News
Up-to-date news from the Latin American and international art world: exhibitions, awards, acquisitions, and institutions across the contemporary art circuit.
LATIN AMERICA IN THE SPOTLIGHT: THREE EXHIBITIONS AT NOTTINGHAM CONTEMPORARY
Throughout the year, the British gallery will host exhibitions featuring the works of Chico da Silva, Juli Isídrez, and Francisco Tún.
S.M.A.K. GHENT REVISITS GARCÍA AND NAVARRO’S PROPOSAL FOR THE 2022 VENICE BIENNALE
The exhibition, originally conceived to represent Chile at the Venice Biennale, reflects on memory and landscape through a dialogue between the Atacama Desert and Mars.
THE WIND AS PROTAGONIST AT THE FINLAND PAVILION
Combining science, music, and theatricality, Jenna Sutela’s work—curated by Stefanie Hessler—explores the unpredictable nature of the wind and its connection to the contemporary environmental crisis.
THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF LIVING TOGETHER AT THE SWISS PAVILION
An exhibition at the 2026 Venice Biennale that revisits television archives to reflect on coexistence as both a social promise and a contested field.
THE TRANSFORMATIVE SOUND, ACCORDING TO BENGOLEA, AT C3A
The exhibition brings together works created ad hoc by the artist in the city. Through them, she reinterprets craft and tradition from a contemporary perspective and invites the audience to understand sound as a language that redefines our relationship with the environment.
HUMANS, MACHINES, AND POSSIBLE FUTURES: THE LAST 100 YEARS AT NEW MUSEUM
The exhibition features more than 15 new commissions by artists such as Ryan Gander, Camille Henrot, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Wangechi Mutu, Hito Steyerl, Alice Wang, and Santiago Yahuarcani, among others.
DANCING OUR PROBLEMS: LATIN AMERICAN PRESENCE AT MOCA’S ART ON THE PLAZA 2026 AWARDS IN MIAMI
In a context marked by the debate on immigration in the United States, Joan Jiménez Suero (Perú) has been recognized by the Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA) for a proposal that reflects on the identity, memory, and resistance of the Latin diaspora.
MARCELO BRODSKY IN WIESBADEN: MEMORY AS AN ACTIVE PRACTICE
The Kunsthaus Wiesbaden presents an exhibition surveying the work of the Argentine artist, where photography, archive, and activism intertwine to reflect on the traces of violence and human rights.
QUESTIONING POWER AND COLONIAL STRUCTURES: CINTHIA MARCELLE INTERVENES AT SERRALVES
beginning, middle, beginning presents an installation by Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle, conceived specifically for the Central Gallery of the Serralves Museum. The work questions the linear conception of time and its relationship to colonial structures.
AFFECTIVE CARTOGRAPHIES AND ARCHITECTURES BY SOFÍA SALAZAR AT C3A
The exhibition by the Ecuadorian artist, featuring works created specifically for the Córdoba space, proposes a journey in which the viewer is invited to explore concepts such as migration, memory, and colonialism by moving through a space that brings together history and displacement.
DISPOSSESSIONS IN THE AMERICAS: CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE COLONIAL LEGACY
The exhibition in Chicago brings together 36 Latin American artists who, through more than 40 works, challenge colonial narratives through critical, community-based, and resistance-oriented practices.
TWO GENERATIONS OF KAQCHIKEL ARTISTS ENGAGE IN DIALOGUE IN GUATEMALA
The exhibition brings together, for the first time in their homeland, the works of Rosa Elena Curruchich and Angélica Serech, drawing parallels between painting and weaving.
ART AGAINST COLLAPSE: 193 ARTISTS IMAGINE ALTERNATIVE FUTURES
Into the Time Horizon, at the Nevada Museum of Art, unfolds as one of the most expansive surveys of environmental art in the United States, combining critical diagnosis with concrete proposals in the face of the climate crisis.
A CONTEMPORARY QUIPU TRAVERSES CASTELLO DI RIVOLI
The Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña unfolds an intervention connecting ancestral practices, ecology, and shared memory.
SOI NIWE: THE SHIPIBO-KONIBO CULTURAL COLLECTIVE AT CASA FUGAZ
This exhibition brings together prominent artists from various Shipibo-Konibo communities, who now reside in the Cantagallo community, in Perú. Through their works, the collective shares artistic practices that are part of a living culture.
MIGUEL ESCOBAR INAUGURAL RECIPIENT OF THE IAN ROSENFELD FUND
Global selection underscores the Colombian singular pictorial language shaped by tension, staging, and introspective inquiry.
MASP: CONTESTED NARRATIVES BETWEEN REPLICA AND WEAVING
Two parallel exhibitions revisit dominant narratives through practices that interrogate archive, materiality, and community in Latin America.
WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2026, A FIELD DENSE WITH ENCOUNTERS
The intergenerational selection traces a sensitive map of practices connected to the United States, where affective, political, and technological ties intertwine through an experimental lens.
A REINTERPRETATION OF THE FUENTES ANGARITA COLLECTION AT LA NEOMUDÉJAR
La Neomudéjar presents over 130 works from the Fuentes Angarita Collection, mapping three decades of Latin American political art through themes of identity, gender, diaspora, and the memory of the body.
MODERN MEXICO CITY IN JUAN GUZMÁN’S PHOTOGRAPHS, AT ICME
The exhibition dedicated to the German-born photojournalist, featuring a selection from his archive—now safeguarded by the Fundación Televisa—focuses on documenting the transformation and growth of Mexico City in the mid-20th century, highlighting its social and urban contrasts.
GARAICOA AND IBARRA FEATURED IN CAAM’S INAUGURAL GROUP SHOW
The CAAM opens its new season with an exhibition showcasing five recent acquisitions, highlighting works by Carlos Garaicoa and Karlo Andrei Ibarra that explore memory, space, and transformation.
DIALOGUES WITH THE LEGACY OF BURLE MARX, AT MAC/CCB
Lugar de estar: o legado Burle Marx (A Place to Be: The Legacy of Burle Marx) is the exhibition presented by Lisbon’s MAC/CCB – Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture Center, showcasing an extensive selection of landscape projects for public spaces developed by Roberto Burle Marx (São Paulo, Brazil, 1909 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1994) and his collaborators over nearly seventy years.
BIOGRAPHICAL GEOLOGY: GISELA COLÓN PRESENTS HER FIRST RETROSPECTIVE IN PUERTO RICO
The Puerto Rican–American artist explores the relationship between geology, memory, and vital energy in an exhibition spanning more than three decades of work.
TROPICAL HYPERSTITION, A SPACE OF MEMORY AND RESISTANCE AT THE BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2026
With the large-scale installation and performative work of Antonio José Guzmán and Iva Jankovic, Panama participates for the second time as a National Pavilion in the Biennale di Venezia 2026.
THE HISTORY OF ART FROM BOGOTÁ AT MAP
The Colombian gallery presents a reconsideration of visual traditions, reactivating them through a contemporary lens; works by Carlos Castro Arias, Fernando Uhía, Raúl Cristancho, Javier Vanegas, Juan Carlos Delgado, and Miler Lagos will be on view.
“TERRITORIES IN CONNECTION”, LATIN AMERICAN ART IN CIUDAD DE LAS ARTES, PANAMA
Video, textiles and the body make up a network of relationships in constant construction in the exhibition curated by Irene Gelfman with the participation of artists from Latin America.
MARÍA LUCÍA ALEMÁN: "CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS ARE UNITING THE REGION MORE"
The executive director of MAC Panama, who will participate in the discussion Building Institutional Stories, part of the Pinta Panamá FORO initiative, envisions great opportunities for Central America with the strengthening of its institutions and joint work.
CAF AND PINTA FOUNDATION ANNOUNCE ALLIANCE TO STRENGTHEN THE LATIN AMERICAN ART ECOSYSTEM
The collaboration between the two institutions will promote cultural platforms, professional exchanges, and spaces for dialogue aimed at advancing Latin American art and its international projection.
ECOFEMINIST PERSPECTIVES AT THE PANAMANIAN CULTURAL CENTER OF SPAIN
The exhibition The Dimension of the Invisible: Ecofeminist Traces of Panamanian Art brings together 10 women artists who question the boundaries between nature, body and community at El Centro Cultural de España – Casa del Soldado. The exhibition is curated by Gladys Turner Bosso.
THE VALUE OF SOVEREIGNTY IN MR. BROWN'S GARDEN, EXHIBITION AT THE INTEROCEANIC CANAL MUSEUM
The photographic exhibition of the American Tova Katzman leads the viewer to question the limits that mark the territory we inhabit.
LIGHT AND THE INVISIBLE, KNEUBÜHLER AND MUSSIOL AT THE ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE
The exhibition of the Swiss-Canadian photographers at the Alliance Française in Panama City invites the public to look beyond what we can usually see.
FOUR ARTISTS EXPLORE AND RECONSTRUCT SPACE AT PINTA PANAMÁ 2026
During the Central American country’s art week, works that study histories, recreate them, and bring them into reflection will be presented. From the play with materials to the manipulation of space, Lulu Molinares, Cisco Merel, Arístides Ureña Ramos, and Isabel de Obaldía create pieces that propose alternative readings of memory, territory, and everyday life.
THE BIOMUSEO, SCIENCE AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE FIRST LEVEL
On the Amador Causeway, right at the entrance to the Panama Canal of the Pacific Ocean, the Museum of Biodiversity takes place, with a structure that does not go unnoticed both for its shapes and for its color. It is an avant-garde building that coexists with the natural environment.
