Inés Beninca
Bio
Inés Beninca (Rafaela, 1991) lives and works in Buenos Aires. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR) and received a diploma in Curatorial Studies from the same institution in 2025. In 2008, she studied at Sint Lucas Art Academy in the Netherlands. Since 2022, she has co-directed Taller La Ciudad, a production and exhibition space in Buenos Aires.
Her solo exhibitions include El Yeite (Buenos Aires, 2025), Selvanegra (Buenos Aires, 2023), Líquido (Punta del Este, 2022), Quimera Galería (Buenos Aires, 2021), Museo de la UNT (Tucumán, 2019), El Bucle (Rosario, 2018), Museo Dr. Urbano Poggi (Rafaela, 2017), and Gabelich Contemporáneo (Rosario, 2017), among others.
In 2019, she received an award at the 15th National Salon of the MUNT and an acquisition prize at the Rafaela Biennial. She was awarded creation grants from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes in 2021 and 2019, and received scholarships from Castagnino+MACRO and Museo Dr. Urbano Poggi in 2016.
She was a resident fellow at MUNAR Boca de Fuego (2020–2021) and has participated in residencies such as CANAL, MANTA, and Casa de Piedra.
Her work is part of public and private collections in Argentina, Uruguay, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
Statement
My paintings belong to a world of subtle variations—a fragmented landscape shaped by memory, finding new gestures through repetition.
I am drawn to the sun as it opens a timeless suspension within the in-between of everyday life. I observe constancy and delay in things, and in painting itself. Like when a grapefruit peel falls onto a tablecloth and, from a distance, resembles the stem of a flower. Or when I see thin trees dissolving into a dense haze, like a stain.
Hundreds of commonplaces undo themselves as the hours accumulate, thickening the surface of the canvas. In my studio, I mix pigments, pursue old recipes, and make my own oils. I want both small and large stories to be inscribed on the plane of the painting.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
