Contemporary art publications about Buenos Aires

At the 22nd edition of Pinta BAphoto, the honored artist was Sandra Eleta, one of Latin America’s foundational photographers

The fair celebrates in Buenos Aires the expansion of the discipline and the way it blends with different materialities, taking shape in endless possibilities.

On photography’s 200th birthday, the fair presents images that problematize representations of the body, explore across media, and build collective images.

Whether it is from the archive to the gallery or spanning between research and curatorial practice, Mercedes Claus explores the different spaces that outline Argentina’s photographic scene. This is an interview about the circulation, legitimization, and interpretation of images, in light of her work as curator of RADAR at the upcoming edition of Pinta BAphoto.

The cultural strategy office will open in late October with a site-specific exhibition by Olivier Mosset and Gilda Picabea.

Eve Schillo is an Associate Curator in the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). During her upcoming visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina, for Pinta BAphoto 2026, she shares an organic and systemic perspective on photography, one that does not need to remain within its own boundaries.

A tribute to Sandra Eleta, the work of Claudia Andujar, a solo show by Joaquín Sánchez, and a project that combines a bookstore and an exhibition chart a map that travels through Panama, Brazil, Paraguay, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Venezuela.

Artist, editor, workshop leader, and gallery owner. Depending on which “hat” he wears, Martín Bollati occupies different positions within the field of image-making (and thinking). He founded ATLAS, a bookstore and gallery specializing in photography, images, design, and architecture, as well as publisher SED Editorial.

From October 22 to 25, La Rural hosts the 22nd edition of the only photography fair in Latin America: it celebrates two centuries of images with unique works, in-house curatorial projects, and an international presence.

The founders of the NN gallery talk about their curatorial approach, driven by intuition and the periphery: “When it finally articulates well, it’s not that interesting.”

The exhibition Estado de Asamblea and a live action bring together images, voices, and texts to collectively discuss the present.

The Fukushima control room, Snowden's refuge in Moscow, and Bill Gates's dorm room: built in cardboard, photographed, and destroyed.

La noche y las palabras brings together the artist's installations, photographs, films, and drawings, curated by Francisco Lemus and Mariana Marchesi.

In late October and early November, the city of Buenos Aires will host three fairs with three distinct identities in a single period of intense artistic activity.

With a characteristic exercise of Ruth Benzacar's exhibition program, intergenerational dialogue is established between Roberto Aizenberg's works in "La flor de la distancia" (The flower of distance) and Andrés Piña's "El alma volvió preñada de materia" (The soul returned pregnant with matter).

Thirty works join the exhibition starting Saturday, September 19, including pieces from the Colección Daros Latinoamérica.

Suave es la noche, by Silvana Muscio, and Trago Amargo, by Claudia Coca and Claudia Casarino, propose two distinct ways of inhabiting memory from Buenos Aires: one sensory and oneiric, the other historical and colonial.

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.

The exhibition at the museum in St. Louis features how exile, exchange, and collaboration in Buenos Aires shaped modern art.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Curated by Irene Gelfman, this year's edition brings together the many faces of contemporary photography in Buenos Aires.

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.