Exhibitions
Program
2016
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).
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.
Malba collection
Verboamérica
Curators: Andrea Giunta and Agustín Pérez Rubio
In the framework of the celebration of the 15th anniversary of MALBA’s founding, the museum presents Verboamérica, a new exhibition of its permanent collection, curated by historian and researcher Andrea Giunta and by the museum’s artistic director, Agustín Pérez Rubio.
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.
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.
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