MUNTREF Centro de Arte Contemporáneo will address these issues with works by artists from Argentina, Switzerland, and Spain.

In March, the UNTREF Museum will offer four new projects at the Hotel de Inmigrantes venue with a critical look at reality, exploring issues such as ecofeminism, native peoples, history, and memory. 

Among the new exhibitions at MUNTREF is “Naming Rivers, Gargling” in collaboration with the Pro Helvetia Foundation. This curatorial narrative by Lucrecia Palacios featuring the Swiss artist Sarina Scheidegger and Jimena Croceri from Argentina focuses on ecofeminism, a social movement that proposes a close link between the oppression of women and the destructive exploitation of nature in an attempt to achieve liberation on both grounds. Along the same lines, a site-specific installation by the Spanish artist Raquel Gómez Vázquez selected by the Basque contemporary art space Bitamine Faktoria and directed by Helga Massetani will be presented as part of the EAS-EZE Residency, BITAMINE- MUNTREF.

Another highlight will be the presentation of “Mumora”, a collaborative project between Alejandra Mizrahi and the weavers of Cercado, Tucumán. Mizrahi is an artist and researcher from Tucumán dedicated to the textile traditions of Argentina, who will here work along with craftswomen from native communities. “Museums are often those emblematic historical buildings in cities that house the heritage and productions of artists who have impacted in some way on different scenes. Art historiography has also given us imaginary museums like Malraux’s or portable ones like Duchamp’s, and it is in this genealogy of museums that Mumora fits in as an itinerant device that enables such a deep-rooted heritage, immersed in a space-time, to be interpreted by other audiences, spheres and geographies,” explains the artist about the proposal. This new project by Mizrahi and the group of weavers, focused on the recovery of traditional figurations and practices, will be presented in a dialogue with the work of Swiss artist Sève Favre “Etre au pied du Mur”. These are two gender-related proposals, the exercise of individual responsibility in a collective action and the construction of memory.

Additionally, Argentine artist Hugo Aveta will surprise spectators with “Dreams”, an immersive site-specific installation that challenges the dimensions of space/time and, thus, those of history and memory.

To complement these openings, there will be activations of the exhibition “Between Us and the Others: TOGETHER APART”, which was part of the third edition of BIENALSUR in 2021 on the theme of hot borders with the participation of 36 artists from the Americas, Europe and Africa curated by Diana Wechsler, Alex Brahim and Benedetta Casini. 

Other projects for 2022

As part of this year’s programme, MUNTREF Museo de la Inmigración, Hotel de Inmigrantes venue will host other exhibitions focused on migratory processes, contemporary crises and art exhibitions. 

“From the Eastern Mediterranean to the Río de la Plata” is the result of an extensive research conducted by historian Marcelo Huernos on the migrations from that region to our country, the coexistence of Jews, Christians and Muslims and the ways in which those traditions shaped the Argentine cultural mosaic. 

On the same subject, “Migrants”, by Diana Dowek, will offer a selection of works by the artist in a dialogue with the historical and current migration processes through contemporary art. 

In addition, the project “Sindemia” by Chilean Voluspa Jarpa, winner of the Julius Bäer Award 2021, will be presented. “Sindemia brings together different disciplines, knowledge and experiences to reflect upon the issue of protest, the collective, resistance, violence and rebellion aiming to analyse: What happened? How do we narrate it? How do we process it? How do we symbolize it? Thus, we could say that this did happen and will not be blotted out, thinking of the exercise of art as an anti-blotting-out action, generating collective and civil knowledge, claiming the right to analyse, denounce and narrate,” says the creator of the exhibition. 

MUNTREF will also house the exhibition “Víctor Grippo. Pre-existences”, a review of the emblematic artist’s production from his archive and the memory of those who preserve his work. The proposal consists of a research project by Florencia Battiti and Diana Wechsler with the collaboration of Paulina Grippo.

As in former years, the Braque Prize will be awarded in 2022, a joint project between MUNTREF and the French Embassy in Argentina, the French Institute and the Cité des arts de Paris, which has two stages: the selection of Argentine artists who will work with the curatorial team chosen ad hoc to participate in an exhibition at MUNTREF and the award ceremony that will take one of the members of the exhibition in residency to Paris. 

Finally, the Hotel de Inmigrantes will host the 6th Edition of BIM-UNTREF (Biennial of the Moving Image) curated by Andrés Denegri and Gabriela Golder. 

This agenda will also include an exhibition of the collection of MUNTREF Artes Visuales Caseros I venue and the exhibition of trans-modality and sensoriality projects developed at MUNTREF Centro de Arte y Ciencia Tecnópolis venue. 

The MUNTREF Hotel de Inmigrantes venue will resume its activities as of February 2nd. In addition to “Between Us and the Others: TOGETHER APART”, other exhibitions that were part of BIENALSUR 2021 can be visited for the last time: “Silence Still Speaks to Us”, by Saudi Muhannad Shono; “Confusion”, by Luis Felipe Noé and “Panoptic Frontier 601”, by Nora Ancarola. Visits are from Wednesday to Sunday from 11am to 6pm. Admission is free, and visits must be booked in advance on the Museum View MUNTREF App or by e-mail at visitasmuntref@untref.edu.ar .