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Lois Patiño and her film Samsara have won the Special Jury Prize in the Encounters section of the Berlinale, an award for the most daring cinema of the festival’s new stage. In Samsara, Patiño accompanies a Buddhist teenager on a visit to an old woman’s house to read her The Bardo Thödol, a guide to the journey between death and the next rebirth. On her last day, the young man whispers the book’s final passages in her ear, closes his eyes and meditates at her side, as she embarks on a transformative journey into what lies beyond.

Ouka Leele will give her name to the new intergenerational centre in Calle del Bronce, in Arganzuela, a pioneering space that promotes coexistence between the elderly and young people. The proposal has been approved in the district’s Plenary by unanimity of the political groups and has the approval of María Rosenfeldt, daughter of the artist.

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Andres Galeano participates in the group exhibition Murs écrans, an exhibition that brings together five artists, both Quebecois and Catalan, who undertook an exchange at the time of the pandemic, when international mass circulation was suspended and creation took place under lock and key. Evolving in a world of communication where image and thought overlap, the artistic reflection provokes different encounters with the Other. It is in this exhibition where Andres Galeano presents his latest research, SINDOGRAPHIES. Une étude photographique. Starting from a conceptualization of the Holy Shroud, the first proto-photography in history, he makes a photographic speculation on the formation of the mysterious image of the dead body of Christ on a linen cloth and its relationship with contemporary screens.

The exhibition will be on view from January 13 to February 19, 2023 at the Broadcast and Production Center of Photography, Québec (Canada).

Mar Arza, Pep Duran and Fina Miralles participate in the new exhibition of the MACBA Collection. Prelude, which offers a space for reflection and critique in which the “art” experience is presented as a generating and emancipating principle. This new approach to the Collection will make use, in large part, of works acquired in recent years that seek new scenarios of relationship with existing works from the Collection. A new storytelling is thus configured that embraces absences and enables other discourses as common spaces, scenarios of the possible to question and update the forms of relationship that artistic practices establish with the subjects.

Curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose, Antònia M. Perelló Ferrer, Claudia Segura Campins and Patrícia Sorroche.

The exhibition will be on view from December 14, 2022 to mid-2024 at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona.

Santa Cruz de Tenerife has hosted the award ceremony of the Gold Medals of Merit in Fine Arts 2021, with which the Ministry of Culture and Sports has distinguished 33 personalities and entities that have excelled in the field of artistic and cultural creation or provided outstanding services in the promotion, development or dissemination of art and culture or in the conservation of artistic heritage.

Colita (born in Barcelona in 1940) has developed a fundamental work to understand the social changes of the country in the second half of the 20th century.

Miguel Rio Branco (1946) is one of the most respected names in contemporary Brazilian photography. The IMS Gallery with the exhibition Palavras Crusades takes up its original contribution by using photography as a basic element of visual writing, capable of giving new meanings to images. To do this, the artist reviews the entire archive of his life, from the rare black and white images, captured in New York in the 1970s, when he began his artistic experiments, to recent works. They are more than 200 works, which investigate topics such as sexuality, violence, pain and loneliness.

Until March 26, 2023
IMS Rio
Rio de Janeiro