Current Exhibitions

This exhibition explores the indissoluble relation between body and territory, their encounters and disjunctions.

Each day, we eat the sun. The sun is the first of all foods: the light that sparks life, the fire that sustains it, the ashes that fertilize and redistribute it. Light, Fire, and Ash draws inspiration from these interpretations of the sun as the source of nourishment, and of nourishment the structuring axis of life’s spiritual, environmental, territorial, more-than-human, cultural, and political dimensions.

In this exhibition, Gemma Luz Bosch (Chelva, Spain, 1999) invites us to listen to clay as a living body loaded with geological, cultural, and human histories. The project results from a journey through Barichara, Mompox, Santa Rosa de Cabal, and Medellín, during which the artist worked alongside ceramists and local communities collecting clays from various sources and registering their different colors, textures, plasticity, and sounds.

In 1985, artist and cultural manager Leonel Estrada published the Diccionario de Arte Actual, a glossary of art concepts aimed at educating the general public about developing artistic movements. Señal abierta. Languages of Contemporary Art proposes a review of the MAMM collection and documentary archive based on a selection of concepts drawn from the dictionary, which serve to understand the experimental practices developed in the region during the second half of the 20th century. As a predecessor to the dictionary, two printed materials were produced, the first prepared by María Isabel Estrada in 1970 and the second, created as a supplement for the newspaper El Mundo in 1981. Both circulated during the Bienales de Arte de Medellín and served as a pedagogical tool for the public, broadening the interpretation and understanding of the languages, techniques, and artistic movements of the works presented at the biennials.