Throughout 2026 the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires is celebrating its 70th Anniversary. To mark the occasion, we have developed the exhibition programme Our Home, the Future, which highlights the seven institutional values that guide this important public museum of our city:
- The valuing of art, imagination and the social role of the artist
- A commitment to ongoing research and the value of history
- Support for freedom of expression and experimental artistic creation and production
- A belief in the importance of education in the arts and of the arts in education
- Dedication to equity, inclusion and accessibility
- Care for well-being, health and community ties
- A commitment to sustainability and care for the planet.
The programme Our Home, the Future encompasses two important fields of research.
In the first place, the ten exhibitions in these galleries elaborate diverse perspectives and researches around the ways we inhabit the Earth, with special emphasis on the relationships between art, design, nature, architecture and urbanism. They deploy metaphors that situate artistic research in relation to various geographical spaces: the ocean depths, the power of rivers and their environs, the seething energy of the Earth’s core as manifested through volcanic activity, the connectedness of forests and of the heavens and the cosmos. As we delve into each of these natural environments, we will explore how we as human beings relate to our natural and social environments in order to address the crucial questions facing humanity in the future.
These exhibitions present dialogues between works from the Moderno’s art and design collections and works by artists from our own country and around the world that we have received on loan or have commissioned and produced ourselves. This 70th Anniversary is a milestone that allows us to shine a light on the more than 800 works acquired or received as donations over the last decade with the key support of civil society.
In the second place, 2026 also marks a historic date for Argentina. It is the 50th Anniversary of the military coup that ushered in our country’s last military dictatorship, which implemented a systematic policy of censorship, torture, murder and forced disappearance. Grounded in the conviction that we cannot build a better future without a comprehensive awareness of history, the Moderno has developed two important extramural exhibitions under the theme Memory and Future: opening in May at Spazio Punch (Venice), Darkness Visible: The Long Shadow of Dictatorship and, opening in June at the Parque de la Memoria (Buenos Aires), The Collection Remembers: The Museo Moderno at the Parque de la Memoria.
Today we wish to reaffirm the importance of protecting the museum as a civic, institutional and – in our own case – public space, with the immense responsibility that such status brings. We also reaffirm the role of artists in society as intellectuals capable of informing the analysis of reality, ongoing critical thinking and the development of the imagination as a fundamental tool for human development.
I would like to thank our extraordinary and committed team at the Moderno, the Authorities, our Friends Association, our patrons and sponsors and all the artists and visitors. We are indebted to you all for making it possible to build, together, this great public museum for Argentina and the world.
Welcome to the Museo Moderno on its 70th Birthday!
Victoria Noorthoorn, Director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
Our Home, The Future: The Playlist
Exhibitions
Moderno y Metamoderno: Edición 70 Aniversario [Moderno and Metamoderno: 70th Anniversary Edition] is an ambitious exhibition of the museum’s collection displayed over three large rooms on the First Floor, allowing visitors to appreciate the history and scope of the largest public collection of modern and contemporary Argentinian art in the country. Featuring more than 300 works selected from a collection of over 8,000 pieces, the exhibition offers a diverse and comprehensive overview of Argentinian art movements while reflecting the research, exhibition and publication processes that have established the Museo Moderno as a leading-edge institution.
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Artists and designers: Susi Aczel, Josef Albers, Carlos Alonso, Julián Althabe, Joaquín Aras, Nicanor Aráoz, Carmelo Arden Quin, Sergio Avello, Roberto Aizenberg, Elba Bairon, Eduardo Basualdo, Carlota Beltrame, Carrie Bencardino, Antonio Berni, Martín Blaszko, Ricardo Blanco, Sofía Bohtlingk, José Antonio Bonet, Alejandro Bustillo, Juana Butler, Eduardo Alejandro Cabrejas, Osmar Bartolomé Cairola, Antonio Caro, Carmelo Carrá, Juan Carlos Castagnino, Pérez Celis, Elda Cerrato, Luis Centurión, María Luisa Colmenero, Eugenia Crenovich, María D’Avola, Flavia Da Rin, Jorge Daguerre, Juan Del Prete, Germaine Derbecq, Ernesto Deira, Sergio De Loof, Jorge De la Vega, Hugo Demarco, Noemí Di Benedetto, Juan Carlos Distéfano, Jorge Doujan, Thomas Downing, Ana Eckell, Martín Eisler, Clara Esborraz, Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, León Ferrari, Fanny Fingermann, Rubén Fontana, Luis Frangella, Ana Gallardo, Arnoldo Gaite, Ricardo Garabito, Carlos García Bes, Rodrigo García Bes, Santiago García Sáenz, Nicolás García Uriburu, Noemí Gerstein, Edgardo Giménez, Tomás Gonda, Guillermo González Ruiz, Silvio Grichener, Alberto Greco, Silvia Gurfein, Graciela Hasper, Alberto Heredia, Alfredo Hlito, Enio Iommi, César Jannello, Eduardo Joselevich, Kenneth Kemble, Hugo Kogan, Juan Kurchan, Alejandro Kuropatwa, Guillermo Kuitca, Fernanda Laguna, Julio Le Parc, Reinaldo Leiro, Noé León, Valentina Liernur, Alfredo Londaibere, Hermann Loos, Raúl Lozza, Eduardo Mac Entyre, Víctor Magariños, Tomás Maldonado, Hilda Mans, Federico Martino, María Martorell, Liliana Maresca, Alcides Martínez Portillo, Juan Melé, Trinidad Metz Brea, Estanislao Mijalichen, Marta Minujín, Roberto Nápoli, Eduardo Painceira, Margarita Paksa, Luis Pazos, Martha Peluffo, Sandro Pereira, Emilio Pettoruti, Anselmo Piccoli, Tiziana Pierri, La Chola Poblete, Rogelio Polesello, Alfredo Prior, Lincoln Alfredo Presno Hargain, Dalila Puzzovio, Alejandro Puente, Valentina Quintero, Emilio Renart, Juan Carlos Romero, Rubén Santantonín, Cristina Schiavi, Antonio Seguí, Eduardo Serón, Aldo Sessa, Carlos Silva, Juan Stoppani, Pablo Suárez, Amanda Tejo Viviani, Juan Tessi, Luis Tomasello, Silvia Torras, Leila Tschopp, Georges Vantongerloo, Gregorio Vardánega, Miguel Ángel Vidal, Sesostris Vitullo, Luis Alberto Wells, Judi Werthein, Amancio Williams, Wolanow Cecilia María and Guido Yannitto
Curated by: Victoria Noorthoorn, Director of the Museo Moderno, in coordination with the Moderno’s curatorial team, including the notable participation of: Patricio Orellana, Head of the Curatorial Department; Franco Chimento, Curator of Argentinian Design; Pino Monkes, Head of Conservation, and Valeria Semilla, Head of Collections
Océano interior [The Ocean Within] invites you to venture into the deep. This immersive oceanic journey presented as an encounter with the most remote and the most intimate takes you through polar landscapes and eternal ice fields – well beyond the continental shores – towards the unknown that dwells within ourselves.
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Artists, architects and scientists: Erica Bohm (Argentina, 1976), Giacomo Bove (Italia, 1852) & Giovanni Roncagli (Italia, 1857), Aurora Castillo (Argentina, 1987), Julian Charrière (Suiza, 1987), Jimena Croceri (Argentina, 1981), Gustave Doré (Francia, 1832), Drexciya, Carlos Ginzburg (Argentina, 1946), Max Hooper Schneider (Estados Unidos, 1982), Pierre Huyghe (Francia, 1962), Instituto de Conservación de Ballenas, Movimiento Habitar Las Algas (SOA Argentina, CONICET, Oceanar, Kalfu Mapu, Marea Sintiente, UTN, UNTDF, Ecocentro), Roger Payne (Estados Unidos, 1935), Juan Pablo Renzi (Argentina, 1940) and Amancio Williams (Argentina, 1913)
Curated by: Alfredo Aracil, Head of the Education Department of the Museo Moderno, in collaboration with Victoria Noorthoorn, Director, and Patricio Orellana, Head of the Curatorial Department.
Exhibition design: Iván Rösler
Production: Laura Roldán
Naturaleza arquitecta [Nature, the Architect] is an invitation to listen to the voice of the Earth – the murmurs of its rivers, the choruses of its forests, the restless rumblings of its volcanoes – and to conceive of nature as an artist capable of unleashing all its creative, political, vital force.
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Artists and collectives: Manuel Brandazza (Argentina, 1975), Adriana Bustos (Argentina, 1965), Ariel Cusnir (Argentina, 1981), Jonathas de Andrade (Brazil, 1982), Julián D’Angiolillo (Argentina, 1976), Cao Guimarães (Brazil, 1965) & Rivane Neuenschwander (Brazil, 1967), Florencia Levy (Argentina, 1979), m7red (Argentina, 2005), Valeria Maggi (Argentina, 1985), Eduardo Navarro (Argentina, 1979), Rayana Rayo (Brazil, 1989), Casa Río Lab (Argentina, 2021), Florencia Rodríguez Giles (Argentina, 1978), Sebastián Roque (Argentina, 1982), Tomás Saraceno (Argentina, 1973), Felix Shumba (Zimbabwe, 1989) and Paulo Tavares (Brazil, 1980), and Utopía del Sur / Fundación Nicolás García Uriburu (Argentina), among others.
Curated by: Patricio Orellana, Head of the Curatorial Department at the Museo Moderno, in conversation with Victoria Noorthoorn, director of the Museo Moderno
Desde el origen [Place of Origin] is the largest watercolour ever created by Ariel Cusnir (Buenos Aires, 1981). In taking watercolour – a technique historically associated with small format works – to a monumental scale, the artist invites you to lose yourself in a contemplation of water in its multitude of states, as tranquil as it is fascinating. This enormous mural was also produced using seawater that the artist brought from the beaches of Necochea; water is thus both the image and the medium, representation and presence. Clouds and oceans are made of water, but so too is this very painting that celebrates them. Cusnir has thus transformed the entry hall of the Museo Moderno into a massive travel journal that envelops you in a serene atmosphere, before anything is separated; it is a space where the horizon becomes a threshold, and water – the origin of life – appears like a promise of the future.
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For years, Ana Gallardo (Rosario, 1958) has researched well-being and caring for emotional bonds, with human encounters providing the focus of her work. In one of her most important projects, Gallardo examines her emotional memory of her mother, artist Carmen Gómez Raba, who passed away very young, when Ana herself was just a young girl. In a loving gesture that seeks to recover her memories through reflecting on that emptiness, full of both absence and presence, Gallardo will transform the Café del Moderno into a space for socialising and reflection on the emotional and loving bonds that shape us and give us the strength to embark on the journey that is life. Her configuration of the space will offer a still life on a grand scale, brimming with emotional encounters at the communal level.
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As part of its 70 Anniversary celebrations, the Museo Moderno, in partnership with Spazio Punch, will present the collective exhibition Oscuridad visible: la larga sombra de la Dictadura [Darkness Visible: The Long Shadow of Dictatorship], a collateral event that will run concurrently with the 61st International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale. The exhibition will commemorate the painful chapter in Argentina’s history following the coup d’état that ushered in the country’s last military dictatorship fifty years ago.
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Artists: León Ferrari (Buenos Aires, 1920), Marcelo Brodsky (Buenos Aires, 1954), Luis Pazos (La Plata, 1940–2023), Luis Camnitzer (Lübeck, Alemania, 1937), Marta Minujín (Buenos Aires, 1943), Eduardo Gil (Buenos Aires, 1948), Aldo Sessa (Buenos Aires, 1939), Gianni Mestichelli (Ascoli Piceno, Italy, 1945), Guillermo Kuitca (Buenos Aires, 1961), Liliana Maresca (Avellaneda, 1951–1994) & Marcos López (Santa Fe, 1958), Néstor Perlongher (Avellaneda, 1949 – São Paulo, 1992), La Organización Negra (Buenos Aires, 1984), Sergio De Loof (Buenos Aires, 1962–2020), Archivo de la Memoria Trans (Buenos Aires, 2012), Ana Gallardo (Rosario, 1958), Nicanor Aráoz (Buenos Aires, 1981), Flavia Da Rin (Buenos Aires, 1978) and Eduardo Basualdo (Buenos Aires, 1977).
Curated by: Victoria Noorthoorn, Director of the Museo Moderno, based on an initiative by Augusto Maurandi, Founding Director of Spazio Punch, and with the collaboration of Patricio Orellana, Head of the Curatorial Department at the Museo Moderno
Location: Spazio Punch – Fondamenta S. Biagio, 800/o, Venecia, Italia.
An official Collateral Event of the 61st International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale (2026)
A commemorative exhibition of the Museo Moderno Collection fifty years on from the coup d’état
Fifty years after the coup d’état that ushered in the last military dictatorship (1976–1983) and thanks to an initiative of the Parque de la Memoria – Monument to the Victims of State Terrorism, the Museo Moderno will present a significant body of works from its collection to highlight the ways Argentinian artists responded to this complex period of political violence. The exhibition will take place at the park to commemorate this painful chapter in Argentina’s history.
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Artists: Paulina Berlatzky (La Plata, 1918), Marcelo Brodsky (Buenos Aires, 1954), Juana Butler (Buenos Aires, 1928), Juan José Cambre (Buenos Aires, 1948), Ricardo Carpani (Tigre, 1930), Ricardo Carreira (Buenos Aires, 1948), Juan Carlos Castagnino (Mar del Plata, 1908), Elda Cerrato (Asti, Italia, 1930), Diana Dowek (Buenos Aires, 1942), Roberto Elia (Buenos Aires, 1950), Sara Facio (San Isidro, 1932), León Ferrari (Buenos Aires, 1920), Edgardo Giménez (Santo Tomé, 1942), Norberto Gómez (Buenos Aires, 1941), Carlos Gorriarena (Buenos Aires, 1925), Víctor Grippo (Junin, 1936), Alberto Heredia (Buenos Aires, 1924), Enio Iommi (Rosario, 1926), Leandro Katz (Buenos Aires, 1938), Carlos Langone (Buenos Aires, 1945), Rómulo Macció (Buenos Aires, 1931), Josefina Mazzaglia (Vicente López, 1923), Marta Minujín (Buenos Aires, 1943), Luis Felipe Noé (Buenos Aires, 1933), Marie Orensanz (Mar del Plata, 1936), Diulio Pierri (Buenos Aires, 1954), Josefina Quesada (Buenos Aires, 1930), Juan Carlos Romero (Avellaneda, 1931), Gabriel Salomón (Buenos Aires, 1943), Antonio Seguí (Villa Allende, 1934), Luis Seoane (Buenos Aires, 1910), Aldo Sessa (Buenos Aires, 1939), Carlos Squirru (Buenos Aires, 1934), Carlos Ernesto Uría (Buenos Aires, 1929), Edgardo Antonio Vigo (La Plata, 1928), Horacio Zabala (Buenos Aires, 1943).
Curated by: Nicolás Cuello, Curator at the Museo Moderno, and Cecilia Nisembaum, Curator at the Parque de la Memoria – Monument to the Victims of State Terrorism
Location: Parque de la Memoria – Monument to the Victims of State Terrorism, Av. Costanera Rafael Obligado 6745, CABA
This exhibition is the result of a long-standing relationship between the Museo Moderno and the Fundación IDA, Investigación en Diseño Argentino [Research in Argentine Design], an institution dedicated to the conservation of historical and contemporary Argentine design. This collaboration deepens our efforts to create a joint catalogue and expand research into the material culture of design. It brings together collections spanning more than a century of national production, which have become a point of reference for specialists across the continent. The alliance between our institutions looks to strengthen the development of a shared historical memory and facilitate knowledge platforms that expand the public dissemination of Argentine design.
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Designers TBD
Curated by: Franco Chimento, Curator of Argentinian Design, in collaboration with Fundación IDA (Investigación en Diseño Argentino)
In this project, complemented by an educational programme for primary school teachers and students, the great artist Luis Camnitzer (born in 1937 in Lübeck, Germany, a citizen of Uruguay and the United States) explores the creative and pedagogical possibilities of artificial intelligence. Far from the fear that this technology often arouses, the artist uses it as a tool for thinking and learning. Through it, he imagines a dialogue set in the present day with the Venezuelan philosopher Simón Rodríguez, Bolívar’s teacher and champion of the emancipatory power of education. Camnitzer is a key figure in Latin American conceptual art and a seminal thinker in the study of the relationship between art and radical pedagogies. Todo por aprender [Everything to Learn] presents art as a space for experimentation and shared knowledge, a space where creating is also a way of learning and freeing critical imagination.
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Curated by: Alfredo Aracil, Head of the Education Department
Curated by the Artist, Onome Ekeh – who held a solo exhibition at the Museo Moderno in 2024 – in collaboration with Nicolás Cuello, Bosques umbral [Forests on the Threshold] investigates technology understood in its most expansive sense, from ancestral techniques to digital devices, as an extension of a state of consciousness. The artists create fantastical fables, critical architectures and digital scenarios in which technology allows us to imagine future habitats. The exhibition brings together Argentinian artists to explore design, science fiction and artificial intelligence, alongside international projects that re-interpret the landscape from ecological perspectives and worldviews inspired by the African diaspora.
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Artists: TBD
Curated by: Onome Ekeh, artist, in collaboration with Nicolás Cuello, Curator at the Museo Moderno