Notes related to Contemporary art

In Minor Keys is the title Koyo Kouoh chose for the Biennale we now read in the light filtered through her branches. What was she telling us? In this piece I reflect on its meaning and on the possibilities artists sow as they resignify the structures of our modernity. It is a walk through six works understood as ecologies, in the way philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers conceptualized it.

An Interview with La Chola Poblete

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.

Spanning five floors of the Pietro Maria Bardi Building, the exhibition brings together works by 148 artists, including previously unseen works, to examine how the idea of Latin America was constructed and continues to be contested today.

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.

The 24th Cerveira International Art Biennial consolidates its commitment to contemporary art as a site of critical inquiry through a significant Latin American presence that interrogates territory, memory, and identity from decolonial and transnational perspectives.

The Portuguese artist concludes his exhibition trilogy at MACE with a solo exhibition in which children's drawings, cognitive development and representation intersect with references drawn from art, science and philosophy.

A Madrid exhibition brings together Trini Energici's material research, in which her work explores the transformation of materials as a metaphor for memory, territory, and change. 

The CAAM presents an exhibition dedicated to Sandra Ramos that positions art as a tool for imagining possible futures in the face of an unstable world. Through her work, the artist addresses themes such as identity, migration, and displacement from a critical and poetic perspective.

The renowned installation by the Mexican artist transforms the exhibition space into an immersive experience through the unsettling arrangement of thousands of black paper butterflies, exploring the tension between beauty, collectivity, and perception.

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

The exhibition in New York will feature more than 50 works from the 1970s to the present, including an installation commissioned from Mexican artist Pablo Helguera.

Grand Palais, Paris

The Galician institution presents a proposal that connects the practices of Macchi, Ježik and Hernández with those of Alberto Ardid, bringing together critical strategies that engage with the construction of contemporaneity through media language and visual culture.

Alba Triana at Aluna Art Foundation, Miami

Art Basel in Basel remains the centerpiece of one of the most intense weeks in the international art calendar. While dozens of exhibitions, events, and satellite fairs take place across the city, the fair itself continues to set the tone for the market and offers a valuable opportunity to gauge both collector sentiment and broader trends in contemporary art.

Interview with Nuria Enguita, Artistic Director, MAC/CCB – Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture Centre (Museu de Arte Contemporânea e Centro de Arquitetura), Lisbon.

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 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.

The exhibition Antenas al vacío revisits the work of the Mexican artist and expands into a book that addresses contemporary art, experimental cinema, and Latin American visual thought.

The museum explores the construction of the region’s identity through a major group exhibition and solo presentations by Jesús Soto, Damián Ortega, Sandra Gamarra, La Chola Poblete, among other artists.

Youth, performance, and permanence: Argentina’s most important art fair has opened at Centro Costa Salguero and will run until August 31.

By Violeta Lozada

The Armory Show 2025 returns to the Javits Center in New York, reaffirming its status as one of the most influential events in modern and contemporary art since nineteen ninety-four. Every year, the fair brings together leading international galleries to showcase innovative works, with a strong focus on curatorial excellence, engaging public programming, and bold artistic activations.

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.

Now in its 20th edition, the competition invites artists and designers of all nationalities and artistic backgrounds to participate for cash prizes, international residencies, and the opportunity to exhibit at the Arsenale Nord in Venice in 2026. Application deadline: September 10, 2025.

The interdisciplinary art center located in New York presents work shaped by the experience of relating to the foreign in order to build a unique identity.

The Museum of America is hosting an exhibition of paintings by Juan Carlos Santoscoy (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1973) in its La Tapada gallery, open until the end of the month. Titled Algoritmos del caos (Algorithms of Chaos), the show features a selection of the artist’s most recent large-scale works, which engage with pressing themes in contemporary art such as global warming and the overexploitation of natural resources.

Americas Society presents Amazonia Açu, an exhibition that explores the cultural, historical, and spiritual diversity of the Pan-Amazon region through contemporary and Indigenous perspectives.

The Museum of Modern Art will host the most extensive retrospective devoted to the artist in the United States, on view at MoMA from November 10, 2025, through March 28, 2026.

The Chilean gallery Casa Varas hosts Lincura’s provocative proposal: a new way of looking at the “exotic” —and a new way of looking into the mirror.