We are pleased to share some excellent news with you: the work of artist Fernando Do Campo represented by your gallery, will be part of the 2025 edition of BIENALSUR – 10 YEARS, the world's most extensive contemporary art platform, present in over 30 countries.
In this very special year, we celebrate a decade of sustained work building a transnational cartography of art that connects communities, territories, and diverse artistic practices. The inclusion of this artist's work is significant in this celebration and reaffirms our commitment to showcasing powerful proposals in dialogue with major contemporary debates.
Thank you for supporting your artist in BIENALSUR and contributing to this collaborative network.
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The first openings will take place during the second half of July in Valparaíso and Santiago. Between August and November, there will be exhibitions, performances, and artist residencies in Santiago, Punta Arenas, Chillán, and Chiloé. In 2025, BIENALSUR celebrates 10 years of work in mapping out a unique transnational cartography for art, extending its territory to reach more than 70 cities on 5 continents, where 140 institutions serve as host venues, collaborating on local artistic initiatives. In each territory, BIENALSUR proposes to contribute to the debate for a contemporary humanism, addressing urgent issues such as: environmental problems, human rights, migration, memory, Artificial Intelligence and possible futures. The realisation of BIENALSUR 2025 is officially supported by UNESCO.
The biennial programme in Chile begins on 17 July with the opening of the associated exhibition What Will We Do with what Remains of Time? at the Municipal Art Gallery of Valparaíso. This proposal invites collective reflection on time: its use, its loss, and its transformative potential. ‘In a present marked by acceleration, urgency, and exhaustion, art becomes a space to pause and think,’ says Henry Serrano (CHL), curator of the exhibition alongside Lucía Rey (CHL). Starting on 26 July, the Museo de Artes in Santiago, Chile, will host Let's Play / (d)estructure, the Game, by the Colombian collective El puente_Lab, curated by Diana Wechsler, artistic director of BIENALSUR. This project encourages public participation and gives collective artistic creation a playful dimension.
On 9 August, the exhibition Reconstructing Memory. Chapter 1, curated by Toia Ibáñez (ARG), will open at the Consulate General of the Argentine Republic in Punta Arenas. The exhibition aims to contribute to the creation of a collective memory of the so-called “white gold era” in Patagonia. To this end, it brings together images by contemporary photographers Berta Giménez (ARG) and Adriana Opacak (ARG), both from Santa Cruz, whose respective series focus on closed meat processing plants as a metaphor for abandonment. The images dialogue with the series that photographer Annemarie Heinrich (DEU/ARG) created during a trip to Santa Cruz in 1958.
Also scheduled for August is the presentation, at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Parque Forestal in Santiago, Chile, as part of the Francis Naranjo exhibition currently on display, of the performance Diego Melero in dialogue with Francis Naranjo, in which the Argentine artist will seek to resonate with the work of Naranjo, who throughout his career has addressed systems of power, surveillance and resistance. "The action will remain as a trace and superimposed layer within the exhibition, proposing an area of productive friction between the two artists. The intersection between their languages raises new questions about the role of contemporary art in the face of hegemonic discourses and their devices of representation," explains Wechsler. In addition, two residencies will take place during the month of September, on Isla Grande de Chiloé and in Chillán.
On the 12th, Experiences in Territory begins in Chiloé, a project carried out in collaboration with the Castro Creation Centre and the Museum of Modern Art. Curated by Fernando Farina (ARG) from the BIENALSUR team, and Pedro Donoso (CHL), artists Erandi Adame (MEX), Laura Glusman (ARG), Carlos Herrera (ARG), Pamela Ipinza Mayor (CHL) and Nicholas Jackson (CHL) will participate, developing creative processes in interaction with children and young people from the archipelago.
Meanwhile, in Chillán, between 22 and 30 September, ceramist Leo Battistelli (ARG) will share his knowledge and processes with Nayadet Núñez, an artisan from Quinchamalí, the epicentre of Chilean ceramics, which has a unique black clay and iconography rooted in the rural life of the area. The project will culminate in an exhibition curated by Fernando Farina. Finally, in Santiago, Chile, at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, e- (t)extHile/Atacama will be inaugurated at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights. The project emerged from an international open call by BIENALSUR, curated by Alejandra Gatti (ARG) and carried out by artists Martinka Bovrikova (SVK) and Oscar de Carmen (ESP).
July 23, 2025
