The Museo Moderno is excited to announce Exposiciones en cartel [Exhibitions On Display], a theatre cycle and new genre of contemporary art exhibitions featuring never-before-staged works by leading performance artists, an enriching accompaniment to the 2025 annual programme, Arte Es Teatro [Art Is Theatre]. The Auditorium will thus be transformed into a hybrid space: both a stage and an exhibition hall.
Exposiciones en cartel brings together artists who are part of the history of the most daring theatre of recent decades, to present stage works that take place at a very particular overlap between contemporary art and dramaturgy, where happenings, performances and the constant crossover between disciplines create unique live experiences.
Maricel Álvarez: Yo y este misterio, aquí estamos (Pequeña Suite de mí misma) [Maricel Álvarez: Me and This Mystery, Here We Are (A Little Suite of Myself]
Four dolls created in the image and likeness of Maricel Álvarez. Four characters she embodied recently in her theatrical performances, in the plays Dolor Exquisito [Exquisite Pain] (2008-2009), Hécuba o el gineceo canino [Hecuba or the Canine Gynaeceum] (2011-2012), Orlando. Una ucronía disfórica [Orlando: A Dysphoric History] (2017) and Medea Meditativa [Meditative Medea] (2022). Four ‘selves’, displayed on stage together with the actress. Four poetics, four texts, four creative experiences, all revisited in a performance about her artistic practice and personal journey.
The performance evokes texts by Sophie Calle, Emilio García Wehbi, Walt Whitman, Ricardo Ibarlucía and Pascal Quignard.
Concept , performance and direction: Maricel Álvarez
Doll design and production: Ayelén Coccoz
Dramaturgy and assistance: Emanuel Fernández
Stage photography: Nora Lezano
Audiovisuals and lighting: Martín Antuña
Original music: Fernando Kabusacki
Artistic collaboration: Martín Flores Cárdenas
Acknowledgements: Nicola Costantino, Teatro General San Martín (CTBA) and Teatro Nacional Cervantes
Performances:
Friday 5 December, at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Saturday 6 December, at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Lolo y Lauti: El Gusanito [The Little Worm]
The duo of artists Lolo y Lauti opened the museum’s new cycle, Exposiciones en Cartel [Exhibitions on Display], with their contemporary operatic version of the legendary El Gusanito [The Little Worm], an LP by Jorge De La Vega. Exposiciones en Cartel is a new proposal by the Public Programmes department to accompany 2025’s Arte es Teatro [Art Is Theatre] exhibition. Four performances were held to full houses on the 15, 16 and 17 May, with singer and performer Daiana Rose lending her voice and body to ten songs, which were performed in the same sequence as they appeared on the LP released by the Olympia label in 1968. Against the backdrop of campy visuals by Lolo y Lauti and with musical direction provided by Hana Ciliberti, Daiana Rose gave new meaning to De La Vega’s lyrics, revealing their continued relevance today. With this performance of El Gusanito, the Moderno marked the opening of the auditorium for upcoming editions of Exposiciones en Cartel, which will provide a hybrid space that overlaps our art galleries with theatrical stagings.
Photos: Guido Limardo
Artists: Lolo y Lauti
Lyrics and music: Jorge de la Vega
Direction and staging: Lolo y Lauti
Performer: Daiana Rose
Musical direction: Florencia Hana Ciliberti
Musicians and arrangements: Lola Granillo, Miguel Garruti
Video: Rodrigo Moraes
Coreography: Manuel Attwell
Costume design: Ich
Production: Victoria Naná
Sound post-production: Mariano Oliva
Assistant: Z
This project was made possible with the support of the Williams Foundation, Mozarteum Argentino, Cité internationale des arts (France), Ama Amoedo Foundation and the Festival Nueva Ópera Buenos Aires.
Performances:
Thursday 15 and Friday 16 May, at 7pm
Saturday 17 May, at 5pm and 7pm
Cristina Banegas: Molly Bloom
The renowned actress, acclaimed for her work in film, theatre and television, presents a one-woman show in which she performs Molly Bloom’s monologue from the final chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Her adaptation results in a highly intense performance, with Banegas bringing to life this text that transformed literature. Directed by Carmen Baliero with stage design by Juan José Cambre.
Author: James Joyce
Artist: Cristina Banegas
Adapted by: Ana Alvarado, Cristina Banegas and Laura Fryd
Translation: Cristina Banegas and Laura Fryd
Performed by: Cristina Banegas
Photography: Nora Lezano
Stage design collaborators: Julieta Capece and Juan Teodoro
Assistant director: Matías Macri
Executive producer and lighting design on the tour: Jorge Thefs
Lighting design: Verónica Alcoba
Art direction: Juan José Cambre
Director: Carmen Baliero
Performances: Thursday 7 and Friday 8 August, at 7 p.m
Spregelburd/Zypce: Nada más viejo [Nothing Older]
The planned tribute to Rafael Squirru will not be able to take place. The historian tasked with gathering together his thoughts, life story and work has just died in a baffling incident at the racecourse, leaving no time to reorganise the evening. A pair of folk musicians, booked to provide the music for the event, have also just sent a statement, along with apologies and explanations that no one asked for. We will celebrate, in a patriotic gesture, the oldest things in the world: modernity and the avant-garde.
In the absence of a museum and without a wealthy bourgeoisie to support the idea that our national art was ready to compete at the forefront of the avant-garde, Rafael Squirru loaded some paintings onto a ship – the Yapeyú – and set sail on 28 September 1956 for the first world tour of the Muestra flotante de 50 artistas argentinos [Floating Exhibition of 50 Argentinian Artists]. Squirru wrote on the occasion: “Some will smile when they see the obvious influences of Picasso, Klee or Mondrian; they will strive to find a folkloric touch in them and will be disappointed by the almost total absence of gauchos in wide-brimmed hats, beautiful young ladies, or picturesque Indians. So you will not see, gentlemen, what you expect to see from us. That is our fate. The captain of the Yapeyú will give his version of events, while the facts refuse to be recounted in a single way.
Acknowledgements: Viviana Usubiaga (historical consultant), Laura Bohnenblust (for her unprecedented book on the Yapeyú), Teresa Baratta (archives, voices, photos and mementos), Mariano Llinás (background discussions), Patricio Cotella (the only musician capable of teaching Spregelburd), Fernando García (who provided texts and items from the museum), Alejandro Tantanian and the production team of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires.
Playwright: Rafael Spregelburd
Music: Zypce
Performances:
Thursday 21 and Friday 22 August, at 7 p.m.
Saturday 23 August, at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Piel de Gambas (Piel de Lava + Gambas al Ajillo)
The sensational theatre group Piel de Lava – consisting of Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa and Laura Paredes – rewrites the unforgettable history in the 1980s underground scene of Las Gambas al Ajillo, a group of actresses who helped redefine Argentinian theatre and became prominent figures of the Buenos Aires scene. This new performance of Piel de Lava, designed specifically for the Moderno and in collaboration with the original members of Gambas al Ajillo (Verónica Llinás, Alejandra Flechtner, María José Gabin and Laura Market), accompanies the exhibition Esto es Teatro: Once escenas experimentales del Di Tella al Parakultural [This Is Theatre: Eleven Experimental Scenes from the Di Tella to the Parakultural].
Acknowledgments: Planta Inclán, Juan Onofri Barbato, Lola de Ortuzar, Agustín Gagliardi, Nica Estudio, Betiana Temkin, Florencia Gomez García
Piel de Lava: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa and Laura Paredes
Art: Rodrigo González Garillo
Video: Original performance by Gambas al ajillo, recorded by Inés Duacastella
Assistant: Ianina Maglia
Performances: Saturday 27 September, at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Actriz. Moderno. Periferia. [Actress. Moderno. Periphery.] Mariana Obersztern / Agustina Muñoz
Within the framework of the cycle Exposiciones en Cartel [Exhibitions on Display], which is part of the Public Programmes accompanying the Museo Moderno’s 2025 programme Esto es Teatro [This is Theatre], artists Mariana Obersztern and Agustina Muñoz present their performance piece Actriz. Moderno. Periferia [Actress. Moderno. Periphery.], creating a dialogue with the exhibitions presented throughout the year.
“The actress takes to the stage from a distant corner of the room. She enters, overwhelmed by the many emotions she seems to have bundled up within herself, waiting for the moment to arrive when she can finally unpack them. Everything she has kept inside gathers energy and, once unpacked, that is precisely what it releases: it returns to the air all that has been concentrated within, like chains of carbon. The actress bursts in like a whirlwind, with her arms flung into the air creating wild gesticulations that both throw her off balance and, at the same time, steady her. The circles that unfold around her – an atmospheric effect stirred by her passage through the space – now ground her and transport her, as if she were travelling within the smoke rings given off by a menthol cigarette. The ethereal nature of the rings, as white as they are opaque, perhaps indicate she is enveloped in a fantasy; but this is not the case, for the actress has her feet firmly on the ground.”
Mariana Obersztern / Agustina Muñoz
Performers: Agustina Muñoz, Mariana Obersztern
Video: Ian Kornfeld
Lighting: Gonzalo Córdova
Greenery: Marina Daiez
Contributing actor: Hortensia Bruno
Artistic assistance: Julia Perette
Playwright: Mariana Obersztern
