Notes related to Buenos Aires
MALBA ADDS EIGHT WORKS TO ITS COLLECTION FOR ITS 25TH ANNIVERSARY
The museum welcomes Juan Del Prete and, for the first time, Líbero Badíi, along with donated pieces by Jorge Pineda, Mario Testino, and Margarita Paksa.
WHAT WAS BUENOS AIRES' MODERNIST ART SCENE LIKE BETWEEN 1935 AND 1950?
The exhibition at the museum in St. Louis features how exile, exchange, and collaboration in Buenos Aires shaped modern art.
EXHIBITION ON FRAGILITY AS A SHARED CONDITION AT PALACIO LIBERTAD
Yo, frágil brings together works by eight artists —including Nicolás Bacal, Marcela Cabutti, and Silvia Rivas— who explore interdependence through installations, sculptures, videos, and paintings. Through September 14 at Sarmiento 151, CABA.
GALLERY RETURNS TO BUENOS AIRES WITH 14 SPACES IN PALERMO AND VILLA CRESPO
Talks with curators and artists, live music, and guided tours lasting between 60 and 90 minutes join an agenda that also includes the exhibitions by Alejandra Seeber and Agustín Riganelli at the Museo Sívori.
COLORS AND TEXTURES AT PLATEADA, LA PLATA’S ARGENTINE ART FAIR
With a work by Lido Iacopetti presented by Aldo de Sousa at the beginning of the fair, as a La Plata's city grail, as Facundo Belén—artistic director of Plateada alongside Virginia Martin—described it, the fair presents its 2026 edition in the main hall of the Teatro Argentino, in La Plata, Argentina.
IRENE GELFMAN TO PARTICIPATE IN SECRETS OF COLLECTING
Various leading figures from the collecting world will come together at the Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo to discuss the power of cultural platforms to drive artists and projects forward.
EMILIA DE LAS CARRERAS, THE ARTIST WHO PRACTICES FICTIONAL TAXIDERMY
Just as Emilia de las Carreras (Buenos Aires, 1989) looks at the hermit crab and understands that leaving a mark means that life leaves marks on you too, engaging with her artistic practice inevitably means that little crusts of her narrative stick to us: the methodology she works with, her intuition as a collector, her thinking of the body as geology, her obsessions, her skeletal and exoskeletal sculptures. The artist's work explores bodies and their remains through a visual and sensory operation crossed with scientific research and self-knowledge, giving shape to pieces that evoke an intersection of the archaeological, the clinical, and the speculative. Her approach to art could easily fill dozens of pages; this is only one chapter.
VENTANA GALERÍA PRESENTS “CORPORALIDADES” AT CANTRAL NEWBERY
The third edition of the curatorial cycle El amor puede funcionar brings together works by Jovita Kelmelmajer, Matías Jesús Funes, Romina Cruz, and guest artist Carla Fonseca.
ESTRANGEMENT AND ANTICIPATION: ORNELLA POCETTI AND IVANA DE VIVANCO AT MACBA
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (MACBA) presented the work of two women artists. In ¿Cómo suenan las lágrimas antes de secarse? (What Do Tears Sound Like Before They Dry?), Ivana de Vivanco builds a warning. Snakes, with their capacity to sense catastrophe. In Curada de espanto (Cured of Fright), Ornella Pocetti brings together scenes that hold a story that never fully reveals itself. Both artists hold the abyss steady through anticipation and the suspicion of an estrangement. All you have to do is pay attention.
PINTA BAphoto 2026, LATIN AMERICA'S ONLY INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY FAIR, RETURNS TO LA RURAL
Curated by Irene Gelfman, this year's edition brings together the many faces of contemporary photography in Buenos Aires.
A GHOST INSTITUTE FOR ARGENTINE PHOTOGRAPHY, ACCORDING TO FRANCISCO MEDAIL
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.
CHEATING TIME WITH FORNER AND LÓPEZ
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.
THE THINGS OF A FAMILY HOME: ON THE HELFT COLLECTION AT W—GALERÍA
"Things house spirits, or at least sprites, and for the collector—possession is the most intimate relationship that one can have with objects: not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them."
Walter Benjamin: Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting (1931)
FROM RELIGIOUS ICONS TO FLUORESCENT ICONS: DAN FLAVIN AND LIGHT AS EXPERIENCE AT MALBA
Luz, color y espacio, the exhibition presented by the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires in collaboration with Dia Art Foundation, offers an experience in which color and space envelop the viewer. It will be open to the public through August 17.
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.
NODO 2026: 67 GALLERIES AND SEVEN INTERNATIONAL CURATORS ON THE BUENOS AIRES CIRCUIT
This June, the program will tour seven neighborhoods across the city with free admission, and will include an institutional acquisitions segment and visits from professionals from Mexico, Colombia, Panama, the United States, Spain, Germany, and Brazil.
WHAT DO THE PAPERS THROWN INTO THE STREET TELL US? JORGE MACCHI EXHIBITS AT MUSEO SÍVORI
In RETOUR the Argentine artist builds a cartography of the city from discarded papers bearing writings that were never meant to be read; on view through August 9, 2026, at Museo Sívori, Buenos Aires.
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.
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.
"GALLERY": AN INVITATION TO ENJOY CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE CITY OF BUENOS AIRES
The first 2026 edition of Gallery arrives in Recoleta, Retiro, and Microcentro. Organized across different circuits, this major free event has been showcasing the best of local art scenes for over two decades.
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.
THE MONUMENTALITY OF THREAD: OLGA DE AMARAL AT MALBA
The museum presents the artist’s trajectory in relation to her contexts, documenting her artistic networks, her interventions in architecture, and her pioneering role in the development of textile practice in the Americas.
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.”
RODRIGO BARCOS APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF TOMAS REDRADO ART’S SUR GLOBAL PROJECT
The Argentine curator, artist, and gallerist will lead a platform committed to positioning Latin American art within international conversations “without diluting its specificity.”
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.
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.
VELVET CLUB: A CLICHÉD DREAM AT THE MODERNO
Daniel Basso presents new works that reinterpret nocturnal aesthetics, consumer objects, and urban memories to create an immersive space between fantasy and exaggeration.
RUTH BENZACAR: SIX DECADES ON, STILL CELEBRATING RISK AND FREEDOM
The gallery marks sixty years of history with Energy and Optimism for Life, a vibrant look at its legacy and its present.
REDISCOVER SAN TELMO AND LA BOCA WITH GALLERY
The event presents its final 2025 edition: an invitation to enjoy contemporary art tours across the neighborhoods of San Telmo and La Boca.
THE NOISY PRESENT AND THE EVERLASTING SILENCE AT DEPARTAMENTO 112
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.

