Pedro Roth Exhibition at the National Art Museum

Pedro Roth invites you to experience art as if it were your own home at the National Art Museum.

The exhibition transforms the Buenos Aires venue into a space where the public can explore the artist's creative universe, featuring his own works and those of his colleagues, and Roth's active presence for a month.
In the Pedro Roth: At Home exhibition, visitors will find a space where everyday life and artistic creation intertwine without borders, replicating Roth's domestic and creative environment at the Casa Victoria Ocampo headquarters of the National Endowment for the Arts.

For a month, starting Wednesday, June 25, the galleries of the National Art Museum will be transformed to reflect the artist's personal universe, with a living room filled with paintings, a table set for receiving guests, and the active presence of Roth, who will work and inhabit these spaces, creating an environment where work and life merge.

The opening will feature a live performance by SwinGardel, a musical group that fuses jazz, tango, and milonga, comprised of Enzo Buono (vocals and guitar), Esteban Faroldi (vocals and bass), Patan Vidal (piano), and Pedro Colpachi (drums).
The exhibition not only showcases Roth's own artistic output but also includes his valuable art collection, comprised of pieces by colleagues and friends such as Luis Fernando Benedit, Yuyo Noé, Marta Minujín, Federico Manuel Peralta Ramos, Pier Cantamessa, and Juliano Borobio. This selection seeks to convey the idea of a creative ecosystem, where generosity and shared experience are as important as the work itself.

The exhibition was conceived by Andrés Duprat and Adriana Rosenberg as a tribute to Roth and an invitation to understand art as a continuous and vital experience. The proposal seeks to encourage the public to experience art as a daily and generous practice, in which creation and sharing are presented as inseparable actions.
Pedro Roth was born in Budapest, Hungary, on July 8, 1938, and graduated in Filmmaking from the National University of La Plata. He began his career as a photographer in 1960 and, starting in 1973, began exhibiting his work both in Argentina and abroad. His career is characterized by a variety of roles: painter, photographer, writer, collector, cook, exile, and figure in the Buenos Aires bohemian scene.

As a cultural manager, Roth has promoted the international projection of Argentine art through various projects. His work has allowed him to document the most significant artistic movements since the 1960s, creating the Roth Archive, a unique historical collection in the country. This archive includes the digitization of the photographic archive of the CAYC (Center for Art and Communication) in collaboration with the PROA Foundation, and the production of numerous audiovisual pieces. Roth has received awards such as the Lifetime Achievement Award in Painting from the National Endowment for the Arts (2020) and the Artistic Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Salon of Visual Arts twice (2023). Additionally, in 2010, the Buenos Aires City Legislature named him an Illustrious Citizen of Culture.

Pedro Roth's works are included in the collections of prominent institutions, including the National Museum of Fine Arts (Argentina), the Point of Contact Gallery (Syracuse, United States), the Történeti Museum (Budapest, Hungary), the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires (MAMBA), the Eduardo Sívori Museum of Plastic Arts, and the Museum of Contemporary Latin American Art (MACLA).

*Pedro Roth: Like at Home, starting Wednesday, June 25th at 6:00 PM, at the Casa Victoria Ocampo, located at Rufino de Elizalde 2831, Buenos Aires City. Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., free admission. Guided tours will also be offered on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., allowing attendees to delve deeper into the artist's work and surroundings.
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