HUGO AVETA

Visual Artist (Argentina)
Lives and works between Argentina and Europe

PROFILE

Hugo Aveta is an Argentine visual artist with an internationally recognized career. His multidisciplinary practice, encompassing video, installation, painting, photography, and sculpture, explores the relationships between territory, memory, the environment, and social transformation.

Trained in Architecture and Film at the National University of Córdoba, he has developed a body of work in which the image serves as a tool for exploring territory, memory, and environmental transformations. Through his multidisciplinary practice, he addresses landscape narratives, the traces of history, and changing ways of inhabiting the world, bringing together ecological, social, and cultural concerns.

His works have been presented at major institutions, biennials, and international exhibitions across several continents, and are part of public and private collections in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and Africa.

EDUCATION

National University of Córdoba, Argentina
Studies in Architecture and Film

RESIDENCIES (selected)

* Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2026)
* Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris
* MAC VAL – Museum of Contemporary Art of Val-de-Marne, France
* Bogliasco Foundation, Genoa, Italy

EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS (selected)

* Caminar con el viento (Walking with the Wind), immersive installation and video, El Gran Vidrio, Argentina, 2024
* Invisible Gods, solo exhibition, Immigration Museum, Buenos Aires
* The Fascination of the Fault, installation, MAC VAL – Museum of Contemporary Art of Val-de-Marne, France
* Projects and exhibitions, Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris (2 participations)
* Soulèvements (Uprisings), exhibition conceived by Georges Didi-Huberman, Jeu de Paume, Paris
* International tour: Barcelona, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City
* The Subversion of the Soul, video presented in Soulèvements (Uprisings)
* Photography in Argentina: Contradiction and Continuity, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2017
* Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, 2018
* Exhibition, Museum of Photography, Rabat, Morocco
* BIENALSUR, exhibition in Saudi Arabia
* Kirchner Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires
* Tracción a Sangre (Blood Traction), video and sound installation, Genaro Pérez Museum, Córdoba
* La Maison Rouge, Paris
* Galerie Seippel, Cologne, Germany

BIENNIALS (selected)

* BIENALSUR (including the exhibition in Saudi Arabia)
* Mercosur Biennial, Brazil
* PhotoQuai Biennial, Paris
* Curitiba Biennial, Brazil
* End of the World Biennial, Argentina

INTERNATIONAL ART FAIRS

* Paris Photo (2 participations)
* Unseen Amsterdam
* Loop Barcelona
* arteBA, Buenos Aires
* ArtBo, Bogotá
* Art Miami, United States

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

* Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, France
* Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris
* MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Italy
* National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires
* Museum of Latin American Art of California, United States
* International private collections

AWARDS

Grand Honor Prize
National Salon of Visual Arts of the Argentine Republic