New SpaceJune 30, 2025
MALBA Puertos Opens to the Public
On September 21, 2024, the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba) opened MALBA Puertos: the new exhibition platform in Escobar, in Greater Buenos Aires, to coincide with Spring Day and the museum’s twenty-third anniversary. This ambitious project constitutes a significant expansion into new geographical, conceptual and curatorial territories by articulating contemporary art with natural and urban environments.
MALBA Puertos is made up of five indoor and outdoor exhibition spaces that expand curatorial, spatial and experimental possibilities to blend art, architecture and landscape. The entire complex was designed by Estudio Herreros, a worldwide recognized architectural firm.
Among the main spaces are the Sala del Lago (Lake Room), designed to house the largest exhibitions, and the Salas del Bosque (Forest Rooms), which go beyond a conventional museum’s limits by establishing a direct link between the works and the surrounding environment, thus favoring a multisensory and contextual aesthetic experience. Finally, the Chaile Room houses an anthropomorphic series of sculptures, by the Tucuman artist Gabriel Chaile, originally exhibited at the Argentinian Pavilion during the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, and whose incorporation in Puertos reinforces dialogues between indoor and outdoors, regional identities and global narratives.
One of the project’s features is a storage facility we can visit: an outstanding innovation given that these spaces are usually closed to the public. Here, it has become an integral part of the museum route, showing works from the MALBA collection in dialogue with contemporary interventions to generate new and dynamic layers of critical interpretations.
The project is completed with a public art circuit deployed in various sectors of the MALBA Puertos estate, and divided into three main sectors: the central route, the bay and the storage deposit. This urban-natural circuit includes works by prominent contemporary artists such as Mimi Laquidara, Marcela Sinclair, Matías Duville, Jorge Macchi, Carolina Fusilier, Daniel Basso, Sol Pipkin, Irene Kopelman, Artur Lescher, Florencia Almirón, Irina Kirchuk, Sebastián Mercado, Hernán Marina, Fabián Burgos, Eugenia Calvo, Paula Castro, Diego Bianchi, Martín Blaszko, Ramiro Oller, Pablo Accinelli, Nicolás Robbio, and Daniel Joglar.
Last March 29, curator Alejandra Aguado, Malba’s new director, Rodrigo Moura, the coordinator of the Escobar branch, Eleonora Jaureguiberry, and Malba’s president of the Board of Directors, Teresa A. L. Bulgheroni, launched MALBA Puertos’ new exhibition program. Three exhibitions were inaugurated: “Vuelo infinito” (Infinite Flight), an exploration of visual and conceptual resonances between Xul Solar and Daniel Leber; “Yendo por dentro del agua, he llegado muerta de sed” (Traveling Inside Water, I Arrived Dying of Thirst), by Florencia Sadir, which investigates the poetics of water and its land associations; and “Reservados” (Reserved), by Ivana Vollaro, a proposal that critically addresses the notion of archive and preservation from a contemporary perspective.
MALBA Puertos
Alisal 160
Bahía, Puertos
B1625AEQ
Panamericana km 45, Ramal Escobar
Buenos Aires, Argentina
www.malbapuertos.org.ar
Tuesday to Sunday, from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Free admission
MALBA Puertos is made up of five indoor and outdoor exhibition spaces that expand curatorial, spatial and experimental possibilities to blend art, architecture and landscape. The entire complex was designed by Estudio Herreros, a worldwide recognized architectural firm.
Among the main spaces are the Sala del Lago (Lake Room), designed to house the largest exhibitions, and the Salas del Bosque (Forest Rooms), which go beyond a conventional museum’s limits by establishing a direct link between the works and the surrounding environment, thus favoring a multisensory and contextual aesthetic experience. Finally, the Chaile Room houses an anthropomorphic series of sculptures, by the Tucuman artist Gabriel Chaile, originally exhibited at the Argentinian Pavilion during the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, and whose incorporation in Puertos reinforces dialogues between indoor and outdoors, regional identities and global narratives.
One of the project’s features is a storage facility we can visit: an outstanding innovation given that these spaces are usually closed to the public. Here, it has become an integral part of the museum route, showing works from the MALBA collection in dialogue with contemporary interventions to generate new and dynamic layers of critical interpretations.
The project is completed with a public art circuit deployed in various sectors of the MALBA Puertos estate, and divided into three main sectors: the central route, the bay and the storage deposit. This urban-natural circuit includes works by prominent contemporary artists such as Mimi Laquidara, Marcela Sinclair, Matías Duville, Jorge Macchi, Carolina Fusilier, Daniel Basso, Sol Pipkin, Irene Kopelman, Artur Lescher, Florencia Almirón, Irina Kirchuk, Sebastián Mercado, Hernán Marina, Fabián Burgos, Eugenia Calvo, Paula Castro, Diego Bianchi, Martín Blaszko, Ramiro Oller, Pablo Accinelli, Nicolás Robbio, and Daniel Joglar.
Last March 29, curator Alejandra Aguado, Malba’s new director, Rodrigo Moura, the coordinator of the Escobar branch, Eleonora Jaureguiberry, and Malba’s president of the Board of Directors, Teresa A. L. Bulgheroni, launched MALBA Puertos’ new exhibition program. Three exhibitions were inaugurated: “Vuelo infinito” (Infinite Flight), an exploration of visual and conceptual resonances between Xul Solar and Daniel Leber; “Yendo por dentro del agua, he llegado muerta de sed” (Traveling Inside Water, I Arrived Dying of Thirst), by Florencia Sadir, which investigates the poetics of water and its land associations; and “Reservados” (Reserved), by Ivana Vollaro, a proposal that critically addresses the notion of archive and preservation from a contemporary perspective.
MALBA Puertos
Alisal 160
Bahía, Puertos
B1625AEQ
Panamericana km 45, Ramal Escobar
Buenos Aires, Argentina
www.malbapuertos.org.ar
Tuesday to Sunday, from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Free admission
