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The two venues of MEMORIA gallery enter into a necessary dialogue by hosting the individual but connected exhibitions of Gustavo Pérez (Mexico City, Mexico, 1950) and Lin Calle (Hubei, China, 1994), who put on the table, from their techniques and perspectives, a debate of thought on the impoverishment and extinction of contemporary imaginaries.

Intensity Life is Marta Minujín’s first retrospective exhibition in Europe, to be held at the Copenhagen Contemporary Museum.

The artistic collective from Rio de Janeiro OPAVIVARÁ! intervenes in the space of the Capilla de Afuera of the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville with its Rede social, a sensorial and materialized symbology with which the Brazilians invite the spectator to place himself in a position to negotiate and cooperate with his fellow men and women. The intervention, consisting of the unfolding of fabric hammocks that acquire the rhythm and cadence that the visitor imprints with his movement and presence and that adds sounds of snoring, follows the group's premise of building spaces and devices that offer a collaborative experience.

As part of the 20th anniversary of BAphoto, the art fair dedicated exclusively to photography in Buenos Aires, the NEXT | Out of Focus section celebrates its tenth edition in 2024. Since its creation, this section has been a key space to promote the visibility of emerging galleries and artists, functioning as a platform that connects Argentine photography with the international scene. Throughout these ten years, NEXT | Out of Focus has played a fundamental role in positioning emerging galleries and generating links with larger art circuits, contributing to BAphoto and Pinta's goal of promoting Latin American art in the world.

As part of Open House Festival, an event that celebrates architecture, history and culture, four Argentine artists - Martín Cordiano, Sara Sahores, Ignacio Unrrein and Mariela Vita - intervened the space of the Argentine Ambassador's Residence in London, addressing themes such as transition, domesticity and barriers. Curated by Federika Chaimowicz, Carolina Orlando, Mora Pranteda and Pilar Seivane.

The Leeum Museum of Art, operated by the Samsung Foundation of Culture, is hosting Aerocene Seoul, a three-month-long public project that connects Aerocene communities in and around Seoul as part of its public programme “Idea Museum.”

El Museo de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) presenta la exposición Leonilson: Ahora y Oportunidades, dedicada al artista, que fue figura clave en la escena brasileña de finales del siglo XX. La muestra abarca sus últimos años creativos, donde explora temas de amor, pérdida y la fragilidad humana con una voz íntima y única.

The Center for Creative Photography presents Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectiva, a landmark survey of one of the most significant American photographers of the twentieth century.

In the centennial year of the birth of visionary Argentine artist Gyula Kosice (b. Ferdinand Fallik; Košice, Czechoslovakia, 1924 - Buenos Aires, 2016), Malba presents a monographic exhibition dedicated to his work, with the purpose of highlighting his pioneering role and repositioning him in the international context of postwar art.

After six years of his collaboration as a teacher in the Master's Degree in Curatorial Studies offered by the Museo Universidad de Navarra (MUN), Gabriel Pérez-Barreriro has been appointed as the institution's new artistic director. With extensive experience in university museums and other centers in Europe, the United States and Latin America, he is now the new head of the MUN's artistic strategy together with Teresa Lasheras, artistic director of performing arts and music.

With the support of the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires, on Saturday, September 14, 2024, a new edition of Gallery arrives in the Palermo and Villa Crespo districts, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Gallery promotes tours through art circuits visiting galleries, museums, artists' studios, museums and foundations.

PROA21 presented the exhibition of interdisciplinary artist Francis Alÿs, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, on the emblematic project When Faith Moves Mountains, created in April 2002 for the III Ibero-American Biennial of Lima.

The Armory Show is taking place from September 6^th to 8^th. The fair’s 30^th edition features over 235 galleries from 35 countries, showcasing artist projects in the Platform section, as well as highlights from sections Galleries, Focus, Solo and Presents, alongside presentation details for the Gramercy International Prize. Now part of the Frieze network, the Armory Show presents a revitalized program that offers a comprehensive view of the contemporary art world.

Future Imaginaries, the collective exhibition at The Autry Museum of the American West, explores the rise of Futurism in contemporary Indigenous art as a means of enduring colonial trauma, creating alternative futures and advocating for Indigenous technologies in a more inclusive present and sustainable future.

The EFG Latin America Art Award, in partnership with ArtNexus, announced Leila Tschopp of Buenos Aires, Argentina, as arteba's nominated artist for its annual acquisition award. The winning artist will be featured at Pinta Miami 2024.

The Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America & the Caribbean is the first exhibition in New York City at Americas Society to center the artistic production of the Asian diaspora in the region from the 1940s to the present. Focusing on postwar and contemporary art, the exhibition showcases the work of thirty artists from fifteen countries working in a range of artistic mediums including painting, sculpture, performance, photography, and video, to shed light into strategies and themes that resonate across a wide array of Asian diasporic practice throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences announces Xavier Cortada: Climate Science Art a solo exhibition at Washington, D.C. featuring Miami-based artist Xavier Cortada's climate change-focused artwork from Miami-Dade County, Florida, and the North and South Poles, spanning from 2007 to the present.

Energy Fields: Vibrations of The Pacific is an exhibition, publication, and series of public programs co-presented by Fulcrum Arts and Chapman University. Curated by Robert Takahashi Novak and Lawrence English, the exhibition presents a diverse and dynamic collection of works from artists working such as Alba Triana, David Haines and Joyce Hinterding, Steve Roden, Malena Szlam and Virginia Katz.

The arteba 2024 fair opens its doors to the general public from Friday, August 30 to Sunday, September 1 at the Centro Costa Salguero, Buenos Aires, Argentina. With the goal of serving as a meeting platform, the fair will bring together all those who make up the art ecosystem in Argentina: artists, gallery owners, curators, collectors, professionals and the interested public.

The Malba museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina expands with the construction of Malba Puertos, a new exhibition space in Escobar, province of Buenos Aires. It opens on September 21 and seeks -through activities and exhibitions- to bring art closer to the community.

Rolf Art Gallery presents Arquitectura de la imagen en tiempo real (Real Time Image Architecture) by artist Vivian Galban at the Centro Cultural San Martín. The proposal consists of an interactive installation that creates a large-format camera obscura, where the process of image creation is carried out in real time. Curated by Máximo Jacoby. It was previously exhibited at Rolf Art (2019), BAphoto (2019) and Paris Photo (2023).

The Patio Herreriano Museum hosts the recent proposal by Sandra Gamboa (Bogota, Colombia) in which she outlines the necessary arguments to be able to analyse mental health, especially anxiety and depression. In Encapsulados, the Colombian-Spanish artist invites us to carry out this exercise of understanding, rapprochement and empathy with those who suffer from one of the great plagues of this century through the different related iconography that fills the exhibition hall of the Castilian institution.

The most relevant art fair specialized in photography in Latin America Pinta BAphoto celebrates its twenty years of trajectory between October 24 and 27, 2024. Based in the city of Buenos Aires, it has established itself as an undisputed point of reference for photography.

The Museo Moderno de Buenos Aires inaugurates the exhibition Martín Legón: Solo las piedras recuerdan (Only Stones Remember), in which the artist interrogates the present of human experience and wonders how human beings relate to images, how we construct knowledge, and in what remote place the mark of the human as it is known to the present will remain.

It takes an Island to Feel this Good is Darja Bajagić’s exhibition for the Montenegro pavilion at Venice Biennale 2024. Curated by Ana Simona Zelenović and organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro at the initiative of commissioner Vladislav Šćepanović, the exhibition will present a critical consideration of the culture of collective memory and the relationship to shared historical heritage.

Malba announces the eagerly awaited arrival of Leonora Carrington's The Distractions of Dagoberto (1945), one of the most significant works by the celebrated surrealist artist, which was acquired in May by Eduardo F. Costantini at Sotheby's at a record price.

The monumental commission by British artist John Akomfrah RA for the 2024 Venice Biennale is a multi-layered exhibition which encourages visitors to experience the British Pavilion’s 19th century neoclassical building in a new way.

La Panera Art Center of Lleida presents in its exhibition Descolonicemos el mundo(Decolonize the World) a conceptual tour through the production of Regina Jose Galindo (Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1974) in which a decolonizing approach prevails. Although in some cases of her work this process is not so evident, this view can be traced from the geographical experience of the artist's country of origin and its process of colonization and independence.

Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee – museo Madre present Vai, vai, Saudade, a collective exhibition which offers a poetic pathway, exploring a series of stories related to the art produced in Brazil since WWII. Curated by Cristiano Raimondi.

The trajectory of Barbara Brändli (Schaffhousen, Switzerland 1932 - Caracas, Venezuela, 2011) in photography requires a conscientious analysis of several points. Without stopping at them, it is very likely to miss the reason for her approach, her vision that transcends the documentary as a simple objective or her contributions to that world that she began to consolidate in that Venezuela of welcome on her arrival in South America from her native Switzerland.