TEA Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife | Sofía Bassi

The first exhibition in Europe in which Sofía Bassi participates will be at TEA Espacio de las Artes, Canary Islands. The exhibition Insolación, curated by Gilberto González, can be visited from September 29, 2023, to February 25, 2024.

TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes | Álvaro Urbano

Álvaro Urbano presents Acto I: La eterna adolescencia, at TEA Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Canary Islands, from September 29, 2023 until February 18th, 2024. Through an installation, Urbano explores the eternal adolescence, as part of the human condition.

MoMA, NY | Alexandre Estrela

Alexandre Estrela presents Flat Bells, his first New York show, at the Kravis Studio, Museum of Modern Art MoMA. The exhibition, curated by Sophie Cavoulacos, will be on view from November 4th, 2023, until January 7th, 2024.

NEW PUBLICATION: Mateo López (El tiempo es la idea)

The publication Mateo López (El tiempo es la idea), published by This Side Up, features texts by researcher and curator Julien Petit and writer and curator Manuel Cirauqui along with a collective of artists, curators and designers, formed around the Eina Idea program in Barcelona. 

The publication was produced in collaboration with Travesía Cuatro, Casey Kaplan Gallery, Galeria Luisa Strina and Goodman Gallery.

KUNTSHALLE LISSABON, Lisbon | Teresa Solar Abboud

life on the surface is Teresa Solar Abboud’s first solo show in Portugal. It will be exhibited at The Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Portugal from September 20th until November 25th, 2023.

FAURSCHOU, NY | Donna Huanca

SCAR TISSUE (BLURRED EARTH) is Donna Huanca’s major institutional solo presentation in New York, USA. The show comprises paintings, sculpture, olfactory and sound works, punctuated by a series of live performances, each one unique and especially commissioned for the occasion. It will be on view at Faurschou NY, from October 21st, 2023, until, July 14th, 2024. 

BODEGA COLOMBIANA, Barichara | Mateo López

“Caminar alrededor del tiempo” is the exhibition that concludes the residency of artist Mateo López at Reserva Guatoc. The show is also the result of the artist’s journeys through  Santander during the first half of 2023.  It will be on view through September 24, 2023, at La Bodega La Colombiana, in Barichara, Colombia.

MAN, Nuoro | Jorge Eielson

Maria Lai and Jorge Eielson 100thousand stars is the duo exhibition that is currently on view at MAN Museo d’Arte di Nuoro, Italy. Curated by Elisabetta Masala, based on an idea by Marina Affanni and Chiara Gatti, the show will be open until October 1st, 2023.

MALBA, Buenos Aires | Jorge Eielson & Mariela Scafati

Tercer Ojo is an exhibition that brings together iconic works of Latin American art. Jorge Eielson is part of  Habitar la tierra, while Mariela participates in Transformar la palabra, both axis of the show. It can be visited until December 4th, 2023, at MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

MUSEO AMPARO, Puebla | Jose Dávila, Jorge Méndez Blake & Gonzalo Lebrija

Jose Dávila, Jorge Méndez Blake and Gonzalo Lebrija are part of the group show TIME IN THINGS II. CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERIES, on view at Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico until December 31st, 2023. 

LA CASA ENCENDIDA, Madrid | Asunción Molinos Gordo & Sara Ramo

Picasso: Untitled is an exhibition that, 50 years after Pablo Picasso’s death, shows 50 works from the artist’s last period and  50 woks by contemporary artists who retitle and re-signify the pieces. Asunción Molinos Gordo and Sara Ramo are two of the artists invited to this exhibition at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain, on view until January 7, 2024. 

HAMBURGER BANHOF, Berlin | Álvaro Urbano

Álvaro Urbano and Petrit Halilaj are part of the group exhibition “Nationalgalerie. A collection for the 21st century”, curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath at the Hamburger Banhof – Nationalgalerie Der Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany.

 

Jorge Méndez Blake | Art Basel Unlimited

Travesía Cuatro is pleased to announce Jorge Méndez Blake’s presentation at Art Basel’s Unlimited sector consisting of a large- scale installation that draws upon his practice of “dismantling language.” On view at Art Basel Unlimited.

THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA, Madrid | Álvaro Urbano

La Vida Breve (Ficus carica), 2023, by Álvaro Urbano, will be part of the unique display “Encounters: Works from the TBA21 Collection”. Thus, there will be a dialogue between the TBA21 Collection and the works of the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, where the exhibition will be on view from May 31 to October 9, 2023.

HELSINKI BIENNIAL 2023 | Asunción Molinos Gordo

Asunción Molinos Gordo will be part of the 2023 Helsinki Biennal titled New Directions May Emerge, curated by Joasia Krysa. It will take place from 12 June to 17 September 2023.

NOBEL PEACE CENTER, Oslo | Álvaro Urbano

Álvaro Urbano and Petrit Halilaj are presenting their work Forget-me-not as a permanent installation at the Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, due to its strong symbolic power about love, hope and forgiveness. Curated by KORO – Public Art Norway, the piece will be on view as of May 2nd, 2023.

MUSEO TAMAYO | Jose Dávila & Gonzalo Lebrija

The Paradoxes of Internationalism (As Narrated by the Museo Tamayo Collection) is a two-part exhibition that will take part at Museo Tamayo, CDMX, Mexico. The show, curated by Kate Fowle, includes works by Jose Dávila and Gonzalo Lebrija. The first part of the exhibition will be on view from May 27 through October 1st, 2023. 

NUMÉRO: Petrit Halilaj & Álvaro Urbano unveil ‘Lunar Ensemble for Uprising Seas’

“With the installation, the artists have created an evolving ecosystem filled with large-scale sculptures depicting imaginary creatures. […They] have created an installation which explores cohesion as well as resistance or disharmony between different species, or between living organisms and objects.” Continue reading on Numéro.

BALLY FOUNDATION, LUGANO | Álvaro Urbano

Un Lac Inconnu is the inaugural exhibition of the Bally Foundation, at Villa Heleneum, Lugano, Switzerland. Álvaro Urbano & Petrit Halilaj will be part of this exhibition curated by Vittoria Matarrese on view from April 20 until September 24, 2023.

VIDEO | Jose Dávila: Ibero-American Patronage Awards 2023

The Ibero-American Patronage Awards 2023 organized by the Callia Foundation paid tribute to artist Jose Dávila. At the La Suerte de Dar meetings that took place at the CENTRO CENTRO auditorium of the Palacio de Cibeles in Madrid, Jose Dávila talked about his work with journalist and art historian María de la Peña.

HYPEART VISITS: Donna Huanca Interviewed by Keith Estiler

“Donna Huanca (b. 1980, Chicago, IL) works investigates the natural world and all its chaos – thematizing cycles of renewal and decay. Her installations, which often incorporate painting, sculpture, and live performance, are intricately woven into the specific architectural spaces in which they are presented”. Continue Reading on HypeArt.

NEW YORK CITY HALL | Elena del Rivero

Monstrous rags, as the artist calls them, wave like flags in the Home Address project that is now shown at New York City Hall to represent the female fight in contemporary society. The ongoing project by Elena del Rivero, was inaugurated on March 8th, 2023, in the framework of International Women’s Day.

MUSEO REINA SOFÍA | Asunción Molinos Gordo

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia has expanded its collection with the work of 12 Spanish contemporary women artists, including Asuncion Molinos Gordo, at the last edition of ARCOmadrid. ¡Cuanto río más arriba! will now be part of the permanent collection of MNCARS.

NEW PUBLICATION: Jose Dávila

Jose Dávila, Exercises of the Possible is published by Hatje Cantz Verlag and edited by Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, Jeffrey Grove.

Texts by Pedro Alonzo, Louisa Edgerton, Frauke V. Josenhans, Patricia Martin, Humberto Moro, David Raskin, Sabine Schaschl, Karen Stein. Graphic design by Rutger Fuchs.

I·G·A· | Travesía Cuatro

Travesía Cuatro is part of the International Galleries Alliance I·G·A·, a collaborative non-profit association that aims to create platforms and opportunities within the contemporary art market. 

OCEAN SPACE, Venice | Álvaro Urbano

Alvaro Urbano and Petrit Halijaj will present a site-specific installation commissioned by TBA21-Academy for the exhibition Thus waves come in pairs, curated by Barbara Casavecchia. The show will be presented at the San Lorenzo Church  in Venice and will be on view from April 22 to November 5, 2023. 

PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM | Jorge Mendez Blake

Jorge Mendez Blake presents I Remember an Exhibition at Palms Springs Museum, an installation specially commissioned for the museum’s main façade. The short texts describe imaginary conditions inside the museum, referencing fleeting activities, and non-existent artworks and spaces

THE BASS MUSEUM, MIAMI BEACH | Jorge Mendez Blake

Dismantled Landscape (José Juan Tablada’s Haikus)  is the site-specific work commissioned to Jorge Méndez Blake that has won the inaugural edition of The Macallan Art Prize. The artwork will be part of the permanent exhibition at The Bass museum, Miami, USA. 

MACBA BARCELONA | Elena del Rivero

Elena del Rivero’s work, Letters to the mother (1993-97) is presented in the exhibition MACBA Collection: Prelude. Poetic Intention, which will be on view from December 14, 2022, until mid 2024 at MACBA Barcelona.

PALAIS BEAUX-ARTS, LILLE, FRANCE | John Isaacs

Architecture of Empathy is the art work that John Isaacs is currently showing at  Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, as part of the reopening of the Middle Ages and Renaissance halls.

REINA SOFÍA MUSEUM | Sara Ramo

Sara Ramo integrates the permanent collection of the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, Spain with the works Minhas e Suas and Una y otra vez, which are currently exhibited in COMMUNICATING VESSELS. Collection 1881-2021, the museum’s rehanging.