Notes related to Museums

By Álvaro de Benito

MARCO, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Vigo, presents Savia y sangre (Sap and Blood), a solo exhibition by Laura Lio (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1967), which reveals the artist’s social vision and commitment through her work. Lio's practice involves a meticulous observation of certain organic and natural processes in search of a kind of internal order. With a poetic approach, the Argentine artist based in Spain challenges this natural structure through visual language and words.

The artists will be featured in Emerging Current, an exhibition opening in November at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, showcasing bold and experimental works that reflect diverse contemporary Indigenous perspectives.

By María Galarza

For over four decades, Mónica Kupfer has been researching, writing, and curating exhibitions that seek to tell a story of Panamanian and Central American Art that is still under construction. She played a key role in the first edition of Pinta Panamá Art Week, where she coordinated FORO—a regional discussion platform that brought together artists, curators, collectors, and institutions.

The second exhibition cycle of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO) in 2025 invites visitors to explore multiple ways of engaging with the visible and the invisible, the intimate and the collective. Through various disciplines, the exhibitions examine the relationships between image, memory, time, and sensory experience. Curated by Eugenio Viola and Juaniko Moreno, each show offers a distinct approach to the limits of representation and the role of memory as a form of knowledge.

By Álvaro de Benito

The Museum of America in Madrid is hosting El sueño del jaguar (The Dream of the Jaguar), an exhibition curated by visual artist Fredi Casco (Asunción, Paraguay, 1967) and photographer Fernando Allen (Asunción, Paraguay, 1957), which brings together artistic, ethnographic, and scientific perspectives on the jaguar and its symbolic and ecological significance.

By Julia P. Herzberg, Ph.D.

Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity is the artist’s first retrospective in the United States in almost fifty years. Impeccably curated and designed, the exhibition aims to bring renewed critical attention to one of America’s most consequential modernists. 

The museum recalls the artist’s deep commitment to Peruvian art as a founding member of the Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo, which celebrates its 70th anniversary this year.

Terraphilia—a term combining terra (earth) with philia (love and friendship)—evokes a deep-rooted connection of affect, care, and responsibility toward the earth and its multitudes of inhabitants. In a time of planetary unmaking and gaping inequalities, the exhibition turns to art to orient us toward transformative ways of being—mobilizing interspecies kinship, new forms of collectivity, and practices of planetary love. 

A selection of events, activities and cultural proposals bring together artists, curators, collectors and specialists in different parts of Panama City. Pinta Panama Art Week proposes an ambitious agenda from May 21 to 25 with the best of contemporary art in the region.

Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) presents Hulda Guzmán: Miracle Fruits, the first solo museum exhibition of Dominican artist.

From White Plaster to Colorful Textiles, Dalila Puzzovio (1942, Buenos Aires) has always known how to appreciate broken bodies and dress the living. While some destroy, others build is the title of one of her photographs—a phrase that runs through her remarkable artistic career.

The Panarte gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama hosts Cúmulus: 10+ Years of Estudio Nuboso, an exhibition celebrating over a decade of collaborative practices at the crossroads of art, science, and ecology.

Valentina Quintero: A Day in the Life, the first institutional exhibition in Buenos Aires of the young artist from Mendoza, and Jorge Miño: The Fourth Wall, a proposal that redefines the relationship between photography and space, are exhibited at the Museo Moderno under the curatorship of Raúl Flores.

In the heart of Casco Antiguo, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama (MAC) embarks on a new chapter with the opening of its Sala Satélite, a space dedicated to showcasing projects developed from its Permanent Collection. The inaugural exhibition, 60+1 el pequeño gran museo de Ancón (60+1 The Little Big Museum of Ancón), serves as a tribute, a reflection, and an exploration of the museum’s history.

The group show Over Land and Sea, curated by Anna Nowak, tells of the migrant history of humanity, its present and future. In a tension between the tangible and the mythical, the animate and the industrial world, the works on display point to the vulnerability of human beings and, simultaneously, their inherent ability to change and transform.

SculptureCenter presents Luana Vitra: Amulets, the first institutional exhibition in the United States of the Brazilian artist, which invites visitors to look beyond materiality and imagine another dimension to which the works belong.

The Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) presents Transformaciones visuales, an exhibition dedicated to the work of Peruvian artist Bruno Zeppilli. The show offers a provocative reading of how certain images persist in Peru’s collective memory.

MAC Lima has inaugurated Contemporáneo 1. Materia :: Alchemy :: Device :: Flow, an exhibition poised to become a landmark for contemporary art in Peru. The show, the first in a series of biennial exhibitions based on the museum's collection, brings together the work of over 100 local contemporary artists.

Through the idea of an endless spiral, this exhibition at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) unfolds as a reverse retrospective of artist Magali Lara (Mexico City, 1956), beginning with two murals created especially for the show and tracing back to her earliest drawings from the 1980s and 1970s.

The sincere fiction crafted by the Argentine artist captivates and steals the voice of those who come to see it. Honest and raw, it reveals the indelible traces of history.

The exhibition, which opened on November 28, 2024, presents for the first time a family collection of great significance to Peruvian history, consisting of portraits, religious paintings, and various objects. These pieces allow for an exploration of different aspects of life in the viceregal court of Lima during the 18th century. 

The terraces of the Nouvel Building at the Reina Sofía Museum are being transformed into a new exhibition space. Under the title A Different Order: Utopian Geometry and Kinetic Art, the space will showcase two sculptural works by Jesús Rafael Soto and Edgar Negret, along with a third piece by Martín Chirino.

The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bolzano-Bozen presented a pioneering exhibition on the relationship between graffiti and contemporary art. Curated by Leonie Radine and Ned Vena, the show will be the first in an Italian museum to explore the history of spray paint in art. 

The Frye Art Museum announced the appointment of Rafael Soldi and Stephanie DeVaan to the Board of Trustees; their official term began February 10, 2025. Their addition expands the board to eleven members. DeVaan brings extensive nonprofit board experience as well as connections to both the tech and film communities, and Soldi is the first working artist to join the museum's board.

The exhibition I Am Godzilla at Moderna Museet Malmö is the Argentinan artist's first in Sweden, showcasing over 350 works, both new and older, many of which are being presented for the very first time.

The renowned artist Moico Yaker returns to the exhibition halls with a solo show after six years to present Conversaciones en el zoológico (Conversations at the Zoo), while Rafael Pascuale explores the relationship between the body and fragility in Espejos de una humanidad perdida (Mirrors of a Lost Humanity).

One hundred years after his birth, the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) celebrates the career of the Argentine experimental artist, sculptor, poet and theorist.

Observing through George Friedmann’s lens allows one to grasp the power of photography and the charm of artistic fusion. Eso que llaman amor (That Which They Call Love) highlights the beauty of what is carefully constructed yet retains the fragility of the unexpected.

The Argentine artist has introduced the Julio Le Parc Virtual Labyrinthus Museum, an enveloping digital space that invites the public to explore more than 500 works, including previously unseen pieces created especially for this platform.

The visual art exhibition brings together a selection of works created through digital media, exploring experiences, imaginary worlds, and the artist’s personal wanderings.