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A TECHNOLOGICAL GAZE AT THE PARIETAL ART BY SOFÍA CRESPO
By Álvaro de Benito
Sofía Crespo (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1991) often centers her work on the use of biology-inspired technology. In her exploration of the common ground between artificial intelligence and the way it generates images, on the one hand, and human perception of the environment, on the other, there is a turning point in the Argentine artist's practice.
PEMJEAN AND HIS RECONSTRUCTION OF SPACE FROM MEMORY AT COAM
By Álvaro de Benito
The Official College of Architects of Madrid (COAM) is hosting No tan lejos (Not So Far Away), an exhibition by Emilio Pemjean (Santiago, Chile, 1971), which continues to explore his characteristic artistic approach that blends photography, design, architecture, and painting. In this exhibition, the Chilean artist presents a series of imagined and reconstructed spaces, virtually brought back to life through memory, which makes their reconstruction possible.
BEAUTY, MEMORY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL COLLAPSE AT BALTIMORE MUSEUM
Black Earth Rising brings together artists from the African diaspora, Latin America, and Indigenous communities to explore the links between environmental devastation, colonial legacy, and the possibility of imagining alternative futures.
CHAOS AND TECHNOLOGY BY SANTOSCOY, AT THE MUSEUM OF AMERICA
By Álvaro de Benito
The Museum of America is hosting an exhibition of paintings by Juan Carlos Santoscoy (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1973) in its La Tapada gallery, open until the end of the month. Titled Algoritmos del caos (Algorithms of Chaos), the show features a selection of the artist’s most recent large-scale works, which engage with pressing themes in contemporary art such as global warming and the overexploitation of natural resources.
RESIDUAL USES AND CONSUMPTIONS: A SOCIAL LANDSCAPE AT FUNDACIÓN OSDE
A show that reveals the archaeology of the everyday through archives, images, and excess.
INVOCATIONS: LISTENING AS A CURATORIAL PRACTICE IN THE 36th BIENAL DE SÃO PAULO
With public activations across multiple cities, Invocations anticipates the Bienal with programs that explore breath, movement, improvisation, and relationships between the human and non-human.
CARLOS MOTTA'S ANTHOLOGICAL EXHIBITION AT MACBA
By Álvaro de Benito
Barcelona’s MACBA is hosting Plegarias de resistencia (Prayers of Resistance), the first major anthological exhibition of the work of Carlos Motta (Bogotá, Colombia, 1978) to be held at a European institution. The presentation spans more than twenty-five years of the artist’s production, practice, and activism.
PLURAL AMAZONIA: A LIVING CARTOGRAPHY IN THE HEART OF NEW YORK
Americas Society presents Amazonia Açu, an exhibition that explores the cultural, historical, and spiritual diversity of the Pan-Amazon region through contemporary and Indigenous perspectives.
AFRO-CUBAN SPIRITUALITY AT PAMM: DIASPORIC HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY VISION
Twin Photography Duo’s First Solo Museum Exhibition Weaves Afro-Cuban Spirituality with Painterly Explorations of their Cultural Heritage.
THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACTIVE PHOTOGRAPHY: TINA MODOTTI AT JUMEX
The exhibition The Tiger’s Coat explores the many facets of the Italo-Mexican artist—photographer, militant, and enigmatic figure—through a constellation of historical documents and contemporary artworks.
WIFREDO LAM AT MoMA: BETWEEN DREAM AND DECOLONIZATION
The Museum of Modern Art will host the most extensive retrospective devoted to the artist in the United States, on view at MoMA from November 10, 2025, through March 28, 2026.
MOTHERHOOD AND INTERGENERATIONAL BONDS AT MUCEN: A WORK BY ARIANA MACEDO DOMÍNGUEZ
The visual artist, winner of the 2023 BCRP National Painting Prize, presents her latest solo exhibition—an interdisciplinary proposal that weaves together painting, textiles, and performance.
WHITNEY MUSEUM UNVEILS A NEW INSTALLATION OF ITS PERMANENT COLLECTION
The museum draws on the thinking of Felix Gonzalez-Torres as a starting point to celebrate the past, present, and future of its collection, which spans works from 1900 to 1980.
SIGN, STONE, AND TIME: A CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION IN CANTABRIA
Cave Art Centre of Cantabria 'Alberto I de Monaco' in Puente Viesgo is hosting its first-ever contemporary art exhibition.
A SENSORIAL ENCOUNTER IN BERLIN: LYGIA CLARK AND HER LIVING UNIVERSE
Neue Nationalgalerie presents the first major retrospective in Germany of Brazilian pioneer Lygia Clark, with over 120 works and an interactive approach that expands the boundaries of the museum experience.
POP FOLKLORE IN CHILE: UNITY UNDER THE SKIN
By Violeta Méndez
The Chilean gallery Casa Varas hosts Lincura’s provocative proposal: a new way of looking at the “exotic” —and a new way of looking into the mirror.
MARCO HOSTS THE POETICS OF LAURA LIO
By Álvaro de Benito
MARCO, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Vigo, presents Savia y sangre (Sap and Blood), a solo exhibition by Laura Lio (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1967), which reveals the artist’s social vision and commitment through her work. Lio's practice involves a meticulous observation of certain organic and natural processes in search of a kind of internal order. With a poetic approach, the Argentine artist based in Spain challenges this natural structure through visual language and words.
FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH: AMAZONIAN KNOWLEDGES AT MAMM
The Museum of Modern Art of Medellín presents Bubuia and Lleébu, two exhibitions that are part of a larger curatorial cycle showcasing the work of artists from Indigenous peoples, Black and riverine communities in Brazil, Peru, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, and Colombia.
VERDE-DISTÂNCIA: THE 2ND BIENAL DAS AMAZÔNIAS TRACES CONSTELLATIONS THROUGH PAN-AMAZONIAN ART
This edition unfolds in Belém as a poetic and political reflection on Amazonian and Caribbean territories. More than 80 artists explore the notions of dream, memory, and accent as forces that reconfigure geography, time, and resistance.
THE “B-SIDE” OF POLESELLO AT THE CENTRO CULTURAL BORGES
A little over ten years after his death, numerous unpublished works by the Argentine artist are being exhibited for the first time, including engravings, sketches, paintings, sculptures, and objects.
FIVE NATIVE ARTISTS CHOSEN FOR EITELJORG CONTEMPORARY ART FELLOWSHIP
The artists will be featured in Emerging Current, an exhibition opening in November at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, showcasing bold and experimental works that reflect diverse contemporary Indigenous perspectives.
BIENALSUR ARRIVES AT MUSEO MAR IN MAR DEL PLATA
Fragmenting Obsolescence. Silent Spring explores new ways of observing matter and time, objects and their durability, and the relationship between extinction and obsolescence.
AMAZONIAN MENTAL HEALTH AT THE ICPNA ENGRAVING MUSEUM
Luna Dannon presents an exhibition born from her experience leading a mental health project involving 105 Amazonian communities during the pandemic.
THE VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE: BETWEEN CRAFTS AND ANTHROPOLOGY
By Álvaro de Benito
The Casa de México Foundation in Spain presents Guadalupe. La Virgen de México (Guadalupe. The Virgin of Mexico), an extensive program of exhibitions and activities centered around one of Mexico's most iconic and anthropologically significant figures. In addition to lectures and various screenings, the program revolves around two main themes: craftsmanship and popular culture on one hand, and anthropology on the other.
POP BRAZIL: COLOR AND DISSENT AT THE PINACOTECA
The Pinacoteca de São Paulo, a museum under the Bureau of Culture, Economy, and Creative Industry of the State of São Paulo, presents the exhibition Pop Brazil: Avant-garde and New Figuration, 1960-70, in the Grande Galeria of the Pina Contemporânea building.
ACTION, STRUGGLE, AND LANGUAGE BY LOTTY ROSENFELD AT THE CBA
By Álvaro de Benito
The Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid is hosting the exhibition By Pass. La frontera del signo (By Pass. The Frontier of the Sign), a comprehensive presentation of the work of Lotty Rosenfeld (Santiago, Chile, 1943–2020), a key figure in Latin American video art whose practice emerged at the intersection of political activism and the creation of images as spaces of expression and freedom.
FIVE READINGS OF MASP: BETWEEN HISTORY AND THE PRESENT
Histories of MASP, Renoir, Geometries, Arts from Africa, and Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement are part of Five Essays on MASP, a series of exhibitions based on the museum’s collection that inaugurate the new Pietro Maria Bardi Building.
BIENALSUR CURATES LATIN AMERICAN VIDEO EXHIBITION AT THE REINA SOFÍA
By Álvaro de Benito
The Reina Sofía Museum, in collaboration with BIENALSUR, presents the exhibition Resistencia. Una selección de video sudamericano (Resistance: A Selection of South American Video). Curated by Argentine art historian Diana Wechsler, artistic director of BIENALSUR, the exhibition offers two complementary ways to engage with the works, both situated around the museum’s cinema hall.
COUNTER-EXPEDITIONS: CASTELBLANCO DISMANTLES THE COLONIAL IMAGINATION OF TRAVEL
At the Haus for Media Art Oldenburg, the artist turns movement across territories into an act of reciprocity, care, and deep listening.
MOON, MYTHS, AND MEMORY: PAULO NIMER PJOTA AT KUNSTINSTITUUT MELLY
The Brazilian artist presents his first institutional exhibition in the Netherlands with a collection of works that blend personal reminiscences, mythology, and urban culture.
GRACIELA ITURBIDE RETROSPECTIVE AT CASA DE MÉXICO
By Álvaro de Benito
The Casa de México Foundation in Spain is hosting Cuando habla la luz (When Light Speaks), the first retrospective of Graciela Iturbide (Mexico City, 1942) since she received the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts. Curated by Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, the exhibition brings together 115 works spanning from 1972 to 2017.
