On Thursday, August 14th and Friday, August 29th, BIENALSUR will inaugurate five new projects in the museums that make up the museum network of the City of Buenos Aires: the Luis Perlotti Sculpture Museum, the Cornelio de Saavedra Historical Museum of Buenos Aires, the Enrique Larreta Museum of Spanish Art, the Eduardo Sívori Museum of Plastic Arts, and the Isaac Fernández Blanco Museum of Hispanic-American Art. In the second half of August, the City of Buenos Aires will host five new exhibitions of the BIENALSUR 2025 cartography produced within the framework of the City Government's Patronage program. The spaces that make up the Buenos Aires Museum Network will feature works by Adriana Bustos (ARG), Sara Bonomi (ARG), Valeria Cannata (ARG), Ariel Cusnir (ARG), Paula Darriba (ARG), Augusto de Campos (BRA), Tamara Goldenberg (ARG), Gisela Motta & Leandro Lima (BRA), Clemente Padín (URY), Sol Quirincich (ARG), Pablo Reinoso (ARG-FRA),Go from Sava (ARG), Juan Sorrentino (ARG) and Alberto Tadiello (ITA). Thursday, August 14,Reconstructing a monument, at the Luis Perlotti Sculpture Museum
Lola Mora is one of the most notable artists in Argentine art. Like many women artists, her figure entered history tinged more by biographical oddities than by recognition of her work. Only recently has her artistic and aesthetic relevance begun to be written, and now she occupies a pivotal position in early 20th-century sculpture, a time when this practice was strongly linked to the monument as a way of inscribing the values and narratives of a nation in the making. Drawing on the sculpture-monument as a significant intersection in Lola Mora's work, between national history and allegory, between realistic heroism and sensual naturalism, we inaugurate Reconstruct a monument, at the Luis Perlotti Sculpture Museum. An exhibition featuring works by Argentine artists Sara Bonomi, Adriana Bustos, Tamara Goldenberg, and Sol Quirincich, curated by Clarisa Appendino. BIENALSUR will be on display until December 14, 2025. Friday, August 29, BIENALSUR openings in Saavedra, Belgrano, Palermo, and Retiro
On the last Friday of August, the opening ceremonies of BIENALSUR 2025 will begin at 1 p.m. in theCornelio de Saavedra Historical Museum, Km 13 of the biennial, with the opening of the exhibition Entre Ríos, ofthe artist silversno Ariel Cusnir in dialogue with the museum's heritage. “Far from reproducing the military feat as an epic, Cusnir approaches these scenes from a critical perspective, sensitive to the absurd, to distortion and to the narrative power of the marginal.–highlights curator Clarisa Appendino–.In dialogue with the museum's archive, this project activates a poetic and political archaeology that questions the very idea of the document and inscribes a cartography determined to reimagine the narratives of the past." The inauguration will take place at 2:30 p.m. Naturalia or the diversity of the world At the Enrique Larreta Museum of Spanish Art, Km 10 of BIENALSUR. Curated by Pablo La Padula, a member of the BIENALSUR team, this exhibition is a return to nature, showcasing in the unique space of the museum's galleries and botanical garden the bird photographs of Valeria Cannata (ARG), the naturalistic drawings of Paula Darriba (ARG), and the soundscape that Alberto Tadiello (ITA) composed from the sounds of Patagonian mammals. “As if in an act of eternal return to nature, the marvelous objects treasured by culture always return to the present. In this case, they are nestled in a 19th-century mansion in the heart of Buenos Aires, which can also be read as a grand cabinet of artistic, historical, and natural curiosities articulated through its Moorish botanical garden.“,” says La Padula in the curatorial words. Towards mid-afternoon, at 4 pm, it will be the turn of the opening of Language travel: the depoetry of Augusto de Campos at the Eduardo Sívori Museum of Plastic Arts, Km 5 of BIENALSUR. Curated by Gonzalo Aguilar (ARG), this exhibition invites us to explore the career of the Brazilian poet, translator, essayist, and critic Augusto de Campos, whose work has always interacted with the visual arts and music, promoting concrete poetry in Brazil and exerting a notable influence on young poets such as Paulo Leminsky and musicians such as Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, and the entire movement.Tropicalist. "Augusto de Campos presents himself as a poet who refuses to follow the well-trodden paths of mainstream poetry. That's why he calls himself an "ex-poet," titles one of his books "Despoesía," and takes poetry beyond its scope, venturing into the realm of the visual and into formats such as video, music, and design."says Aguilar. At the close of the day, at 6 p.m., BIENALSUR returns to its Km 1, the Isaac Fernández Blanco Museum of Hispanic-American Art, to present the works of Brazilian artists Gisella Motta & Leandro Lima, who are joining the exhibition. Persistences, curated by Diana Wechsler, artistic director of BIENALSUR, which had its first opening in July, when the works of Clemente Padín (URY), Mene Savasta (ARG), Juan Sorrentino (ARG) and Pablo Reinoso (ARG/FRA) were presented. “A subtle, rhythmic, persistent vibration fills the space. A meditative, overwhelming physical experience then emerges. Air… breath, breath… breathing… The works gathered here coincide in placing something as primal and vital as air and the act of breathing at the center of attention. Each of the artists chose to situate their reflection on the essential dimension that makes life possible –explains Wechsler–. In a time of environmental crisis and social tensions, the selected works take on new meaning, evoking both the depletion of natural resources and the fragility of bodies in a context of growing instability.
