Notes related to Politics

Disobedience Archive is a video archive project in constant transformation, linking artistic practices and political action. At the Venice Biennale exhibition, it takes the form of The Zoentrope, a pre-cinematographic machine that gives life to a space that generates new perspectives.

Why highlight stories that often remain on the periphery of artistic discourse? Adriano Pedrosa justifies his curatorial decision with works by 331 artists -mostly from the global south- that open the way to powerful narratives. Finally, we see the axis being twisted. It is difficult to escape the white gaze, more so to move authentically through a Eurocentric space. Given this, the communicative reach of figuration serves to challenge the symbolic order of domination and destabilize the colonial project. The stories that are made explicit and the narratives of magic and everyday life help to recognize without revictimizing. 

The Ukranian Pavilion addresses the othering effect of war, two years into the Russian Invasion, in Net Making at the 60^th Venice Biennale.

Freedom First is the first solo exhibition that Fernando Bryce (Lima, Peru, 1965) presents at 1 Mira Madrid and is practically a declaration of intentions.

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.

Andres Serrano carries with him a sulfurous reputation that he has not tried to hide in this exhibition, where famous and forceful works are presented. Under the title “Portaits de L'Amérique” the Musée Maillol offers a survey of Serrano's “American” work from his earliest creations in the mid-1980s to his most recent.

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.

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.

The CA2M (Museum Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo) presents the exhibition Ana Gallardo. Tembló acá un delirio. (A delirium trembled here). Curated by Alfredo Aracil and Violeta Janeiro, the show runs from March 2 to July 7, 2024. 

White Shoes is Nona Faustine exhibition at Brooklyn Museum, where the artist, using her own body, interrogates the question “What does a Black person look like today in those places where Africans were once sold, a century and a half ago?” using her body.

Judy Chicago: Herstory brings together six decades of the artist’s work. Hosted by The New Museum in New York, the show includes an exhibition-whithin-the-exhibition spotlighting women essential to the history of art and Chicago’s own practice.

The exhibition Exercises in Transformation – Sergio Zevallos at HKW is dedicated to his more than forty years of practice in the incorporation, research and transformation of dominant knowledge systems.

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.

Mexican artist Sergio Hernández presented an exhibition at the Colegio de San Idefondo with 143 works. It is the most important and complete exhibition so far, which includes unpublished pieces.

The Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar is the winner of the 11^th Hiroshima Art Prize and will present an exhibition at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.

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.

León Ferrari. Recurrencias (León Ferrari. Recurrences) is the first solo exhibition that the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes dedicates to the Argentinean artist.

In Pinakothek der Moderne, the Chilean-born and New York-based architect who makes art—as Alfredo Jaar refers to himself— explores complex sociopolitical issues, bringing to the fore the ethics of representation. 

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).

Mitchell-Innes & Nash presented first solo exhibition for Brazilian artist Antonio Henrique Amaral (1935-2015). Antonio Henrique Amaral: O Discurso will feature 10 paintings ranging in date from the 1960s to the 1990s.

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.

This is one of the unique moments of the most recent contemporary art in Brazil. The final tracking shot of Olho da Rua, a video by Jonathas de Andrade now on display at Inhotim, one of Brazil's leading visual arts centers, is one of those happy moments in which the artist manages to capture with such precision the zeitgeist of his country (in this case, on a continental scale).

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

SITE Santa Fe presents DIRECT ACTION, a new solo exhibition by Pedro Reyes, in which the artist explores art as activism through a selection of sculptures, prints, performance, and a newly commissioned video work.

The exhibition She Has Many Names in Musesum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) surveys some of the most important performances, drawings, installations, printed matter and films created throughout the artist’s three-decades career.

A project by artist Miriam Rodríguez, curated by Mónica Ashida at the Museo de Arte de Zapopán in Mexico, which documents the search process of the families of people who suffered a forced disappearance in the country. 

This exhibition at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo de México presents graphic actions in public space carried out by activists and artists at the intersection of art/politics in Latin America.

The first major show of the multi-media artist on O-Overgarden, in which she explores her Chilean heritage.

PAV (Parco Arte Vivente) is presenting Tierra (Earth), the solo exhibition of guatemaltecan artista Regina José Galino. She has been investigating for over 20 years the subject of social justice through the lens of performative practives.