Image: Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellín
The Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín is marking the last week of its temporary exhibitions with a focus on ‘Nos habitan pájaros y montañas’, a group exhibition that runs through Sunday, August 9, 2026. According to the museum’s exhibition page and newsletter materials, the show brings together sculptures, videos, hilos, and other elements to examine the inseparable relation between body and territory, and to explore identity, memory, resistance, sensuality, pain, and mysticism.
Curated by Marielsa Castro, the exhibition is installed in Sala A, D, and the Nave central. The museum describes it as a dialogue between works from the MAMM collection and contemporary practices from the region, framed through the concept of cuerpo-territorio. The exhibition text says the body is understood as a first territory of defense, and that the show uses this lens to think through contemporary crises linked to hierarchies, racism, sexismo, extractivism, and other forms of oppression.
The exhibition’s title, the museum says, is inspired by a quotation from Lygia Clark. Its curatorial structure is organized around three conceptual axes named after three works by Débora Arango: ‘Montañas’, ‘Adolescencia’, and ‘Friné’. Within that framework, ‘Montañas’ emphasizes the symbiosis between body and landscape, ‘Adolescencia’ addresses sensuality as a form of reexistence and resistance to censorship, and ‘Friné’ focuses on feminized bodies as a terrain in dispute. The museum also notes that during the exhibition the Sala D is occupied by the ‘Escuela Feminista de Pintura’, a project by Ad Minoliti that proposes a feminist and collective reconsideration of painting.
The final week is being paired with public programming tied to the exhibition and to the city’s Feria de las Flores. On Tuesday, August 4, the museum will host ‘Tororoí Resiste’, a participatory geocoreography facilitated by artist Carolina Caycedo in collaboration with the Sociedad Antioqueña de Ornitología. The event takes place at 4:30 p.m. in the Plazoleta MAMM and requires prior registration. The museum says the action centers on the tororoí de Urrao, a species endemic to Antioquia, and asks participants to use their bodies to form the phrase ‘Tororoí Resiste’ as a collective call to protect biodiversity.
Also on Tuesday, August 4, the MAMM will present ‘Conversación con Carolina Caycedo’ at 6:30 p.m. in the Nave central, with free admission. The museum says the conversation will bring together Carolina Caycedo, Marielsa Castro, and Ana Ruiz Valencia and will also include the presentation of catalogues from the first exhibition cycle of the year. The same source links the discussion to ‘Nos habitan pájaros y montañas’ and ‘La luz, el fuego y la ceniza’, both of which include Caycedo’s work.
Additional activities continue through the week as part of the museum’s Feria de las Flores programming. The newsletter lists ‘Vive la Feria de las Flores en el MAMM’ for Wednesday, August 5, Thursday, August 6, and Saturday, August 8, with prior registration required, and notes that visitors will be able to join guided walks through the temporary exhibitions for the last time. Among the museum’s other confirmed events are ‘Habitante. Función con conversación’ on Thursday, August 6 at the Teatro MAMM, and the ‘9:16 Festival de cine vertical’ on Saturday, August 8 at 2:30 p.m., also in the Teatro MAMM. The museum says the temporary exhibitions from the first cycle of the year will close on Sunday, August 9.
