Espacio Vital 
Buenos Aires, 2022 - 2024

In collaboration with Supermayorista Vital in Buenos Aires, Beatriz Bardin has pioneered the creation of an acquisition programme for emerging artists, an infrastructure designed to create and sustain a collection of emerging contemporary art through an annual open call in select educational spaces throughout Argentina.

The inaugural participating institutions were Programa de Artistas de la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Programa de Artistas por Artistas, Taller Compartido. The jury included artists Adriana Bustos and Carlos Herrera, as well as Directors Orly Benzacar and Nahuel Ortíz Vidal of galleries Ruth Benzacar and Barro, respectively.

By participating in the programme, emerging artists are given the opportunity to submit their work for review to the panel,  carefully chosen to reflect different interests and sensibilities within the Argentine art-ecosystem.

The Espacio Vital collection will be launched to the public in March 2024.

 

Delfina Foundation
London, 2022 - 2024

In partnership with the Anglo-Argentine Society, and with the support of the Argentine Embassy in the United Kingdom, Beatriz Bardin coordinates a two month residency at Delfina Foundation. 

This residency is part of the Bridges Programme, a collective initiative that arose in response to a structural assessment undertaken by Beatriz Bardin on behalf of the Argentine Embassy in the United Kingdom. This report was  commissioned in an effort to develop effective strategies through which to strengthen cultural ties in the visual arts between the two countries.  

A guiding vision of the Bridges Programme is the recognition of curators and cultural practitioners as one of the most apt vehicles to foster these networks and exchanges.

For its inaugural iteration in Autumn 2022, the programme hosted Javier Villa, Senior Curator at the Museo de Arte Moderno

in Buenos Aires, who works exploring relationships between local imaginaries, politics, and territory. Click here to see an interview with Javier.

For its second iteration in Winter 2023, the programme hosted Andrei Fernandez, an independent curator based in the city of Salta, who works on issues of authorship, memory, and colonial resistance in indigenous cultural and artistic practices. Click here to see an interview with Andrei.

Applications for the third iteration of the programme are now closed. The awarded curator will be announced in November.

The Jewish Museum
New York, 2023

Beatriz Bardin has worked alongside the Jewish Museum in New York to bring about  Marta Minujín’s first retrospective in the United States, “Arte! Arte! Arte!” on view from November 17th 2023, until March 31st, 2024.

Working as a liaison between the artist and the museum’s curatorial team –Darsie Alexander and Rebbeca Shaykin– Beatriz Bardin has spearheaded the creation of the artist’s archive, undertaken supplementary research, facilitated the creation of artist interviews, overseen translations, and aided in the creation of the catalogue for the exhibition, working alongside the Director of Publications Eve Sinaiko.

About Marta Minujín

Marta Minujín (b. 1943), is one of the most relevant and irreverent contemporary artists working in Argentina today. Over her more than sixty-year career, she has produced work that explores a multitude of artistic languages, scales, and social circuits, combining critical thinking and boundary breaking with an unwavering commitment towards the social and the political.

The artist studied fine art at the Escuela de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano (1953–59) and art education at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes (1960–61). Her notable honours include the Premio Nacional Instituto Torcuato Di Tella Award (1964), the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1966), and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale (2017). Minujín has also represented Argentina at the Venice Biennale in 1960, and exhibited at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Tate Modern in London.

Pinacoteca São Paulo
São Paulo, 2023

Beatriz Bardin has collaborated with the Pinacoteca of Sao Paulo in the production of Marta Minujín’s first retrospective in Brasil: Marta Minujín: Ao Vivo, on view from July 29th, 2023 to January 28th, 2024.

Working closely with curator Ana Maia Antunes and the production team at the museum, Beatriz Bardin has undertaken archival and video research, overseen the production of works and facilitated the creation of the catalogue for the exhibition.

About Marta Minujín

Marta Minujín (b. 1943), is one of the most relevant and irreverent contemporary artists working in Argentina today. Over her more than sixty-year career, she has produced work that explores a multitude of artistic languages, scales, and social circuits, combining critical thinking and boundary breaking with an unwavering commitment towards the social and the political.

The artist studied fine art at the Escuela de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano (1953–59) and art education at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes (1960–61). Her notable honours include the Premio Nacional Instituto Torcuato Di Tella Award (1964), the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1966), and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale (2017). Minujín has also represented Argentina at the Venice Biennale in 1960, and exhibited at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Tate Modern in London.