Image: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Berlin
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum has announced 'Buenos Aires Modern, 1935–1950' for its fall 2026 lineup, with the exhibition scheduled to run from September 9, 2026, through January 4, 2027. The museum’s K–12 eNews describes the project as an exploration of Buenos Aires as a vibrant hub of modernism, where artists responded to social, political, and cultural change through new visual languages.
According to the museum’s announcement, the exhibition focuses on how international modernist ideas were transformed in Argentina rather than simply imported there. It presents Buenos Aires as a creative laboratory shaped by a hybrid population, rapidly modernizing infrastructure, and a complex political terrain. The exhibition also examines the impact of exile, displacement, and cultural exchange on the city’s artistic and social landscape during the early twentieth century.
'Buenos Aires Modern, 1935–1950' is anchored in the work of Grete Stern, Horacio Coppola, and their social circle, while also highlighting other artists and creative practitioners active in the period. The museum says the exhibition traces how modernism was actively reshaped in Buenos Aires through local artistic responses to changing conditions. Themes identified in the announcement include global exchange, migration, political exile, and the intersections between Argentina’s sociopolitical environment and international contexts.
The exhibition also extends beyond painting and photography to consider place-based architecture and the history of modernism across the performing arts, literature, and visual arts. The announcement positions the show as a broad look at cultural production in Buenos Aires between 1935 and 1950, using a range of media and disciplines to frame the city’s modern identity.
Horacio Coppola’s 'Nocturno, Calle Corrientes, desde Reconquista hasta Plaza de la Republica' (1936) is featured in the email’s image credits, alongside a 2025 screenprint by Carolina Caycedo from a separate fall exhibition. That pairing appears in the museum’s newsletter context, which also notes that the museum is free and that gallery tours are available in Spanish, French, Korean, and Chinese.
The museum’s fall 2026 programming is presented as a set of curricular and public offerings, including educator events and tours tied to the season’s exhibitions. For 'Buenos Aires Modern, 1935–1950', the verified schedule in the newsletter gives the run dates as September 9, 2026 to January 4, 2027 at Kemper Art Museum.
