Contemporary art publications about Pinta BAphoto

The fair celebrates in Buenos Aires the expansion of the discipline and the way it blends with different materialities, taking shape in endless possibilities.

On photography’s 200th birthday, the fair presents images that problematize representations of the body, explore across media, and build collective images.

Brazilian curator Thyago Nogueira, who heads Contemporary Art and Photography at Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS), reflects on the role of institutions, photography’s multiple dimensions, and the need to build new connections between the art scenes of Brazil and Argentina, ahead of his upcoming visit to Pinta BAphoto.

Whether it is from the archive to the gallery or spanning between research and curatorial practice, Mercedes Claus explores the different spaces that outline Argentina’s photographic scene. This is an interview about the circulation, legitimization, and interpretation of images, in light of her work as curator of RADAR at the upcoming edition of Pinta BAphoto.

Eve Schillo is an Associate Curator in the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). During her upcoming visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina, for Pinta BAphoto 2026, she shares an organic and systemic perspective on photography, one that does not need to remain within its own boundaries.

A tribute to Sandra Eleta, the work of Claudia Andujar, a solo show by Joaquín Sánchez, and a project that combines a bookstore and an exhibition chart a map that travels through Panama, Brazil, Paraguay, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Venezuela.

Artist, editor, workshop leader, and gallery owner. Depending on which “hat” he wears, Martín Bollati occupies different positions within the field of image-making (and thinking). He founded ATLAS, a bookstore and gallery specializing in photography, images, design, and architecture, as well as publisher SED Editorial.

From October 22 to 25, La Rural hosts the 22nd edition of the only photography fair in Latin America: it celebrates two centuries of images with unique works, in-house curatorial projects, and an international presence.

Curated by Irene Gelfman, this year's edition brings together the many faces of contemporary photography in Buenos Aires.

An interview about Argentina and its institutions, about Argentina and photography, about Argentina and its contemporary art audience. About the Instituto de Estudios Artísticos, Francisco Medail's new space.

The fair opened its 21st edition with a program that celebrates photography in all its forms — from the sensitive “skins” of Marina De Caro to the gazes of those who inhabit the streets, and the trajectory of the FotoGalería at Teatro San Martín.

Blurring the boundaries between image, performance, and experimentation, projects by Gustavo Nieto, Nicola Costantino, and Donna Conlon stand out in a new edition of Pinta BAphoto, returning to La Rural with proposals that expand the scope of photography today.

Through the exploration of the intersections between image, body, and discourse, Guad Creche (Salta, Argentina, 1985) positions their curatorial gaze on the performative potential of photography.

Both the exhibited and the stored works draw attention in Matilde Marín’s studio. On the walls, her emblematic photographs steal the gaze, but so do the wrapped and labeled folders on her tables, the boxes full of books on the floor, and the stacks of files on her shelves. The image completes itself with her voice, the one that explains why the archive, too, is a protagonist.

Editor and curator, Sol Echevarría created Espacio FAN as a meeting ground between the editorial and the visual. There, books become a territory for experimentation, and artworks become ways of reading. A project that champions collaboration, critical thinking, and cultural resistance in times of retreat.

Simple, yet with complex movement, the artist managed to capture what his sensitive eyes perceived, and today his name is part of the local art history as a reference in photographic portraiture.

The event celebrates its 21st edition with a diverse program that spans photography through curatorial, performative, and editorial approaches, intertwining “the material with the immaterial, the intimate with the collective.”

The Casa Nacional del Bicentenario has inaugurated Una Casa. La Casa. Lo doméstico deviene territorios (A House. The House. The Domestic Becomes Territories). This is the first public exhibition of works from the collection of Abel Guaglianone and Joaquín Rodríguez.

The fair has officially announced the opening of applications for exhibiting galleries interested in participating in this edition. The application deadline is May 15, 2025.

Pinta BAphoto closed its 20th anniversary at La Rural, Buenos Aires, Argentina, after a weekend that brought together the best of photography in the region and was a meeting point for gallery owners, artists, curators, collectors and photography lovers. The fair attracted more than 14,000 visitors during its three days open to the public.

Confines of Paraguay is the initiative of Fernando Allen and Fredi Casco that is part of the Main Section of Pinta BAphoto. It is a project that began with a photographic approach, but expanded into an editorial, audiovisual and documentary archive -along with other activities- related to the works of popular and indigenous artists from Paraguay.

The Tribute Artist section of Pinta BAphoto celebrates a decade exhibiting the trajectory of photographers who had an active participation in the field, seeking to recover and value their figure. This edition, curator Francisco Medail presents Jaime Bolotinsky, a Russian-born photographer based in Buenos Aires who was a pioneer when it came to composing his portraits, using everyday elements and a precise handling of light.

Pinta BAphoto celebrates its twentieth edition at La Rural, consolidating itself as one of the most important fairs dedicated to photography in Latin America. This annual event brings together galleries, artists and collectors, and throughout its two decades, it has been an essential platform for the development and dissemination of photographic art, both locally and internationally.

The region's most important photography fair Pinta BAphoto opens its doors October 24-27, 2024, at La Rural, Buenos Aires, Argentina. A celebration of the fair's twentieth anniversary with curatorial projects, spaces for artistic exploration, debates among experts and proposals from artists that cross photography with other disciplines.

Cecilia Lenardón's Special Project at Pinta BAphoto, curated by Irene Gelfman, presents an installation that pushes the representation of the body through photography to the limit, transforming the static image into a living and performative experience. Entitled Cuatro piezas clave (Four Key Pieces), the work invites us to reflect on the body's boundaries and its capacity to tolerate effort and repetition.

Lorenzo González Baltazar will be part of the NEXT | Out of Focus section with Primor Gallery, in the 20th edition of Pinta BAphoto. He presents his project Sapucay Marica, with photographs that capture the coexistence of the rural and the queer, performance and tradition, the intimate and the collective.

The eighth edition of Video Project, curated by Irene Gelfman, invites us to immerse in the concept of territory through the moving image. In video art we find a sense of curiosity and exploration that challenges our ideas of materiality and expands to embrace the most intimate. In six selected works, the notion of territory addresses bodies, landscapes and symbols, questioning the stability of physical and conceptual limits. The territory becomes a fluctuating space, as critical as the viewer's place.

Pinta BAphoto –the most important photography fair in the region– presents as a new feature the RADAR section, curated by Sebastián Vidal Mackinson. In an interview with Arte al Día, Sebastián reflects on the diversity of approaches in photography today and its growth as a medium capable of dialoguing with other forms of artistic expression.

This year, Pinta BAphoto will hold its twentieth edition with new curatorial proposals to continue celebrating photography in Latin America. Based in Buenos Aires, the fair presents the new RADAR section, curated by Sebastián Vidal Mackinson.