Selected Artists
Gerónimo Araquistain
Gerónimo Araquistain is an artist from Buenos Aires whose practice develops between painting, object and sculpture. He uses plush as his main material, working through accumulation and repetition to build surfaces where images and signs from popular culture and systems of consumption are reorganized.
His work makes visible symbolic structures that often remain naturalized or unnoticed in their original contexts. Through icons, cards, crowns, objects and mass-cultural references, Araquistain transforms familiar images into materially unexpected works.
Recognition and Exhibitions
Araquistain has presented solo exhibitions at Centro Cultural San Martín, Buenos Aires, and Centro Municipal de Arte de Avellaneda.
His work has been selected for the 112th edition of the Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales at Palais de Glace, the 7th edition of the Premio Bienal de Artes Visuales Áreatec, the 27th Salón de Arte Textil at Museo Sívori, the 3rd Premio B·Arte, the Premio MACSur at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lanús, and the Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales XLIX at MUMBAT.
In 2025, he received a Special Mention at the 31st edition of the Premio Universidad de Belgrano.
Contact:
Website: www.araquistain.art
Instagram: @geroaraquistain
Practice
Araquistain’s practice is based on painting, object and sculpture, with plush as a central material. His work uses accumulation, repetition and synthetic images to explore the way popular culture, consumption and national customs produce symbolic forms.
His works often draw from tarot, the Spanish playing-card system, consumer imagery and familiar icons. By shifting these references into plush and object-based formats, he creates a tension between visual immediacy, material softness and the cultural charge of the image.
Why Icon Lab Gallery selected his work
Icon Lab Gallery selected Gerónimo Araquistain for a visual language built through strong icons, unexpected materiality and contemporary symbolic systems.
His work aligns with the gallery’s interest in images that are immediately legible while opening critical readings around culture, consumption and collective imagination.
Selected works
The works presented by Icon Lab Gallery include plush-based pieces, paintings, objects and large-format works developed around tarot, Spanish playing cards, popular culture and consumer imagery.
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