Notes related to Fotografía

Rolf Art presented within the framework of the 35th São Paulo Biennale Choreographies of the Impossible, an anthological exhibition by Marcelo Brodsky, curated by Márcio Seligmann-Silva at the Museu Judaico de São Paulo.

Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung showcases works by Silvia Levenson and Adriana Lestido, Argentine artists that engage in social activism. The works on show express suffering, but also the power of resistance, as well as love and empathy.

María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold is a monographic exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of a visionary voice in photography, immersive installation, painting, and performance. On view since September 16^th, 2023.

La arquitectura de los peces y el perfume del error (The architecture of fish and the perfume of error) is the photography exhibition of Walter Barrios and Nicolás Trombetta at the Museo Municipal de Arte Juan Carlos Castagnino, in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

The artist-led organization For Freedoms presented Listen Until You Hear, an exhibition in Fotografiska New York featuring artworks by Hank Willis Thomas, Cassils, Maia Ruth Lee, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Eric Gottesman and Kameelah Janan Rasheed.

MoMA’s collective exhibition New Photography 2023: Kelani Abass, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Yagazie Emezi, Amanda Iheme, Abraham Oghobase, Karl Ohiri, Logo Oluwamuyiwa explores the photographic work of seven artists, all at various stages in their careers.

Love songs at ICP is a group show conceived as a mixtape of songs gifted to a lover, featuring photographic projects about love and intimacy from 16 contemporary photographers.

Penumbra Foundation presented Black Alchemy: Resolve (attempt #1), the first solo exhibition in New York City by the photographer Aaron R. Turner.

Les Recontres d’Arles, the first international festival of photography, presents Traces, an exhibition by Roberto Huarcaya, a key figure in Peruvian contemporary photography.

The memories of a community narrated by the individuals who live in it. This is what visitors will discover at the exhibition Retratistas do Morro (Portraitists of the Hill), running at Sesc Pinheiros.

After 40 years of uninterrupted democracy in Argentina, the Kirchner Cultural Center presents Sistema de representación. Fotografía y democracia 1983-2023 (Representation System. Photography and Democracy 1983-2023), an exhibition of photographic projects that revisit Argentina's recent past and provide a better understanding of the present time. It is curated by Francisco Medail.

The exhibition at KBr Fundación MAPFRE Photo Center gathers Mexican artist Tina Modotti’s work, recovering her facets as an artist/photographer and as a revolutionary/anti-fascist militant. 

Claudia Andujar and the Yanomami Struggle is the first major international retrospective at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) dedicated to the long collaboration between Brazilian artist and activist Claudia Andujar and the Yanomami people.

The Jan Mulder Collection in collaboration with Casa de América and PHotoESPAÑA inaugurated the exhibition Martín Chambi and his Contemporaries. The Andes Photographed. The exhibition is part of the official tour of the PHotoESPAÑA2023 festival.

The Currier Museum of Art announces the first solo exhibition of UÝRA (they/them/their) in a US institution.

Pinta PArC celebrates its tenth edition from April 19 to 23 in Lima, Peru, where more than 45 galleries will participate, including Argentina's Rolf Art.

The 2023 edition of Pinta BAphoto will take place from September 28th to October 1st at La Rural, Pavilion 8, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The deadline for the call for artists and galleries is Friday, March 31, 2023.

Rolf Art announces the institutional acquisition by the MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA (MNCARS) of the work La Clase, 1st year, 6th division, from the series Buena Memoria by Marcelo Brodsky (b.1954, Buenos Aires, Argentina).

The exhibition Image Cities by the photographer Anastasia Samoylova is the culmination of the first edition of the KBr Photo Award launched by Fundación MAPFRE in 2021. 

Since 1999, Alÿs has been producing videos documenting the games traditionally played by children in streets and backyards around the world.

At the Museo de Bellas Artes, images by artist Alicia D'Amico are displayed in Podría ser yo (It could be me), that wereincluded in the historic essay by Elizabeth Jelin and Pablo Vila, published in 1987, on daily life in working-class neighborhoods.

As a way of closing 2022 and give a way to 2023, Rolf Art, curated by Francisco Medail, presented Eso que estalla no es el sol, a group show in which several artists talk about the conjunction nature-humans.

Foto Colectania Foundation presents the exhibition Marcelo Bordsky. Poetic Resistance, curated by Irene de Mendoza.

Penumbra Foundation provides the opportunity for artists to propose a photographic project to produce in print form in their Risograph facilities in New York City. Deadline to apply: February 15^th, 2023.

Penumbra Foundation’s new exhibition: Photography in Ink: A Look at Contemporary Copper-Plate Photogravure, displays a group of photogravure prints, which offers viewers the rare opportunity to expand their understanding of material photography.

For the first time in Argentina Anthropocene is showing at PROA Foundation. A world-renowned exhibition by Canadian artists Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwall and Nicholas de Pencier.

A constellation of the images, themes, tropes, and concerns that have persistently preoccupied artist Carrie Mae Weems from the beginning of her career, A Great Turn in the Possible outlines a retrospective revisiting four decades of a trajectory that has proved necessary and visionary in equal terms.

The eighteenth edition of BAphoto ended last Sunday, held for the second consecutive year at Casa Basavilbaso. With photography as the main protagonist, more than 8,200 artists, gallery owners, curators, collectors and art lovers gathered to explore, discover and pay tribute to latinamerican photographers.

One of Pinta BAphoto's already characteristic program is Fuera de Foco (Out of Focus). Curated by Bárbara Golubick, this section highlights emerging artists’ photography from different parts of the country. This year, Remota Galería (Salta) with Clara Johnston and Matías de la Guerra and Talenta (Buenos Aires) with Coni Rosman and Juan Pablo Tristán,  are exhibiting.

Penumbra Foundation, the non-profit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive resources to photographers of all levels, is offering a new call for applications for an intensive program where the artist will be guided through each step of the creation of a photobook. The deadline for registration is October 15, 2022.