Notes related to Museos

The museum prepares for a new institutional phase ahead of its 25th anniversary.

From historical retrospectives to immersive installations and new commissions, museums across the continent will host the work of seminal artists.

By Álvaro de Benito

Let’s Play. Juguemos en la colección, a BIENALSUR project, engages with the permanent collection of the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas through the conceptual lens of play, featuring the work of ten artists, mostly from Latin America, including Marta Minujín, Glenda León, and Silvia Rivas.

Within the framework of Mexico City Art Week 2026,  MUAC continues to present the Colombian artist's exhibition, a proposal that invites visitors to inhabit the ritual.

The Chilean museum unveils a temporary exhibition that foregrounds the living traditions and creative persistence of the Atacameño/Lickanantay, Mapuche, and Rapanui peoples through an extensive process of research and collaboration with Indigenous communities.

By Álvaro de Benito

The exhibition brings together a decade of technical and poetic experimentation that transcends the traditional boundaries of photography and places visual experience at the center of reflection. 

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.

By Álvaro de Benito

The exhibition traces different moments and formal strategies in her practice, marked by a critical reflection on violence, denial, and the tensions that permeate the female experience in contemporary society.

In a historic operation that nearly doubles its holdings of modern and contemporary Latin American art, the museum moves forward with the expansion of its headquarters and consolidates its position as one of the region’s leading international institutions.

The multidisciplinary exhibition by the Mexican artist, featuring installation, sculpture, painting, posters, and video, closes the Histories of Ecology cycle and highlights the environmental crisis as a social issue.

At a moment when the world unites around the ball, Football and Art. That Same Emotion invites us to reflect on the sport’s power to bring communities together, build imaginaries, and transcend borders.

Over 120 groundbreaking works arrive in Argentina in the most extensive exhibition to date on this defining artistic era.

From the ancestral to the mythical, two parallel exhibitions explore how memory, identity, and nature shape the symbolic territories where migrant communities imagine —and reinvent— their roots.

The Bass presents an immersive expansion of the artist's fictional universe, where sentient vehicles confront questions of memory, purpose, and control inside a corporate system designed to repair—and restrain—them.

The museum invites visitors to immerse themselves in a field of pure, perceptual color.

By Álvaro de Benito

The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao presents Anatomy of Space, an extensive exhibition dedicated to Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (Lisbon, Portugal, 1908 – Paris, France, 1992), which primarily encompasses her production from the 1930s through the 1980s. The exhibition is structured around two fundamental axes: architecture and the architectural landscape as compositional frameworks, and memory as the generator of the image.

Daniel Basso presents new works that reinterpret nocturnal aesthetics, consumer objects, and urban memories to create an immersive space between fantasy and exaggeration.

ArtScience Museum in Singapore presents an exhibition that invites society to co-create the future from hope and creativity.

An exhibition tracing how generations of artists transformed the postal system into a space for creative freedom and political action, challenging censorship and borders.

The Helsinki museum brings together ten emblematic installations by the Argentine artist that disrupt our perception of space and turn the viewer into a protagonist.

Ambra Castagnetti: Ephemeral Panic explores the mutability of the body and its link to the political and the poetic through sculpture, video, and performance.

The ambitious immersive project, produced entirely by the Museo Moderno and previously exhibited at the museum, will open at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark.

By Álvaro de Benito

Es Baluard in Palma de Mallorca presents Preludio para el sol y las estrellas (Prelude for the Sun and the Stars), a project by Sandra Cinto (Santo André, Brazil, 1968) that transforms the museum space into a realm suspended between perception, time, and matter. The result envelops visitors in an expanded landscape that invites reflection through stillness and contemplation, where the sensory and the act of pausing become central to the experience.

With seven sessions and an extraordinary lot, the auction emphasizes this year three-dimensional and sculptural works.

The curator returns to the city where he began his career to take on the role of Senior Director of Curatorial Affairs & Chief Curator at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, with a vision focused on accessibility and intercultural dialogue.

Opening on September 25, 2025, the exhibition examines drive, loss, and material transformation in the artist’s work.

The show brings together 13 artists from Mexico City, Johannesburg, Kathmandu, and New Orleans to explore the power of connection across generations and geographies.

By Violeta Lozada

For the first time, twin brothers Elliot and Erick Jiménez step into a museum as an artistic duo, presenting a body of work that is both personal and deeply spiritual. Identical twins with identical passions, they work through photography to explore themes of memory, identity, and tradition, but with a profound layer of meaning rooted in their spiritual practice of Lucumí, a syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion born in late nineteenth-century Cuba. Emerging from the fusion of Yoruba, Catholicism, and Spiritism, Lucumí continues to shape lives across generations of the Cuban diaspora, and in the case of the Jiménez brothers, it has become both inspiration and guide.

The exhibition connects local and global issues by facilitating dialogue between Brazilian and international artists. Many of these artists are exhibiting their work in Latin America for the first time.

For his first solo exhibition in Korea, Adrián Villar Rojas reimagines Art Sonje Center as a sculptural experiment in time and space.