BUENOS AIRES DRESSES UP FOR NODO CIRCUITOS: FIVE ART GALLERIES TO VISIT

A grand celebration of Argentine art: Buenos Aires dresses in canvases this June 4, 5 and 6 alongside NODO Circuitos — a Meridiano program that drives the promotion and visibility of Argentine galleries. The occasion invites all audiences to engage in an active contemplation of the city, its surfaces and textures, in order to understand the construction of an identity and its contemporaneity. Arte al Día highlights five galleries worth visiting.

Colección Helft at W Galería, San Telmo

W Galería shares nearly four decades of art collecting history in contemporary Latin America. Jorge Helft (Paris, 1934 – Deauville, 2025) and Marion Eppinger (Budapest, 1933) brought together works by more than 40 artists, including Ana Mendieta, Marcel Duchamp, Antonio Berni, León Ferrari, Guillermo Kuitca and Julio Le Parc, among many other celebrated names. To witness the Colección Helft is to witness the construction of a path that moved away from the veneration of dominant taste, anticipated the closeness between art and life itself, and embraced art as a natural habitat.

The gallery proposes reading the exhibition through the following axes: monstrous figuration, neo-Dadaist poetics and historical conceptualism, vernacular pop, the recovery of the painterly gesture in the 1980s, and the work of women artists of the second feminist wave — all as a means of reflecting on the identity of Argentine art through this body of works.

Quiero estar aquí at CRUDO, Microcentro

As part of NODO, CRUDO inaugurates its new space at Lavalle 1139, 1st floor, and invites visitors to discover it with the opening of the exhibition Quiero estar aquí. Curated by Yuyo Gardiol, the show brings together works by Juan José Cambre, Marcos Calvari, Hernán Camoletto, Juan Ignacio Cabruja, Ariel Costa, Facundo Díaz, Fepi Farina, Fede Gloriani, Yuyo Gardiol, Nicole Mazza, Celina Mundet, Edgar Murillo and Jessica Trosman. In the curator's own words, "Quiero estar aquí is a physical anchoring in the heart of the city of Buenos Aires."

CRUDO frames presence itself as a political and poetic act. Opening a new space just steps from the Obelisco and the Teatro Colón expresses a commitment to inhabiting the future.

Liquidación at Constitución, La Boca

The La Boca gallery presents the work of Alfredo Dufour (San Juan, Argentina, 1989), "an ideological artist who turns his neurosis into a public problem," as Claudio Iglesias describes him. On walls that seem to be melting, paintings paying homage to Argentina's twenty-three provinces struggle not to fall. The landscapes were copied from an atlas published by the magazine Gente in the 1990s.

Dufour encloses the viewer in an installation where only the dimmed provinces remain, their colors stripped of the brightness of design. The landscape sits atop a set that is falling apart.

Kokamama at Pabellón Cuatro, Villa Crespo

Curated by Daniel Fischer, Pabellón Cuatro brings to NODO the Incan tradition as a lens through which to examine the relationship between the human and the non-human. The exhibition Kokamama brings together Paula Otegui, Alejandro Thornton, Jorge Opazo, Max Alyundi, Pedro Perelman and Tec to explore themes of fertility, abundance and connection with the divine.

In the legend of Mama Coca, a woman of great beauty and prosperity is transformed, after her death, into the coca plant — a symbol of mediation between the human and the supernatural in Andean cosmovision. Within this narrative, the artists "explore different strategies and languages in search of embracing the powerful and rich complexity of Andean culture, connecting current and ancestral debates about the sacredness of nature, the founding role of symbols in the mediation between the human and the transcendent, and their possible symbolic function in culture," Fischer explains.

CELEBRACIÓN at PASTO, Retiro

PASTO inaugurates its new space in Retiro with the opening of CELEBRACIÓN, a group exhibition that traces a path through diverse practices, mediums and generations. Curated by César Abelenda, founder and director of the gallery, with the collaboration of Carlos Herrera, the show brings together works by Ariel Cusnir, Benjamín Felice, Claudio Cretti, Déborah Pruden, Federico Cantini, Iosu Aramburu, Jimena Losada, Juan Sebastián Bruno, Laura Códega, Lucas Simões, Manuel Brandazza, Santiago Licata, Randolpho Lamonier and Zé Carlos García.

PASTO's new space is located at Tres Sargentos 359, a historic passage in the city center that for decades housed the Cristalería Lumi Hermanos and the Galería Alberto Sendrós, one of the most significant projects in the Argentine contemporary art scene of recent decades.