Casas Riegner returns to Art Basel 2025

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Casas Riegner returns to Art Basel with a presentation that celebrates the gallery’s multigenerational program, bringing together seminal, mid-career, and emerging voices from Latin America and beyond—as has been characteristic of its curatorial vision since the gallery’s early beginnings.

Featuring Beatriz González, Elena del Rivero, Bernardo Ortiz, Leyla Cárdenas, Luz Lizarazo, Carlos Alfonso, and Camila Rodríguez Triana, the presentation is a powerful reflection of the gallery’s commitment to building meaningful, long-term relationships with artists across generations and supporting their critical engagement with the world.

Since its debut at Art Basel in 2010 (Feature section), followed by another presentation in Feature in 2014 and a participation in Art Statements in 2012, Casas Riegner has maintained a steady and thoughtful presence at the fair. Since 2018, the gallery has been part of the main sector and is among the few from Latin America regularly invited to participate. Art Basel continues to be a cornerstone of the gallery’s mission: forging lasting collaborations that connect our artists with leading curators, institutions, and biennials worldwide.

Beatriz González (b. 1932, Bucaramanga, Colombia) is a seminal figure in Latin American art whose six-decade career has profoundly shaped the region’s visual culture. At Art Basel 2025, she presents two paintings honoring the anonymous victims of Colombia’s armed conflict through tombstone silhouettes—one empty, the other depicting Los Cargueros, figures bearing bodies wrapped in plastic. These works reference her iconic public art project Auras Anónimas (2009–2017), for which she was awarded the 2024 Regional Grant for Latin America at the International Award for Public Art. Now 92, González continues to move audiences with her poetic imagery, as seen in War and Peace: A Poetics of Gesture, recently exhibited at MUAC (Mexico City) and the De Pont Museum (Netherlands). Upcoming exhibitions include a 2025 monograph at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and a major retrospective at the Barbican Centre in London in 2026. Her legacy includes retrospectives at the Museo Reina Sofía, KW Institute, and MUAC, and her work is held in major collections such as MoMA, Tate Modern, Museo del Barrio, Pérez Art Museum, and MFA Houston.

Elena del Rivero (b. 1949, Valencia, Spain) is a Spanish-born artist based in New York whose work offers a contemplative investigation of domestic spaces and resilience. Through large-scale installations, paintings, and works on paper, she explores themes of memory and repair, often using stitching and mending as central metaphors for healing and the passage of time. Her practice reflects both personal experience and a broader feminist perspective, transforming the domestic into a space of political reflection. Del Rivero’s work is held in major institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Museo Reina Sofía. She has received numerous accolades, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. 
Her recent performance La Quema (2024) was widely covered in the Spanish press, signaling a shift toward more urgent and publicly engaged forms of expression. In 2025, she will open a major solo exhibition at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona, further reaffirming the resonance of her practice in contemporary discourse.

Bernardo Ortiz (b. 1970, Bogotá, Colombia) is a mid-career artist whose work merges drawing, writing, and design through a sustained exploration of the page as both a conceptual and material space. In summer 2025, he will join the residency at Kulturhaus Villa Sträuli in Switzerland, supported by Pro Helvetia, focusing on socially engaged and interdisciplinary practices. Earlier, in 2023, following a residency at Amant in Siena, Ortiz presented Tautological Ballad at Casas Riegner—an exhibition whose themes continue in the works he will present at Art Basel 2025. His practice, rooted in minimal gestures and fragments of text, reflects on language, painting, and reproduction. Ortiz’s work is included in major collections such as Tate Modern, MoMA, CNAP, the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, and Deutsche Bank. He has exhibited in biennials including Mercosur, Lyon, São Paulo, Denver, and Sydney, and held his first solo museum show, Borrar, at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires in 2017.

Leyla Cárdenas (b. 1975, Bogotá, Colombia) explores memory, absence, and the passage of time through large-scale installations made from architectural remnants. At Art Basel, she presents photographs of Swiss caves, which she unweaves to reveal their internal structures—reflecting on erosion, transformation, and material fragility. She has been invited to the 2025 Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art and participated in the 2022 Lyon Biennale. Her work has been shown at institutions such as Palais de Tokyo and MAMBO, and she has received awards including the Bogotá Biennial (2012) and MOLAA Awards (2008).

Luz Lizarazo (b. 1966, Bogotá, Colombia) is a mid-career artist whose introspective practice explores the feminine through a symbolic language centered on the body, the eye, and natural forms. She will soon undertake a residency at El Espacio 23 in Miami and has been invited to participate in the 24th Arte Paiz Bienal in Guatemala, curated by Eugenio Viola. This year 2025, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid acquired her work Piel Extendida, and in 2024 she participated in the inaugural Malta Biennale with My Body Speaks the Truth, a piece that addresses the systemic silencing of women’s voices and bodies. In 2022, she held her first solo exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO), presenting key works from the last 15 years.

Carlos Alfonso (b. 1986, Popayán, Colombia) presents a selection of wooden assembled paintings that explore transformation and connection through the mystical lens of nature. Conceived as altars, these small-scale works merge image and text, creating hybrid mise-en-scènes that evoke manuscripts or codices. Alfonso’s multidisciplinary practice—encompassing painting, sculpture, writing, cooking, and editorial work—centers on territory, collective memory, and hospitality. He will create a mural in Mexico City commissioned by Ruta del Castor, continuing his exploration of participatory spaces rooted in care, exchange, and the anthropology of food. His work forms part of important collections, including the Denver Art Museum.

Camila Rodríguez Triana (b. 1985, Cali, Colombia) is an emerging Colombian filmmaker and visual artist whose work spans installation, photography, performance, and video. Her practice explores decolonization and healing through a dialogue between her mestizo identity and ancestral Muisca roots, blending traditional knowledge with contemporary media to reimagine cultural memory. She was awarded the prestigious Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative grant, working alongside artist Carrie Mae Weems. Her work has been featured in exhibitions such as Patrimonio Mestizo during the Rolex Art Weekend at BAM Fisher in Brooklyn (2022), and her first solo show in Colombia, The First Turn of the Spiral, at Casas Riegner in Bogotá. In 2025, she will participate in “Vita Contemplativa”, curated by Sandrine Servent at Garage Centre d’Art d’Amboise in France.

 

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