SHARED ABSENCE – AN EXHIBITION OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY

Cronotopías at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO) is the first institutional retrospective in Colombia dedicated to the visionary work of Argentinean artist Silvia Rivas. Since the late 1990s, Rivas has explored the expressive possibilities of expanded cinema, pushing the boundaries of video as a medium and creating multimedia and immersive environments. The exhibition is curated by Eugenio Viola.

Banco Macro presented El Oro de los sueños (The Gold of Dreams), the exhibition by Andrés Paredes which is part of a new artistic program within its agenda at the Corporate Tower. The program is called Macro Federal, an initiative to present artists from all the provinces of Argentina, starting with Misiones. It is curated by Patricia Rizzo.

Pilar Elgueta (Chile) is the selected artist for the Delfina Foundation’s Residency Program during Summer 2024. The artist-explorer activates ideas and images around the relation between the human being and landscape.

Nélida Mendoza is an artist who was born in Paraguay, but lived in several parts of the world, including Argentina and Italy. She is presenting the exhibition Fuerte Olimpo and Other Stories at the gallery K / Arte y Naturaleza during the Pinta Sud | ASU 2024 art week.

Pinta Sud | ASU 2024 presented at the Casa Mayor gallery the exhibition Warm Heart, with works by the Paraguayan artist Feliciano Centurión. It is a collection of works from different periods of his career and is curated by Irene Gelfman.

Gustavo Benítez presents at Exaedro the exhibition Damiana vuelve a casa (Damiana returns home), an exhibition that explores a story of identity, pain and abandonment. It is presented in the context of the art week Pinta Sud | ASU 2024, from August 5 to 11, and is curated by Ticio Escobar.

Paraguay is rarely mentioned when discussing the global art market, but this might change in the coming years due to its growing activity in the contemporary art sector. This activity is primarily driven by local galleries, which, aware of the cultural isolation the country has experienced for many years, are actively promoting local collecting and seeking to promote their artists through fairs and participation in events like the current Pinta Sud|ASU.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

On Wednesday, August 28, the 33rd edition of arteba, the first art fair founded in Latin America and the most significant in Argentina, began. This year's event features over 400 artists represented by 65 galleries from 16 cities.

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.

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.