The Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires is opening a new permanent presentation of its collection to mark its 25th anniversary. ‘Colección Malba—Costantini: Latinoamérica en expansión’ brings together a selection of works from the museum’s holdings and from the private collection of founder Eduardo F. Costantini, with the exhibition presented as a survey of Latin American art’s diversity and capacity for innovation between 1900 and the 1970s.
According to the museum’s exhibition page, the show is installed on Level 1 and runs from 1 May 2026 to 31 December 2028 at Malba in Buenos Aires. The presentation is described as permanent, and the institution lists guided visits on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 4 p.m., starting 2 May. The museum’s general opening hours are Thursday to Monday from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., and Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The exhibition is built around roughly 150 works arranged in eleven sections. Malba says these sections trace the itineraries of modernism and the formative axes of the collection, including Latin American avant-gardes, socially committed art, surrealist poetics and the crisis of reason in the interwar period, as well as South American constructivisms. The museum also states that the display includes works from the recently acquired Daros Latinamerica collection.
In the exhibition text, Malba links the new display to the concept of anthropophagy associated with Oswald de Andrade. The museum presents this idea as a way to approach the originality of Latin American art through a critical assimilation of Western modern art and through recognition of the identities that shape the region. From that perspective, the exhibition aims to underline shared artistic searches while also broadening the picture of Latin American artistic diversity.
The collection itself is described by the museum as a major body of modern and contemporary Latin American art. Malba notes that it now comprises more than 2,770 works, making it one of the most representative collections of its kind on a global scale. The exhibition features works from both the museum collection and Eduardo F. Costantini’s private holdings, reinforcing the relationship between the institution’s public identity and the collector’s role in its formation.
Among the works highlighted on the exhibition page are Antonio Berni’s ‘La mujer del sweater rojo’ from 1935, shown from the Malba collection, and Leonora Carrington’s ‘Las distracciones de Dagoberto’ from 1945, from the Eduardo F. Costantini collection. The image shown for the presentation is Carlos Cruz-Diez’s ‘Fisicromía 2’ from 1959, also from the Costantini collection. Curators listed for the exhibition are María Amalia García, Alejandra Aguado and Nancy Rojas.
