Organized by Semana de la Alta Costura Argentina (SAC) and the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico, the exhibition Viva Frida held at Malba Museum from September 20, 2026 through March 14, 2027, brings together an outstanding selection of Frida Kahlo's personal belongings in dialogue with paintings from the Malba–Costantini Collection.

Curated by Dr. Circe Henestrosa, in collaboration with Gannit Ankori, Viva Frida offers an intimate and comprehensive perspective on the artist. Clothing, accessories, orthopedic devices, photographs, letters, and archival materials reveal how the artist constructed her image as a language of expression in which identity, politics, gender, and disability converge.

At the heart of this selection are Self-Portrait with Monkey and Parrot (1942), one of the collection’s emblematic works; Diego and I (1949)—her final self-portrait before her death, which set an auction record for Latin American art in 2021—and the lithograph Untitled (The Abortion) (1932). The presentation is complemented by an important group of documentary materials formerly belonging to art critic and Kahlo’s friend Raquel Tibol, including photographs, letters, and other personal objects.

Born in Mexico in 1907, Frida Kahlo began painting in 1925 while recovering from a serious accident that profoundly affected her life and left her with permanent physical injuries. At the age of twenty-two, she married muralist Diego Rivera, with whom she traveled between Mexico and the United States. In 1938, she presented her first solo exhibition in New York, and the following year participated in her first exhibition in Europe, in Paris. Today, she is internationally recognized as one of the most significant figures in modern art.

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