Notes related to Argentina
RUTH BENZACAR: SIX DECADES ON, STILL CELEBRATING RISK AND FREEDOM
By Violeta Méndez
The gallery marks sixty years of history with Energy and Optimism for Life, a vibrant look at its legacy and its present.
THE NOISY PRESENT AND THE EVERLASTING SILENCE AT DEPARTAMENTO 112
By Violeta Méndez
At the Argentine gallery, Pariente by Hans Petersen and Redondita by Juana Cravero engage in dialogue: two exhibitions that explore what we have turned into habit, and the desire that never fades away.
APA 2026 CALL FOR INTERNSHIPS, RESEARCH RESIDENCY, ARCHIVE TEXTS AND PERFORMANCE ACTIONS
Argentina Performance Art announced its 2025/2026 Open Call with four strands: professional internships; a research-and-writing residency; submissions for the Active Archive; and Acciones APA for performance proposals. Deadline: November 30, 2025.
LEANDRO ERLICH AT AMOS REX: ILLUSION, ARCHITECTURE AND PLAY
The Helsinki museum brings together ten emblematic installations by the Argentine artist that disrupt our perception of space and turn the viewer into a protagonist.
“CELINA ECEIZA: OFFERING” TRAVELS TO AUSTRIA
The ambitious immersive project, produced entirely by the Museo Moderno and previously exhibited at the museum, will open at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark.
GUAD CRECHE: ON THE PERFORMATIVE GESTURE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Through the exploration of the intersections between image, body, and discourse, Guad Creche (Salta, Argentina, 1985) positions their curatorial gaze on the performative potential of photography.
MATILDE MARÍN AND THE TRIMMINGS OF BEING A WITNESS ARTIST
By Violeta Méndez
Both the exhibited and the stored works draw attention in Matilde Marín’s studio. On the walls, her emblematic photographs steal the gaze, but so do the wrapped and labeled folders on her tables, the boxes full of books on the floor, and the stacks of files on her shelves. The image completes itself with her voice, the one that explains why the archive, too, is a protagonist.
SOL ECHEVARRÍA + ESPACIO FAN: A CROSSROADS FOR TEXTS, BOOKS, ART AND IMAGES
Editor and curator, Sol Echevarría created Espacio FAN as a meeting ground between the editorial and the visual. There, books become a territory for experimentation, and artworks become ways of reading. A project that champions collaboration, critical thinking, and cultural resistance in times of retreat.
WALKING THROUGH THE BODY: AD MINOLITIS MIAMI INSTALLATION
By Violeta Lozada
In the heart of the Miami Design District, Argentine artist Ad Minoliti has transformed a stairwell into something unexpected: a living, breathing body. On Friday, September 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM, the Miami Design District will host the official unveiling of Pink Spatial Microbiota at Buick Building.
CaccHho CucchhA: PLAY, IMAGINATION, AND COMMUNITY IN AMSTERDAM
Mercedes Azpilicueta presents a scenographic exhibition at de Appel transforming the space into an immersive play ecosystem, where children and adults co-create stories and experience time through imagination and collective care.
BETWEEN EXTINCTION AND LEGACY: ADRIÁN VILLAR ROJAS IN KOREA
For his first solo exhibition in Korea, Adrián Villar Rojas reimagines Art Sonje Center as a sculptural experiment in time and space.
KARA WALKER'S SILHOUETTES AT FUNDACIÓN PROA: HISTORY, POWER, AND REPRESENTATION
For the first time in Argentina and South America, Fundación Proa presents an exhibition dedicated to the American artist, one of the most influential figures in contemporary international art.
ARTEBA: AT THE CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Youth, performance, and permanence: Argentina’s most important art fair has opened at Centro Costa Salguero and will run until August 31.
THE HYPNOTIC NATURE OF AN EXPOSED STAGECRAFT
By Violeta Méndez
Just steps from the door, I heard the echoes of Tramoya. Curiosity guided my body toward the gallery, stealing from me the chance to prepare for the detours and fragmentations the works would provoke—and for the attempts to piece together those fragments within my own body.
GYULA KOSICE: INTERGALACTIC, AN EXHIBITION THAT RESHAPES HIS VISIONARY CONTRIBUTION
By Adriana Herrera Téllez, PhD
Gyula Kosice: Intergalactic is one of those axial exhibitions that unsettle the boundaries of the usual narratives of art history by incorporating visions that broaden our understanding of the contributions of foundational artists who, like this creator—born in today’s Slovenia in 1924 and later naturalized in Argentina—have not been sufficiently incorporated into the global narrative of concrete art.
AFFAIR #3: A FAIR COMMITTED TO NEW CONNECTIONS, IN BUENOS AIRES
The contemporary art fair organized by gallerists opens to the public in Buenos Aires’ renovated downtown featuring “resident” and “guest” galleries as well as international participants.
SOFT RESISTANCE
By Daniela Arroyo
On Atardecer en un bosque (Sunset in a Forest), the latest solo exhibition by Tadeo Muleiro at the Luis Perlotti Sculpture Museum in Buenos Aires, curated by Jen Zapata.
CASA ALBERTO HEREDIA ANNOUNCES ITS NEW 2025–2026 RESIDENTS
The Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires has announced the twelve new residents for its August–December 2025 and March–June 2026 periods.
A TECHNOLOGICAL GAZE AT THE PARIETAL ART BY SOFÍA CRESPO
By Álvaro de Benito
Sofía Crespo (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1991) often centers her work on the use of biology-inspired technology. In her exploration of the common ground between artificial intelligence and the way it generates images, on the one hand, and human perception of the environment, on the other, there is a turning point in the Argentine artist's practice.
RESIDUAL USES AND CONSUMPTIONS: A SOCIAL LANDSCAPE AT FUNDACIÓN OSDE
A show that reveals the archaeology of the everyday through archives, images, and excess.
2025 AZCUY PRIZE: NATIONAL CALL FOR LARGE-SCALE ART PROPOSALS
The Azcuy Contemporary Art Prize Launches Its Seventh Edition with USD 10,000 and Full Project Funding for the Winner. Submissions deadline: September 29, 2025.
BETWEEN A DRAGON AND A VIRGIN, AGAINST DOMESTICATED IMAGINATION
By Violeta Méndez
If there were no way to create something new—believing everything has already been done—if every form of creative intelligence were exhausted, then it would be time to unearth hidden worlds.
MARCO HOSTS THE POETICS OF LAURA LIO
By Álvaro de Benito
MARCO, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Vigo, presents Savia y sangre (Sap and Blood), a solo exhibition by Laura Lio (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1967), which reveals the artist’s social vision and commitment through her work. Lio's practice involves a meticulous observation of certain organic and natural processes in search of a kind of internal order. With a poetic approach, the Argentine artist based in Spain challenges this natural structure through visual language and words.
THE “B-SIDE” OF POLESELLO AT THE CENTRO CULTURAL BORGES
A little over ten years after his death, numerous unpublished works by the Argentine artist are being exhibited for the first time, including engravings, sketches, paintings, sculptures, and objects.
BIENALSUR ARRIVES AT MUSEO MAR IN MAR DEL PLATA
Fragmenting Obsolescence. Silent Spring explores new ways of observing matter and time, objects and their durability, and the relationship between extinction and obsolescence.
THE ARCHIVE HITS THE STREETS: DISOBEDIENCE IS ALWAYS POLITICAL
By María Galarza
After its acclaimed presentation at the 60th Venice Biennale, the Disobedience Archive lands at PROA21 with a new configuration. What in Italy took the form of an animated pre-cinematic machine —The Zoetrope— that drew the viewer into a visual experience, now adopts in Buenos Aires a more intimate and austere format.
ARTISTIC ACTIVISM AT PROA21: THE STREET AS AN ARCHIVE
PROA21 presents Disobedience Archive (the street), a mobile and evolving exhibition on view until July 2025 that highlights the relationship between artistic practices and political action.
RUTH BENZACAR OPENS ITS DOORS TO DELIA CANCELA
The gallery welcomes a key figure in Argentine and Latin American art since the 1960s. Her practice has unfolded between Buenos Aires, New York, and Paris, spanning painting, design, performance, and fashion, with a radical approach to the body, desire, and a bold, romantic vision of the female condition.
GALLERY 2025 INAUGURATES ITS TOUR THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF BUENOS AIRES
With the support of the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires, Gallery returns on Friday, June 6, 2025, bringing its iconic art circuit to the neighborhoods of Recoleta, Retiro, and Microcentro. The initiative aims to promote visits to artistic spaces such as galleries, museums, artist studios, and foundations, with the goal of bringing contemporary art closer to the general public and showcasing the excellence of the local art scene.
DEPARTAMENTO 112: A STORY, A BIRD, AN ENCOUNTER
The artist and the gallerist were drinking mate on Fleming Avenue in Martínez, in front of the gallery, trying to hold onto the warmth of a cool autumn sun. That simple, everyday, and sincere image foreshadowed the exhibition at Departamento 112.

