Alberto Goldenstein

 

ARTIST STATEMENT

Alberto Goldenstein is one of the most influential artists in the Argentine scene working with photography.

In all of his work, one can perceive a central and distinctive interest: the abstract use of form and color understood as plastic elements.

He uses a floating perspective and his flaneur attitude to propose a non-hierarchical view of the world, which does not invite judgment but instead contemplates different forms of beauty.


  • Alberto Goldenstein

    1951. Buenos Aires, Argentina

    EDUCATION

    1981 - 1983 Studies at the New England School of Photography, Boston, USA

    1993 Argentine National Fund for the Arts grant

    1995 Opens the Photo gallery for young contemporary photography, where he is still director and curator

    SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

    2018 La materia entre los bordes [The matter between the edges], photographs

    1982-2018, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    2015 Escapismo [Escapism], Intervention on Florida street, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    2014 15.01.14 – Gigantogaleria, Centro Cultural San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    2013 Americanas [Americans], Foster Catena Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    2009 Melincué y la selva [Melincué and the jungle] – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario, Argentina

    2008 Adentro [Inside] Ruth Benzacar Art Aallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    2004 Flâneur [Flâneur]- Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    2002 Mar del Plata, Foto Galería del Teatro Municipal General San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    1999 Fotografías de Alberto Goldenstein [Photographs by AG], Galería Belleza y Felicidad, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    1997 Fotografías de Alberto Goldenstein [Photographs by AG]Fotogalería del Teatro Municipal Gral.San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    1993 El Mundo del Arte. Retratos [The art World. Portraits] Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    1991 Tutti Frutti. Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

    2017 La Bella Sintaxis [The beautiful syntax], Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid

    2016 Borges, ficciones de un tiempo infinito [Borges, Fictions of an infinite time], CCK, Buenos Aires

    2015 Aquí nos vemos, fotografía latinoamericana contemporánea [Here we are, contemporary Latin American photography]. CCK, Buenos Aires

    2015 My Buenos Aires, Maison Rouge, Paris

    2012 Demolición [Demolition] – Torcuato Di Tella University, Buenos Aires

    2012 Política y belleza de las tareas [Policies and beauty of tasks] Museo Macro-Castagnino, Rosario

    2011 Buenos Aires, stories of the streets, Geschichten von den Straßen, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany

    2011 Interiores [Interiors] – Museum of Modern Art Bs.As.

    2003 Alltag und Vergessen [Everyday life and oblivion], Neue Gesselschaft für Bildenste Künst, Berlin/ Zurich

    2001 Al Sur del Sur [South of the South], Photoespaña/ Casa de América, Madrid, España

    1991 Doce Fotógrafos Argentinos [Twelve Argentine photographers], Museo El Chopo, DF, México

    PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

    Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art

    National Fine Art Museum, Castagnino-Macro Museum, Rosario, Argentina

    Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (Malba), Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Rabobank Collection of contemporary photography, The Netherlands

    In 2018 the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires presented his first retrospective exhibition