“CELINA ECEIZA: OFFERING” TRAVELS TO AUSTRIA

The Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires announced that the exhibition Celina Eceiza: Ofrenda (Offering)— an installation produced by the museum and presented in its galleries between September 2024 and March 2025 — will open on October 24 at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark (Graz, Austria), in collaboration with the Museo Moderno. This marks the first solo exhibition of Argentine artist Celina Eceiza (Tandil, 1988) in a European museum. Eceiza is also currently participating in the 18th Istanbul Biennial.

The exhibition was curated by Sandro Droschl, director of HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, in collaboration with Agustina Vizcarra, Head of Exhibitions at the Museo Moderno.

An immersive project
Ofrenda transforms architecture into a body that breathes erratically, shifting its state as one moves through each room. Walls, ceilings, and floors are covered with thousands of meters of hand-dyed fabrics, joined through the collective and timeless act of sewing to form a single surface — soft and responsive to the slightest movement.

Within these compositions, bodies in transformation emerge, along with flowers and fruits that echo both the tradition of still life and twentieth-century artistic movements, as well as multiple layers of cultural history: from Greco-Roman antiquity to the hippie movement of the 1960s.

The version presented in Austria
The exhibition at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark presents two of the spaces created especially for the original project at the Museo Moderno, curated by Jimena Ferreiro in 2024.

The yellow room, filled with light, brings together reinterpretations of works from the Museo Moderno’s collection, resulting from Eceiza’s research into the museum’s paintings. From that inquiry, the artist produced new textile pieces functioning as collages of works by Alberto Heredia, Juan del Prete, Noemí Gerstein, Yente, and Nicolás García Uriburu, among others. In a gesture of fan art, she selected her favorite works and transformed them into banners to articulate her reading of the history of Argentine modern art.

The red room is filled with monumental chalk drawings on fabric and hand-dyed carpets. Its compositions, loaded with symbolism, depict beings and bodies in full transformation. Here, the pictorial skin of wrinkles and folds feels organic — resilient yet fragile — evoking a “soft” museum that questions the exhibition practices of modern art.

A tradition of environments
Celina Eceiza’s work dialogues with the Argentine tradition of 1960s environments, such as La Menesunda (1965) by Marta Minujín and Rubén Santantonín, which expanded the limits of art to invite multisensory experiences. In this lineage, the artist creates spaces designed for collective inhabitation, where leisure is proposed as an uplifting and transformative practice. The installation includes cushions and resting areas, inviting the public to immerse themselves in a porous, expansive, and sensitive environment. Eceiza constructs spaces as emotional states, where art is experienced as a political, vital, and collective form capable of opening new possibilities of relation between bodies and with the world.

With the arrival of Ofrenda at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, the Museo Moderno reaffirms its commitment to projecting contemporary Argentine art internationally.

Celina Eceiza: Ofrenda will be open to the public from October 25 through January 18, 2026, at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Burgring 2, 8010 Graz, Austria.

*Cover image: Celina Eceiza at the Museo Moderno. Photo: Josefina Tommasi.