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HOW ARTISTS IN BUENOS AIRES ARE ADAPTING TO A VIBRANT YET VOLATILE CULTURAL CLIMATE por Osías Yanov para Frieze, febrero 2019

Gallery, Museum, Kiosk, Disco: A resilient network of artist-run spaces is leading the charge in Buenos Aires

With its array of basements, hidden nooks and semi-derelict shops, the city of Buenos Aires seems designed to harbour those nodules of countercultural energy where independent art spaces so often develop. With their ever-changing addresses and names, these projects open and close while their audiences and organizers generally remain constant. They form an underground network that, for decades, has been the city’s most important reservoir of creativity. These are projects that nourish a hallucinatory and sometimes hostile metropolis: together they provide alternatives to the professionalized and institutionalized structures of the art world and are instead defined by ephemerality and dialogue.

Since it was founded in 2015 , UV has been a favourite space for those with marginal sensibilities – for the queers, the slackers and the hard partiers. Its exhibitions and ‘Perfuch 3D’ (2018) performance series – featuring Hoco Huoc, Maruki Nowacki, the BásicaTV collective and others – have engaged head-on with contemporary politics.

La Baranda

La Baranda was founded in April last year as a gallery that organizes weekly exhibitions at a fixed location: the handrail in the corridor of the Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas (Artistic Research Center). Inspired by the transitory nature of that hallway, former fellows of the centre continue to curate group exhibitions around issues of accessibility and collective labour.

Coral

The artist Federico Manuel Peralta Ramos coined the term gánico to signify the radical ability of the creative act to splinter structures of power. Coral is a meeting place whose programmes are driven by that impetus. Co-run by Mariela Scafati, Ana Carolina, Marina De Caro and Daiana Rose, the space has featured recent projects by collectives Cromoactivismo and Serigrafistas Queer as well as the artist Bruna Kury.

La Ene

La Ene, or the Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo, was founded in 2010. Since then, it has been an advocate for copyleft in the arts, altering what it means to be an institution: its staff will make their entire archive available to the public, upon request, on an external hard drive. Recent exhibitions have featured work by Ad Minoliti, Sol Pipkin and Marcela Sinclair.

Chiquita

Chiquita is an art space in a box. Founder Julián Sorter invites participating artists to produce a project in a small cardboard box, which can function as a gallery, a museum, a kiosk or a disco. Chiquita could be thought of as a tiny window onto another world, like a miniature souvenir of the Taj Mahal: look closely and you may see dazzled tourists swarming inside.

Mostro

Established in 2011, Mostro is an annual, two-day interdisciplinary event that combines visual arts, music and theatre. Co-curated by Marcelo Galindo, Maximiliano Maito and Juan Tobal, it has featured performances by Dudu Alcón Quintanilla, Ariel Cusnir and Mariana Lopez.

Constitución

Founded in 2017, by artists Alberto Antonio Romero and Martín Fernández, Constitución is a space in barrio San Cristóbal that showcases the work of emerging artists in a variety of experimental exhibition formats. In 2018, they had presentations by Alfredo Dufour, Martin Farnholc Halley, Carlos Huffman and Catalina Oz.

Ciclo de acciones

Ciclo de acciones is a year-old project within the annual programme of MUNAR, a nonprofit exhibition space founded in 1989. Curated by Gonzalo Lagos, the cycle of performances seeks to promote practices that consider bodily action as a vehicle of knowledge. Past participants include Sofia Durrieu, Dana Ferrari and Alberto Antonio Romero.

El Universo

The most recent of several spaces founded by artist and poet Fernanda Laguna, El Universo is like a hoarder’s living room. With its warped shelves overladen with trinkets and useless tchotchkes, it is a loving sanctuary to the idiosyncratic, nonfunctional and banal.

Piedras

The artist-run gallery Piedras is located in barrio Almagro. Its co-directors, Rafael Equivocado and Santiago Gasquet, have organized exhibitions that reflect on slippages between the productive and the unproductive as well as the importance of leisure and affection. Recent shows have featured work by Fátima Pecci Carou, Constanza Giuliani and Monica Heller

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