2025 art programming in Argentina

2025 art programming in Argentina: venues, dates and protagonists
In this tour, some 40 spaces between museums, cultural centers and foundations in Buenos Aires and the rest of the country, reveal more than a hundred exhibitions that will be presented this year
With tributes and retrospectives, historical explorations, international collaborations and a wide range of contemporary artists, the 2025 calendar of museums, cultural centers and foundations will have, above all, the axis in Argentine art.
After a compilation of some of the outstanding exhibitions of 2024, it is time to prepare the agenda. Next, different spaces gave Infobae Cultura their annual programming. In some cases, with the exhibitions that will open the calendar, in others with a more extended projection in time.

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
The MNBA season will begin on Tuesday, January 21 with Museo secreto. From the reserve to the room, which will bring together 300 works from the museum's collection, offering the public the opportunity to discover pieces that usually remain in the reserves, will be available until May, while Joaquín Torres García. Essay and conviction can be visited until March 16.

In April, Porter-Camnitzer. The New York Graphic Workshop 1969-2024 will be presented, an exhibition from Chile with Silvia Dolinko as curator, in which the artist's experience with her then husband, Luis Camnitzer and José Guillermo Castillo is presented. Among the outstanding tributes, the museum pays tribute to Perla Benveniste and Eduardo Rodríguez, key figures of kinetic art in Argentina, in an exhibition curated by María José Herrera that will open in mid-year.
One of the highlights will undoubtedly be Fantasy and Science. Egyptophilia and Egyptology in Argentina, which will explore the fascination with Egypt in the country, in an exhibition curated by Sergio Baur, the new president of the National Academy of Fine Arts, and the intellectual José Emilio Burucúa, which, through archives and works of art, will focus on the expedition carried out between 1925 and 1926 by Alfredo González Garaño, Mariana Ayerza and Tomás Le Breton.

Archival materials, photographs, artistic and archaeological pieces belonging to the Museum of Natural Sciences of La Plata, the Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Art Collection, the Xul Solar Museum, the Municipal Museum of Fine Arts of Tandil, the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Palais de Glace, the National Library, the National Museum of Decorative Art, and the Ernesto de la Cárcova Museum of Tracings and Comparative Sculpture will also be presented.
Leopoldo Maler, renowned for his focus on performance and installation, will be the protagonist of an exhibition that will be shown at the end of 2025. Curated by Agustín Díez Fischer and Ruth Estévez, they will explore lesser-known pieces by the Argentine artist, within the framework of a program that will pay tribute to pioneers of kinetic art and international exhibitions, over the next few years.

In addition, the MNBA will host important artistic events, such as the exhibition of the winning works of the Arthaus Prize for Visual Arts 2025, the Performance Biennial and Bienalsur. It will also take its programming beyond its own galleries: the exhibition on Joaquín Torres García will move to the Palacio Ferreyra in Córdoba, while the Carmelo Arden Quin exhibition. In the plot of constructive art will travel to the Atchugarry Museum of Contemporary Art in Maldonado, Uruguay, during February and March 2025.

Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires

Malba will present a program that includes exhibitions by renowned artists such as Guillermo Kuitca, Lucrecia Lionti, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra and Liliana Porter, while continuing to exhibit Tercer ojo. Colección Costantini at Malba, a proposal that establishes a dialogue between the works of the institutional collection and the private collection of its founder, Eduardo F. Costantini.
The first major exhibition of the year will be Kuitca 86. From Nadie olvida nada to Siete última canciones, which will open on March 14 and will be open until June 16, starting with the 50th anniversary of the artist's first exhibition at the Lirolay gallery, when he was just 13 years old, and marks 22 years since his works were first presented at the museum.

Curated by Sonia Becce and Nancy Rojas, it will focus on a crucial stage of Kuitca's career, highlighting her experimental dimension and her transition towards a more abstract artistic language, as well as a selection of unpublished drawings and documents.

In parallel to the Kuitca exhibition, Fabril la mirada will be presented, the first solo exhibition in a museum by the Tucuman artist Lucrecia Lionti. Curated by Carla Barbero, it will focus on textile installations created especially for the occasion, along with a series of works on paper made between 2012 and 2017.
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