Para el aula: Seba Calfuqueo. Cautín
With Marina Avia Estrada

We propose a guided, conversational visit to the temporary exhibition Seba Calfuqueo: CAUTÍN, designed to share ideas and resources for independent museum visits with students, as well as to inspire educational activities in the classroom.

Artist Seba Calfuqueo takes the Cautín River, located in Wallmapu, the ancestral territory of the Mapuche people, as a starting point to explore the consequences of colonial processes, the occupation and dispossession of land, and the privatization and pollution of water. The exhibition presents the river as a living and complex territory, shaped by humans, animals, plants, rocks, and protective spirits. Drawing on the Mapuche worldview, it invites us to reflect on the relationship between nature, identity, memory, and ways of life.

Marina Avia Estrada is head of exhibitions and public programs at TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. She is an art historian and curator and holds an MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies from Columbia University (Fulbright Scholar) and an MA in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She has previously worked at institutions such as IPCNY (International Print Center New York), the Wallach Art Gallery, Tabacalera Promoción del Arte, and AECID (the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation). She recently co-curated for TBA21 the exhibition Moby Dick—The Whale. The Story of a Myth from Antiquity to Contemporary Art (Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, 2025) and is the curator of the exhibition CAUTÍN by Seba Calfuqueo (Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 2026).

Activity offered in collaboration with EducaThyssen.

For more information about the exhibition, please visit the following link.

Date and time: November 19, 2026, 5:00 pm
Location: Exhibition space (Floor -1), Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Led by: Marina Avia Estrada, curator of the exhibition
Registration: Free activity with prior registration through this link on the EducaThyssen website
Recommended age: Activity aimed at teachers and educators from Early Childhood, Primary, Secondary, Upper Secondary, and Vocational Education
Language: Spanish