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Luciana Lamothe


Luciana Lamothe (Buenos Aires, 1975) is a visual artist whose practice spans sculpture, performance, drawing, photography, and video. Her work investigates the transformative capacity of matter through the relationships between materials, bodies, and spaces. Concepts such as transmateriality and monomateriality function as central strategies for exploring the physical, symbolic, and experiential potential of materials. Lamothe creates spaces of indeterminacy that test the limits and tensions between opposing conditions—rigid and flexible, soft and hard, use and function, industrial and natural, human and nonhuman—reconfiguring how we inhabit and perceive the world. She lives and works in Buenos Aires. In 2024, she was selected to represent Argentina at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia and received a grant from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation’s Scholarships and Commissions Program. In 2023, she presented the solo exhibition Cien caminos en un solo día at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires. Recent presentations include Bienalsur (Argentina and Chile, 2021), Meridians at Art Basel Miami (2019), and the Public Art Program of Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires (2018). That same year, she received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Lamothe has participated in major international exhibitions and biennials —Lyon, Berlin, Montevideo, and Gothenburg Biennials—, and has exhibited widely in Argentina and abroad. She has completed artist residencies at Art Dubai, MANÁ Wynwood, AIR Antwerp, and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture.

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exhibitions

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.

publications

Ojalá se derrumben las puertas

60 Exposición Internacional de Arte. Biennale di Venezia, 2024

Luciana Lamothe. Puedo vivir bajo tierra

Ediciones El Dije, Buenos Aires, 2021

Luciana Lamothe TENSION
KBB, Buenos Aires, 2016

Actividad de uso
Sobre la obra de Luciana Lamothe Buenos Aires, 2009

links

Silvio Lang, “Sobre las esculturas de Luciana Lamothe en Invocar el acto,dirigido por Guilermina Mognan, Jor Mongan y Gonzalo Lagos. cheLa, marzo de 2022”. Revista Segunda Época N°7. Junio 2022

Lenny Lifschitz, “¡Bam! ¡Zap! ¡Crash! ¡Plop¿Huh? ¡Ups!”. Revista Segunda Época N°6. Noviembre 2021

Ana Inciarte, “Puedo vivir bajo tierra”. Revista Otra Parte. Junio 2021

Dalia Cybel,”Política del vértigo". Revista Ojo de Salvia, Diciembre, 2020

Vanessa Bell, “Taking it to the limit: In the studio with Luciana Lamothe”. Art Basel Buenos Aires. September 2018

Gabriel Palumbo, “Bellos caminos abiertos por el hierro”, Revista Ñ. Mayo, 2018

Claudio Iglesias, “El genio del crimen”, Radar. Septiembre, 2008

Leopoldo Estol & Inés Katzenstein, “Delinquir. Los actos de Luciana Lamothe”, Revista Otra Parte. Marzo, 2006



Fairs

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

Exhibitions

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

Exhibitions

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.

Exhibitions

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.

News

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.

Fairs

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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