Notes related to Museos

Growing Deep Roots, curated by Meredith Malone, brings together sculpture, drawings, and video, tracing water stewardship, ecofeminism, and just energy transition.

The institution is reinforcing its commitment to Latin American art with three exhibitions that, like the thematic lines underpinning this season, will explore the body, memory, and participation.

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

The show occupies seven rooms on the first floor of Pina Luz and revisits the work of one of the most distinctive figures of Brazilian modernism, averse to nationalism and in pursuit of eternity.

With a career spanning more than two decades, Hernández Chong Cuy joins the museum tasked with developing a critical curatorial vision for its permanent collection.

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.

Construction of Events brings together Andean ceramics, archival appropriation, and clay mural painting at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima, tracing an arc of over four centuries of Peruvian history.

The ongoing project, curated by Iberia Pérez González and presented by the museum's Caribbean Cultural Institute, combines live art events with a digital video-performance platform.

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 Bahamian artist’s most significant institutional presentation in the United States to date transforms the museum’s waterfront gallery into a protective landscape of woven clay, bottle trees, and shells.

On Saturday, July 4, the exhibition biformes bicoloreadas bitremendas bilejanas lejanas lejanas opened at Museo MAR in Mar del Plata, featuring artists Elba Bairon and Paola Vega, curated by Sofía Dourron.

The exhibition brings together works by Wifredo Lam, Amelia Peláez, and Mario Carreño, preserved by private collectors for more than 80 years.

First Gods, Lost Animals, curated by Claude Adjil, traces the symbolic systems humans built to navigate a universe that exceeds their cognitive scale.

The Argentine artist's Guadalupe Miles book, edited by Julieta Escardó, documents her bond with the Wichí Santa Victoria II community.

Emilio Fuentes Traverso imagines, in his new exhibition in Chile, possible encounters between the natural, the anthropic and the cosmic through sculptures in unstable equilibrium that compress millions of years of transformation into suspended objects.

The Colombian artist presents Sentir tu peso, a participatory installation on the terrace of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, his first appearance in the city.

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.

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

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.

The exhibition will feature a groundbreaking feminist work by late German artist Marianne Wex alongside works by seven contemporary artists.

The Argentine artist connects memory and identity in a large-scale installation commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery, where adobe sculptures and collected objects examine the experience of displacement through a contemporary archaeological lens.

With more than 50 paintings and watercolors, the exhibition offers a journey through the metaphysical universe of the painter, marking the beginning of a national tour that will continue in Córdoba and Mendoza.

More than 112 works by the Colombian master — several never shown before — arrive at the Hangaram Art Museum in an exhibition on view through August 30, 2026.

Director of the Museo Universitario del Chopo, Sol Henaro reflects on her role, the tensions within the institution, and the construction of communities from a curatorial perspective.

What is a Culturally Specific Institution? Director of El Museo del Barrio for over eight years, Patrick Charpenel reflects on the role of museums in the United States, the visibility of Latinx communities, and the challenges of thinking about art beyond fixed categories and market logics.

The show presents six decades of artistic and cultural work by Francesco Mariotti and María Luy, two artists who have intertwined technology, collectivity, nature, and social commitment in their work.

The museum is seeking a professional to lead the planning and coordination of its exhibition program, with applications open until May 5.

The Brazilian museum presents works by Santiago Yahuarcani and Oscar Muñoz, exploring ancestral knowledge and the fragility of images in Latin America.

The exhibition presented at the Irish institution showcases an artist who reflects on the interrelation between humanity and nature and advocates listening as a path toward transformation through memory and connection.

The first retrospective in Spain of Gabriela Bettini reflects on absence and the politics of forgetting through images that challenge official history.