Notes related to Museos
THE BIOMUSEO, SCIENCE AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE FIRST LEVEL
On the Amador Causeway, right at the entrance to the Panama Canal of the Pacific Ocean, the Museum of Biodiversity takes place, with a structure that does not go unnoticed both for its shapes and for its color. It is an avant-garde building that coexists with the natural environment.
CULTIVATING A VIRTUAL GARDEN: LEO CASTAÑEDA'S NEW INTERACTIVE DIGITAL WORK
Inspired by the Amazon rainforest and the Florida Everglades, the project commissioned for the 2026 Whitney Biennial invites players to explore the interconnections between natural ecosystems and technological systems.
MAC PANAMÁ LAUNCHES AN INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION
The museum seeks to reaffirm its leadership as a cultural institution and its commitment to a more sustainable, inclusive, and creative future for the country and the region. Application deadline: March 29, 2026.
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.
OFELIA ESPARZA SINCE 1945: MEXICAN TRADITIONS IN CALIFORNIA
The American museum shows a major retrospective of the Chicana artist’s work—an oeuvre that “embodies the power of art to preserve memory and culture.”
OCEAN AND MEMORY, MAC PANAMÁ PRESENTS TWO NEW EXHIBITIONS
An ocean-centered research project and a historical retrospective dedicated to Trixie Briceño shape MAC Panamá’s current program.
LA CHOLA POBLETE PRESENTS HER FIRST SOLO SHOW IN BRAZIL
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.
ATHENS PHOTO FESTIVAL LAUNCHES INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL FOR 2026
Over 80 artists will be selected to exhibit at Benaki Museum / Pireos 138. Deadline: 9 March.
FIVE VIBRANT EXHIBITIONS OF LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS TO VISIT IN THE U.S. IN 2026
The North American country presents a strong presence of Latin American art on its agenda this year, highlighting both historical and contemporary figures.
MALI PRESENTS ITS 2026 SUMMER AUCTION AND FESTIVE GALA
With the aim of safeguarding and promoting Peru’s artistic heritage, the museum unveils a catalogue that brings together both historical and contemporary works.
WATER AS A CRITICAL OPERATOR: DÁVALOS AT THE MUSEO DE ARTE MODERNO OF SANTO DOMINGO
Mario Dávalos' retrospective challenges inherited notions of the static landscape; working across multiple disciplines, it rethinks the histories of bodies and cultural representation.
THE AESTHETIC TRANSFORMATION OF FUNCTIONALITY: REINOSO AT MNAD
La vida se mueve delves into Pablo Reinoso’s most recognizable artistic practice: the transformation of everyday objects into sculptural works that explore existential fragility in dialogue with space and surrealism.
FINAL WEEKS TO VISIT FERNANDO SAMPIETRO’S CRITICAL RETROSPECTIVE AT MUSEO CABAÑAS
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.
MALBA ANNOUNCES RODRIGO MOURA’S DEPARTURE AS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
The museum prepares for a new institutional phase ahead of its 25th anniversary.
EIGHT KEY LATIN AMERICAN ART EXHIBITIONS TO SEE ACROSS EUROPE IN 2026
From historical retrospectives to immersive installations and new commissions, museums across the continent will host the work of seminal artists.
FROM MINUJÍN TO DE ANDRADE: A LUDIC INTERACTION WITH THE MNAD COLLECTION
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.
THE EARTH AS A FEMININE DIVINITY: DELCY MORELOS IN MEXICO
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.
ALIVE AND PRESENT: INDIGENOUS ART THAT “DOES NOT FOCUS SOLELY ON OBJECTS” AT THE PRE-COLUMBIAN MUSEUM
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.
ROBERTO HUARCAYA’S PHOTOGRAMS AT MARCO VIGO
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.
LATIN AMERICAN HISTORIES: MASP PRESENTS ITS 2026 PROGRAM
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.
GINA ARIZPE AND THE INVISIBILIZED AT MEIAC
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.
COSTANTINI ACQUIRES THE DAROS LATINAMERICA COLLECTION AS PART OF MALBA’S STRATEGIC EXPANSION
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.
MASP INAUGURATES AN EXHIBITION BY MINERVA CUEVAS ON SOCIAL ECOLOGY
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.
FOOTBALL AS A GLOBAL CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC PHENOMENON AT JUMEX
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.
MALBA PRESENTS POP BRAZIL, THE RADICAL PULSE OF THE 60s–70s
Over 120 groundbreaking works arrive in Argentina in the most extensive exhibition to date on this defining artistic era.
TWO GARDENS TO REMEMBER HOME: HIBA SCHAHBAZ AND DIANA EUSEBIO AT MOCA
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.
LAWRENCE LEK'S WORLD IN MIAMI, WHERE MACHINES SEEK MEANING
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.
CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ: LIGHT AS A LIVED EXPERIENCE AT PAMM
The museum invites visitors to immerse themselves in a field of pure, perceptual color.
GUGGENHEIM BILBAO RECLAIMS THE FIGURE OF VIEIRA DA SILVA
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.
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.

