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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.
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.
THE VENICE BIENNALE IN AN EDITION MARKED BY POLITICAL GAMES
The Venice Art Biennale is approaching the inauguration of its 61st edition amid resignations, protests, and controversies. Never indifferent to its time, its launch also converges within an intense context of wars, genocides, and geopolitical crises. From Arte al Día, we ask ourselves: how can we trace the relationships between politics and art?
BE PART OF A COLLECTIVE ART WORK BY CHIHARU SHIOTA FOR THE CURITIBA INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL
Open call to participate in a new installation by internationally renowned artist Chiharu Shiota at the Museu Oscar Niemeyer.
INTERTWINED NARRATIVES: CASSANDRA MAYELA ALLEN EXHIBITS IN NEW YORK
The Venezuelan artist presents a body of work at the Instituto Cervantes in New York that stems from a desire to create from the distance imposed by forced migration.
CHILE AT THE 2026 VENICE BIENNALE: NORTON MAZA PRESENTS "INTER-REALITY"
The proposal selected for the Chilean pavilion brings an immersive experience in Venice that addresses contemporary tensions.
CAB EXPLORES LANDSCAPE AS LIVING MEMORY IN MATÍAS ERCOLE’S WORK
The Castilian institution examines Matías Ercole’s conception of space as a cultural construction where identity and emotion converge, encouraging a rethinking of perception and interaction with the environment.
WHEN FASHION MEETS ART: QUOTES, BODIES, AND POWER AT THE MET GALA
Between references to art history and spectacular visual statements, the 2026 Met Gala once again pushed the boundaries between aesthetic creation and performance.
EL SALVADOR MAKES ITS DEBUT AT THE VENICE BIENNALE WITH ITS OWN PAVILION
The Central American country will bring Oscar Molina's work to the Biennale, paying tribute to displaced communities and the global diaspora.
JEŽIK AND COSTA EXPLORE MEMORY AND EXILE IN A GROUP EXHIBITION
Enrique Ježik and Matías Costa address violence, memory, and exile in Elche, highlighting the connections shaped by displacement.
MARGARET WHYTE TURNS FRAGILITY INTO LANGUAGE AT THE 2026 VENICE BIENNALE
The Uruguayan Pavilion in Venice will present Whyte’s work, which combines textiles, obsolete machines, and scraps of waste to demonstrate that disorder does not destroy.
"MONITOR YIN YANG": ARGENTINA ARRIVES AT THE VENICE BIENNALE WITH AN OPEN CARTOGRAPHY
Matías Duville's installation proposes a traversable landscape where light and shadow, permanence and transformation coexist without resolution.
SILENCE HAS MATTER: ETHIOPIA BRINGS THE WORK OF TEGENE KUNBI TO THE VENICE BIENNALE
The exhibition offers a political reading through paintings that bring together sacred, industrial, and domestic textiles within a single visual field.
WHO ARE THE CURATORS THAT WILL LEAD THE NEXT BIENAL DE SÃO PAULO
For the second time in its history, two Brazilian curators take on the artistic direction of Latin America's largest visual arts event.
EFG LATIN AMERICA ART AWARD PRESENTS THE NOMINATED ARTIST AT SP-ARTE 2026
Cristiano Lenhardt was selected for his series of works born from his encounter with the environmental tragedy of the 2024 floods in southern Brazil.
