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WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2024: EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING
The eighty-first edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States—features seventy-one artists and collectives grappling with many of today’s most pressing issues.
WORK, FAITH AND JOY: A JOURNEY THROUGH POPULAR CULTURE
The exhibition Work, Faith and Joy at Museo Marte presents 95 works by more than 40 Salvadoran artists, and seeks to be a reflection of the country's popular culture.
ALFREDO CASTAÑEDA, PAINTER OF POETRY
The exhibition Alfredo Castañeda, painter of poetry at Casa de América offers a journey through the Mexican artist's work from a more poetic point of view. In this way, Castañeda's paintings are shown accompanied by his poems, where a dialogue is generated between the artist's two vocations.
CARLOS GARAICOA: ARCHITECTURE AND PLACE AT THE CAAM
The Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), located in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is hosting the exhibition Toda utopía pasa por la barriga, a tour through the work of Carlos Garaicoa (Havana, Cuba, 1967) curated by Lillebit Fabraga that best connects with architecture, the natural order and the location of the human being in the system.
THE OTHERNESS OF THE BODY, ACCORDING TO NELA OCHOA, IN TEA
The Canary Islands' TEA (Tenerife Espacio de las Artes) is showing until September Y, a solo exhibition by Nela Ochoa (Caracas, Venezuela, 1953), which is part of the curatorial program Filtraciones that the center carries out for artists and with its collection.
THE U.S. LATINX ART FORUM (USLAF) AWARDS LATINX ARTIST FELLOWSHIPS
Fifteen artists working across the United States and Puerto Rico have been awarded the 2024 Latinx Artist Fellowships by the U.S. Latinx Forum (USLAF), with $50,0000 in unrestricted funding and a year-long program of professional engagement opportunities.
CAC MALAGA HOSTS MARIO AYALA'S FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION IN A MUSEUM
The CAC Malaga hosts Milagro, the first solo exhibition in a museum of Mario Ayala (Los Angeles, USA, 1991), son of a Mexican-American mother and Cuban immigrant father, whose production reflects his personal experiences and artistic concerns of the world of garages, truck drivers and mechanics of Fontana.
CALIDA RAWLES’ DEBUT AT PAMM: AWAY WITH THE TIDES
Calida Rawles presents Away with the Tides, an exhibition at Pérez Art Museum (PAMM) featuring all-new, site-specific works alongside a novel large-scale video installation. Marking Rawles’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States, Away with the Tides reflects aspects of Miami’s diverse communities, natural environments, and rich history.
JOSEPH BEUYS IN BERLIN: NATURE, MATERIALITY AND LANGUAGE
The Hamburger Bahnhof is presenting its extensive holdings of works by the artist Joseph Beuys (1921–86) in the Kleihueshalle.
TERRITORIES. CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE JORGE M. PÉREZ COLLECTION
The exhibition Territorios: Latin American Contemporary Art in the Jorge M. Perez Collection shows a selection of works by more than 50 contemporary Latin American artists at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC). It is curated by Jimena Blázquez Abascal, director of the CAAC.
EXPERIMENTAL ART PROJECTS IN ARGENTINA
The Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires inaugurated El Aprendizaje Infinito (Infinite Learning), an exhibition that recognizes Argentina's master artists and puts in dialogue the historical tradition of arts education and the experimental projects of the latest decades.
FOREIGNERS EVERYWHERE: LATIN AMERICA TAKES OVER THE VENICE BIENNALE
The exhibition of the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale - Stranieri Ovunque (Foregneirs Everywhere) - curated by Brazilian Adriano Pedrosa, presents 331 artists, significantly more than the usual number. More than a third of those artists come from Latin America.
WATER AS A PRISM: GREEK PAVILION AT THE VENICE BIENNALE
Xirómero / Dryland is an interdisciplinary collective work conceived by Thanasis Deligiannis and Yannis Michalopoulos, created along with the artists Elia Kalogianni, Yorgos Kyvernitis, Kostas Chaikalis and Fotis Sagonas for the Greek Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale. The project is curated by Panos Giannikopoulos.
THE STORIES OF PABLO LINSAMBARTH AT ICPNA
Álbum de Casi Todos (Album of Almost Everyone) is the solo exhibition of Chilean artist Pablo Linsambarth at the Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (ICPNA). It is curated by Daniel H. Rey.
TECHNO ZEN BY MÁRTON NEMEZ: THE HUNGARIAN PAVILION IN VENICE BIENNALE
For the 60th International Venice Biennale, Nemes designed the project as an immersive, painting-based Gesamtkunstwerk that expands the genre of painting and extends it to other media. Project curated by Róna Kopeczky.
EVA LOOTZ ASSAULTS MADRID
Austrian-born artist Eva Lootz (Vienna, Austria, 1940) has been living in Spain for more than half her life, where she has established herself not only as one of the great names of contemporary art in the country, where she was awarded the National Prize of Plastic Arts, but also in the whole international European panorama. A regular in exhibitions and public interventions, she now assaults Madrid with a double institutional presence with two large-format exhibitions at the Sala Alcala 31 and the Reina Sofia Museum.
FAREWELL TO SARA FACIO, THE GREAT ARGENTINE PHOTOGRAPHER
Sara Facio passed away at the age of 92. Photographer, curator, journalist and editor, she stood out for her portraits of Latin American cultural figures and for her sharp and sensitive spirit that vindicated photography in the art world.
GALLERY BUENOS AIRES RETURNS FOR THE FIRST 2024 EDITION
With the support of the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires, on Friday, June 28, 2024 the Gallery circuit of galleries returns to the areas of Recolecta, Retiro and Microcentro.
HAITIAN PHOTOGRAPHER WILDLINE CADET PRESENTS EXHIBITION AT CASA DE AMERICA
Haitian photographer Wildline Cadet's exhibition Take this with you at Casa de América portrays the longing for the lost home. It is curated by Nanda van den Berg, Widline Cadet and Désirée Kroep.
CLAUDIA ALARCÓN AND SILÄT’S VENICE BIENNALE PARTICIPATION
For the 60th International Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia Stranieri Ovunque (Foregneirs Everywhere), artist Claudia Alarcón and art-collective Silät are presenting their reflections on being treated as foreigners in their own country.
ASUNCIÓN IN THE SPOTLIGHT: LAST EDITION OF PINTA SUD
Pinta Sud | ASU presents the third and final edition of Asunción’s Art Week, taking place from August 5-11, 2024. The event will feature art exhibitions, events, and various activities free and open to the public, offering seven days of artistic celebration throughout the city.
CAYCEDO’S LAND OF FRIENDS AT VALENCIA’S IVAM
Carolina Caycedo’s (London, UK, 1978) Tierra de los amigos (Land of Friends) arrives at the IVAM in Valencia after its run at the Artium museum in Vitoria.
DUTCH PAVILION AT THE VENICE BIENNALE
The International Celebration of Blasphemy and The Sacred is a presentation by Congolese artist collective Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC) for the Dutch Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
BODIES AND POLITICS: A GROUP EXHIBITION AT PAMM
Xican-a.o.x. Body in Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is the first major exhibition to showcase work by artists who foreground the body as a site of political agency and imagination, artistic investigation, decolonization, and alternative forms of community.
THE ALTERSEA OPERA: THE NORDIC COUNTRIES PAVILION'S PROPOSAL
For the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the Nordic Countries Pavilion invites the audience to embark on a journey aboard a spectral dragon ship which occupies the light and open architecture of Sverre Fehn’s meditative masterpiece in the Giardini of the Biennale, Venice.
THE ART OF SEEING: GEORGIA’S PAVILION IN THE VENICE BIENNALE
The Georgian Pavilion in the 60th Venice Biennale presented The Art of Seeing– States of Astronomy, a collaborative project presented by a team of Georgian and French curators and artists.
NECROARCHIVOS DE LAS AMÉRICAS: AN UNRELENTING SEARCH FOR JUSTICE
The exhibition in Jordan Schnitzer Mueum of Art Necroarchivos de las Américas: an unrelenting search for justice, examines artistic responses to violence instigated by state regimes across the Americas to disclose censored narratives, argue for the importance of artmaking as an act of memory and witnessing, advocate research, and seek justice.
DUE QUI/TO HEAR: ITALY’S PAVILION FOR THE VENICE BIENNALE
Due qui / To Hear is the project for the Italian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale Curated by Luca Cerizza (with the assistance of Francesca Verga), it presents work that Massimo Bartolini has created in collaboration with several musicians (for the permanent installations) and writers (for the public program), employing the cooperative approach that is a hallmark of his practice.
THE GREEN OF OUR DESIRE: EDGAR CALEL IN LA NUEVA FÁBRICA
La Nueva Fábrica (LNF) announced Ru Raxal qa Rayb’äl (The Green of Our Desire), Edgar Calel’s first institutional solo exhibition in Guatemala. Edgar Calel anchors his work in the Mayan Kaqchikel worldviews that stem from family and community life in his hometown of Chi Xot (San Juan Comalapa).
ALEJANDRA SEEBER: INTERIOR WITH LANDSCAPES
Art at Americas Society is presenting Interior with Landscapes, the first solo exhibition and mid-career survey of the Argentine artist Alejandra Seeber in New York. Many of Seeber's paintings explore the tension between representation and abstraction.
TANIA CANDIANI'S OFFERING AT MAMM
Ofrenda is the first large-scale exhibition of Mexican artist Tania Candiani in the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín. It is curated by Emiliano Valdés.