Exhibitions in Santiago.
Art, photography, and cultural exhibitions currently on view in Santiago.
29 events currently running
EXHIBITIONS
Cinema in Chile
Unprecedented exhibition spanning over a century of Chilean cinema history. Explores cinema's profound impact on the nation's social and cultural life.
PAINTING
Unloaded - Patricio Court
Works by Chilean artist Patricio Court spanning seven years including the pandemic. During lockdown and introspective work, Court pursued formal synthesis, reducing elements and refining pictorial resources to concentrate on painting's inherent tensions.
EXHIBITIONS
Turmoil, Penitent Objects - Adolfo Martínez
Penitent objects reject promises of redemption or efficiency, revealing historical logic where tedious work, obedience and reverence distribute unequally.
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Fungi Cosmology
International research project by curators, artists and scientists from Brazil, Switzerland and Chile, developed over three years with three research expeditions. Partners include CAB Patagonia, Labverde Brasil, Artist-in-labs Zurich Arts University and Foodculture Days Vevey.
EXHIBITIONS
Archive of Disappointment - Rocío Guerrero Marín
Origins trace to 2015 when Rocío Guerrero Marín created the Affectograph: a metal collar recording involuntary body movement via pencil pressure. The artist invites strangers to share oral accounts of disappointment while the device traces bodily response.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Fragments for an Anthropology of Visual Activity - Nicolás Franco
Nicolás Franco explores the nature of images and their formation through works made 2017-2025, questioning traditional boundaries separating painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture. This hybrid exhibition examines frictions and displacements across media.
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In Darkness, Our Ancestors Remind Us Who We Are - Priscilla Dobler Dzul
First Chilean exhibition of artist Priscilla Dobler Dzul (Tacoma, Washington and Yucatán-based). Textiles, drawings and two short films narrate environmental injustice in the US and Mexico, grounded in decades of research on pre-Hispanic dyeing and weaving techniques.
EXHIBITIONS
Amazon Mapped - Sonia Guggisberg
When humans exist only as political subjects, they distance from nature, abandoning planetary care and futures integrated with biodiversity. This exhibition proposes critical and poetic means to activate senses, thought and action, awakening dormant social memory and…
SCULPTURE
Spoken by Hand - Felipe Pineda
A year ago, artist Felipe Pineda and curator Ayelén Ruiz relocated to Europe simultaneously, sparking a shared investigation into gesture and body as communication when language fails, and into classical sculpture gestures and museum signage as organizing devices.
EXHIBITIONS
Memory of the Thresholds - Pía Aldana
Through collecting, humans transform objects into icons and symbols imbued with value and meaning. Aldana explores this same phenomenon in memory using miniatures and sounds of buildings and objects from the Biobío region.
EXHIBITIONS
Other Worlds Exist, But They Are in This One - José Cori & RolanKay
RolanKay's paintings explore shadow and dim light in enclosed spaces pierced by light beams, evoking tension, eroticism and mystery through unstable contours. Cori's works deploy mythic and religious imagery across complementary visual narratives.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Poetics of Waters - Cheril Linett
Five site-specific performances linking performative imagery, photography and audiovisual documentation to death, abuse, injustice and gender violence. Recurring coastal symbols-crosses, houses, animitas-reveal heteropatriarchal violence across Chilean territory.
CONTEMPORARY
Finding, Replica, Fiction - Hugo Leonello
In 2017, Hugo Leonello discovered 1980s protest pamphlets hidden in the museum building's structure. That discovery became the catalyst for an investigation and reconstruction exploring archival gesture and historical erasure.
SCULPTURE
Twisted Branch
Site-specific installation imagining a climate-changed future transformed into vast wetlands, mangroves and swamps. Rather than arid desolation, the exhibition proposes a humid dystopia inspired by climate fiction and J.G. Ballard's submerged worlds.
EXHIBITIONS
The Wheat and the Gold - Cecilia Hormazábal
Artistic investigation exploring fragmented history and memory of Chanchomallin reduction near Carahue. Late 19th and early 20th century Chilean state invaded final free Mapuche territories, implementing forced confinement through reductions - small land parcels fragmented…
PAINTING
Wardrobe - Dominique Bradbury
Bradbury obsessively examines feminine-coded elements-fashion details, skincare routines, trends-in dialogue with a 19th-century painting from MAC's collection by Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma, colliding present aesthetics with historical representation.
CONTEMPORARY
Sensitive Matter
Part of Colección MAC's educational programme, commemorating fifty years of the museum's photographic collection. Two gallery spaces at MAC Quinta Normal: one with bright light for community exercises, another dark space evoking camera obscura phenomena.
EXHIBITIONS
Linking Exercises - Emilio Fuentes Traverso
Visual artist and biology professor Emilio Fuentes Traverso explores scientific observation and temporal speculation through natural elements, industrial components and cosmic phenomena. His practice investigates matter as transformation across geological and industrial scales.
EXHIBITIONS
Alchemy of Dwelling
Exhibition exploring craftsmanship beyond utility, revealing deep connections between material culture, territory, memory and ways of inhabiting the world.
EXHIBITIONS
LMBL ícono
Una exposición que reúne fotografías emblemáticas de Pedro Marinello sobre Pedro Lemebel, para indagar en memoria, disidencias y apropiación visual.
EXHIBITIONS
Hecho en China
Más de cincuenta años han pasado desde la última vez que los objetos chinos de la colección del Museo de Arte Popular Americano (MAPA) se exhibieron de maner...
EXHIBITIONS
Museo de Arte Precolombino
World-class pre-Columbian art museum near Plaza de Armas. Permanent galleries of Andean, Mesoamerican and Amazonian artifacts plus temporary exhibitions. Free on first Sundays.
EXHIBITIONS
Museo de la Memoria
Powerful museum documenting human rights violations during Chile's dictatorship. Free permanent exhibition plus rotating shows on human rights worldwide. Near Metro Quinta Normal.
EXHIBITIONS
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Chile's principal fine arts museum in a stunning 1910 Beaux-Arts building in Parque Forestal. Permanent collection plus rotating exhibitions. Free admission.
SCULPTURE
Exhibition at Galería Patricia Ready
Leading contemporary art gallery in Vitacura with rotating exhibitions of Chilean and international artists. Sculpture garden and free entry. Opening receptions monthly.
SCIENCE
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural
Chile's natural history museum in Quinta Normal park since 1830. Paleontology, zoology and Chilean ecosystems. The whale skeleton hall is iconic. Free admission.
CONTEMPORARY
Exhibition at Isabel Croxatto Galería
Contemporary art gallery on the Alonso de Córdova gallery strip in Vitacura showcasing emerging and mid-career Latin American artists. Free admission, rotating shows every 6 weeks.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography and Visual Arts at Galería AFA
Photography and visual arts gallery on Vitacura's gallery row. Regular exhibitions, artist talks and book launches. Free admission Wednesday through Saturday.
EXHIBITIONS
Guerrilla Girls
Chile's first exhibition of Guerrilla Girls and Guerrilla Girls Broadband traces their work from 1985 through posters, public actions, and archival materials documenting art activism.