Nomination
The Occasional Museum of an Incredible Landscape (MOPI) is a nomadic, ephemeral museum rethinking our relationship with landscapes, ecosystems, and collective memory. Created by Argentine artists Julieta García Vázquez and Ana Vogelfang, MOPI merges participatory art, environmental research, and territorial practices, using storytelling and collaborative knowledge to tackle ecological and cultural challenges.
Photo: Ana Vogelfang and Julieta García Vázquez
Photo: Gustavo Arrellaga
Photo: Gustavo Arrellaga
Photo: Gustavo Arrellaga
Museo Ocasional de un Paisaje Increíble / Ana Vogelfang (AR), Julieta García Vázquez (AR). Photo: Gustavo Arrellaga
Each edition unfolds as a one-day, site-specific intervention in Latin American wetlands—fragile ecosystems under global threat—creating a space where real and imagined territories meet. Scientists, artists, and local communities come together to reimagine their environment through shared narratives, borrowed artifacts, and interdisciplinary collaborations.
MOPI proposes museum-making as a dynamic, collective practice, decentralizing cultural production and fostering community-led conservation. Through evolving artistic protocols, it advances a pluriversal, decolonial approach to regenerative futures, challenging extractivist narratives and activating new ecological imaginaries.
Credits
Artists: Ana Vogelfang & Julieta García Vazquez
MOPI Salinas Grandes, 2025 – in collaboration with: FLACSO; FARN
MOPI Majorlândia, 2023 – in collaboration with: Espaço Cultural Refúgio Dourado; Toinho Carneiro; ASSAM – Associação de Artesãos de Majorlândia
With the participation of: Joana Carneiro, Toinho Andrade Maia, Edgar Andrade de Freitas, Cosma Pinheiro de Freitas, Nilberto De Freitas Silva, Maythé Valente Silva, Lidio Maia, Beatriz Maia, Luiza, Caterina, Margot, Dede Silva, and Maria Tereza Valente Silva
MOPI Isla Clusellas, 2021 – in collaboration with: Museo Histórico Provincial Brigadier General; Estanislao López; Museo Provincial de Ciencias Naturales Florentino Ameghino; Museo Etnográfico y Colonial Juan de Garay
With the participation of: María Hernández, Tino González, Analía Molinari, Celeste Medrano, Andrés Pautasso, Tusi Horn, Juliana Frías, Gabriel Cocco, Leticia Campagnolo, Ratona Colectivo, Natali Faloni, Antonella Peretti, Ayelén Coccoz, Liro Lucero, Chili Lucero, and Cora Lucero, Iván Rosado, Agrupación Chamamecera Lucero, as well as professors and students from the Escuela Provincial de Artes Visuales Juan Mantovani, and the Museo Municipal de Artes Visuales Sor Josefa Díaz y Clusellas
With support from: IFA (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), Germany; Bienalsur 2021; Ministry of Culture of Santa Fe Province; Secretary of Culture of the City of Santa Fe; Colección Oxenford Travel Grant
Biography
Ana Vogelfang (AR) and Julieta García Vázquez (AR) began their collaboration in 2018, exploring the ways in which certain absences within a community’s pictorial heritage persist and operate in contemporary contexts. Situated at the intersection of painting, architecture and social practice, their research led to the founding of Museo Ocasional de un Paisaje Increíble (MOPI) in 2021. From its first edition, MOPI has established itself as a poetic tool for investigating the relationships between community, landscape, and representation across various Latin American wetlands.