Abre La Boca, the free art and food event in the south of the city, is back.

This Saturday, July 26th, from 12:00 to 6:00 PM, the art and gastronomic event takes place in the south of the city. Abre La Boca will showcase the neighborhood's cultural and gastronomic spaces in an event open to the public. Foundations, museums, and galleries will offer a tour of the neighborhood's art scene , which can be taken by van and is free of charge.
Abre La Boca invites you to rediscover the neighborhood through art: walk its streets, visit its museums, converse with artists and curators, and be amazed by the cultural power of southern Buenos Aires.
Participating in this second edition are the Santander Foundation, the Larivière Foundation, Barro, the MARCO Museum, Ungallery, the Sendrós Gallery, the Constitución, the Benito Quinquela Martín Museum, the Proa Foundation, the Andreani Foundation, PROA21, the La Boca Historical Museum, and the Colón Factory.
To facilitate your journey , free vans will connect the different areas. You can hop on and off freely within the designated route.
Open Your Mouth Circuit
● PROA21 | Av. Pedro de Mendoza 2073
“Archive of Disobedience (The Street),” curated by Marco Scotini. An international selection of videos by artists and collectives that explore the relationship between art and activism from perspectives such as gender, radical ecologies, insurgent communities, and diaspora activism.
The exhibition "Archive of Disobedience" was curated at Proa 21 by Marco Scotini. Photo: Ignacio Laxalde, courtesy of the Proa Foundation.
● Santander Argentina Foundation | Paseo Colón 1380
“Hilo Frío” explores the artistic and teaching career of Valeria Conte Mac Donell, while delving into the poetic connection between her work and the natural environment.
● Proa Foundation | Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1929
“Here We Are! Women in Design 1900–Today” presents more than 500 pieces exploring the work of 80 female designers from 1900 to the present, with a special section dedicated to Argentine design. Organized in conjunction with the Vitra Design Museum
View from the terrace of the PROA Foundation. Photo by Mariana Nedelcu.
● Andreani Foundation | Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1987
Brazilian artist Guto Nóbrega, curated by Nara Cristina Santos, presents “Breathing” (2008), “Enchantment for the 4th Dimension” (2021), and “Cuenca” (2025); on the first floor, “Fantasmática” by Natalia Forcada is presented, and on the second floor, Desafíos V - “The Three-Body Problem” by artists Angel Salazar, Julieta Tarraubella, and Lena Becerra is exhibited, curated by Agustina Rinaldi.
Facade of the Andreani Foundation headquarters a few meters from Caminito.
● Lariviere Foundation | Caboto 564
In Room 1, Juan Enrique Bedoya presents “My Country Is Not Greece,” curated by Alexis Fabry; in Room 2, Gian Paolo Minelli opens “Archive 1995. Buenos Aires Meeting with Thirty Artists,” curated by Laura Buccellato.
● Constitution | Del Valle Iberlucea 1140
“June Fog,” curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel, presents the work of artist Juan Valenti.
The exhibition by artist Joaquín Boz, “Paintings,” curated by Bárbara Golubicki, is presented.
The General Director of the Barro Art Gallery, Nahuel Ortiz Vidal. Photo by Mariana Nedelcu
● Ungallery | Minister Brin 1335
"It Was a Blue Place" by artist Olivia Funes Lastra, curated by Javier Soria Vázquez; and "Eva and the Poetics of Water" by Victoria García Valenzuela, curated by Agustina Rinaldi.
● Benito Quinquela Martín Museum | Pedro de Mendoza Avenue 1835
Permanent and temporary exhibitions are presented, including “Man of the Sea” by the artist Cleto Ciocchini (1899-1974), “Colors of the Suburb” by Demetrio Iramain (1907-1990), “Embroidering and Dreaming in Cantabria” by Gigliola Zecchin (Canela) and “The Ceremony” by Vera Rodríguez.
● Sendrós Gallery | Wenceslao Villafañe 584
You can visit the exhibition “Water Meteors” by the artist Nicolás Bacal.
● MARCO La Boca | Almirante Brown 1031
“Sleeping on a Volcano” by artist Elisa O'Farrell, curated by Marcos Kramer, is on display.
● La Boca Historical Museum | Almirante Brown 1399
Various collections of objects are displayed that relate to the history of the Genoese immigration that populated the La Boca neighborhood beginning in 1830, as well as its main institutions, local figures and leaders, and artists.
● Colón Factory | Av. Pedro de Mendoza 2147
The Colón Factory is a visitable warehouse at the Teatro Colón, which stores and displays sets, props, and costumes from original opera and ballet productions created entirely in the Colón's workshops. Participants in "Abre la Boca" will receive tickets for free tours or guided tours for $2,000 and $2,500, respectively.
Cólon Fábrica is one of the spaces participating in Abre La Boca. Photo: Clarín Archive
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