Notes related to MoMA

The Cisneros Institute is launching its first publication Momentum: Art & Ecology in Contemporary Latin America, a book that investigates how Latin American artists engage with their environments, addressing themes such as innovative relationships with the nonhuman, land disputes, colonial legacies, and visions for the future.

Crisis Galería announced the recent acquisition of the painting Cosmovisión Huitoto (2022) by the outstanding indigenous artist Santiago Yahuarcani by the Museum of Modern Art of New York (MoMA). This extraordinary large format work, made with natural dyes and acrylic paint on llanchama, is one of the largest produced by the artist with more than two meters high and four meters wide.

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.

Exhibited for the first time since entering the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Regina José Galindo’s Tierra (2013) explores connections between the exploitation of labor, resources, and human life in Guatemala.

Spiral for Shared Dreams is Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo’s exhibition at MoMA, presenting 11 handmade atarrayas, or fishing nets, denouncing the impact of hydroelectrical dams and other infrastructure on water bodies.

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.

MoMA presents the topic of Architecture in the age of industry from the Collection 1880s–1940s in room 511. The exhibition explores how industrial structures in the United States sparked an architectural revolution in Europe.

The Museum of Modern Art announces Projects: Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas, on view in the Museum’s street-level gallery through January 2, 2023. The exhibition focuses on the struggles for territorial sovereignty, Indigenous rights, and the building of environmental memory.

MoMA presents newly conceptualized installations and reveals major new presentations to bring artwork together in different combinations, exploring new artists and ideas, specifically for architecture and design.

The Peruvian artist, represented by the 80M2 Livia Benavides gallery, won one of the three gramts presented each year by the Cisnero’s Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America, established by the Museum of Modern Art in 2016 to support new research by artists, curators and scholars.