Pinta BAphoto celebrates its 20th anniversary and is currently the most significant specialized art fair in photography in Latin America. Based in Buenos Aires, the fair has firmly established itself as an undisputed reference point for photography, fostering a meeting place for artists, curators, specialized critics, collectors, and an ever-growing audience. Since its foundation in 2005, Pinta BAphoto has been dedicated to promoting the development of photography within the artistic field and enhancing its international standing.
The fair will feature more than 55 galleries from Argentina, as well as from Venezuela, Spain, Uruguay, the United States, Paraguay, Peru, and Colombia.
At Pinta BAphoto, a wide variety of galleries are exhibited, known for the quality of their proposals, showcasing modern and contemporary artists from different countries whose artistic practices are deeply intertwined with the language of photography.
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Video Project is the section of Pinta BAphoto exclusively dedicated to showcase moving images. In its latest edition, the proposal aimed to present videos that problematize the relationship of the body with the environment and the notion that in each act of looking there is an expectation of meaning, where what matters is not just to see, but how we process and relate things.
Since 2015, Francisco Medail has been the face of the Artist Tribute section. A program that recognizes the careers of photographers who actively contributed to the field of Argentine photography, with the aim of recovering and highlighting their significance within local history. Among them have passed: George Friedman (2015), Juan Di Sandro (2016), Frans van Riel (2017), Pepe Fernández (2018), Pedro Otero (2019), Foto Estudio Luisita (2020), Lucrecia Plat (2021), Sara Facio (2022), and Boleslaw Senderowicz (2023)
The Pinta BAphoto 2024 curatorial team is composed of Irene Gelfman, Francisco Medail, Joaquín Rodríguez, Bárbara Golubicki and Sebastián Vidal Mackinson..
BAphoto presents FORO, a series of conversations reflecting with local and international artists, curators, collectors, gallery owners, and museum directors, dedicated to collaboratively investigating different aspects of photography and contemporary art.
Ediciones Larivière was founded in 1992. It occupies a special place in the Argentine publishing world due to the high thematic and artistic impact of its books and the visual quality that distinguishes them. Since then, the South American cultural heritage, particularly the Argentinean one, began to nurture its catalog. It publishes both established artists and new generations.
Pinta BAphoto has a program of Awards and Acquisitions aimed at supporting artistic practice and encouraging collecting in the photography art market.
A visual journey through the stand installations specially designed by the gallery owners. Each stand reflects a unique artistic proposal.
La Paragráfica became one of the key sectors in Pinta BAphoto. The bookstore has had a stand since 2018 at the fair to offer a unique selection of books and photobooks.
Attended by professional booksellers with more than forty years of experience, La Paragráfica is the online Argentine bookstore that exclusively offers art, design and photography books.
EFG International is a global group specializing in private banking and asset management. Headquartered in Zurich, it operates in 40 locations around the world in cities across Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Americas, and the Middle East. For the sixth consecutive year, EFG is proud to be the main sponsor of Pinta BAphoto 2024. During the fair, EFG, in collaboration with Art Nexus, will present the EFG Latin America Art Award. This award once again highlights EFG International's commitment to modern and contemporary Latin American art, which, together with its entrepreneurial spirit, seeks to promote artists and fairs from the region on a global scale. The award is given in recognition of the work of emerging artists exhibited at five contemporary art fairs in Latin America. The winner is celebrated each year during Pinta Miami.
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