Image: Detail of the installation “Columen” by Javier Soria Vázquez. National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires
Javier Soria Vázquez is installing ‘Columen’, a site-specific work, at Argentina’s National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires. The museum announced that the installation was being prepared with its museography team ahead of a public inauguration on Tuesday, August 25, at 6 p.m.
The work is identified as the winner of the 2026 ArtHaus/Bellas Artes Prize. The museum’s announcement describes Soria Vázquez as an artist from Salta, a province in northwestern Argentina, but gives no further biographical or artistic details.
‘Columen’ is being installed specifically for the museum site rather than presented as a previously completed work brought into the building. The announcement shows Soria Vázquez working alongside members of the institution’s exhibition-installation team during the mounting process.
The National Museum of Fine Arts, known in Spanish as the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, is Argentina’s national art museum and is based in Buenos Aires. The available announcement does not specify the gallery, room or other location within the museum where ‘Columen’ will be shown, nor does it provide details about the work’s materials, dimensions or duration.
The inauguration is scheduled for August 25 at 6 p.m. The museum has not provided additional programming or a closing date in the announcement.
