Over the course of 2025, the Museo Moderno will be presenting Art Is Theatre, a programme of exhibitions dedicated to showcasing the power of the dialogue between Argentinian visual and theatrical arts from the 1960s to the present. Each month, the Moderno will stage the creations of great Argentinian artists, historical and contemporary; artists who embrace experimentation and radicalism in their pursuit of transformative expressions to confront the challenges of history and the now.
Art Is Theatre will feature historical exhibitions recapturing the significance of key figures in Argentinian avant-garde theatre; artists who activated a groundbreaking, experimental, innovating art that galvanised the culture of the Sixties, Eighties and Nineties. These will be accompanied by monographic exhibitions of artists from a vast array of disciplines and generations, whose works cross the borderlines of the visual arts, live art, performance, music, theatre and actions in public spaces, and transgress the artistic categories of their day.
Art Is Theatre bears witness to the daring spirit of contemporary art in Argentina. It showcases artists who use the body and the voice and time and space to carve out their place in the world, share their view of reality and imagine possible new futures. These are artists who emphasise the importance of a sensitive, diverse humanity at a time when the very notion is being interrogated. They affirm the urgency of a sincere, vital, disruptive art that allows us to imagine alternative horizons for our country and for all of humanity.
The exhibitions and the artistic, educational and social programmes of the 2025 Art Is Theatre Programme are the result of the committed, passionate and painstaking work of the Museo Moderno’s diverse team of professionals and of the guest curators who have explored yet another crucial facet of our history: the relationship between the visual and theatrical arts in Argentina.
To all the teams and artists involved, thank you so much!
To all our visitors, welcome to the Museo Moderno!
Victoria Noorthoorn, Director, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
Exhibitions
Dalila Puzzovio: Self-Portrait
With this exhibition, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires celebrates the artistic career of the great Argentinian artist Dalila Puzzovio (Buenos Aires, 1942) to mark more than six decades of achievements and underscore her relevance to the present day. [Read More]
Curated by: Pino Monkes, Museo Moderno Head of Conservation, and Patricio Orellana, Museo Moderno Curator
Exhibition Design: Iván Rösler, Head of Exhibition Design and Production
Production: Laura Roldán, Producer
Bárbara Bianca LaVogue: Your Presence in Me
On the fringes of the night and in the glow of the parties, between papers and words, Bárbara Bianca LaVogue (1970-2018) passed like a flash of lightning through the Buenos Aires nightlife scene, building and injecting vitality into her unique world, from the late 1980s until her final days. [Read More]
Original idea: Álvaro Rufiner
Curated by: Rodrigo Barcos, con la colaboración de Raúl Flores y Victoria Noorthoorn
Exhibition design: Job Salorio y Victoria Noorthoorn
Mural design: Job Salorio
Production: Edgar Lacombe
Mural execution: Fátima Baroni
Special thanks: Andrea Gorostidi, Juan Queiroz y Asociación Amigos del Moderno
Valentina Quintero: A Day in the Life
The Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires is honoured to present the first solo exhibition at a museum in our city by the young artist Valentina Quintero (Mendoza, 1997). [Read More]
Curated by: Raúl Flores
Exhibition design: Iván Rösler
Production: Edgar Lacombe
Special thanks: Valerie’s Factory
Jorge Miño: The Fourth Wall
The Museo Moderno proudly presents this exhibition of works by Jorge Miño (Corrientes, 1973), a leading light of contemporary Argentinian photography. In this selection of works carried out between 2018 and the present, Miño employs a variety of photographic procedures to construct unexpected realities. [Read More]
Curated by: Raúl Flores
Production: Edgar Lacombe
This Is Theatre. Eleven Experimental Scenes: from the Di Tella to the Parakultural
‘Is this theatre?’ was a question asked by a press and public blinking in astonishment at the plays coming out of the Di Tella Institute’s Audiovisual Experimentation Centre (CEA) in the mid-1960s, led by theatre director Roberto Villanueva. [Read More]
Artists: Ezequiel Abalos, Juan Andralis, Guillermo Angelelli, Chela Barbosa, Andrés Barragán, Elba Bairon, Cristina Banegas, Batato Barea, Daniel Basso, Jorge Bonino, Compañía Ruth Escobar, Rita Cortese, Sergio De Loof, Juan Carlos Distéfano, Carolina Droeven, Ángel Elizondo, Montserrat Faixat Ensesa, Alberto Favero, Rubén Fontana , Horacio Gabin, Graciela Galán, Griselda Gambaro, Víctor García, Nacha Guevara, Pompi Gutnisky, Béatrice Heyligers, Federico Jorge Klemm, Alejandro Kuropatwa, La Organización Negra, Djalma Limongi Batista, Derly Marques, Gianni Mestichelli, Guillermo Monteleone, Didier Montfajon, Rolando Paiva, Jorge Petraglia, Olkar Ramírez, Humberto Rivas, Adrián Rocha Novoa, Alejandro Ros, Tina Serrano, Renata Schussheim, Alejandro Urdapilleta, Roberto Villanueva, Natalia Villegas, Omar Viola, Laura Yusem, Rucu Zárate
Acknowledgments: Archivo Alejandro Kuropatwa, Archivo Batato Barea, Archivo Kado Kostzer, Centro de Documentación de Teatro y Danza del Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires, Centro de Documentación de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música (España), Centro Cultural São Paulo (Brasil), Colección Fundación KLEMM, Galería Cosmocosa, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken, Memorial da América Latina (Brasil), Mauro Ambroggio, Ezequiel Abalos, Guido Ast, Julieta Ascar, Elba Bairon, Carlos Belloso, Gabriela Borgna, Lidia Catalano, Teresa Costantini, Rita Cortese, Horacio Dabbah, Amparo Díscoli, Teo Díscoli, Andrea Distéfano, Ernesto Donegana, Damián Dreizik, Nuria Espert, Valeria Fiterman, Alejandra Flechner, Horacio Gabin, María José Gabin, Irina Garbatzky, Divina Gloria, Ignacio González, Malala González, Seedy González Paz, Pompi Gutnisky, Manuel Hermelo, Federico Kersner, Kado Kostzer, Liliana Kuropatwa, Alberto Ligaluppi, Verónica Llinás, Juan Carlos Malcún, Marilú Marini, Laura Markert, Gianni Mestichelli, Didier Montfajon, Cintia Mezza, Carlos Pacheco, Luna y Mateo Paiva, Sergio Pérez Fernández, Eugenia Pérez Tomas, María Fernanda Pinta, Juan Queiroz, Adrián Rocha Novoa, Cecilia Roth, Álvaro Rufiner, Renata Schussheim, Vivi Tellas, Lorena Verzero, Cecilia Vidaurreta, Liliana Viola and Rucu Zárate
Curated by: Andrés Gallina, Florencia Qualina y Alejandro Tantanian
Exhibition Design: Victoria Noorthoorn y Daniela Thomas
Production: Julieta Potenze e Iván Rösler
Lighting and Technology: Guillermo Carrasco y Soledad Manrique Goldsack
General Coordination: Florencia Rugiero, Agustina Vizcarra y Noelia Magnelli
Graphic Design: Juan Desteract y Paula Galli
Installation Coordination: Germán Sandoval
Theatre Machine: El Periférico de Objetos (1990–2009)
En la línea de la revisión histórica del programa anual del Moderno, se suma también una exposición retrospectiva sobre El Periférico de Objetos (1990-2009), un grupo paradigmático de la escena experimental e independiente de Buenos Aires que se sostuvo durante dos décadas bajo la dirección de Ana Alvarado, Emilio García Wehbi y Daniel Veronese, con la participación de Román Lamas. [Read More]
Artists: Ana Alvarado, Emilio García Wehbi, Daniel Veronese, Román Lamas e invitados
Curated by: Alejandro Tantanian, Curador de Teatro del Museo Moderno, Andrés Gallina, curador invitado, y Jimena Ferreiro, Curadora del Museo Moderno
Nacha Guevara: Here I Am
El Museo Moderno presentará la exposición individual Nacha Guevara: Aquí estoy con el objetivo de reivindicar la importancia de una de las más grandes artistas argentinas, quien también participa de la exposición historiográfica Esto es teatro. Actriz, cantante, modelo, compositora y conductora de televisión, Nacha supo concebir el arte como una herramienta de transformación social que utilizó con radicalidad, con una profunda actitud experimental que le permitió responder a cada una de las escenas culturales y circunstancias históricas que le tocó vivir. La exposición explora la manera en que la artista utilizó el género del Café Concert como una plataforma de su posicionamiento estético y político. [Read More]
Curated by: Álvaro Rufiner, Curador invitado, con la colaboración de Alejandro Tantanian, Curador de Teatro del Museo Moderno