Venezuelan art in various museums in Buenos Aires

Atlas of Venezuelan Culture, a project that seeks to highlight the art and intellectual work of the diaspora in Argentina

The initiative features a catalog of artworks created by Venezuelans between 2010 and 2025

This Thursday, August 21, the Atlas of Venezuelan Culture 2025 was presented in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This project seeks to highlight and document the artistic, literary, and intellectual contributions of the Venezuelan diaspora in the Argentine capital. The project was announced in the context of the First Meeting of Venezuelan Literature and Culture in the South, entitled "My Two Worlds."

It consists of a free, online catalog of Venezuelan artworks displayed in Buenos Aires museums, a list of publications by Venezuelan authors published in Argentina between 2010 and 2025, and an index of Venezuelan cultural creators residing in the city.

"This initiative is not presented as a closed canon, but as a work in progress, aware that migrant culture is dynamic, changing, and constantly recomposing," reads a document shared by the project's editors.

The Atlas of Venezuelan Culture in Buenos Aires seeks to portray the main challenges of migration, both collectively and individually, and the sense of "invisibility" and "lack" that the loss of one's own cultural landscape brings, according to the text.

Its creators also point out that the project arose from a need for reconnection among the more than 80,000 Venezuelans residing in the Argentine capital.

“This project is not intended to be the solution to the problem; we believe that

it constitutes a step in the right direction: that of making visible the literary,

artistic, and intellectual contribution that our country makes to the region through the diaspora,” the text emphasized.

The atlas was presented by independent Venezuelan publishers in Buenos Aires, such as Los Cuadernos del Destierro, Luba Ediciones, Maldita Poesía Ediciones, among others.

Venezuelan art in various museums in Buenos Aires

The Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA), the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA), and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires (MACBA) will house 15 works by Venezuelan artists.

“These pieces not only reflect Venezuela's contribution to the local artistic heritage, but also speak to the shared role between both nations in the continent's major aesthetic debates, driven in the 20th century by kinetic art, abstraction, and conceptualism, and in recent years by a critical reexamination of the modern tradition,” the project's editors stated.

Among the works on display at MALBA are: Couple 2, by Marisol Escobar; Sphere Number 3, by Gertrudis Goldschmidt (GEGO); Cat, by Francisco Narváez; El Manteco, by Alejandro Otero; and Three Figures on the Move, by Héctor Poleo.

Regarding the pieces exhibited at the MNBA, some of those mentioned are: Trianguconcéntricos, by Elías Crespín. And at the MACBA, there are: Physicromía No. 321-B, by Carlos Cruz-Diez.

In addition, the Atlas of Venezuelan Culture highlighted the works exhibited in public spaces, such as a mural that pays tribute to Carlos Jáuregui, a historic Argentine activist for LGBTQ+ rights. It is located in the eponymous station on Line H of the Buenos Aires Subway and is a piece by Venezuelan artist Daniel Arzola.

“The work combines visual art with activism, and covers stairs, balconies, and walls of the station,” describes the text about the piece by Arzola.