Exhibitions
Program
Past
Schedules:
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Wednesday: 12:00 to 21:00
Tuesday: closed
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12.01.2017– 02.12.2018
Alexander Apóstol
Alexander Apóstol
Salida de los obreros al museo
Opening: Thursday, November 30, 7:00 PM
Curators: Agustín Pérez Rubio and Diana Wechsler
Gallery 1, Level 1
Un proyecto expositivo que propone una discusión abierta y colectiva sobre las relaciones entre arte y política, a partir de una reelaboración contemporánea del manifiesto "Tucumán arde".
11.03.2017— 02.19.2018
Modern Mexico
Avant-Garde and Revolution
Curators: Victoria Giraudo (MALBA), Sharon Jazzan and Ariadna Patiño Guadarrama (MUNAL)
Gallery 5, Level 2 and Gallery 3, Level 1
México Moderno. Vanguardia y Revolución traces the development of the various modernist esthetic proposals that took place in the first half of the 20th century in Mexico. The survey comprises a group of 180 representative pieces by the major masters of the period: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Leonora Carrington, among others.
08.10— 10.09.2017
Mirtha Dermisache
Because I write!
Curator Agustín Pérez Rubio
Gallery 3, Level 1
This exhibition revolves around the work of Argentine artist Mirtha Dermisache (Buenos Aires, 1940-2012), from her first book produced in 1967 to her final pieces produced in the 2000s.
07.14— 10.09.2017
Diane Arbus
In the Beginning
Opening: July 13rd, 7PM
Curator: Jeff L. Rosenheim
Gallery 5, Level 2
This is the first exhibition of the work of Diane Arbus (New York, 1923-1971), one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, ever held in Argentina.
07.14— 11.13.2017
Ximena Garrido-Lecca
Native States
Curator: Lucrecia Palacios
Gallery 1. Level -1
The exhibition is a project designed specifically for the museum's Gallery 1; it records the process whereby industrialized copper recovers its original form as "native copper," i.e. the form in which the mineral may be found in its natural state before it is extracted.
24.3.2017
General Idea
Fin de siècle
Un gran paisaje glaciar romántico –construido a partir de cientos de capas de telgopor– con tres pequeñas focas blancas, ubicadas en un no-tiempo o tiempo mítico, basado en el óleo El mar de hielo (1823), del pintor romántico alemán C.D. Friedrich.
03.24— 06.25.2017
General Idea
Broken Time
Curator: Agustín Pérez Rubio
Gallery 5, Level 2; Gallery 3, Level 1
Over the course of its twenty-five years of existence (1969-1994), the group produced a large body of groundbreaking works on an array of supports and in a variety of formats. It is still a point of reference for new generations of artists around the world.
03.10— 07.02.2017
Gastón Pérsico
La música es mi casa
Curator: Mariano Mayer
Gallery 1, Level -1
The exhibition is an exercise in translation between media that crosses references between discotheques and concrete poetry, between the body and its absence and language.
25.11.2016— 26.02.2017
Antropofagia y modernidad
Arte brasileño en la Colección Fadel
Curadora: Victoria Giraudo
Sala 5. Nivel 2
Inauguración: jueves 24 de noviembre, 19:00
Se presenta una selección de alrededor de 130 obras del siglo XX, representativas de los diferentes movimientos modernos ligados a la construcción cultural de Brasil.
10.14.2016— 02.19.2017
Carlos Motta
Requiem
Opening: Thursday, October 13, 7PM
Curator: Agustín Pérez Rubio
Gallery 1. Level -1
In his works, Carlos Motta (Bogotá, Colombia, 1978) interrogates political and social history and proposes counter-narratives that recognize the voices of social groups, identities, and communities that have been silenced by the dominant power.
10.14.2016— 02.17.2017
Alicia Penalba
Sculptress
Curator: Victoria Giraudo
Gallery 3. Level 1 + Esplanade
This event is the first solo exhibition of artist Alicia Penalba (San Pedro, Buenos Aires, 1913–Landes, France, 1982) ever held in a museum in Argentina. It will include a selection of her abstract sculptures from different series (totemic, winged, monumental, and petits works).
07.15— 10.03.2016
Voluspa Jarpa
En nuestra pequeña región de por acá
Curator: Agustín Pérez Rubio
Gallery 1. Level -1
The individuals portrayed in the project—a gallery of portraits—are victims of murders or of unsolved crimes; they are public figures who had held administrative posts in the public sector or in civic organizations in the region. The project makes use of the media of photography, paintings, sound, video, and installation.
06.24— 10.31.2016
Yoko Ono
Dream Come True
Curators: Gunnar B. Kvaran and Agustín Pérez Rubio
The show includes over eighty works, among them objects, videos, films, installations, sound pieces, and recordings produced from the early sixties through the present.
04.15— 09.22.2016
Jeff Koons
Ballerina
Opening: April 14, 1PM
Esplanade
“Ballerina” is a larger-than-life sculpture by celebrated American artist Jeff Koons. A fan of working with readymade objects, Koons reimagined the piece from a porcelain of a ballerina found in a Russian factory at the turn of the 20th century.
03.18— 05.30.2016
Jorge Macchi
Perspective
Curator: Agustín Pérez Rubio
Gallery 5. Level 2
Opening: March 17th, 7PM
This is the first anthological exhibition of work by Jorge Macchi (Buenos Aires, 1963) ever held in Argentina will open at MALBA. The show, which encompasses twenty-five years of production (1990 to the present), includes nearly sixty works in an array of formats.
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Claudia Andujar
Marcados
A group of over eighty black and white photographs by Brazilian artist Claudia Andujar (Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1931) never before exhibited in Buenos Aires. From 1981 to 1984, Andujar spent long periods of time in the lands of the Yanomami Indians.
03.04— 06.27.2016
Juan Tessi
Cameo
Opening: jueves 14 de abril, 19:00
Curator: Lucrecia Palacios
Gallery 1. Level -1
One and two exhibitions at the same time, Cameo is a project conceived specifically for MALBA in which Juan Tessi investigates the relationship between painting and biological processes on the basis of a system of metaphors that identify pictorial surface with epidermis and picture with body.
03.3.2016
Programación
2016
El programa contempla tres exposiciones de gran formato, siguiendo el plan de realizar siempre un proyecto de arte argentino, uno latinoamericano y uno internacional; además de una nueva puesta de la colección permanente en el año del 15° aniversario del museo.
11.06.2015— 02.15.2016
Francis Alÿs
A Story of Negotiation
Curator: Cuauhtémoc Medina
Opening: Thursday, November 5
The most recent exhibition of work by Francis Alÿs (Belgium, 1959), this show examines the parallelism between the artist’s work in painting and in performance, specifically in relation to his political-poetic interventions, and how that dialogue leads to his actions, documentations, and pictorial work.
21.9.2015
Leandro Erlich
La democracia del símbolo
Primera obra site-specific de Leandro Erlich (Buenos Aires, 1973) en nuestro país, que toma al Obelisco porteño –ícono de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires- como eje central de un proyecto de arte público monumental.
09.11.2015— 02.08.2015
The Metabolic Age
Curator: Chus Martínez
The exhibition revolves around ideas as delirious as linking Nosotros afuera [We, The Outsiders], a work by Federico Manuel Peralta Ramos, and research by Douglas Engelbart, the father of the hyperlink.
27.8.2015
Vasco Araujo
Potestad
Se presenta un conjunto de videos del artista portugués Vasco Araujo (Lisboa, 1975), realizados entre 2001 y 2014 y seleccionados bajo la consigna “relatos del poder”, una temática central en toda su obra.
07.24— 10.18.2015
Teresa Burga
Air Structures
Opening: Thursday, July 23.
Curators: Miguel López y Agustín Pérez Rubio
An emblematic participant in the renewal of Peruvian art that took place in the sixties and seventies and a member of the Grupo Arte Nuevo (1966-1968), Teresa Burga was at the forefront of the dissolution of the art object.
06.26— 08.20.2015
Unerasable Memories
An historical view on the Videobrasil collection
Opening: Thursday, June 25
Curator: Agustín Pérez Rubio
This video exhibition revisits polemic and conflict-ridden historical events from the personal perspectives of major international artists such as Akram Zaatari and Walid Raad, Coco Fusco, Bouchra Khalili, León Ferrari, Rosãngela Rennó, Carlos Motta, and Jonathas de Andrade.
06.26— 10.12.2015
Rogelio Polesello
1958—1974
Opening: Thursday, June 25
Guest curator: Mercedes Casanegra
MALBA pays tribute to Rogelio Polesello (Buenos Aires, 1939-2014) with an anthological exhibition of his historical works, paintings, and acrylic pieces produced from the late fifties through the mid-seventies.
28.5.2015
Colección D’Alessandro
de arte precolombino
Los objetos que conforman la colección tienen una antigüedad estimada que va aproximadamente desde el 1500 AC hasta los tiempos de la llegada de los conquistadores españoles en el 1500 DC.
22.2.2016
Programación 2015
El programa marca el inicio de la nueva gestión de Agustín Pérez Rubio como Director Artístico de MALBA y contempla tres exposiciones de gran formato, siguiendo el plan de realizar siempre un proyecto de arte argentino, otro latinoamericano y uno internacional.
03.20— 06.08.2015
Infinite
Experience
Opening: Thursday, March 19
Curator: Agustín Pérez Rubio
Artists: Allora & Calzadilla - Diego Bianchi - Elmgreen & Dragset – Dora García - Pierre Huyghe - Roman Ondák - Tino Sehgal - Judi Werthein.
03.20— 07.06.2015
Annemarie Heinrich
Secret Intentions
Genesis of women’s liberation
in her vintage photographs
Opening: Thursday, March 19, 7:00 p.m.
Curators: Victoria Giraudo and Agustín Pérez Rubio
A selection of ninety vintage photographs from the thirties to the sixties. On the basis of feminist theory, the exhibition focuses on the more intimate and personal work of Annemarie Heinrich
03.20— 06.08.2015
Osías Yanov
VI Parliamentary Session
Opening: Thursday, March 19, 7:00 p.m.
Performance: Starting March 26,
every Thursday at 7:00 p.m.
Curator: Laeticia Mello
If a routine of movements were capable of establishing a law, what would a parliament of bodies based on choreographies be like?
30.10.2014
Antonio Berni
Juanito y Ramona
Un conjunto de 150 obras, creadas entre 1958 y 1978, provenientes de la familia del artista y de importantes colecciones públicas y privadas de Argentina, Estados Unidos, España y Bélgica.
26.9.2014
Antonio Berni
Mural americanista
Único fresco buono de temática indigenista que se conserva del gran artista argentino. Junto con el mural se exhiben 15 aguafuertes realizadas en los años 40.
08.8.2014
C-32
Sucursal
Una exposición dedicada a La Ene -Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo-, un proyecto de crítica institucional, fundado en 2010 en Buenos Aires.
12.7.2014
Le Parc
Lumière
Una selección de instalaciones lumínicas históricas del gran maestro argentino Julio Le Parc (Mendoza, 1928), pertenecientes a la Colección Daros Latinoamérica de Zurich, Suiza.
15.3 -
Mario Testino
In Your Face
16.6.2014
Primera exposición en la Argentina de uno de los fotógrafos más influyentes del mundo. Se presenta un conjunto de 122 fotografías, seleccionadas por el propio Testino, que reflejan la diversidad de su obra.
28.3 -
C-31
Lo contrario de la magia
7.7.2014
Edición 31 del programa Contemporáneo, dedicado al arte actual, local y regional. En esta ocasión, Malba convocó al dibujante Lux Lindner (Bs As, 1966) como curador, quien a su vez eligió a nueve artistas argentinos para exponer en torno a un problema: la relación arte-ciencia en la cultura contemporánea.
02.3.2014
Garabito La donación
Un conjunto de 31 obras de Ricardo Garabito, realizadas entre 1965 y 2007 y donadas por el artista al acervo del museo.
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Latin American Art 20th Century
MALBA Fundación Costantini, in its dedication to 20th century Latin American art, owns a unique collection that includes the principal tendencies and movements that characterize the region’s art in all its mediums.
01.1.2014
Encuentros / Tensiones
Arte latinoamericano
contemporáneo
Un nuevo recorrido por el arte latinoamericano contemporáneo, a través de una selección de más de 100 obras pertenecientes al acervo del museo y un conjunto de comodatos.
01.1.2014
Contemporáneo 30
Elba Bairon
Una nueva edición del programa Contemporáneo, dedicado al arte actual, local y regional. En esta ocasión, se exhibe un proyecto especialmente concebido por la artista Elba Bairón (La Paz, Bolivia, 1947) para este espacio del museo.
16.3.2014
Liliana Porter
El hombre con el hacha
y otras situaciones breves
Primera exposición individual de Liliana Porter (Buenos Aires, 1941) en el museo. Se trata de una instalación site-specific creada especialmente por la artista para la sala 3 de Malba.
23.03— 11.06.18
David Lamelas
A Life Of Their Own
Nivel 2, Explanada y Auditorio
Organizada junto al University Art Museum (UAM) de la California State University, Long Beach, Estados Unidos (CSULB), David Lamelas: A Life of Their Own se realiza en el marco del proyecto Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
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