Exhibitions → 2026

Fernanda Laguna
My Heart Is a Magnet, 1992–2025

March 13 – May 25

Floors 1 and -1

Fernanda Laguna is one of the most influential figures in Argentine art of recent decades. Her practice—both diverse and deliberately undisciplined—finds beauty in the everyday and blurs the boundaries between life and creation. Throughout her career, she has moved fluidly between literature, visual arts, activism, and the management of independent spaces, developing a distinctive language in which struggles, desires, generations, and communities converge. This exhibition offers the most comprehensive survey of her work to date through 200 pieces—paintings, drawings, collages, embroideries, sculptures, installations, and videos—alongside notebooks, books of poetry and fiction, and personal photographic material. It is dedicated to independent spaces and publishing initiatives.

Curator

Miguel A. López

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Fernanda Laguna. Papas fritas II, 2023.
Fachada del local Belleza y Felicidad, 2004.

Event Details

This event is running from 13 March 2026 until 22 June 2026. It is next occurring on 13.05.2026 12:00 pm


This retrospective is organized into seven sections that trace the artist’s individual and collective work between 1992 and 2025. It offers, for the first time, a broad overview of a bold and free-spirited body of work that reflected the collective urgency to transform the patriarchal systems of value that shaped artistic debate thirty years ago.

Fernanda Laguna celebrates moments of charm, pain, strangeness, and wonder, dismantling the solemnity of contemporary art in order to reclaim it as a record of the everyday rituals of living. The exhibition sheds light on key moments in a feminist life and highlights how some of the most outspoken and combative genealogies of contemporary feminist activism—now enjoying significant global visibility—emerged in the 1990s from everyday work, collaboration, friendship, fantasy, play, and beauty.

The exhibition is presented across two separate galleries with different closing dates: the Level 1 galleries remain open until May 25, while the Level -1 galleries continue until June 22.

Organized in collaboration with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.

 

Catalogo

En el marco de la exposición, se publica un catálogo en coedición entre el Malba y el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía en versiones español e inglés, que reproduce más de doscientas obras, entre pinturas, dibujos, collages y tapices, y una rica selección de documentos provenientes del archivo personal de la artista. Con un diseño audaz y desenfadado afín a la estética de la artista, el libro se estructura como una constelación de textos críticos que dialogan con su obra, tanto especialmente comisionados para el proyecto como recopilados de publicaciones anteriores. El curador Miguel A. López, junto con Jorge Gumier Maier, Cecilia Palmeiro, Inés Katzenstein y Eduarda Rocha, reunidos por sus afinidades intelectuales y generacionales con Laguna, ofrecen lecturas complementarias de la exposición que abordan las dimensiones estética, literaria y política de su trabajo. El volumen se completa con una biografía escrita por Dalia Rosetti, alter ego de la artista.

Fernanda Laguna

Buenos Aires, 1972

Fernanda Laguna is a visual artist, writer, curator, and educator. In 1999, together with Cecilia Pavón, she founded the art space and publishing initiative Belleza y Felicidad, active until 2007, and in 2003 opened a branch in Villa Fiorito that remains active today. She is a member of the Ni Una Menos collective and, together with Cecilia Palmeiro, develops the living archive Mareadas en la marea. As a curator, she has participated in around two hundred exhibitions in independent spaces and museums in Argentina and abroad, including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, and the Argentine Consulate in New York. She received the Beca Kuitca and the Foundation for Arts Initiatives fellowships, and in 2008 launched a project for a secondary school specializing in visual arts in Fiorito, supported by the Fondo Nacional de las Artes. Her work is included in the collections of museums and foundations such as the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum collection. She has published poetry, essays, and fiction; among her books are Control o no control, Los grandes proyectos, Espectacular, and Muy espectacular (2025), as well as novels written under the pseudonym Dalia Rosetti.

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Curator

Miguel A. López

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Lunes y viernes a las 17:00