Thursday, December 11, 2025
5 PM

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Explore our current exhibitions and Research Center while learning more about our programming during this after-hours open house at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).

Artists Cecilia Biagini, Alejandra Seeber, and Lucia Reissig will lead guided tours of the exhibitions Marcia Schvartz: Power in Looking Back and Violaciones Domésticas: Feminist Constellations in 1990s Argentina, in which they will reflect on and respond to the artworks on view.

Their walkthroughs will be followed by open hours for our Research Center, an opportunity to view our Spotlight presentation on Aída Carballo, and a reception on our ground floor. Exclusive discounts will be available on select publications in our bookshop.

Both tours will be held in English. Capacity is limited, and attendees are encouraged to register in advance by signing up online at the link above.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Cecilia Biagini is an artist dedicated to experimentation, often incorporating different mediums of expression to generate a “complete” work, who has roots in South American mid-century abstraction. In March 2025, a survey exhibition of Biagini’s works and career, Enredo Simple, curated by Fernanda Laguna, was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires. In 2024, Biagini had an exhibition at Tang Teaching Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York, with Argentine artist Eugenia Crenovich. An installation of her work, which was selected by Percent for Art NYC as part of the public art program, will be installed permanently at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in 2026.

Biagini’s work has been included in exhibitions at the Sugar Hill Children Museum of Art and Story Telling, El Museo del Barrio, the Hunterdon Museum of Art, Ruiz Healy Art, Pentimenti Gallery, the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, the Bemis Center, the Cervantes Institute, PROA Foundation, the Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, and the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires. Biagini’s work is in private, public, and corporate collections internationally, including the University of Texas at San Antonio, the New York Public Library, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, MACBA in Buenos Aires, Argentina, among others.

Lucía Reissig is an Argentinian Guatemalan artist based in New York whose work explores the memory of bodies and objects through care, domestic labor, informal economies, and food politics. Working primarily in sculpture, her practice blurs the boundaries between politics, food, labor, and affections, drawing from both individual and collective processes. Reissig trained in artist-run spaces before completing the Artist Program at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires (2017–18). She later participated in Escuela Incierta at Lugar a Dudas in Cali, Colombia (2018) and earned her MFA in sculpture from Bard College in 2024. Her collaborative practice spans feminist archival publishing, queer food politics, community-based pedagogy, and the spiritual dimensions of domestic labor. Projects include Proyecto NUM; CaterineFulLove; Belleza y Felicidad Fiorito; and Servicio de limpieza integral, a collaboration with Bernardo Zabalaga.

Recent solo exhibitions include Glossary (mimo, New York, 2025), 287.5 kilos (Móvil, Buenos Aires, 2023), and Todo estaba sucio (Duo show, Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno de Mendoza, 2022). Selected group exhibitions include Políticas del Sabor (Centro Cultural Recoleta, 2025–26), Algunos oficios: Arte, Trabajo y Precariedad en Argentina (Museo de la Memoria–BienalSur, 2025), Premio Braque (MUNTREF, 2025), Germantown Art and Design Week (Archipelago–Mendes Wood DM, 2024), Luz y Fuerza (MALBA, 2023), Premio 8M (2023, Centro Cultural Kirchner), and Las olas del deseo (2022, Museo Casa Nacional del Bicentenario). In 2021, she published Pisos pegajosos with the Chilean press Hambrehambrehambre. Her distinctions include the Beca Joven of the Kenneth Kemble Prize for Visual Arts(2018) and the Premio en Obra, arteba (2019). In 2025, Reissig was an artist-in-residence at Mass MoCA Studios and at Millay Arts.

Alejandra Seeber has been described as having "a dialogic" approach to painting, where intentions and chance procedures, failures, and acceptances operate together without hierarchy. She uses painting as a medium capable of absorbing other surrounding media and influences, and as a way of stretching the conventional ideas of what a picture is.

Born in Buenos Aires, Seeber has been living in New York City since 1999. She attended Prilidiano Pueyrredón School of Fine Arts in Argentina, the Beca Kuitca Studio Program, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been shown in solo and group shows internationally, including in presentations at Americas Society (2024); the Thyssen Museum (2017); the Bronx Museum of Art (2016), the Mercosul Biennial (2009); the Kunst Museum of Saint Gallen, Switzerland (2010), the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires (2010), the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (2011), and El Museo del Barrio (2003). She has had solo shows at Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, in 2010, and galleries such as Sperone Westwater in NY, Hausler Contemporary in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, to name a few.

Seeber's work is in the Collection Diana and Moisés Berezdivin, Puerto Rico; the Zabludowicz Collection, London; the Rolf Ricke Collection; the Eduardo Constantini Collection, Germany; Staatsliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich; the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires; and the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, among many others.