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El Centro Botín presenta Partitura, la primera exposición en España de la artista suiza Silvia Bächli.

Luciérnagas humanas al ras de la tierra (Human fireflies at ground level) is a video-installation that the artist Marcos Benítez presents at the Paraguayan-German Cultural Institute. It is curated by Adriana Almada and will be part of the art week of Asunción Pinta Sud | ASU 2024.

The third and last edition of Art Week Asuncion presented by Pinta Sud | ASU starts today August 5 with an ambitious cultural program, curated by Adriana Almada and accompanied by Irene Gelfman, featuring exhibitions, curatorial programs, lecture series and events.

The 14th Mercosur Biennial will be held between May 27 and June 1, 2025. The exhibition, which was originally planned to be held this year in Porto Alegre, was rescheduled as a result of the climatic catastrophes that affected southern Brazil.

Manifesta, the European nomadic biennial, as it is defined, returns to Spain after past editions in San Sebastian (2004) and Murcia (2010) and will hold its 15th edition in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona from September 8 to November 24. The multidisciplinary program of actions and exhibitions will be developed around the concept of place and time, focusing, through the exhibition venues chosen in the twelve participating municipalities, on the past, present and future of this region.

In the next edition of Pinta Sud | ASU 2024 -to be held from August 5 to 11, 2024 in Asuncion, Paraguay- the FORO lecture series will be one of the key spaces to delve into Latin American curatorial practice. Curated by Adriana Almada and Irene Gelfman, FORO will feature international guests such as Inés Katzenstein, Isabella Lenzi, Raphael Fonseca, among others.

The Panama Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Art Biennale arises as a profound reflection on the enduring traces that migration leaves on individuals and their surroundings. Entitled Traces: On the Body and on the Land, this exhibition echoes the current migration crisis with a particular focus on the Panamanian context, interpreted by four artists through drawings, paintings, collages, glass sculptures, and installations.

The exhibition Lia D Castro: Everywhere and Nowhere, at MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand is the artist’s first solo show in a museum, and brings together 36 works, most of which are figurative paintings. The selected works explore scenarios where affection, dialogue and imagination become important tools for social transformation.

The Museo del Barro will present, in the context of Pinta Sud | ASU 2024, the exhibition The Colors of Resistance by artist Marcelo Brodsky. It is under the curatorship of Ticio Escobar.

The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas presented the exhibition Women Who I Could’ve Been, featuring the latest work of renowned artist Ana Albertina Delgado.

The next Pompidou Museum project in Foz do Iguaçu will be presented by Luciana Pereira, Secretary of Culture of the State of Paraná, Brazil, at the Pinta Sud | ASU conference, to be held at the Casa de la Integración (CAF) on August 8, 2024. This will be the first Pompidou Center in Latin America.

Concrete Wounds/Herida concreta is the exhibition that the Canary Islands' Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) is dedicating to Karlo Andrei Ibarra (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1982), one of the most promising and internationally renowned names of the Puerto Rican art scene.

The Mexican Cultural Institute in Spain hosts the group exhibition En el interior del cielo, a show that gathers some of the most prestigious Mexican artists from the collection of Lorena Pérez-Jácome and Javier Lumbreras.

Spanish-Peruvian artist Sandra Gamarra Heshiki represents Spain at the Venice Biennale. It is the first time in 60 editions that an artist not born in Spain does so. Her project Pinacoteca migrante (Migrant gallery), questions colonial narratives and historical modes of representation.

Grounded in the many meanings and ideas of “home,” This Must Be the Place is a major new exhibition at Walker Art Center showcasing works drawn from across the Walker’s dynamic collections.

The Ukranian Pavilion addresses the othering effect of war, two years into the Russian Invasion, in Net Making at the 60^th Venice Biennale.

Soy Palacio / Soy Establo is the proposal conceived by Ana Laura Aláez (Bilbao, Spain, 1964) for one of the spaces of the Balearic Museum Es Baluard and in which she proposes, as an intervention, an express dialogue with emptiness.

The international photography festival PHOTOEspaña proposes a program of exhibitions that evoke, both in concept and subject matter, a breadth and diversity that have led to its recognition for years. However, one of its most appreciated improvements has been the expansion of venues and cities, which allows for a wider and better offer.

Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) features the exhibition Catherine Opie: Genre/Gender/Portraiture, with works by one of the leading names in contemporary international photography

The Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC) is extending until mid-September the exhibition Las líneas de la vida, by artist Pablo Reinoso (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1955), which deals with the concept of legacy.

Casa de America joins the program of Muestra t, cultural festival of Madrid Orgullo (MADO) 2024, with the exhibition Jungle, by Cuban artist Leslie Sardinias. It is curated by Aldones Nino.

Artist-led and conceptually driven, Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson is a subjective, intergenerational conversation between two practices, pulling the past into the present. The exhibition at Site Santa Fe critically considers entanglements between place, site, seeing, and deep time through the artists’ mutual engagement with material intelligence, geological agency, and cartographic fictions.

The eighty-first edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States—features seventy-one artists and collectives grappling with many of today’s most pressing issues.

The exhibition Work, Faith and Joy at Museo Marte presents 95 works by more than 40 Salvadoran artists, and seeks to be a reflection of the country's popular culture.

The exhibition Alfredo Castañeda, painter of poetry at Casa de América offers a journey through the Mexican artist's work from a more poetic point of view. In this way, Castañeda's paintings are shown accompanied by his poems, where a dialogue is generated between the artist's two vocations.

The Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), located in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is hosting the exhibition Toda utopía pasa por la barriga, a tour through the work of Carlos Garaicoa (Havana, Cuba, 1967) curated by Lillebit Fabraga that best connects with architecture, the natural order and the location of the human being in the system.

The Canary Islands' TEA (Tenerife Espacio de las Artes) is showing until September Y, a solo exhibition by Nela Ochoa (Caracas, Venezuela, 1953), which is part of the curatorial program Filtraciones that the center carries out for artists and with its collection.

Fifteen artists working across the United States and Puerto Rico have been awarded the 2024 Latinx Artist Fellowships by the U.S. Latinx Forum (USLAF), with $50,0000 in unrestricted funding and a year-long program of professional engagement opportunities.

The CAC Malaga hosts Milagro, the first solo exhibition in a museum of Mario Ayala (Los Angeles, USA, 1991), son of a Mexican-American mother and Cuban immigrant father, whose production reflects his personal experiences and artistic concerns of the world of garages, truck drivers and mechanics of Fontana.

Calida Rawles presents Away with the Tides, an exhibition at Pérez Art Museum (PAMM) featuring all-new, site-specific works alongside a novel large-scale video installation. Marking Rawles’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States, Away with the Tides reflects aspects of Miami’s diverse communities, natural environments, and rich history.