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Current exhibitions include “New Exhibitions” and “Photography from the archive”, as well as their Permanent exhibition.

Following the announcement by the French government that limits capacity at major events to 1,000 people, Paris Photo has been forced to cancel the fair scheduled for this year. Instead, it will inaugurate in November 2021 at the newly constructed Grand Palais Éphémère on the Champ de Mars.

Presented by Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the exhibition examines the current applications of AI as a challenge to traditional understandings of the human–machine relationship, which have been locked into a discourse of likeness for centuries. On view until March 28, 2021, and organized by Claudia Schmuckli, Curator in Charge of Contemporary Art and Programming at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.

The Biennale of Sydney, titled NIRIN, announced, for the first time ever, art lovers from around the world will have the opportunity to bid online for selected artworks featured in the exhibition. Bidings are open until Sunday, September 27, 2020.

Azcuy, a Real Estate company that develops, plans, builds and markets residential buildings, and the Museo de Arte Moderno Buenos Aires announced the seven projects selected as Finalists in the Second Edition of the Azcuy Award.

Designed as an exceptional measure, ensuring security and international mobility is a priority objective in a special edition in which it celebrates its 40th Anniversary.

“House to House” and “Otros Lados” dig into issues and ideas that continue to shape policies, perspectives, and politics, especially timely with the approach of the 2020 election.

Curated by Ferran Barenblit, this exhibition explores the role of performativity and its repercussions in today’s artistic production.

Curated by Fernando Cocchiarale and Fernanda Lopes, the exhibition is part of Programa Intervenções, which commissions visual artists to create projects for external areas of the institution. The opening date, September 2 - date that marks two years of the tragic fire that destroyed the Museu Nacional - the work Noite de Abertura presents a video and a sculpture by Thiago Rocha Pitta, both newly commissioned.

Pinta Miami announces the cancelation of its 14th edition of its in-person fair due to the COVID 19pandemic. With the cancelation of the physical fair, they turn their efforts to a digital platform: Pinta Miami Virtual, launching on December 2nd through December 15, 2020.

Organized by Patricia Marshall, who has played an influential role in the formation of the collection, this international exhibition brings together works within four thematic sections: migration and liberty; the human body; its environment; and the irrepressible and forever incomplete passage of time.

The Fundação Bienal de São Paulo announces a free digital program, mostly bilingual, conceived after the decision to postpone the group show of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo – Faz escuro mas eu canto [Though it is dark, still I sing] to 2021. Aimed at diverse audiences, activities range from live streams with curators and guests to mini courses and interviews with the artists at their studios, as well as actions focused on an education-related audience, in line with the institution's strong educational tradition. 

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) celebrates two decades of commissioning and collecting. The Commissions Book (Sternberg Press, 2020) is a vivid documentation of TBA21’s commissioning practice and the ethos of the foundation, which involves working directly with artists on some of the most urgent topics of our time.

BAphoto Live is coming to an end, having created a huge archive of talks, dialogues, round tables and guided visits with artists, curators, collectors, gallery owners, managers and specialized journalists. Available on its YouTube channel, the series of activities is publicly accessible and free.

The PlayRoom section was proposed as a platform for four curatorial essays that offer different routes and experiences in relation to photographic production.

The collection of the Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Pritzker Prize 2006, was integrated in the Archive of Casa da Arquitectura – Portuguese Centre for Architecture. The arrival of the entire Paulo Mendes da Rocha collection follows the donation, in 2015, of the National Coach Museum project and, in 2018, of a set of seven projects for the Brazilian Architecture Collection.

The PlayRoom section was planned as a platform for four curatorial essays that offer different routes and experiences in relation to photographic production.

On Saturday, September 12^th, in Conversations with artists, photographer Graciela Iturbide and cultural journalist María Paula Zacharías will talk about the characteristics of Iturbide’s oeuvre and her career as an artist.

After an extensive international search, the Biennale of Sydney announces Colombian curator José Roca as the Artistic Director of the 23rd edition of the Biennale, which will take place 12 March – 13 June 2022.

La sección PlayRoom se planteó como plataforma para cuatro ensayos curatoriales que ofrecen diferentes recorridos y experiencias en relación a la producción fotográfica.

Moderated by Francesca Bellini, this talk includes the participation ofBeth Colocci, curator and founding member of TATE's photography acquisitions committee, and Yasufumi Nakamori curator of international art (photography) of TATE.

The promotion of photography books that BAphoto had been carrying out in its previous editions is reinvented for this new edition. BAphoto Live presents PrintPreview, a sector dedicated to photobooks with the participation of Ediciones Larivière and Ediciones ArtexArte, in addition to a selection of fifteen contemporary photobooks from five guest self-managed publishers: Asunción, La Balsa, Sed, Sta. Rosa Editora and Vaciarte.

The world is out of kilter. What form might international artistic and cultural exchange take on during a global pandemic? ifa Gallery Berlin takes advantage of this moment of immobility to place works from the ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) collection in a contemporary context.

The CineClub platform features a series of films recently produced within the Argentine scene. Conceived as a platform with motivation to highlight the relationship that cinema has in the field of photography and, even more so, in that of contemporary art, CineClub establishes a promotional space for national independent cinema. The programming consists of a total of six selected films. Three of them feature photographers, the other three are feature films made by artists who use the cinematographic medium as an exploration tool.

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin will present Expanding Abstraction: Pushing the Boundaries of Painting in the Americas, 1958 to 1983 in the Butler Gallery until January, 2021. The exhibition explores material, conceptual, and formal innovation in post-war abstract painting through the Blanton’s collection of modern and contemporary art from the United States and Latin America.

BAphoto Live presents Open File, an interviews program coordinated by Marina Oybin in which artists are invited to revisit the history of their images based on an anecdote or memory linked to their personal archive. In this case, the guest photographer is Musuk Nolte and the talk focuses on his series La Resistencia del Silencio (2012-2019) (The Resistance of Silence)

This is the first international exhibition of the artist, an essential reference of the art and culture of the Peruvian Amazon.

After closing on March 16, 2020 due to the pandemic health emergency, Americas Society Art Gallery will reopen to the public on September 30.  Appointments will be available in one-hour slots, allowing groups of up to six people at a time into the gallery.

"The Landscape, understood as the admirable natural space for its artistic/scenographic aspect, is experienced according to our ability to perceive: we see what we know"

Floating Utopias presents various inflatable media at Lunds konsthall, Sweden, accompanied by an intervention in urban space. The exhibition juxtaposes historical and contemporary works and shows how inflatables may be used in artistic and activist practices: formless bundles of material are instantly transformed into voluminous and communicational artworks. It is organized by curators Artúr van Balen, Fabiola Bierhoff and Anna Hoetjes and designed in collaboration with Agustina Pascotto and Jazmin Schenone.