Launched in November 2017, the Art Basel Cities Talks Program in Buenos Aires facilitates exchanges and conversations about art between members of the Argentine and international artworlds, together with the broader Buenos Aires community. With events held in informal and unconventional formats, the Talks Program takes place throughout the year, coinciding with key cultural activations in Buenos Aires. It engages with cultural institutions and leading art schools, universities, and educational organizations.

The Art Basel Cities Talks Program is structured around three primary formats:

• Estrella de Diego and Diana Wechsler on gender in contemporary art
• A panel of international entrepreneurs on art’s technological future
• Santiago Villanueva and Milovan Farronato on the curator as activist
• Aníbal Jozami and Mercedes Vilardell on collecting in a globalized world
• Isabel Lewis and Osías Yanov on the direction of performance art
• Florencia Battiti and Kit Hammonds on how to approach site-specific commissions
• Benedicta Badia, Carlos Marsano, and Laurie Ziegler on how they as collectors foster productive relationships to their local scenes of Buenos Aires/Singapore, Lima, and Los Angeles, respectively