Bienalsur 2025: The contemporary art biennial has already been visited by thousands of people and continues in 140 venues.

The fifth edition of Bienalsur , the contemporary art biennial that spans 140 venues in 70 cities across five continents , has seen record visitor numbers since its opening in early July. One thousand people attended the opening at the Muntref Hotel in Inmigrantes—dubbed the project's kilometer zero—and more than 10,000 people visited the exhibition "Fragmentar la obsolescencia. Primavera silente" (Fragmenting Obsolescence. Silent Spring) at the MAR Museum in Mar del Plata in the first week .

Since then, the program has spread across Argentina and around the world, consolidating a borderless artistic landscape. Exhibitions that address contemporary issues from different perspectives have opened in the provinces of Salta, Tucumán, and La Rioja.

Among them, the most notable is “Filoctetes Archive: live arts, public space and documentation” , curated by Maricel Álvarez , which rescues an urban intervention by Emilio García Wehbi carried out in cities such as Buenos Aires, Berlin and Vienna , as an aesthetic response to neoliberal policies and the 2001 crisis.

In La Rioja, the curatorial theme "Fragmenting Obsolescence" continues with two exhibitions : "Ways of Uncovering a Brick" and "In the Life of Rocks." Both reflect, from different perspectives, on the tension between technological progress, material memory, and temporality. The first, inspired by a text by Bertolt Brecht, questions the invisible traces of workers in architecture. The second delves into the slow and almost imperceptible processes of transformation in the mineral world.

The participatory performance "Let's play. Let's play in the world. (d)structure, the game," by the Colombian collective El Puente_Lab, was also one of the featured proposals. First presented in Caseros and then in Santiago, Chile, the exhibition invites the public to imagine their lives in ten years through a collaborative structure built with colorful pieces, where each personal decision modifies the collective whole.

In Buenos Aires, one of the highlights is "Migrants," at the Alliance Française, featuring works by artists Caroline de Chaunac, Pauline Fondevila, Anita Pouchard Serra, and Sophie Spandonis. Born in France and based in Argentina, their works are situated in that hybrid terrain where nostalgia for what was left behind and the reinvention of the present intersect.

Also in the city, the Eduardo Sívori Museum of Plastic Arts opened "Verso y reverso," the first solo exhibition in Buenos Aires by Chilean artist Rodrigo Vergara. Curated by Teresa Riccardi, the museum's director, the exhibition explores popular memory through music and graphics, in dialogue with Chile's recent history. From Violeta Parra to the postpunk of Los Prisioneros, Vergara traces a sonic and visual map where the individual and the collective intertwine. His work—from printmaking to installations—is permeated by a persistent critique of institutions and a vindication of the popular as a space of resistance.

In July, the biennial also had a strong international presence. A retrospective of the artist Jenő Barcsay, a key figure of Hungarian modernism, opened at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest.

In Krakow , the exhibition "Leaks from Freedom" brings together two generations of Polish artists who denounce the restrictions on individual freedoms in the global context. In Bolivia , the exhibition "Matter in Conflict" addresses the impacts of extractivism on the landscape and on bodies, while in Valparaíso , the exhibition "How Do We Use the Time We Have Left?" was curated from a Global South perspective.

Featuring works by artists such as Roberto Acosta, Gustavo Ávila, Angie Bonino, César González Agüero, and Mariela Leal , the exhibition at the Valparaíso Municipal Art Gallery brings together videos, digital art, performances, and installations to collectively reflect on the uses, losses, and transformative potential of time.

In August, the Buenos Aires circuit continues with new exhibitions . The Enrique Larreta Museum of Spanish Art opens with "Naturalia or the Diversity of the World," curated by Pablo La Padula, which proposes a return to nature with works by Valeria Cannata, Paula Darriba, and Alberto Tadiello . And the Cornelio de Saavedra Historical Museum will present "Other Invasions," a series of drawings by Ariel Cusnir.

Ten years after its founding, and with the support of UNESCO, Bienalsur reaffirms its status as a transnational, horizontal, and borderless artistic platform, a platform that prioritizes the thought and voice of the artists themselves.