Notes related to Museums

The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) presents, for the first time in the United States, a monographic exhibition of the work of Argentine artist Leandro Erlich. Curated by Dan Cameron, featuring sixteen works from more than two decades of production.

The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU opens Art Basel season in Miami Beach with the premiere of Lady Liberty: A Bonnie Lautenberg Retrospective, celebrating powerful images of women from two decades of work from the artist.

The eighth project in the exhibition series “HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig” embarks on an anti-colonial journey through the permanent collection. 

To celebrate the 40^th year of the "Cézanne Prize" contest, the MACA Uruguay presented a retrospective exhibition with a trajectory of all the winners up to the present day. In addition, the 2022 winner of the prize was announced.

Zero Armi Nucleari is Mexicam artist Pedro Reyes first solo exhibition in the Italian Museo Nivola, exposing through his work a strong message of nuclear disarmament.

Museo Tamayo opens the exhibition Raphael Montañez Ortiz: A Contextual Retrospective, the first large-scale exhibition dedicated to the artist, activist and educator. It gets together his work produced from the 1950s to the early 2020s in different media such as film, painting, photography, video installation, documents and assemblages.

The Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg presents exhibition CONCRETE GLOBAL! taking the idea of concrete art as a global phenomenon for the first time and examining its aesthetic manifestations, socio-political dimensions and its networks worldwide on the basis of key figures and works.

The new Board of Directors of the MAC Lima was unanimously elected for the period 2022-2025, comprised of Meg de Romaña, president; Eduardo Hochschild Beeck, vice president; Manuel Ugarte Maggiolo, secretary; Carlos Heeren Ramos, treasurer; and Luis Pérez-Oramas, Ximena Vega Amat y Leon and Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães, members.

The Museo Jumex inaugurates a retrospective of the work of Gertrud Goldschmit, better known as Gego. The exhibition traces her interdisciplinary artistic production in her journey through the disciplines of architecture, design, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, fabric, installations, public art and pedagogy.

ARKEN Museum of Modern Art opens the first major Leonora Carrington exhibition in Scandinavia. The artist was one of Surrealism’s key figures, rebelling against power hierarchies and conventions with a magical universe filled with humor, witchcraft and spirit.

An international group exhibition will occupy the entire building of the Italian museum Museion. Kingdom of the Ill seeks to respond to the current debate on health and illness, contamination and purity, care and neglect by asking how and by whom a body is defined as healthy or sick.

Somewhat fused forms, in a dismantling that seems continuous, signaling a kind of tired geometry. The banal brilliance of a chromatic automotive cover in what could have been the label of a crumbling and volatile language typical of large urban agglomerations, in a tenuous cross between street art and graffiti.

The Miami-based artist Alex Trimino presents Stitching The Gap, the inaugural exhibition for the Project Room at the Lowe Art Museum curated by Lance M. Fung.

Julius Baer Group, together with the Bogotá Museum of Moder Art (MAMBO) anaunced that Ana Gallardo is the winner of the second edition of the Julius Baer Art Prize for Latin American Female Artists. It is the first prize of its kind to be held in Latin America.

On the bicentennial anniversary of Brazil Independence, the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) presents the collective exhibition Brazilian Histories, proposing a critical reflection on the country’s history seen through an plural perspective.

Dutch artist Rob Verf exhibits a series of works in dialogue with paintings from the National Museum of Fine Arts’ collection to explore the impacts of waste generation, consumption and discarding.

The Museo de Arte de Zapopan presents selected works from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) to explore -and question- the ways contemporary Latin American art and its main exponents are conceived.

The Lowe Art Museum presents BEYOND THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE, a project curated by the Aluna Curatorial Collective that brings together a group of 19 Latin American artist working with sound art and its social intersections.

The NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale exhibits Lux et Veritas. This collective show illustrates some of the facets in contemporary art which are in processe of reshaping and reframing.

The Centre Pompidou hosts for the first time the sculptures, collages, artist's books, drawings and assemblages by the artist León Ferrari (1920-2013), considered one of the most influential in Latin America.

Buenos Aires - The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes inaugurated the exhibition "Carmelo Arden Quin, in the plot of constructive art", which offers an overview of the Uruguayan master's production through a hundred works from different periods of his career, exhibited along with pieces by colleagues with whom he forged links and joined artists groups. Curated by Cristina Rossi and open until November 20.

Mariano: Variations on a Theme is the first major retrospective exhibition of the work of Cuban artist Mariano Rodríguez (b. 1912, Havana; d. 1990, Havana) in the United States. Exhibited first at the McMullen Museum of Art in Boston, the exhibition is organized with the collaboration of the Fundación Mariano Rodríguez.

Pupila is the ambitious individual exhibition that the Argentine artist Eduardo Basualdo (Buenos Aires, 1977) has developed especially for the Modern Museum in dialogue with its director Victoria Noorthoorn, with whom he has already collaborated in the past, and especially for the Pontevedra Biennials (2006) and Lyon (2011).

An institution that is more attentive and permeable to public debate, that has its own collection as a living witness to the changes. This could be one of the guiding axes of the work of the Venezuelan Julieta González at the head of the artistic direction of Inhotim, one of the main centers of contemporary art in Brazil and one of the most inspiring open-air museums in the world.

On its 25th anniversary, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin shows important works from the Nationalgalerie Collection and the Haubrok Collection. A spacious architectural design was developed in the museum’s Historical Hall especially for the occasion. Highlighted among the works are those by Alfredo Jaar and Ruben Ochoa.

The artist has created a full-fledged maritime museum within the walls of the Brooklyn Museum, debuting approximately 250 new and recent works made entirely out of discarded plastic found in New York waterways. DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash, a critical, provocative look at the ecological impact of capitalism across centuries, connects the history of American maritime art to current themes of environmental justice.

Acquired for PAMM’s collection in 2020 with funds provided by Jorge M. Pérez, Chromosaturation is an immersive environment that reimagines color as an embodied experience.

Memory of a Telluric Movement is the title of this exhibition at Museum Haus Konstruktiv. It presents a comprehensive solo exhibition to Mexican artist Jose Dávila (b. 1974 in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he lives and works). Curated by Sabine Schaschl and on view until September 11^th.

Radical Conventions is presented in collaboration with the Cuban Heritage Collection of the University of Miami Libraries. Curated by Elizabeth Cerejido, PhD., the exhibition will be on view until June 12^th.

The Hamburger Bahnhof is holding an exhibition entitled Under Construction, which will present the latest additions to the Nationalgalerie collection. The museum has been able to acquire these new objects over the past few years thanks in large part to funding from the Freunde der Nationalgalerie.