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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.
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.
GLENDA LEÓN IN BILBAO: SILENCE AS A PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCE
The exhibition at the Bilbao centre presents a broad selection of Glenda León’s multidisciplinary practice, articulated around “sensitive conceptualism”, in which sound, silence and perception interweave emotional experience with conceptual reflection.
MEXICO PRESENTS A SPIRITUAL INVOCATION AT THE 61ST VENICE BIENNALE
Through a ritual ecosystem of materials, sound, and gesture, RojoNegro's proposal for the Mexican Pavilion opens a space of pause and listening in the face of the saturation of the contemporary world.
SPACE MATTERS MORE THAN ANY OBJECT WITHIN IT: THIS IS THE WORK OF JESÚS SOTO
A 10-metre-long sculpture by the acclaimed Venezuelan artist is on view in Kensington Gardens, inviting visitors to experience art both physically and visually.
“TEN THOUSAND TIMES WE WERE FAMILY” AT THE MUSEO NACIONAL DE BELLAS ARTES
The Argentine artist's Guadalupe Miles book, edited by Julieta Escardó, documents her bond with the Wichí Santa Victoria II community.
ROCKS, CEMENT AND THREADS: THE INVISIBLE FORCES OF MATTER AT MAC SANTIAGO
Emilio Fuentes Traverso imagines, in his new exhibition in Chile, possible encounters between the natural, the anthropic and the cosmic through sculptures in unstable equilibrium that compress millions of years of transformation into suspended objects.
JOTA MOMBAÇA IN SWITZERLAND: CHALLENGING THE COLONIAL LOGICS OF EXTRACTIVISM
The Brazilian artist links climate crisis, history, and extractivism in her solo exhibition in Bern, reflecting on the social, political, and environmental consequences of a model whose patterns continue to reproduce colonial logics.
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.
