Alberto Goldenstein
Bio
Alberto Goldenstein (Buenos Aires, 1951) is a photographer, teacher, and curator, and a key figure in Argentine contemporary photography. He studied at the New England School of Photography in Boston, where he attended workshops with Joel Meyerowitz and seminars with John Szarkowski. Since the mid-1980s, he has developed a distinctive body of work centered on color and contemporary visual culture. He directed the Fotogalería at Centro Cultural Rojas from 1995 to 2019 and was a visiting professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. In 2018, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires presented his first retrospective, *La materia entre los bordes*. His work has been exhibited in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Germany, and Switzerland. He received the Konex Award (2022), the National Award for Artistic Achievement (2023), and the Fundación Klemm Award (2025). His work is held in major museum and private collections in Argentina and abroad.
Statement
This year, Pinta BAphoto’s Special Project is dedicated to Alberto Goldenstein (Buenos Aires, 1951), a key figure in Argentine contemporary photography. *2001MDQ2026*, curated by Irene Gelfman, brings together vintage prints from his *Mar del Plata, 2001* series with a new body of work made in 2026, twenty-five years later, in the same city. The project establishes a dialogue between two moments in Goldenstein’s practice and between two material histories of photography. Moving between archive and present, memory and experience, the images reveal what the passage of time transforms in places, photographs, and the artist’s gaze.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
