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An Extended Night to inaugurate five new exhibitions

Visit us and connect with art in our galleries

Art offers us the possibility of broadening our vision of the world, while connecting with human sensitivity through the perspective of the artists we welcome in our galleries. On Friday, April 26, we will open five new exhibitions. During this day, which joins the traditional Extended Night, visitors will be able to enter with free admission between 3 p.m. and 10 p.m.

A free admission day to get close to multiple artistic manifestations and let ourselves be surprised by the proposals of artists and collectives from different regions of the country who offer us reflections on identity, territory, and the official narratives of history. It will also be an opportunity to turn our gaze toward the Medellin River and celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of maestro Hernando Tejada.

At 3 p.m. the doors will open for a free admission day with voluntary contribution in which we can get up close with the works in the exhibitions.

Here is our opening day schedule

All events are free admission with voluntary contribution

3:30 p.m.
Guided tours of the exhibitions:
Tania Candiani. Ofrenda with the presence of the artist and curator Emiliano Valdes
Kalabongo with curator Ana Ruiz and the exhibition artists
Fosil acustico. Escuchar (con) el rio with curator Jorge Bejarano and exhibition artists

5:00 p.m.
Guided tours of the exhibitions:
Desafiar. Atravesar el sol desde un gran Pacifico with Yolanda Chois, exhibition curator, and Cristina Vasco, museum curator.
Hernando Tejada. Viaje de vuelta with Andres Roldan, exhibition curator

6:00 p.m.
Opening of the exhibitions
Teatro MAMM

7:30 p.m.
Outdoor cinema
Ancestral Resistances: three short films about Afro identity and memory in Colombia
Plazoleta

8:30 p.m.
Black Sounds with Zatelithe
Corredor Tienda MAMM

Discover the five new exhibitions coming to our galleries:

Desafiar. Atravesar el sol desde un gran Pacifico
An exhibition that traces its own paths of sovereignty, enjoyment, spirituality, struggle, or dissidence based on the experiences and commitments of primarily Afro and Black artists. The works respond to a geography that runs from Santa Maria de Timbiqui in Cauca, through Buenaventura, Cali, Puerto Tejada, tracing routes from the Chocoan coast to the Bay of Panama; a set of places we will call here the great Pacific.

Kalabongo
The title of this exhibition derives from an allegorical universe in which fireflies (kalabongo in the Palenquero language) are the escaped Africans who fight with bats (colonizers) in a battle where darkness is an accomplice of freedom. Kalabongo asks about the meaning of images for a society, and about artistic practices as tools for political action, historical vindication, and the recovery and reconstruction of local knowledge linked to ancestral cosmogonies.

Tania Candiani. Ofrenda
This is the first large-scale exhibition of Mexican artist Tania Candiani in Colombia and brings together a series of works centered around sound, artisanal processes, and rivers, which speak of different latitudes but also, and above all, of Medellin. Some of her works lead along paths that fuse the Earth with its human and non-human inhabitants, bring them closer together, and also question the meaning that each one gives to their brief passage through this planet.

Fosil acustico. Escuchar (con) el rio
This exhibition proposes establishing an acoustic relationship with the Medellin River as a body of water that connects the city, the territory, and the diversity of beings — human and non-human — that inhabit its banks and waters, turning the sound experimentation room into an immersive acoustic environment that responds in real time to both the river’s activity in the Museum’s vicinity and to participants’ interactions, producing spaces where the interrelationship between human beings and the environment becomes perceptible through vibration and resonance.

Hernando Tejada. Viaje de vuelta
The Museum celebrates with this exhibition, which also functions as a journey back to the Colombia of the mid-20th century and its ways of approaching the territory, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Hernando Tejada, who through the exercise of his patient contemplation and profound sensitivity captured part of the country’s diversity and richness.

Image: Alexandra Idrobo, No estoy sola (fragment), 2024. Oil and acrylic on canvas

This Extended Night is made possible thanks to the support of Comfama and EPM