FRANCISCA BENÍTEZ AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF SPACE AND SOCIETY

The Chiloé Museum of Modern Art presents its 37th edition featuring photographs, paintings, sculptures, installations, performances, videos, and digital cinema in the exhibition Espectral (Spectral), which invites viewers to explore what stirs unease: the mysterious, the ethereal, and the unknown.

Visión y presencia, the cycle of performances by women artists organized by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, reaches its fourth edition with a renewed program where, once again, the Latin American presence will play a very prominent role. As in previous editions, ten will be the creative proposals that will be staged in different spaces of the Madrid museum and that will be linked to the concept of their proposals, notably revolving around feminism, traditions, colonialism, immigration or ecology.

Visión y presencia, the cycle of performances by women artists organized by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, reaches its fourth edition with a renewed program where, once again, the Latin American presence will play a very prominent role. As in previous editions, ten will be the creative proposals that will be staged in different spaces of the Madrid museum and that will be linked to the concept of their proposals, notably revolving around feminism, traditions, colonialism, immigration or ecology.

Canary Islands-based Mexican Gloria Godinez (Mexico City, Mexico, 1979) will be in charge of opening the cycle with Rojo descolonial en la pintura de Vincent van Gogh (Decolonial red in Vincent van Gogh's painting). The cycle will have a performative action every month, successively (except for July and August), and performances by Elisa Miralles, Yola Balanga, Cuba's Susana Pilar, Costa Rica's Eugenia S. Rudin, Paraguay's Eugenia Rudin and Elisa Miralles are scheduled. Rudin, Paraguay's Jessica Diaz, Chile's Laura Santander, Teresa Correa, Uruguay's Valentina Cardellino and Andrea Ghuisolfi, and O.R.G.I.A. along with three lectures by Brazilian curator Renata Ribeiro, Alma Cardoso and Diana Cuellar.

The Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID) has collaborated in the preparation of the program, as well as the Spanish Cultural Centers in Montevideo, Paraguay and Costa Rica and, for the first time, the Atlantic Center of Modern Art-CAAM of Gran Canaria.

Visión y presencia will be held from January 22 to December 10, 2025 at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Paseo del Prado, 8, Madrid (Spain).

The VIGILGONZALES gallery presents Ansío lo que crece mientras cae (I Long for What Grows While Falling), an individual exhibition by Peruvian artist Natalia Iguiñiz Boggio; it highlights, both from a personal perspective and through historical reflection, the symbolic and epistemological aspects that uphold the vertical order of the patriarchal system.

As part of the temporary exhibition Contactos. Textiles coloniales de los Andes (Contacts: Colonial Textiles from the Andes), the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art presents a mediation room for visitors, designed to bring them closer to the richness of Andean textile production and expand reflections on contemporary connections. This space invites the audience to think of weaving as a language that links people, memories, and territories, enabling collective and sensory experiences.

The Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) spring 2025 exhibition, continents like seeds, brings together the work of La Chola Poblete (b. 1989, Argentina), Niño de Elche (b. 1985, Spain), and Pedro G. Romero (b. 1964, Spain); through sound, sculpture, performance, drawing, and painting, the show unravels and exposes the contradictions and ambiguities of colonial legacies.