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The ARCO Foundation, promoted by IFEMA, has awarded the “A” Prizes for Collecting, which this year has recognized six collections: Daniel and Mirella Levinas Collection; María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation; Susana and Ricardo Steinbruch Collection; Otazu Foundation Collection; Engel Collection, and Erling Kagge Collection.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will present, between February 14 and June 21 2020, and in collaboration with the Tate Modern, the exhibition Olafur Eliasson: in real life, a journey through the trajectory of Olafur Eliasson (1967), one of The most prominent artists of our time.

Titled Faz escuro mas eu canto (Though it’s dark, still I sing), the 34th Bienal de São Paulo starts in February 2020 with solo shows and performances. Activity inaugurates with solo shows by artists Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Clara Ianni and Deana Lawson, and performances by Neo Muyanga, León Ferrari and Hélio Oiticica. 

Recognized for her career as a performance artist, the Colombian artist will make a new large-scale work for the hall of this renowned museum in Cali, at the end of 2020.

The Royal Academy of Arts in London announced that Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias (San Sebastian, 1956) has been awarded this year’s prize, honoring her inspiring contribution to the culture of architecture.

On January 31^st, the exhibition of the architect, designer, curator and writer Lina Bo Bardi opens at Jumex (Mexico City). It will be a review of the work of this renowned Italo-Brazilian, icon of modernism.

From December 2019, Gertrude Goldschmidt (1912-1994), known as Gego, receives her first solo show in Brazil. The exhibition titled Gego: The Emancipated Lines will be on display until March 1^st, 2020. Along with leonor antunes: joints, voids and gaps, they both close the curatorial cycle titled Women’s Histories, Feminist Histories. 

The 39th edition of this traditional contemporary art fair will be held at the end of the coming February, with the presence of 203 galleries.

The new independent press, specialized in Brazilian contemporary art, continues to grow and presents itself at Pinta Miami.

A través de la modalidad a distancia, La Universidad Nacional de Quilmes lanza un nuevo Diploma de Posgrado en Gestión de Proyectos Culturales destinado a artistas y agentes del ámbito de la cultura en todo el país.

Another edition of the Faena Festival: The Last Supper will be held during this year’s Miami Art Week (December 2-8). Curated by Zoe Lukov, it proposes a fusion between art and food.

Through specially commissioned sculptures and a film, the Spanish artist draws attention to climate change from faraway Svalbard, during the second edition of Artica Listens.

The Argentinean artist, who calls London her home, will hold her first big exposition in Spain. With a selection of some of her most well-known works, she reflects on themes like censorship and her country’s traumatic past, celebration and protest, and listening and silence.

The exhibition Parábolas, by Mexican artist Sergio Hernández (Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, 1957) inaugurates on November 22^nd at the Durban Segnini Gallery in Miami. For the first time in 20 years, the renowned plastic artist will display in the United States a rich collection of recent works.

The Colombian artist, renowned for her work on victims of civil conflict in her home country, received the first edition of the Nomura award, the world’s most lucrative contemporary art prize. 

Argentine artist Cotty Oxenford presents the Sinapsis series at Argentina's embassy in Washington.

Twelve years after the Emergency Room exhibition, the MoMA PS1 summons writers, specialists and donants to create a catalog that analyzes the ways in which some of the most critical issues today  -the climate crisis, armed conflicts and xenophobia, among others- were addressed then.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York celebrates its reopening and dedicates a room to Latin American art. Conceived by the Curator of Latin American Art of the museum, Inés Katzenstein, Sur moderno brings together more than one hundred artworks of abstract and concrete art from the region.

Galerie Templón French art gallery announced that it will represent the Chilean artist Iván Navarro (Santiago, Chile, 1972) in America and Europe.

The UNAM University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC, México) presents an exhibition of the famous Mexican contemporary artist Rubén Ortiz Torres. Conceived as a retrospective, Customatismo highlights the fundamental role of Ortiz Torres within the Latin American scene during the 80s and 90s.

Within the framework of Miami Art Week, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA) presents two individual extensive exhibitions. One by Franco-Mexican artist Alice Rahon (1904-1987), the other by Chilean contemporary artist Cecilia Vicuña (1948).

The artist Rubie Rumié (Cartagena, 1958) reproduces her Divine Breath project, originally developed with Colombian women, and takes it to New York City. A dialogue that highlights the universality of domestic violence and the need to stand against it.

The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and the Phoenix Art Museum present Teresita Fernández: Elemental, a large-scale retrospective exhibition of one of the contemporary North American artists with the greatest international projection: Teresita Fernández (1968).

Alice Miceli (Brazil, 1980) presents Projeto Chernobyl at the Americas Society gallery in New York. Made up of thirty photographs and radiographs, the Brazilian artist makes visible the invisible violence and neglect of state and private powers over the regions that operate.

The exhibition On raul la realitat? (Where does reality reside?) in the Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma (Spain), makes a rereading of artists born during the 70s, 80s and 90s, and who have oriented their production towards figurative realism.

In the framework of the 34^th São Paulo Biennial to be held in 2020, the Iberê Foundation invited the Italian critic and curator Jacopo Crivelli Visconti to present the biennial program in Porto Alegre on March 10. The conference will be open to the public and free access.

Teresa Margolles presents her first solo exhibition in Belgium. Under the curatorship of Nancy Casielles, You fall in line or they put you in line illustrates economic violence in the marginalized sectors of the cities.

In October 5 at Foundation PROA 21 (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Yeguas del Apocalipsis is exhibited. A controversial exhibition that revolves around two of the most important figures of the contemporary Chilean cultural scene: Francisco Casas (Chile, 1959) and Pedro Lemebel (Chile, 1952-2015). Conceived by the MUTANTE Project ―a program curated by Daniel Link for the dialogue between artists and writers who have run the systems of legitimization of art― as an inquiry into the new grammar created by these artists, the exhibition exhibits artwork both of them alone and in duet and within the collective they formed.

YES Contemporary, the program dedicated to contemporary artists of El Salvador, celebrates its fifth anniversary. Created by The Robert S. Wennet and Mario Cader-Frech Foundation, the platform has been making exhibitions, loans and publications for half a decade with the aim of expanding and making visible the contemporary Salvadoran scene; In addition to the recognized travel program aimed at bringing international curators closer to the region.

Vanessa Davidson, former curator of Latin American art at the Phoenix Art Museum for eight years, has been selected by the Blanton Museum of Art to hold the same position.