Pinta BAphoto is Latin America’s leading specialized photography fair. Since its inception, it has brought together galleries, artists, curators, collectors, and institutions to explore the diverse practices of contemporary visual art.
This year, the fair brings together 57 participating galleries and art spaces, representing Argentina, Uruguay, Spain, the United States, Paraguay, and Brazil, offering a diverse and carefully curated selection of international contemporary art.
Pinta BAphoto showcases a diverse selection of galleries distinguished by the quality of their proposals, featuring modern and contemporary artists from different countries whose artistic practices are shaped by the language of photography.
RADAR presents a dialogue between artists from different generations who approach the photographic image as a device for constructing spaces and identities. Through diverse processes and techniques, their works challenge the transparency of photography to explore its zones of uncertainty: dislocated spaces, overlapping temporalities, and bodies as territories.
In this edition, NEXT presents a section committed to contemporary practices and experimentation. Through the works, it weaves together a range of experiences to create a sensitive cartography of the present, documenting and reconstructing fragments of a shared reality. It brings together a plurality of voices and ways of inhabiting Latin American art, seeking to capture the pulse of our time.
This edition’s Special Project is dedicated to Alberto Goldenstein (Buenos Aires, 1951), one of the leading figures in contemporary Argentine photography.
Alexander - Alexander brings Abel Alexander into dialogue with a family tradition deeply connected to photography. A researcher and specialist in early photography, Abel traces the origin of a shared passion back to his great-great-grandfather, Adolfo Alexander, a pioneer of photographic studios in Buenos Aires.
As an era ushered in by the printing press draws to a close, another emerges through the internet and its rhizomatic structures. If material conditions are changing, is it possible to imagine that there are latent images on the verge of being revealed?
ATLAS presents a proposal at Pinta BAphoto 2026 that brings together a bookstore and an exhibition space. The bookstore features a selection of international and Argentine photography books available at ATLAS.
FORO is a space for dialogue and critical reflection dedicated to the debates, aesthetics, and issues shaping modern and contemporary photography.
Over the years, it has brought together artists, curators, gallerists, and market specialists to approach photography from a multidisciplinary perspective.
The curatorial team for Pinta BAphoto 2026 is composed of Irene Gelfman, Pinta’s Global Curator; Mercedes Claus, Curator of RADAR; Facundo Belen and Virginia Martin, Curators of NEXT; Francisco Medail, Special Project | Tribute Artist Curator; Sol Echevarría, Curator of Special Project: Latent Images, and Martín Bollati, Curator of ATLAS.
What to See in Buenos Aires
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (MACBA) presented the work of two women artists. In ¿Cómo suenan las lágrimas antes de secarse? (What Do Tears Sound Like Before They Dry?), Ivana de Vivanco builds a warning. Snakes, with their capacity to sense catastrophe. In Curada de espanto (Cured of Fright), Ornella Pocetti brings together scenes that hold a story that never fully reveals itself. Both artists hold the abyss steady through anticipation and the suspicion of an estrangement. All you have to do is pay attention.
By Violeta Mendez
Luz, color y espacio, the exhibition presented by the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires in collaboration with Dia Art Foundation, offers an experience in which color and space envelop the viewer. It will be open to the public through August 17.
By Violeta Mendez
In RETOUR the Argentine artist builds a cartography of the city from discarded papers bearing writings that were never meant to be read; on view through August 9, 2026, at Museo Sívori, Buenos Aires.
By Manuel Vasquez Ortega
"Things house spirits, or at least sprites, and for the collector—possession is the most intimate relationship that one can have with objects: not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them."
Walter Benjamin: Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting (1931)
EFG International is a global group specializing in private banking and asset management. Headquartered in Zurich, it operates in 40 locations around the world in cities across Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Americas, and the Middle East. For the eighth consecutive year, EFG is proud to be the main sponsor of Pinta BAphoto 2026. During the fair, EFG, in collaboration with Art Nexus, will present the EFG Latin America Art Award. This award once again highlights EFG International's commitment to modern and contemporary Latin American art, which, together with its entrepreneurial spirit, seeks to promote artists and fairs from the region on a global scale. The award is given in recognition of the work of emerging artists exhibited at five contemporary art fairs in Latin America. The winner is celebrated each year during Pinta Miami.
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