BIENALSUR CELEBRATES TEN YEARS WITH A NEW EDITION IN BUENOS AIRES
BIENALSUR Week 2025 opened with a diverse and expansive program at key venues in the city of Buenos Aires. It will continue throughout July and run until December at various venues.
The International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South marks its tenth anniversary with the launch of its fifth edition in Buenos Aires, the starting point of an artistic network that spans five continents. After opening its first exhibitions on June 26 in Bogotá, Medellín, and Manizales, BIENALSUR Week 2025 officially began in Argentina on Saturday, July 5, at MUNTREF Contemporary Art Center, Hotel de Inmigrantes venue, and will continue in various cultural spaces across the city.
The biennial kicked off in Buenos Aires with three exhibitions and a performance at MUNTREF, Km 0 of this unique artistic cartography. Among them, Let’s Play / Juguemos en el mundo invites reflection on play as a metaphor for life, drawing inspiration from Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar. Curated by Diana Wechsler, the exhibition brings together works by key figures in contemporary art such as Michelangelo Pistoletto, godfather of this edition, Marta Minujín, Vik Muniz, Liliana Porter, Ana Tiscornia, and Carlos Amorales, among others. Enhancing the experience is the performance (d)estructura, el juego by Colombian artists Mariangela Aponte Núñez, Juan Esteban Sandoval, and Alejandro Vásquez Salinas.
That same day also saw the opening of Tejidos Sonoros. 30 años Berlín – Buenos Aires, curated by Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock and Heike van den Valentyn, and coordinated by Cristina Sommer. The exhibition explores the connection between the two cities through works by artists such as Akinbode Akinbiyi, Sofía Bohtlingk, and Colectivo Tsufwelej. Simultaneously, Instituto del Tiempo Suspendido challenges the logic of linear time with works by Javier Bassas and Raquel Friera.
On Sunday, July 6, the Parque de la Memoria (Km 8) hosted Algunos oficios. Arte, trabajo y precariedad en Argentina (2003–2023), an exhibition curated by Marcos Kramer that features works by Ana Gallardo, Adriana Bustos, and Artistas Visuales Autoconvocados, among others, shedding light on the changing nature of work and its impact on daily life.
Starting Tuesday, July 8, the program will extend to the cultural venues of the Brazilian and Chilean embassies. At the Espacio Cultural Palacio Pereda, Critique of Pure Abstraction—curated by Florencia Battiti and Fernando Farina—offers a contemporary look at the roots of modern abstraction. Meanwhile, at the MATTA Cultural Center, the exhibition Errázuriz – Lestido. Próceres | Sepur Zarco. La conquista del hogar brings together for the first time the works of photographers Paz Errázuriz and Adriana Lestido in a powerful dialogue of memory, testimony, and landscape.
With more than 140 venues in 70 cities, BIENALSUR reaffirms its collaborative, pluralistic, and decentralized model, committing to transnational art capable of engaging with today's major challenges. From its starting point, MUNTREF in Buenos Aires, to Tokyo, Japan, it traces a new map for contemporary art that spans 18,370 kilometers, simultaneously connecting art spaces, creators, audiences, and communities across all continents.
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