LATINOAMERICANO concludes at the National Museum of Qatar

After nearly three months on display, LATINOAMERICANO concludes at the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ), a historic exhibition organized by Malba in collaboration with Qatar Museums. For the first time in its history, Malba presented an exhibition of this magnitude in the Middle East, also marking a milestone for the region in the international dissemination of Latin American art.

Co-curated by María Amalia García, Chief Curator of Malba, and Issa Al Shirawi, Head of International Exhibitions at Qatar Museums, LATINOAMERICANO brought together nearly 170 key works by more than 100 pioneering and contemporary artists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The works come from Malba's collection, the personal collection of Eduardo F. Costantini, the museum's founder, and the Qatar Museums collection.

The exhibition offered a panoramic reading of Latin American art from 1900 to the present, through six thematic sections that addressed issues such as identity, urbanization, sociopolitical changes, and the development of modern and contemporary practices in the region. Paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations, textiles, archives, and documentary material offered the public a complex and diverse view of the continent's artistic production. Additionally, the exhibition featured Marta Minujín's Sculpture of Dreams (2023), a monumental inflatable installation displayed in the museum's courtyard, which had previously been unveiled in Times Square (New York).

The exhibition was held within the framework of the Qatar-Argentina-Chile Year of Culture 2025, an initiative that promotes cultural exchange and strengthens ties between Qatar and other nations. Over the course of these three months, LATINOAMERICANO was accompanied by an extensive public program of talks, workshops, and guided tours, offering thousands of people from around the world an experience of cultural exchange.

The video shows the curatorial, installation, and conservation teams at Malba in the months leading up to the 170 works from the Malba Collection and the Eduardo F. Costantini Collection traveling to the National Museum of Qatar in Doha:

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