La Presente (The Room of the Present) is Mateo López’s new project, which now forms part of the Permanent Collection of the National Museum of Colombia. Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Knowledge and the National Museum of Colombia, the installation brings together sculptures, drawings, masks and everyday objects inspired by the familiar spaces of the corner shop, the hardware shop, the general store and the market square.
From July 1 through September 27, “Mire Veja: São Paulo’s MAM Visits SESC Bom Retiro” opens—a group exhibition featuring the work of Sara Ramo. The exhibition brings together works from the MAM collection and the SESC Brazilian Art Collection, inviting visitors to view art from different perspectives.
“The Portuguese Pavilion has no permanent home in the Giardini. It drifts. This year the location is the Fondaco Marcello. Right on the Grand Canal. The name comes from the Arabic funduq — a merchant warehouse. This years’ curators are Ana Baliza and Ricardo Nicolau, flanked by Marco Bene, also ‘the archivest-in-attendance.’” Continue reading the full article in the Unlikely Guide.
The exhibition Bricks Reloaded explore’s how the brick has shaped buildings, neighbourhoods and entire cities since ancient times. The exhbition includes works by Jorge Méndez Blake and can be visited at Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Frankfurt, Germany until 1 November 2026.
At the 61st Venice Biennale, Alexandre Estrela discusses the origins of Apple wallpaper in “unspoiled” nature and why he turned the Portuguese Pavilion into a live seismograph. Read the interview by Clara Drummond in SPIKE.
Asunción Molinos Gordo is participating in the first edition of the Climate Biennial, Rehearsing the Unexpected, which will be on view in Avilés, Asturias, Spain, from June 12 to September 20, 2026. The Climate Biennial is a meeting space open to the public. It is a place where people and organizations from very different backgrounds come together to reflect, converse, imagine, and debate the great challenges of our time.
“Paper Tears” by Claudia Pagès Rabal is the project selected for “Catalonia in Venice,” the Catalan cultural contribution to the Collateral Events of the Venice Biennale. The installation combines light, sound, imagery, and choreography, with a central element: an archive of watermarks—patterns visible only when held up to the light on paper. It will be on view through November 22. Learn more here.
Alexandre Estrela: RedSkyFalls is on view at the Portugal Pavilion of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia from May 9 to November 22, and is curated by Ana Baliza and Ricardo Nicolau. The installation responds in real time to Earth’s internal rumblings – an artificial ecosystem with pre-digital sensibility.Learn more here.
Paper Tears by Claudia Pagès Rabal, Catalonia in Venice 2026: “I was on the train back from Venice to Milan when, scrolling through my phone gallery, I realized that something in Claudia Pagès Rabal’s work continued to elude me”. Continue reading in NERO by Matteo Gari.
The editors of Art in America selected a global group of 20 exciting artists to watch, including Claudia Pagès Rabal and Joeun Kim Aatchim. Learn more about them here.
Mariela Scafati, together with her group Taller Popular de Serigrafía, and Mateo López, are participating in the group exhibition ACERVO EM TRANSFORMAÇÃO: DOAÇÕES RECENTES at the MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand in Brazil.
“Truth be told, the name came about in early 2001, in New York, for practical reasons. I needed a way to filter out the excess paper in my mailbox. I came up with a company called RedSkyFalls. Anything that arrived from that sender went straight into the unopened trash” says Alexandre Estrela to Matteo Bergamini on the reason why he titled the project he will be presenting at the Venice Biennale. Read the full interview at Umbigo.Space.
Under the theme In Minor Keys, following the project led by Cameroonian-Swiss curator Koyo Kouoh. Paper Tears, a work by artist Claudia Pagès Rabal curated by Elise Lammer, has been selected as the Catalan cultural contribution to the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in the Eventi Collaterali section of the Biennale, organized by the Institut Ramon Llul.
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville, Spain, presents, from March 19 to September 6, 2026, the exhibition “Kupinduka” by artist Virginia Chihota. Curated by Jimena Blázquez, the show is the artist’s first major solo exhibition in a European institution. The project brings together a group of works created specifically for the CAAC.
“Urbano’s work speaks to the need for each generation to reinvent the past and reimagine its ideals. Only in this way can the past be brought from the abstract world to the concrete one we touch and tread every day” says Javier Montes. Read the full article in Artforum.
“[…] These are tough times, and everyone can relate to that, even if each person experiences it differently. For Kunath, it is that ability to hold in his paintings this sense of discomfort and vulnerability alongside pleasure and beauty. It gets at the heart of the human predicament”. Read the article in Artnews by Kate Brown.
“So much of Solano’s prolific pictorial output has this type of psychological patina: many of the images she conjures on her large, unstretched canvases are derived from mass culture, but infused with her own subjectivity, or reflections of parts of herself.” Read the full article in ArtReview.