Duhau Arts Walk: Art That Transforms the Journey

Between the historic palace and the contemporary architecture of Palacio Duhau – Park Hyatt Buenos Aires, the Duhau Arts Walk presents Paintings and Reliefs, Elena Clément’s latest exhibition. The show engages with a space where art transforms the experience of moving through the hotel.

History, design, and contemporary artistic production coexist within its walls. Open to the public and accessible 24 hours a day, this cultural corridor invites visitors to experience art as part of their everyday journey, seamlessly integrating each exhibition into the hotel’s architectural landscape.

To move from the historic Palacio Duhau on Avenida Alvear to the contemporary tower on Posadas Street, visitors pass through an underground gallery. Over time, this passage has evolved from a simple connection between two buildings into one of Buenos Aires’ most distinctive cultural spaces. Each new exhibition reshapes the experience of those who walk through it.

Through August 30, Paintings and Reliefs by Elena Clément occupies this unique setting. The exhibition brings together 25 works created between 2024 and 2026 from the series Samsara, Fragmented Stories, and Echoes. “The work resists the idea of a definitive form: each piece is a living organism that preserves the traces of its previous transformations,” explains the artist.

Images are cut apart, transferred onto new materials, and reappear in different forms. Painting, installation, and textile art coexist in a process where no work ever seems truly finished. In Samsara, fragments of earlier works find new configurations; Fragmented Stories shifts images across different media; and Echoes leaves the marks of time visible, as though each piece retained the memory of everything it has been.

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Elena Clément’s work finds a natural counterpart in the Duhau Arts Walk. Both share the same premise: transformation is an essential part of the experience. As visitors move between the palace’s 1934 architecture and the hotel’s contemporary design, their perspective shifts as well. It is no coincidence that the artist describes the exhibition as “the opportunity to share a creative process” developed over many years, emphasizing the importance of “opening a dialogue with the public and seeing how each visitor finds their own interpretation of the works.”

Over the years, the Duhau Arts Walk has showcased leading figures in Argentine and Latin American art, including Ides Kihlen, Hernán Dompé, Julio Alan Lepez, Antonio Berni, and Dolores Casares, establishing a space where contemporary art coexists with the everyday life of the hotel.

As Palacio Duhau celebrates its twentieth anniversary, it renews a commitment that has become part of its identity. When this exhibition comes to an end, another will take its place, transforming the experience once again. Perhaps that is the Duhau Arts Walk’s greatest distinction: reminding us that some places endure precisely because they never stop making room for art.

Duhau Arts Walk
Palacio Duhau – Park Hyatt Buenos Aires
Posadas 1350, Buenos Aires

Through August 30, 2026
Free admission. Open daily, 24 hours.