25.11.2025

Opening of Margarita Paksa at MALBA

Margarita Paksa · Corresponding Ideas 1964–1984

Until February 16, 2026

Opening: December 11, 7 pm — Level 1
Curator: Nancy Rojas

We are proud to accompany this major retrospective of Margarita Paksa (1932–2020), a historical artist represented by Galería Del Infinito and a key figure in conceptual and multimedia art in Argentina and Latin America.

A protagonist of the Argentine avant-garde of the 1960s, Paksa was closely connected to the Instituto Di Tella and the Tucumán Arde project. Her production spans sculpture, drawing, installations, multimedia, and video. She worked as a professor and researcher at CONICET, where she led projects on public art and internet art. She gave lectures in Argentina and abroad, and published numerous essays related to her multimedia practice. She received major awards and grants —including the Guggenheim Fellowship, Canada’s FRP Grant, the Fortabat Painting Prize, the Faena Art District Multimedia Prize, and the MNBA Leonardo Award— and took part in the 5th International Cairo Biennial. In 2012, a monograph on her work was published on the occasion of her retrospective at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. Her works are held in major national and international collections and museums.

The exhibition brings together more than sixty works —graphic pieces, objects, installations, and archival materials— surveying two decades of experimentation and her contributions to new narratives of emancipation, social justice, and gender perspectives.

Malba will publish a bilingual book featuring essays by Nancy Rojas, Daniel Quiles, and writings by the artist herself. This edition offers a renewed and necessary reading of her work, reinstating her pioneering role in the development of conceptual and multimedia art in Latin America.

Artworks Details:

Margarita Paksa
The Sentinel Will Open Fire II
From the Typographic Works series
Red ink, typewriter
20 × 20 cm
1969


Margarita Paksa
Silence II
Edition of 3
Crystal acrylic cube
30 × 30 × 30 cm
1967/2010

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