Exhibitions
Popular Codes at the Museum of Visual Arts in Santiago, Chile
Selection of thirty-two works by 23 artists that are part of the MAVI UC Museum collection.
Renewal of the collection of the MAVI UC Visual Arts Museum in the capital of Chile under the curatorship of Paula Honorato. Until April 2026, Codis Populars will coexist with important temporary exhibitions and the concept of the title is already an element of great revelation, since the theme of popular culture arises from transversal themes and is the best way to represent contemporary art, and under this premise this can be seen in this tour of the museum headquarters.
Crèdits d'Imatge: Gentilesa Arxiu Fotogràfic MAVI UC - Fotògraf Jorge Brantmayer.
Rooms 1 and 2 of the capital's museum house thirty-two works by twenty-three artists who are part of the museum's collection. Among the artists in this selection carefully selected by Paula Honorato, Carlos Altamirano, Marcela Trujillo, Juan Dávila, Gonzalo Díaz and Eugenio Dittborn stand out. All these works and pieces take a journey with three different perspectives: representation, image development based on reflection on media and techniques, as well as strategies of the concept of kitsch and baroque as a way of integrating different systems of visual thought.
Different formats, ways of creating, differentiated supports and techniques, all this set can be seen in Codis Popular of the Museum of Visual Art of Santiago de Chile. Along with all this tour of pieces is the digital reconstruction of two exhibitions presented in 1971 in the Sala Universitaria of the University of Chile by Carlos Peters - María Cristina Matta and Francisco Brugnoli. Eclectic languages where contemporary sculpture also stands out, artistic installation or pieces where the use of objects and materials tend to break the continuity of the surface.
Crèdits d'Imatge: Gentilesa Arxiu Fotogràfic MAVI UC - Fotògraf Jorge Brantmayer.
This exhibition will run in parallel with other temporary exhibitions such as Revealed which can be seen until June 8 or the tour of Kume Mongen in the MAS Room of the Chilean museum until the last day of this year 2025. Codis populars in particular has a communicative and central axis in the form of popular references to Chilean culture within art. A unique opportunity to delve into the collection of the MAVI UC Visual Arts Museum, stop at each of these thirty-two works and guide your gaze with each of the selected and exhibited artists.
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