Notes related to Argentina

An interview about Argentina and its institutions, about Argentina and photography, about Argentina and its contemporary art audience. About the Instituto de Estudios Artísticos, Francisco Medail's new space.

At Galería Ruth Benzacar in Buenos Aires, Argentina you'll find “EL ORIGEN DEL MUNDO” and “Futuro acontecer”; two exhibitions with artists building from distant temporalities that are, in their own way, entirely their own.

Grand Palais, Paris

"When the flame drinks from the stars and the spider weaves cycles of life, where the sky touches the earth and time expands like salt...", this is how Tomás Saraceno describes the exhibition Ancestral Futures at Haus der Kunst.

The Argentine artist's Guadalupe Miles book, edited by Julieta Escardó, documents her bond with the Wichí Santa Victoria II community.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This new edition aims to build on the quality of work that has made the fair a regional benchmark. Application deadline: June 17.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Enrique Ježik and Matías Costa address violence, memory, and exile in Elche, highlighting the connections shaped by displacement.

Matías Duville's installation proposes a traversable landscape where light and shadow, permanence and transformation coexist without resolution.

The first retrospective in Spain of Gabriela Bettini reflects on absence and the politics of forgetting through images that challenge official history.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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 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.