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TORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART: PRECARIOUS JOYS
The curatorial team of the Toronto Biennial of Art (the Biennial/TBA) and its curatorial team of Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López announced the title, full artist list and venues for its third edition.
ANDREA MANCINI & EVERY ISLAND: LUXEMBOURG PAVILION AT THE VENICE BIENNALE
A Comparative Dialogue Act, a project by the Luxembourgish artist Andrea Mancini and the multidisciplinary collective Every Island is representing the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
ERNESTO NETO AND HIS CROSSROADS OF CULTURES AT MAAT
Ernesto Neto (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1964) presents Nosso Barco Tambor Terra at Lisbon's Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), an impressive large-scale installation with which he evokes and stages the crossing of different cultures and the relationships between individuals from different continents.
MATISSE: THE RED STUDIO AT FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON
Fondation Louis Vuitton, in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the SMK—Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, is hosting the exhibition Matisse: The Red Studio, focusing on the genesis and history of the 1911 masterpiece.
VIRGINIA JARAMILLO’S WORK IN THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presented Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence, the first major retrospective and largest monographic exhibition to date of the work of Virginia Jaramillo.
AFFECTIVE POETICS: ROSANA PAULINO AT MALBA
Rosana Paulino. Amefricana is the most complete exhibition outside Brazil of this artist born in Sao Paulo in 1967. The exhibition at Malba brings together a group of works made during 30 years, between 1994 and 2024, from the perspective that the Atlantic inscribes in the Afro-descendant America.
MALTA PAVILION AT THE VENICE BIENNALE 2024
Malta’s pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale presented artist Matthew Attard’s solo project, I Will Follow the Ship. Curated by Elyse Tonna and Sara Dolfi Agostini.
AMALIA MESA-BAINS: ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEMORY
El Museo del Barrio presented the exhibition Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory, the first retrospective exhibition by the pioneering artist, curator, and theorist. Born in 1943 to a Mexican immigrant family, Mesa-Bains has been a leading figure in Chicanx art for nearly half a century.
CHAOS THEORY AT THE GUGGENHEIM BILBAO
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Metahaven. Chaos Theory. This is the first exhibition of the year in the Film & Video room, a space that the Museum dedicates entirely to video art, audiovisual installation and moving image as artistic languages, and which celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2024.
MEIAC PRESENTS MARTÍN LÓPEZ LAM’S PAISAJE TRANSFERIDO
The Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC) in Badajoz is exhibiting, under the title Paisaje Transferido, a wide-ranging show by MartÍn Lopez Lam (Lima, Peru, 1981), one of the main exponents of graphic art in Spain, where he has been living for the last two decades.
JULIA ISÍDREZ AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH AT THE 60TH VENICE BIENNIAL
A week away from its official opening, the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale has generated press urbi et orbi. While some articles celebrated the irruption of the Global South in the Arsenale and the Giardini, others -truly devastating- reported on the disturbance and discomfort that the proposal of Adriano Pedrosa -the first Latin American to cure La Biennale in more than a century of existence- has awakened in the Western art system.
LA CHOLA POBLETE WAS AWARDED AT THE VENICE BIENNIAL
Argentine artist La Chola Poblete received a special mention at the Venice Biennale 2024, selected together with artist Samia Halaby.
EXPLORING THE MULTIVALENT NOTION OF DISPOSSESSION AT THE MAC PANAMÁ
Pies bajo fuego: sobre el espejo (Feet under fire: on the mirror) is the two-part exhibition at MAC Panama. Curated by Miguel A. López, it explores the multivalent notion of dispossession and its forms of representation through a group of video works from the last decade.
RUSSIA’S VENICE BIENNALE PAVILION WILL HOST BOLIVIA’S PROPOSAL
The Russian Venice Biennale pavilion is hosting a group exhibition of artists from South America organized by Bolivia’s Ministry of Cultures, Decolonization and Depatriarchalizing.
FRIEZE NEW YORK 2024: CELEBRATING ART AND THE CITY
Frieze New York 2024 returns to The Shed in New York with a new curator for Focus, more than 60 galleries from 25 countries and an extensive program of events and activations. This year’s edition will be held from May 1-5.
PINTA PArC 2024 AMPLIFIED THE LATIN-AMERICAN ARTISTIC EXPRESSION
Pinta PArC closed its 14th edition with more than 200 artists and 44 galleries. From April 24 to 28, 2024 at Casa Prado, the fair brought together curators, gallery owners, artists, collectors and art lovers.
BONAVENTURE SOH BEJENG NDIKUNG WILL BE THE CHIEF CURATOR OF THE 36TH SÃO PAULO BIENNALE
The Fundação Biennale de São Paulo announced that Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung will be the chief curator of the 36th São Paulo Biennale, to be held during the second half of 2025.
VIDEO PROJECT: THE PERSISTENCE OF THE SELF
Curated by Irene Gelfman, the Video Project section at Pinta PArC invited galleries to present projects that revolve around the themes of ancestral practices, community work, Amazonia and nature.
SCULPTURE GARDEN: EXCHANGING LANGUAGES
The Sculpture Garden is one of the characteristic sections of Pinta PArC. Located outdoors at the main entrance of Casa Prado and curated by Max Hernández Calvo, the proposal explores the relationship between sculpture, architecture and green areas.
MIGUEL AGUIRRE: PINTA PArC'S NOMINATED ARTIST FOR EFG LATIN AMERICA ART AWARD
The EFG Latin America Art Award, in association with ArtNexus, announced Miguel Aguirre as Pinta PArC's nominated artist for the award.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS AT PINTA PArC 2024
Pinta PArC is the official contemporary art fair in Peru. In its 11th edition –from April 25 to 28– the fair presents an experimental and ambitious program, with unique curatorial projects.
PINTA PArC: TRADITION AND PRESENT IN PERFECT SYNCHRONY
The eleventh edition of Pinta PArC –the official contemporary art fair in Peru– will be held from April 24 to 28. It is the most attractive international cultural event in the region, and a window to learn how Peru intertwines its rich history with the most current influences of contemporary art.
NATALIA ÁNGELES VIEYRA: THE NATIONAL GALLERY'S CURATOR OF LATINX ART
The National Gallery of Art announced the appointment of Natalia Ángeles Vieyra as the new associate curator of Latinx art. She will assume the position on June 30. Vieyra will play a key role in the museum's work. She will join a team of seven curators in the department of modern and contemporary art dedicated to 20th- and 21st-century art.
ÓSCAR MURILLO AT PORTO’S SERRALVES
A distribution through several of the Porto’s Serralves Foundation's venues are hosting until the end of May the first solo exhibition of Oscar Murillo (Zarzal, Colombia, 1986) in Portugal.
CRAFTING MODERNITY AT MoMA: DESIGN IN LATIN AMERICA, 1940-1980
The Museum of Modern Art presents Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940–1980, the first exhibition by a major American museum to examine modern design in the region on a broad scale.
ANNA MARIA MAIOLINO AND NIL YALTER: GOLDEN LION AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
The Italian-born Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino and the Paris-based Turkish artist Nil Yalter are the recipients of the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia - Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere.
ALL THE FOREIGNERS REUNITED AT THE VENICE BIENNALE
The 60th International Art Exhibition, titled Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere –curated by Adriano Pedrosa–, opens to the public from Saturday April 20 to Sunday November 24, 2024, at the Giardini and the Arsenale.
SANDRA VÁSQUEZ DE LA HORRA AT DENVER ART MUSEUM
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) presented Sandra Vásquez de la Horra: The Awake Volcanoes, the first solo show in a U.S. Museum for the Chilean artist, known for her participation at the 2022 Venice Biennale and being the recipient of the prestigious Käthe Kollwitz Prize for 2023.
MAC LIMA COLLECTION: RESEARCH, CONSERVATION AND EXHIBITION
The Collection of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima brings together works by Peruvian and international artists created since 1940 in media ranging from painting, sculpture and installation to photography and video. The exhibition is curated by Patricia Pajuelo, Giuliana Vidarte, Iosu Aramburu and Nicolás Gómez Echeverri.
CLAUDIA JOSKOWIZC, SOLO EXHBITION AT VALENCIA
Valencian gallery Jorge Lopez is programming a solo exhibition by artist Claudia Joskowizc (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, 1968) that brings together the audiovisual and performative techniques with which the Bolivian artist builds the narrative and chronology of her native country.
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AT THE BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
La Biennale di Venezia is working concretely towards the crucial goal of fighting climate change, by promoting a more sustainable model for the design, installation and operation of all its events.
