THREE EXHIBITIONS AT MAMBO: BETWEEN SHADOW, DREAMS, AND MEMORY
The second exhibition cycle of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO) in 2025 invites visitors to explore multiple ways of engaging with the visible and the invisible, the intimate and the collective. Through various disciplines, the exhibitions examine the relationships between image, memory, time, and sensory experience. Curated by Eugenio Viola and Juaniko Moreno, each show offers a distinct approach to the limits of representation and the role of memory as a form of knowledge.
María Isabel Rueda: The Oracle of the Night
The Oracle of the Night is the solo exhibition of Colombian artist María Isabel Rueda. Throughout her career, Rueda has developed a body of work where the visual and the rational intertwine with the oneiric, the metaphysical, superstition, and intuition. This show celebrates the many dimensions of one of the most versatile and conceptually rich voices in contemporary Colombian art.
The exhibition’s title alludes both to its content and methodological focus. In the shadows, the artist conjures specters, omens, and oracular creatures through monumental murals that dialogue with light, darkness, reality, and fiction. Rueda offers a sensory and conceptual experience that challenges the boundaries between art and dreams, reason and intuition. She invites viewers to immerse themselves in a world where the invisible takes shape, and each work is a coded message from the depths of the imagination.
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María Isabel Rueda. Sin Título, 2025. Acrílico sobre papel, 42x29,7. Cortesía de MAMBO
Infrathin. Memory and Fragility in the Work of Oscar Muñoz
Infrathin is the first anthological exhibition dedicated to Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz at MAMBO in over thirty years. Regarded as one of the most influential figures in conceptual and multimedia art in Latin America, Muñoz presents a key selection of past and recent works in a show built around the notion of the infraleve, a concept developed by Marcel Duchamp.
According to Duchamp, infraleve refers to almost imperceptible transitions — the warmth left on a chair after someone gets up, or the fog on a mirror: subtle shifts that reveal the invisible. This philosophical and aesthetic notion has been central to Muñoz’s work since the 1980s, as he explores, with unique sensitivity, the boundaries between presence and absence, memory and disappearance, time and matter.
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Oscar Muñoz. Narcisos secos, 1995-2009. Polvo de carbón sobre plexiglás. Cortesía de MAMBO
The exhibition features nearly 30 works spanning the last three decades of the artist’s career, including emblematic pieces and new works created specifically for this occasion. Infrathin is not only a journey through the work of one of the most important artists in Colombia and Latin America, but also a profound reflection on the thresholds of the visible, memory, and image.
Sair García: Sequences. The Image-Montage
Sequences. The Image-Montage marks the first institutional exhibition of Colombian artist Sair García. This show brings together a series of new works conceived especially for MAMBO, exploring the idea of the montage-image at the intersection of cinema, painting, and visual memory. The artist offers a critical reading of how we construct our emotional and collective narratives through the assembly and recomposition of images.
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Sair García. Sin Título (Viajeros), 2025. Óleo sobre madera, 25x30cm. Cortesía de MAMBO
Inspired by Georges Didi-Huberman’s theory of the montage-image—which posits that montage is a political gesture and never neutral—García proposes a visual essay guided by the cinematic language of Greek filmmaker Theodoros Angelopoulos, known for his contemplative style and long sequence shots.
Sequences. The Montage-Image creates an immersive experience where painting and cinema merge into a visual choreography that challenges our relationship with history, perception, and memory. This exhibition marks an important chapter in Sair García’s career while expanding MAMBO’s curatorial language for its 2025 program.
The exhibitions will be on view through October 5, 2025, at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Cl. 24 #6-00, Bogotá (Colombia).
*Cover image: Photograph by Gregorio Díaz. Courtesy of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá – MAMBO.
