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In her presentation, Laura Bohnenblust takes Argentina’sfloating exhibition la primera exposiciónflotante de cincuenta pintores Argentinos as a starting point. In 1956, itwas the first show of the newly founded Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires.As the museum only had a fixed location from 1960 onwards, a ship served as theexhibition’s space in the founding year. The Barco Yapeyú navigated to several harbors of the American southcoast such as Rio de Janeiro, but it also reached South Africa, Asia and theeast coast of North America to present Argentinian Art to an international audience.Bohnenblust will contextualize thiscase study within the broader, transdisciplinary phenomenon of floatingexhibitions. Furthermore, she will include comparative examples of othertravelling exhibitions such as the exposicionesculturales rodantes: 150 años de Arte Argentino (1960). The following questions will be discussedcritically: What are the intentions and impacts of letting artworks orwhole displays travel through different geographical spaces such as provinces,countries, continents, or even around the world?The examination of travellingexhibitions will allow the discussion of questions related to educational spaces, institutionalspaces, (geo-)political spaces, spaces of (national) representation, and &#160;even the negotiation of spaces in the writingof art history.Laura Bohnenblust has been a PhD candidate at the Institute of Art History, University of Bern, Switzerland, since April 2016. In her research project “Arte Flotante – Arte Rodante. Travelling Exhibitions in the Art of Argentina Around 1956”, she investigates mobile exhibition formats in the course of &#160;Argentine art history. She is a member of the Global Studies Doctoral Program of the Graduate School of Humanities at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern. Laura Bohnenblust studied Art History (2010–2016) and German Literature (2010–2014) at the University of Bern. During her research in Buenos Aires, she participated in several classes at the IUNA (2015), the UTDT (2015), the UBA (2018), and the UNSAM (2018). In 2017, she was a Fellow at the Transregional Academy II “Mobility: Objects, Materials, Concepts, Actors” in Buenos Aires. Her PhD project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF, Doc.CH).