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Seba Calfuqueo. CAUTÍN

Exhibition at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

October 6, 2026 – January 3, 2027

Luche, Seba Calfuqueo, 2025. Photo: Diego Argote.

Seba Calfuqueo

MNTB Exhibitions

MNTB Madrid

Curated by Marina Avia Estrada

Organized by TBA21 and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

CAUTÍN is the first solo exhibition in Europe by the Mapuche trans artist Seba Calfuqueo, organized by TBA21 and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza within the framework of the ARCOmadrid 2026. The artworks in the exhibition are new commissions by TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.

The title refers to the Cautín River, one of the most emblematic waterways of the Araucanía region, whose course meanders from its source in the Andes to its mouth in the Pacific Ocean. This river has been both protagonist and witness to episodes of colonization, resistance, and the struggle to defend Mapuche territory. Its history embodies the tension between colonial and extractive forces and the persistence of a cosmovision that conceives water as a source of life. In the exhibition, the river becomes a living being that shapes Calfuqueo’s new works while revealing the traces of its own course. CAUTÍN invites us to imagine new ways of relating to nature, grounded in reciprocity, recognition, and coexistence among waters, humans, more-than-humans, and the mythical creatures that inhabit them.

CURATOR

Marina Avia Estrada

LOCATION

Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum
P.º del Prado, 8. 28014 Madrid