Notes related to Argentina
FUNDACIÓN AMA AMOEDO AND ISCP OPEN CALL FOR ARGENTINE ARTISTS TO PARTICIPATE IN A NEW YORK RESIDENCY
The foundation will award one spot for Argentine visual artists to take part in a two-month residency at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York, running October through November 2026. The application deadline is June 28, 2026.
A SECRET FADES IN MY HANDS: AMPARO VIAU'S FIRST SOLO SHOW IN EUROPE
Argentine artist Amparo Viau is presenting her work at ArtNoble Gallery in Milan, Italy, through June 30. The exhibition features a large-scale installation consisting of a continuous drawing approximately forty meters long, created in chalk pastel on paper, along with a series of drawings and bodily fragments that expand upon the themes explored in the main piece.
BUENOS AIRES DRESSES UP FOR NODO CIRCUITOS: FIVE ART GALLERIES TO VISIT
Meridiano's program brings together this weekend — June 4, 5 and 6 — a tour of galleries in San Telmo, Microcentro, La Boca, Villa Crespo and Retiro. The circuit offers an active reading of local contemporary art.
CROCERI AND VIDAL MACKINSON SELECTED FOR RESIDENCY AT EL ESPACIO 23 IN MIAMI
The first collaboration between El Espacio 23 and Fundación Ama Amoedo places two Argentines at the heart of one of the most dynamic ecosystems for Latin American art.
CAN YOU TRUST WHAT YOU SEE? LEANDRO ERLICH AT THE GRAND PALAIS, PARIS
The Buenos Aires artist has turned the prestigious French building into his new stage: climbable structures, houses suspended in mid-air, and impossible staircases, through September 6.
JULIO LE PARC, THE MAN FROM MENDOZA WHO TURNED LIGHT INTO A WORK OF ART, HAS PASSED AWAY
He was 97 years old and had been hospitalized for two days at the American Hospital of Paris. On June 11, a major retrospective was set to open at the Tate in London.
ARTEBA OPENS ITS 2026 CALL TO GALLERIES AND ARTISTIC PROJECTS
This new edition aims to build on the quality of work that has made the fair a regional benchmark. Application deadline: June 17.
THE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS CLOSES REGISTRATION THIS THURSDAY
Applications for Master Copies are open until May 22 — the new edition of the free program that explores the intersection of art, craft, and the transmission of knowledge.
FICTIONS WITH SKIN, A READING OF RUTH BENZACAR'S AUTUMN EXHIBITIONS
Guillermo Iuso and FlorenciaBöhtlingk next to Sebastián Gordin present two exhibitions at the Buenos Aires gallery where text and painting coexist without translating each other.
GABRIEL CHAILE UNFOLDS HIS ARCHAEOLOGY OF MIGRATION IN LONDON
The Argentine artist connects memory and identity in a large-scale installation commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery, where adobe sculptures and collected objects examine the experience of displacement through a contemporary archaeological lens.
A GLIMPSE INTO FERNANDO MAZA'S SURREAL WORLD AT THE MAR MUSEUM
With more than 50 paintings and watercolors, the exhibition offers a journey through the metaphysical universe of the painter, marking the beginning of a national tour that will continue in Córdoba and Mendoza.
SCAFATI AND PAINTING TRANSFORMED AS AN ACTIVE SPACE
Nombrar el mundo reconsiders painting through a political and affective perspective, expanding the canvas as textile toward sculptural and sonic dimensions as a gesture of resistance.
CAB EXPLORES LANDSCAPE AS LIVING MEMORY IN MATÍAS ERCOLE’S WORK
The Castilian institution examines Matías Ercole’s conception of space as a cultural construction where identity and emotion converge, encouraging a rethinking of perception and interaction with the environment.
JEŽIK AND COSTA EXPLORE MEMORY AND EXILE IN A GROUP EXHIBITION
Enrique Ježik and Matías Costa address violence, memory, and exile in Elche, highlighting the connections shaped by displacement.
"MONITOR YIN YANG": ARGENTINA ARRIVES AT THE VENICE BIENNALE WITH AN OPEN CARTOGRAPHY
Matías Duville's installation proposes a traversable landscape where light and shadow, permanence and transformation coexist without resolution.
MEMORY, MOURNING AND REBELLION: BETTINI AT DA2
The first retrospective in Spain of Gabriela Bettini reflects on absence and the politics of forgetting through images that challenge official history.
THE TRANSFORMATIVE SOUND, ACCORDING TO BENGOLEA, AT C3A
The exhibition brings together works created ad hoc by the artist in the city. Through them, she reinterprets craft and tradition from a contemporary perspective and invites the audience to understand sound as a language that redefines our relationship with the environment.
MARCELO BRODSKY IN WIESBADEN: MEMORY AS AN ACTIVE PRACTICE
The Kunsthaus Wiesbaden presents an exhibition surveying the work of the Argentine artist, where photography, archive, and activism intertwine to reflect on the traces of violence and human rights.
SARAH GRILO IS NO LONGER A SECRET NEARLY TWO DECADES AFTER HER DEATH
Today, those who walk through the galleries of the Museum of Modern Art or the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York encounter a welcome surprise: canvases of undeniable visual strength hanging alongside figures such as Rothko or Tàpies. These are works by Sarah Grilo, recently acquired by these institutions. Nearly two decades after her passing, the artist has finally assumed the place of honor her career deserved.
WHAT IS FERNANDA LAGUNA’S HEART MADE OF? OF REBEL TENDERNESS
Malba presents the most comprehensive survey of the Argentine artist’s work, featuring nearly 200 paintings, drawings, collages, embroideries, sculptures, installations, and videos; an exhibition that invites making without fear.
ROBERTO BEHAR & ROSARIO MARQUARDT WIN THE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD AT THE ELLIES OOLITE ARTS AWARDS
The Argentine duo receives the award in recognition of a practice that merges art, architecture, and public space, creating social sculptures that transform the city.
POTATOES AND PREMONITIONS: GRIPPO’S SUBTLETY AT ESPACIO FAN
The voice of a conceptual artist from the last century resonates as if his agenda were the same as today’s. Among works and sketches, the exhibition reminds us that “there is nothing more real than a potato.”
LA CHOLA POBLETE PRESENTS HER FIRST SOLO SHOW IN BRAZIL
With references to Baroque, Pop Art, Andean cosmology, music, fashion, and political protest, the exhibition at MASP encourages reflection on gender, colonialism, and the Chola identity.
VALERIA MACULAN: TRANSFORMING SPACE THROUGH THEATRICAL LANGUAGE AT CENTRO PÁRRAGA
Valeria Maculan presents an installation that turns the exhibition space into a stage shared with the audience. The work uses large, foldable textile figures to create a theatrical environment that evokes archetypes, myth, and ritual.
THE AESTHETIC TRANSFORMATION OF FUNCTIONALITY: REINOSO AT MNAD
La vida se mueve delves into Pablo Reinoso’s most recognizable artistic practice: the transformation of everyday objects into sculptural works that explore existential fragility in dialogue with space and surrealism.
FIRST INDIGENOUS ART BIENNIAL IN BUENOS AIRES
The event will bring together 46 Indigenous artists from different regions of Argentina and neighboring countries, with exhibitions and activities taking place between February and April.
PINAMAR CONTEMPORARY AWARD #2254 OPENS ITS CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
This edition offers artists the opportunity to imagine, experiment with, and materialize a large-scale work with a strong territorial presence. Application deadline: March 31, 2026.
THREE PINK ART BOOKS RELEASED IN 2025
Antena by Silvia Gurfein, Huir del mundo by Rosa Chancho, and Important Artifacts by Leanne Shapton are three art books published in Spanish during 2025. All three have pink covers. But contrary to the saying, it’s not all roses in these books. Or perhaps it is, but not in an obvious way: they narrate and engage with art through themes of isolation, fragmentation, rupture, and imagination.
THE IMMENSE AND THE INTIMATE, A MAGICAL RECORD TO VISIT AT MALBA PUERTOS
Between the exposed Misiones jungle and the revealed basin of the Río de la Plata, the museum proposes a journey through the work of Florencia Böhtlingk this summer.

