Discover the work of Voluspa Jarpa, Teresa Margolles and Óscar Muñoz in the latest Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art’s exhibition: “Necroarchivos”. The exhibition explores artistic responses to state-sponsored violence across the Americas, focusing on the concept of the “disappeared” from the 1960s to the present day. It showcases contemporary artworks that address censorship, human rights […]
We are thrilled to announce that Voluspa Jarpa is among the five finalists for the Mario Merz Prize, 5th Edition, in the Art category. The Mario Merz Prize, held every two years, was established to identify and celebrate key figures in contemporary visual art and music composition. It is the only international prize for art […]
Discover Voluspa Jarpa’s installation False Flag at the exhibition ISOLITUDINE curated by Beatrice Merz at Fondazione Merz. The exhibition is part of a cycle of work in which the artist sought to understand the way in which foreign agencies and governments have operated outside the law, time and again, in Latin America and Europe. False […]
In the midst of the riots that occurred in Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, Voluspa Jarpa invited collaborators to reflect on the phenomenon of protest and the themes of resistance and rebellion. Her latest exhibition ???????? is the result of this research as it analyzes the mechanisms of abuse conceived by an authoritarian regime against a national […]
Discover Volupsa Jarpa’s research on the human zoos of the XIX and XX century as well as her recent cartographic works in the exhibition Al sur del sur (To the South of the South). The exhibition will be a part of the 2021 edition of BIENALSUR, an art biennial with outposts around the world organized by the UNTREF (Universidad de Tres […]
The exhibition This World Is White No Longer proposes to expand outside of the westernized, white gaze that has been generalized in the last centuries and explore the potential of a shift of perspective. Voluspa Jarpa will be presenting her acclaimed film Opera Emancipatoria as part of this group show. The exhibition will open on April 24th and it will curated […]
Under the curatorship of the Spanish critic Agustín Pérez Rubio, Miradas Alteradas (Altered Views) was presented at the Venice Biennale 2019, inviting reflection on racism, patriarchy, economic interests and dominance as forms of colonialism, through three concepts that are transversal to the entire show: race, class and gender. Maintaining the proposal of the Chilean pavilion, the current presentation […]
Voluspa Jarpa is the winner in the first edition of the “Premio Julius Baer a las artistas latinoamericanas” in collaboration with the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá – MAMBO. The mission of the award is to highlight the work of Latin American female artists, offering a fund to produce a site specific project to be presented […]
Living, Forgiving, Remembering brings together works based on the themes of tolerance, reconciliation and forgiveness. They suggest various ways in which social and political differences might be overcome.
Latin America has been formed by a series of unfortunate events, which, although it seems to question and reinvent itself, falls under cyclical social and political circumstances. There is no before in the histories of Latin America’s countries that can be looked at with nostalgia, as they are countries that, since their discovery, have been […]
Today, in the midst of a global lockdown, uncertainty emerges everywhere and prompts the question: What will life be like “after the pandemic”? On Saturday May 9, at noon, argentine time, Anibal Jozami, general director of BIENALSUR, and Diana Wechsler, artistic-academic director of BIENALSUR, will talk via streaming about this and other questions with Manolo […]
The exhibition “Gran Sur: arte contemporáneo chileno en la Colección Engel”, presents un important selection of works from one of the main private collections in Latin America, the Claudio Engel collection.