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La Chola Poblete


The work of the artist La Chola Poblete (Guaymallén, Mendoza, Argentina, 1989)includes watercolor paintings, oil landscapes, bread sculptures and iron structures, which build, not without tension and violence, a multi-part bidimensional installation that reproduces, in a key of denunciation and vindication, the dynamics of the cult. Taking up again the tools and formats around which she built her own language and iconography, La Chola intervenes in historical and contemporary imaginaries to explore the ambiguities and undefinable zones of the narrative of the past and the current political discourse. As if she knew that even in the stereotyping and exoticization of the original peoples, their mythical force survives, the artist uses her own body and invents her own mythograms, in graphic interventions that, between the delicacy of drawing and the power of branding, save not only their history, but also their desire for the present.

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EN EL AIRE
08.11.2025

LA CHOLA POBLETE —En el aire— Curated by Antonio Villa. A film set, a stage, paintings and photographs of La Chola immerse us in the performance of her present as an artist. The sophisticated web of references and the spectacular mise-en-scène do not produce a single effect. It is a cocktail of quotes from an artist who is excessive for the extremes she touches, and exquisite for the abundance of cultured citations she weaves together.

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06.03.2026 LA CHOLA at MASP

publications

La Chola Poblete: Ejercicios del llanto
Museo Moderno Buenos Aires, 2023




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ARTEBA 2026

28.11.2026 Buenos Aires. BARRO takes part in arteba’s 35th anniversary edition with a selection of artists from its roster, bringing together different generations and perspectives from the contemporary art scene. Matías Duville, Martín Legón, Mónica Giron, Mondongo, Nicanor Aráoz, Joaquín Boz, Nacha Canvas, Guillermo Kuitca, Luciana Lamothe, La Chola Pob

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QUERIDO TETO: SIN COMENTARIOS

17.10.2026 Querido Teto: sin comentarios, by MARCELO POMBO. Curated by Bárbara Golubicki. I found this photo the other day.It’s one of the very few I have of me when I was fourteen, when my aunt came to visit from Australia. She’d moved there a couple of years before and had come back to see her parents, who were seriously ill. On her trip to Argentina, she took a few photos and then sent them to me from Australia once she’d got back. She called me Teto. On the back of the photograph, she wrote: ‘Dear Teto: no comment’. Excerpt from the text, Trapos de cocina by Mauro Libertella

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PREFIERO FIERRO

08.08.2026 LUCIANA LAMOTHE Like her predecessors, Luciana is responding to the systemic violence of our present by harnessing the power of tools and materials which are forced to subvert their usual uses and functions to interrupt the systems they belong to. Now, in overwhelming scale, Lamothe’s works continue to expose – and sometimes threaten – the fragility and violence of our lives. What they offer is not the promise of redress or resolution but a radical new path forward. A gesture that refuses to perpetuate the illusion of seamless progress and instead presents an aesthetic of risk.

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SABAN & WOODGATE Segundas Vidas

30.05.2026 The exhibition Segundas vidas, curated by SONIA BECCE, unfolds in two parts. The first room, featuring recent work by Analía Saban, marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Buenos Aires in more than ten years. The second room features a new series of ARC (Animal Rug Company) works, a project that Agustina Woodgate began in 2010.

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MATÍAS DUVILLE
61º Biennale di Venezia

09.05.2026 Matías Duville presents Monitor Yin Yang, curated by Josefina Barcia, a site-specific installation that transforms the space into a traversable territory constructed with salt and charcoal. The project expands drawing into a spatial, sonic, and performative experience. Biennale di Venezia, Argentine Pavillion, until November 22, 2026.

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NICANOR ARÁOZ in Venice

05.05.2026 Nicanor Aráoz participates in the group exhibition Oscuridad visible: La larga sombra de la dictadura, organized by Museo Moderno of Buenos Aires to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the last military coup. Aráoz presents Glótica 3 (Argentina Brava Mix). At Spazio Punch, Venice, Italy.

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GABRIEL CHAILE at Whitechapel

01.04.2026 Gabriel Chaile presents his new solo exhibition, Archaeology of Memory, where he scavenges a variety of decorative and functional objects from the local area surrounding the Whitechapel Gallery, to be displayed alongside guardian adobe sculptures. Until September 6, 2026.

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LA CHOLA at MASP

06.03.2026 La Chola Poblete: pop andino, is La Chola's first exhibition in Brazil. Curated by Adriano Pedrosa and Leandro Muniz, the exhibition brings together 31 works, including 14 watercolors from the iconic series Vírgenes cholas, exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2024. At the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) until August 8, 2026.

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ARCO Madrid 2026

04.03.2026 Madrid, Spain. Solo Show by Agustina Woodgate in the section “Profiles. Latin American Art” curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy.

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WOODGATE at Diriyah Biennale

03.02.2026 Woodgate is participating in the third edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, In Interludes and Transitions. Curated by Nora Razian and Sabih Ahmed. She is the only participant from Argentina and presents a new instance of The Source, a series of artworks taking the shape of site-specific water infrastructures. In Diriyah, UAE.

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