Los premios
Artist Gala Berger presents a three-act exhibition titled "Los premios" (The Prizes), which revisits the radical spirit of the 1968 Latin American avant-garde. The show specifically references two historic 1968 exhibitions at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires—the Georges Braque Prize and "Materials, new techniques, new expressions"—where artists staged protests involving egg-throwing, stink bombs, and manifestos against censorship and institutional tutelage.
This exhibition matters because it recontextualizes historical subversive gestures within contemporary art practice, bridging the gap between 1960s revolutionary politics and modern visual narratives. By utilizing diverse media such as LED-lit textiles, reverse glass painting, and 3D textile models of influential figures like Lucy Lippard and Jorge Romero Brest, Berger explores the tension between institutional recognition and the anti-establishment defiance that defined postwar art history in Argentina.