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The intervention Wasi Llamkha (Place and touch), by artist Andrea Canepa (Lima, Peru, 1980), stands on the South Patio of Madrid's Condeduque. This pavilion, designed as an ephemeral architectural structure, invites us to explore its sensorial value, far from the preeminence of the visual, and claims, by way of inspiration, the quipus, the forms of representation and recording of information from pre-Columbian Peru.

With an innovative perspective and a personal scenic language, KAY presents a play that reveals how the myths of the Amazon have been distorted to conceal the violence lurking over the women and girls of the region. The performance will serve as the closing event of the tenth edition of the prestigious theater and dance festival Temporada Alta, organized by the Alianza Francesa de Lima.

Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, will present on March 15 the exhibition Vultures & Fireflies by Alejandro Galván; this is a painted chronicle of Mexico from the perspective of one of the largest working-class suburbs.

The Atchugarry Museum of Contemporary Art (MACA) presents the exhibition Carmelo Arden Quin: In the Fabric of Constructive Art, curated by renowned historian and scholar Cristina Rossi.

The Badischer Kunstverein presents the work of the Brazilian poet and artist in their first extensive solo exhibition in Germany; To See Aloud  includes diverse facets of her artistic practice, ranging from early text works, videotext poems, publications and printed matter to photographs, objects, object poems and installations, all the way to her most recent performances and artworks in public spaces, including sound-based and collective activations.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao hosts a retrospective exhibition of Tarsila do Amaral (Capivari, Brazil, 1886 - São Paulo, Brazil, 1973) focused on her conception and renovation of painting, as well as on her recognition as one of the key and most representative figures of the entry of avant-garde and modernizing pictorial languages in Latin America. A central name in Brazilian modernism, her style was consecrated as her own identity, a product of her desires and experiences, evoking both indigenous themes and the modernizing processes of a Brazil that was undergoing a constant transformation.

The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents The Great Learning, Pedro Gómez-Egaña’s exhibition that materializes our polyrhythmic experiences of time.

Madrid's CentroCentro approaches the artistic production related to the Amazon with the exhibition Trópico sin tópico: Amazonas (Tropic without Topic: Amazon), curated by Halim Badawi (Barranquilla, Colombia, 1982), and with which it intends to facilitate new looks beyond the usual ones with which the European imaginary contemplates the indigenous legacy and its relation with the contemporary world.

The annual program, presented by Victoria Noorthoorn, director of the Modern Museum, consists of ten exhibitions dedicated to showcasing the powerful dialogue between visual arts and theater in Argentina, from the 1960s to the present.

The Broad Museum is set to present Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me, a special exhibition showcasing the artist’s multidimensional work. Adapted from its original presentation at the U.S. Pavilion at the 60th Biennale in 2024, this exhibition marks a historic moment—Gibson was the first Indigenous artist to represent the United States with a solo exhibition.

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Lima (MAC) is organizing New Horizons of Digital Art, aimed at young people and adults, as part of the public program of the exhibition Artware 9. Lima Digital Art Biennial.

Felipe Romero (Bogota, Colombia, 1992) usually shows in his photographic proposal a high interest in conflict zones. While the scenario reflects this palpable but still intangible tension, it also serves as a reflective framework where the conflict and its protagonists meet.

Contemporary art has become a testing ground where the boundaries between disciplines dissolve, giving way to hybrid experiences. In this shifting landscape, artist Cristian Segura introduces an unexpected provocation: an ice cream that is not only tasted but also contemplated.

In her work, using traditional techniques such as oil painting, she explores contemporary imaginaries with a reflective approach to the relationship between memory, the body, image, and identity.

Paths of Life invites viewers on a journey through 45 years of the Mexican photographer's distinguished photographic career; the exhibition presents a captivating combination of previously unpublished images from the artist's personal archive along with her most recent works.

La Casa Encendida is planning a large part of its artistic, exhibition program this season around the concept of Verbos encendidos, a framework line of argument that frames the theme and the perspective from which certain public, political and social issues are approached from the institution. Escuchar (Listen) is the first verb, chosen to start with it a call for attention towards the construction of spaces and tools that allow to overcome differences and find common spaces of understanding.

The World Around has announced the winners of its Young Climate Prize, a biennial mentoring and award program aimed at young people under the age of 25. Among them is young Bolivian Dayana Blanco Quiroga.

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University presents Rubén Ortiz-Torres: Zonas de Colaboración, the artist’s first major solo exhibition in New York, curated by Betti-Sue Hertz.

A new group exhibition brings together 17 Argentine artists in New York. Curated by The Bureau of The Unknown Curator, the show features Cecilia Biagini, Ivana Brenner, Rafael Bueno, Bibi Calderaro, Beto De Volder, Dolores Furtado, Julio Grinblatt, Nicolás Guagnini, Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez, Syd Krochmalny, Fabián Marcaccio, Sabrina Merayo Núñez, Luciana Pinchiero, Liliana Porter, Sofía Quirno, Analia Segal, and Pedro Wainer.

The Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) presents the work of French artist Kader Attia: A Descent into Paradise.

The Venezuelan's work has been added to the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, marking a significant milestone in the artist’s career. Additive Spectrum was first shown in Beltrán’s UNDER THE SUN, OVER THE EARTH exhibition at CENTRAL FINE, showcasing a vibrant exploration of color and emotional resonance.

The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art will host one of the largest exhibitions of contemporary Native bead art ever presented in North America: Radical Stitch features approximately 100 works of bead art highlighting Native techniques and designs that tell stories and address current issues.

The Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) spring 2025 exhibition, continents like seeds, brings together the work of La Chola Poblete (b. 1989, Argentina), Niño de Elche (b. 1985, Spain), and Pedro G. Romero (b. 1964, Spain); through sound, sculpture, performance, drawing, and painting, the show unravels and exposes the contradictions and ambiguities of colonial legacies.

The Vilcek Foundation has named Argentine Director and Chief Curator of Art Aimé Iglesias Lukin as one of the three recipients of the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Curatorial Work. The award recognizes immigrant contributions to the arts and sciences in the United States.

The Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis presents Seeds: Containers of a World to Come. The exhibition features recent works and new commissions by ten nationally and internationally known artists for whom the seed is the kernel, both literally and metaphorically, for their investigations into issues of environmental fragility, preservation, and possibility in the face of the global climate crisis.

The American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora presents Antonia Eiriz: In the Eye of the Sibyl, an exhibition showcasing the best of the painter’s work from 1960 to 1990, offering an exceptional insight into the creative journey of one of the most controversial and innovative artists in Cuban art of her time.

La Virreina presents the exhibition Destructuras de poder, featuring the work of Regina Silveira (Porto Alegre, 1939), a multimedia artist and a key figure in Latin American and international conceptual art. This exhibition encompasses a significant part of the Brazilian artist’s research and artistic production.

The Lima Art Museum (MALI) has announced the return of its emblematic event, thanks to the sponsorship of BBVA Global Wealth and RIMAC. The showcase will take place on February 21 at Playa del Golf, in the Asia beach resort.

Helga de Alvear (Kirn/Nahe, Germany, 1936-Madrid, Spain, 2025) passed away at the age of 88. A fundamental figure of collecting and gallerism in Spain and Europe, her name remains as a metaphorical vocative and reference of one of the keys to the evolution and understanding of how contemporary art should be shared and communicated to facilitate its appreciation as a fundamental part of the times in which she lived. A true believer that artistic practices should come to the surface and be another representation of the motifs and realities that shaped each period of history, convulsive in the case of Spain, she approached it with the vision and experience of someone who finds a necessary space to appreciate the present and build a future.

Architectures and Ecologies of Amazonia will take place at the University of Pennsylvania—an international, interdisciplinary symposium and exhibition that highlights the agencies that have shaped and continue to be shaped by the great region.