BUENOS AIRES.- The Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires celebrates its 70th Anniversary with its annual exhibition program Habitando el futuro [Our Home, The Future], featuring over ten exhibitions, publications, and educational programs with artists and scientists from Argentina and around the world, under the direction of Victoria Noorthoorn.
The exhibitions explore artistic practices that reimagine how we inhabit the Earth amid profound social, technological, and environmental changes. They are structured around metaphors drawn from natural environments: the ocean depths, the power of rivers, the seething energy of the Earth’s core as manifested through volcanic activity, the connectedness of forests, the heavens and the cosmos. Through this artistic exploration, the Moderno addresses crucial questions facing humanity in the future.
Exhibitions opening April 18
Moderno & MetaModerno: 70th Anniversary Edition
A presentation of Museo Moderno’s Collection, the largest public collection of modern and contemporary Argentinian art and design in the country. In this “meta-exhibition” each work becomes a portal opening onto a digital Archive documenting the 70-year history of Museo Moderno's exhibitions.
The Ocean Within
An immersive journey through the ocean depths, underwater biodiversity and Antarctica´s remote landscapes, as artists probe the seabed and our inner worlds to imagine new forms of existence.
Artists, architects and scientists: Erica Bohm, Giacomo Bove & Giovanni Roncagli, Aurora Castillo, Julian Charrière, Jimena Croceri, Gustave Doré, Drexciya, Carlos Ginzburg, Max Hooper Schneider, Pierre Huyghe, Instituto de Conservación de Ballenas, Movimiento Habitar Las Algas (SOA Argentina, CONICET, Oceanar, Kalfu Mapu, Marea Sintiente, UTN, UNTDF, Ecocentro), Roger Payne, Juan Pablo Renzi and Amancio Williams.
Curated by Alfredo Aracil.
Nature, The Architect
An exhibition revealing the inventive power of matter and our natural environments, recognizing their agency and exploring their forms of life, memory and sensible organization.
Artists: Manuel Brandazza, Virginia Buitrón, Adriana Bustos, Ariel Cusnir, Jonathas de Andrade, Julián D’Angiolillo, Cao Guimarães, Artur Lescher, Florencia Levy, m7red, Valeria Maggi, Eduardo Navarro, Rivane Neuenschwander, Rayana Rayo, Casa Río Lab, Florencia Rodríguez Giles, Sebastián Roque, Tomás Saraceno, Felix Shumba, Paulo Tavares, Utopía del Sur / Nicolás García Uriburu and Raúl Zurita.
Curated by Patricio Orellana.
Ariel Cusnir: Place of Origin
Our Hallway hosts Cusnir´s largest watercolor ever, realized with seawater from the Atlantic. A marine wall drawing creates a calm atmosphere that becomes both a threshold and a promise of stillness.
Curated by Raúl Flores.
Ana Gallardo: Materials for Memory
Gallardo´s installation in the Museum´s Café holds memory at heart, upholding the presence of those we have lost.
The Edge of Itself / 70th Anniversary Edition (June 11–July 26)
The theater from the edge of itself reads the visual arts and vice versa. In this landmark performing arts festival, from one's own self, another territory is perceived, rehearsed, tested.
Artists: Elba Bairon, Grupo Besa, Manuel Hermelo, Cervio Martini and Antonio Villa.
Curated by Alejandro Tantanian.
Memory and Future
2026 marks the 50th Anniversary of the military coup that ushered in Argentina´s last dictatorship (1976-1983), a regime of State terror defined by censorship, kidnappings, torture, murder, and forced disappearance. Grounded in the conviction that a better future cannot be built without a critical awareness of history, the Moderno has developed two extramural exhibitions:
Darkness Visible: The Long Shadow of Dictatorship
Spazio Punch, Venice (Opens May 6)
Spanning the 1970s to the present, the exhibition brings together artists who responded to the last military dictatorship with alarm and condemnation, who embodied the transition from dictatorship to democracy, and who continue to denounce contemporary violence.
Artists: Nicanor Aráoz, Eduardo Basualdo, Marcelo Brodsky, Luis Camnitzer, Flavia Da Rin, Sergio De Loof, León Ferrari, Ana Gallardo, Eduardo Gil, Guillermo Kuitca, Liliana Maresca & Marcos López, Gianni Mestichelli, Marta Minujín, Luis Pazos, Aldo Sessa, Archivo de la Memoria Trans and La Organización Negra.
Curated by Victoria Noorthoorn, Augusto Maurandi and Patricio Orellana.
The Collection Remembers: The Museo Moderno at the Parque de la Memoria
Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires (Opens June 6)
An exhibition of Moderno´s Collection, thanks to the initiative of the Parque de la Memoria, highlights the ways in which Argentinian artists responded to the last dictatorship.
Curated by Nicolás Cuello and Cecilia Nisembaum.
