Moderno y Metamoderno (Modern and Metamodern). Museo Moderno in Buenos Aires

From April 2024 to January 2026, the exhibition “MODERNO Y METAMODERNO” will be presented in four galleries of the Museo Moderno in Buenos Aires. The show aims to expose the most important collections that make up the museum's heritage by telling its history, growth, research processes, publications, and actions during almost seventy years of work. A selection of 300 works created in the last 100 years are exhibited, offering a review of Modern and Contemporary Argentinean art movements.
Recently, the museum began a process of cataloging and digitizing the documents related to historical exhibitions that have been on display, a work that was published on its website. Thanks to this, “MODERNO Y METAMODERNO” has been called a “meta-exhibition” because each artwork or group of artworks exhibited, by using a QR code, opens the information of the Museo Moderno, its research, books or audiovisual record. In this way, art is presented as an essential element of human and educational development.
The exhibition takes a general look at the public collection that has been built over the years and through the museum's first directors, Rafael Squirru and Hugo Parpagnoli, the donations that constitute the Ignacio Pirovano Collection and the legacy of Alberto Heredia. Recent acquisitions have been made possible thanks to the Acquisitions Committee, donations and the city government. This created a collection that can account for the history of Argentine art in an inclusively plural manner.
For more information on the exhibition and the artists on view, visit https://museomoderno.org/en/exhibitions/moderno-y-metamoderno/