MAPA 2023
9-12 MARCH // THE RURAL

Current, dynamic, independent and regional.

In Mapa, the exchange happens.

The independent art fair that brought together more than 50 national and international galleries to promote regional artistic production, strengthening the contemporary art market

From March 9 to 12, 2023, Buenos Aires, Argentina

The first art fair of the year MAPA closed its fifth “current, dynamic, independent and regional” edition with an offer of fifty galleries in Pavilion 8 of La Rural. In addition, it presented a new curated section called Planiferio, with a focus on Latin America and proposals from Chile, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico.

More than 200 artists represented by 50 galleries exhibited a total of 650 works in the Central and Planisphere sections. For four days, some 15,000 people visited the fair and were able to enjoy federal proposals from emerging to internationally established artists.

The contemporary art fair brings together the current scene with the aim of promoting national and regional artistic production to strengthen exchange.

The selection committee for the 2023 edition was made up of Amalia Amoedo, Irene Gelfman, Gabriel Bitterman, Alejandro Dávila and Gabriela Gabelich.

Sections

#CENTRAL
The main section of the fair hosted 50 galleries from all over Argentina and pcountries of the region that will exhibit works by current artists and art leaders.

#PLANISPHERE
The section dedicated to international galleries with a focus on Latin America curated by Mercedes López Moreyra. Planiferio is focused on alternative dynamics, residency, curatorial and research projects promoted and accompanied by seven art galleries.

#AUDIENCE
We think of the Auditorium as a meeting and networking space where talks with experts, project presentations and work meetings between the different actors in the visual arts are held with the aim of professionalizing the activity of art galleries, managers and artists. Moderated by Marcelo Dansey.

#APPMAPA
We partnered with PARRA Marketplace to design a virtual platform for the fair with the aim of generating a memorable experience for the visitor. The MAPA app includes the catalog of participating works and galleries, curatorial texts, artist profiles, awards and fair activities.

#GUIDED VISITSACE
MAPA has the support of Patronage from the Ministry of Culture of the City, which also participates of the event programming with a cycle of guided tours promoted by the Visual Arts area, on this occasion curated by specialist Irene Gelfman. “Management in expansion: alternative ways of projecting art”: the curatorial focus of these guided tours will be on the spaces and their management, curatorial and expansive dynamics that they use.

Awards

The purpose of generating these incentives is to provide a space to enable concrete actions that promote the growth and sustainability of artistic projects at the federal and regional level. In this sense, the prizes that were awarded were:

Cultural Exchange Award by Diderot.art in Cobertizo (Mexico))
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Winner: Samantha Rched Abugauch
Aura Virtual Gallery

The purpose of generating this cultural exchange is to provide a space to enable concrete actions that promote the growth and sustainability of artistic projects at the federal and regional level. The Cultural Exchange sponsored by Diderot seeks to promote crossovers between the Mexican and Argentine artistic scenes, through the Cobertizo residency in Mexico.

MAPA Cultural Exchange Award at Epecuén Residence (Arg)
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Winner: Natalia Montoya
Judas Gallery – Valparaiso, Chile

MAPA invites you to apply for the MAPA EXCHANGE SCHOLARSHIP / EPECUÉN RESIDENCE for foreign artists participating in the fair. It is based on a full scholarship for international artists to participate in Residencia Epecuén, Buenos Aires, Argentina. This program is organized by AAMM / Both Worlds aimed at interdisciplinary artistic projects linked to the territory as an axis of production and reflection.

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Planisphere

#PLANISPHERE
Latin American section

Curated by Mercedes López Moreyra

Planiferio is the first Latin American section of the MAPA Fair that will take place from March 9 to 12, 2023 in La Rural de Palermo, Buenos Aires.

Mercedes López Moreyra is the curator in charge of generating the conceptual framework of this section and inviting seven galleries and selected projects that will exhibit their proposals and participate in different activities and exchange events at the fair.

Planiferio is focused on spaces and galleries that promote, produce and/or accompany residency, curatorial, research and/or alternative dynamics projects seeking transfer the purposeful nature of each space to the ecosystem of the MAPA fair.

This section is intended to promote and consolidate the productive role that some galleries perform by supporting their artists for specific projects, proposing other logics and aspects in their professional practice. It seeks to value the creative rethinking of the activity from its propositional content to the articulation of strategies that generate impact and reflection not only in the market system but also in the cultural and social dynamics of its context, deepening content, integrating different actors and amplifying the conception of its projects.

We will seek to make visible works that are articulated with the characteristics, challenges and idiosyncrasies of their specific scenes, seeking to integrate them into the diverse mapping proposed by the fair.

LOCAL Contemporary Art. (Santiago de Chile, Chile)
LOCAL is a house that lends itself as a space to shelter work processes, meetings and sensitive reflection. It is a structure that is offered for material interactions, meetings and contacts with those who develop projects associated with it. LOCAL is a residence that transforms and activates in interaction with the processes that happen in it.

Paijàáâäæãåān(Trujillo, Peru)
Paiján is a platform for artistic and curatorial research in northern Peru.
It seeks to articulate exhibition projects with a specific context, based on the recognition of the territory, the pre-Columbian heritage and the latency of a developing city.

OMA Gallery (Santiago de Chile, Chile)
OMA Galería is a space focused on research and reflection in relation to contemporary art in Chile.
Its director, Jose Belmar, also directs the One moment Ar platform where projects by OMA Galería artists and other invited artists are articulated, generating site-specific and large-scale proposals in cultural centers, museums and other art spaces.

TIM Contemporary Art (Santiago de Chile, Chile)
It is an art gallery run by artists located in the historic center of the Yungay neighborhood in Santiago, Chile.
TIM Contemporary Art celebrates the creative act from intuition and embraces the mystery of art through form, color and workshop work. The gallery is proposed as a platform with a collaborative vision between artists that is born from the need to group and give visibility to artists who work from a contemporary, original and critical perspective within the framework of the visual arts in Chile.
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Bloc Art Perú (Lima, Peru)
BLOC Art Perú is a project that brings together a portfolio of 40 artists from Latin America, of which 30 are from Peru. It articulates curatorial, editorial, and internationalization projects for its artists from a commercial and binding perspective.
Its great objective is to generate a creative economy of the plastic arts in Peru under 3 clear pillars: The decentralization of the arts, resulting in true democratization; the disruption in the proposals presented over time and finally the collaboration in the same ecosystem by its different agents.

Judas (Valparaíso, Chile)
Judas is a contemporary art gallery that, since 2018 in Valparaíso-Chile, disseminates, exhibits and promotes the production of national artists who practice and reflect from the edges.
Gender and multiple identities, environmental crisis and geopolitical demands interact in our curatorial line. It works by promoting discourses of regional territories, tensioning the hegemonic cartographies historically made invisible by the centers. Currently, the gallery represents 22 artists who produce in a decentralized manner in Chile.