlantic.
A GLIMPSE INTO FERNANDO MAZA'S SURREAL WORLD AT THE MAR MUSEUM
With more than 50 paintings and watercolors, the exhibition offers a journey through the metaphysical universe of the painter, marking the beginning of a national tour that will continue in Córdoba and Mendoza.
ECUADOR UNVEILS “KANUA” IN THE CANALS OF VENICE
In the run-up to the Venice Biennale, the Ecuador Pavilion project offers solar-powered boat tours and intimate conversations about extractivism, rivers, territories, and ways of life in the Amazon.
ARTIUM RECOVERS THE SILENCED DISSIDENCE OF JUANA CIMA
Artium brings back into the artistic debate the trajectory of Juana Fernández Cima, a body of work shaped by dissidence, identity, and spirituality that was progressively marginalized from the dominant artistic narrative.
REINTERPRETATIONS BY DEMIÁN FLORES OF VIOLENCE, MYTH, AND REPRESENTATION
The Mexican artist reinterprets colonial-themed prints by Theodor de Bry to question the construction of otherness and denounce neocolonial violence and contemporary conflicts.
