This exhibition was jointly curated by Taiyana Pimentel, Director of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MARCO) in Monterrey, and Sergio Fontanella, Director of CIFO. MARCO will be the first venue to host the exhibition, open to the public from March 28th through September 28th, 2025. It will feature 71 artists from 23 countries and will showcase 160 works, including painting, photography, video, installation, performance documentation, drawing, and sculpture. The project aims to provide a multifaceted representation of the Collection through women artists exclusively, giving voice to narratives that challenge historical biases and outdated discourses regarding the impact of women artists on the history of Western art.

The exhibition is structured around three thematic axes, woven together from a deep study of the Collection and a comprehensive and critical curatorial perspective. These axes are:

More Than Witnesses.

This section highlights women artists at the heart of concrete and informal abstraction movements, particularly in Latin America (but not exclusively), which have been central to the Collection.

It combines a rich diversity of voices from postwar abstract aesthetic-conceptual movements to the present. With a geographical emphasis on Latin America, this section recognizes the crucial role played by many women in the development of avant-garde discourses across the region, featuring artists such as Lygia Pape, Lygia Clark, Gego, Mira Schendel, Martha Boto, Lidy Prati, Mercedes Pardo, Loló Soldevilla, Carmen Herrera, Anna Maria Maiolino, Liliana Porter, Fernanda Gomes, and Johanna Calle. In dialogue with them, artists such as Annemarie Heinrich, Grete Stern, Elena Asins, Dadamaino, Maria Lai, Teresa Lanceta, Sarah Morris, and Pae White are included to challenge traditional geopolitical boundaries.

From the Margins to the Center.

This section addresses social, ecological, and geopolitical issues from an international perspective, questioning power as an abstract construct.

Themes explored include:

• Border conflicts and migration (Valeska Soares, Nohemí Pérez)

• Issues of communication, misinformation, and ideological manipulation (Voluspa Jarpa, Priscilla Monge, Marine Hugonnier, Eliana Otta, Carla Zaccagnini)

• Environmental crises and animal cruelty (María Fernanda Cardoso, Marcela Astorga, Donna Conlon)

• Financial crises and economic inequality (Jac Leirner, Agnieszka Kurant)

• Poverty and the center/periphery divide (Rochelle Costi, Regina Silveira, Daniela Ortiz)

• The crisis of individuality in a radicalized society (Jenny Holzer)

• Critique of power and ideological models (Adriana Arronte, Chantal Akerman)

The Body as a Field for Philosophical Reflection and Battle

This axis explores the relationship between women, power, and shifting identities, presenting the body as both a political and symbolic tool.

Notable artists include:

• Barbara Kruger, Regina José Galindo, Mónica Castillo, and Eve Sussman, who explore the political dimension of the body

• Ellen Gallagher, Martha Minujín, Barbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, and Graciela Carnevale, who challenge socio-cultural archetypes

• Ana Mendieta, Marina Abramović, and Francesca Woodman, who use the body as a medium for performance

• Tecla Tofano, Lorna Simpson, Claribel Calderius, and Donna Huanca, who investigate the multiplicity of female perspectives on the body.

Participating Artists

Marina Abramović (Serbia, 1946. Lives and works in upstate New York)

Chantal Akerman (Belgium, 1950 – France, 2015. Lived and worked in New York and Paris)

Regina Aprijaskis (France, 1921 – Peru, 2013. Lived and worked in Peru)

Carla Arocha (Venezuela, 1961. Lives and works in Belgium)

Adriana Arronte (Cuba, 1980. Lives and works in Havana and Madrid)

Elena Asins (Spain, 1940 – 2015)

Marcela Astorga (Argentina, 1965)

Martha Boto (Argentina, 1925 – France, 2004. Lived and worked in Paris)

Claribel Calderius (Cuba, 1986. Lived and worked between Mérida and Madrid)

Johanna Calle (Colombia, 1965)

María Fernanda Cardoso (Colombia, 1963. Lives and works in Sydney, New South Wales)

Graciela Carnevale (Argentina, 1942)

Mónica Castillo (Mexico, 1961. Lives and works in Mexico City and New York)

Carla Chaim (Brazil, 1983)

Lygia Clark (Brazil, 1920 – 1988)

Donna Conlon (USA, 1966. Lives and works in Panama City, Panama)

Rochelle Costi (Brazil, 1961 – 2022)

Dadamaino (Italy, 1930 – 2004)

Maria Elvira Escallón (Colombia, 1954)

Romany Eveleigh (UK, 1934 – Italy, 2020)

Esther Ferrer (Spain, 1937. Lives and works in Paris)

Maria Freire (Uruguay, 1917 – 2015)

Regina José Galindo (Guatemala, 1974)

Ellen Gallagher (USA, 1965. Lives and works in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and New York)

GEGO (Germany, 1912 – Venezuela, 1994. Lived and worked in Caracas)

Fernanda Gomes (Brazil, 1960)

Sarah Grilo (Argentina, 1917—Spain, 2007. Lived and worked in Argentina, France, Spain, and New York)

Annemarie Heinrich (Germany, 1912 – Argentina, 2005)

Carmen Herrera (Cuba, 1915 – New York, 2022)

Dora Hersen (Puerto Rico, 1924 – date of death unknown. Lived and worked in Venezuela)

Candida Höfer (Germany, 1944. Lives and works in Cologne)

Jenny Holzer (USA, 1950)

Donna Huanca (USA, 1980. Lives and works in Berlin and New York)

Marine Hugonnier (France, 1969. Lives and works in London)

Voluspa Jarpa (Chile, 1971)

Barbara Kruger (USA, 1945. Lives and works in New York and Los Angeles)

Agnieszka Kurant (Poland, 1978. Lives and works in Warsaw and New York)

Maria Lai (Sardinia, Italy, 1919 – 2013)

Teresa Lanceta (Spain, 1951)

Judith Lauand (Brazil, 1922–2022)

Jac Leirner (Brazil, 1961)

Renata Lucas (Brazil, 1971)

Anna Maria Maiolino (Italy, 1942. Lives and works in Brazil)

Gilda Mantilla (USA, 1967) and Raimond Chaves (Colombia, 1963). Live and work in Peru

María Martínez-Cañas (Cuba, 1960. Lives and works in Miami)

Ana Mendieta (Cuba, 1948 – USA, 1985)

Marta Minujín (Argentina, 1943)

Priscilla Monge (Costa Rica, 1968)

Sarah Morris (UK, 1967. Lives and works in New York)

Rivane Neuenschwander (Brazil, 1967)

Daniela Ortiz (Peru, 1985)

Eliana Otta (Peru, 1981)

Lygia Pape (Brazil, 1927 – 2004)

Mercedes Pardo (Venezuela, 1921 – 2005)

Nohemí Pérez (Colombia, 1962)

Liliana Porter (Argentina, 1941. Lives and works in New York)

Lidy Prati (Argentina, 1921 – 2008)

Sara Ramo (Spain, 1975. Lives and works in Brazil)

Ana Sacerdote (Italy, 1925 – Argentina, 2019. Lived and worked in Buenos Aires)

Mira Schendel (Switzerland, 1919 – Brazil, 1988. Lived and worked in São Paulo)

Regina Silveira (Brazil, 1939)

Lorna Simpson (USA, 1960)

Valeska Soares (Brazil, 1957. Lives and works in New York)

Loló Soldevilla (Cuba, 1901 – 1971)

Grete Stern (Germany, 1904 – Argentina, 1999. Lived and worked in Argentina)

Eve Sussman (UK, 1961. Lives and works in Brooklyn, N.Y.)

Tecla Tofano (Italy, 1927 – 1995. Lived and worked in Caracas)

Barbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca (Brazil, 1980 & Germany, 1975. Live and work in Berlin and Recife, Brazil)

Pae White (USA, 1963)

Francesca Woodman (USA, 1958 – 1981)

Carla Zaccagnini (Argentina, 1973. Lives and works in Brazil)

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