Image: National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina, Buenos Aires
The National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires has announced Javier Soria Vázquez as the recipient of the 2026 ArtHaus/Bellas Artes Prize. The award will support the presentation of ‘Columen’, a site-specific project commissioned for the museum.
According to the museum’s announcement, the project evokes the institution’s foundational bases, linking the new presentation to the history of the museum 130 years after its opening. No further details about the work’s materials, form or interpretation were provided in the announcement.
‘Columen’ is scheduled to open on Tuesday, 25 August 2026, at 6pm. The presentation will be installed on the museum’s second floor in Buenos Aires.
The National Museum of Fine Arts announced the prize and forthcoming exhibition on 18 August through its official account. The announcement identifies the project as the 2026 recipient of the ArtHaus/Bellas Artes Prize but does not provide information about the prize’s selection process, the composition of a jury or the terms of the commission.
The museum’s reference to its foundational bases places Soria Vázquez’s project within an institutional anniversary context. Beyond that framing, the available notice does not specify how the work will respond to the museum’s architecture, collection or history, nor does it list additional artists or related public programmes.
The inauguration is scheduled for 6pm on 25 August on the second floor of the National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires.
