Latin American and Caribbean Art Exhibitions

Each exhibition is accompanied by a series of public events, offering deeper insights through conversations with artists, curators, and IDB specialists.

Our exhibitions and cultural events aim to spark creativity and inspire the public, influencers, and future decision-makers with innovative solutions to the ongoing development challenges in our region.

Today, the IDB ArtLAC Gallery has established itself as a unique space to experience and explore contemporary Latin American and the Caribbean art in the D.C. area.
 

Presented on the occasion of the 2026 Annual Meetings of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB Group) in Asunción, Paraguay, the exhibition brings together works by different generations of Paraguayan artists, members of the diaspora, and creators whose practices engage with the country and its symbolic landscapes. Alongside pieces from the IDB Art Collection and the Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) of the Organization of American States (OAS), the exhibition weaves together modern and contemporary art with traditional ceramics and textiles, highlighting continuities and transformations across time.

Through materials such as clay, thread, wood, and paper, the exhibition presents art as a living archive and a form of collective memory. Dialogues between works by artists including Elmer Calata, Claudia Casarino, Carlos Colombino, Bernardo Miguel Krasniansky Adler, and Miriam Rudolph, together with artisanal traditions such as ñandutí lace and ceramics, frame Paraguay as a constellation in motion, where identity, territory, and development are understood as relational processes shaped by memory and shared labor.