Add concerts, art and amazing outings to your plans for this weekend in Buenos Aires. Here is a list of events and activities for May in Buenos Aires. If you still don’t know what to do in Buenos Aires this weekend, here’s what’s going on this Thursday, Friday, Saturday of May. Prepare your plans for this weekend in Buenos Aires!
Not to be missed at the Book Fair at La Rural.
What to do in Buenos Aires this weekend. Obviously stop by the Book Fair at La Rural. The event for book lovers but also one of the most important fairs in Latin America that every year brings together thousands of people. It’s a great plan if you don’t know what to do this weekend in Buenos Aires: you can discover new authors and get your next great story to read.
These days and times the Feria del Libre is free:
🎟 Free admission from 8pm to 10pm Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 April, Monday 5, Tuesday 6, Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 May.
📍4201 Santa Fe Ave.
📅From April 24 to May 12
2. Concerts of the week: Simpleminds and System of a Down.
Looking for plans for this weekend in Buenos Aires? If you still have some budget left for live music, there are two unmissable concerts coming up in the city. Two legendary bands, with very different styles, are coming to light up the month: System of a Down and Simple Minds. Simple Minds will perform on May 1 at Movistar Arena, while System of a Down will thrill their fans on May 3 at 📍Av. Juan Bautista Justo 9200.
Movistar Arena 📍Humboldt 450
Velez Stadium📍Av. Juan Bautista Justo 9200.
3. Discover the best exhibitions and shows
This weekend in Buenos Aires, you can visit the MACBA on guided tours, take a stroll through the Malba and discover its most recent and free exhibitions at the Centro Cultural Recoleta. His most recent exhibition opens up Cortazar’s world in detail through an exhibition of personal objects.
MACBA 📍Av. San Juan 328
MALBA 📍Figueroa Alcorta Av. 3415
Centro Cultural Recoleta 📍Junín 1130
4. Free Immersive Exhibitions
Palacio Libertad is the only cultural center in Buenos Aires with a room dedicated exclusively to immersive experiences. Every weekend you have the opportunity to visit and enjoy this space for free. Discover the six experiences that you will find this weekend (some continue and others are renewed): Immersive Galaxies, Nosferatu, The Little Prince, The Pulse of the Earth and OOteca are some of them.
📍 Palacio Libertad – Sarmiento 151
5. Autumn Film Series at Recoleta
There can be no good plans for this weekend in Buenos Aires without movies. This May, the Recoleta Cultural Center has among its film series one dedicated to cult movies, those with incredible soundtracks and actors playing their first roles that today are consecrated. Every Friday a different movie awaits you (comedy, drama, whatever you want). This Friday is the turn of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
The show is free but you have to make a reservation at EntradasBA.
Friday May 2nd. At 6pm
Junin 1950
6. Ride on a locomotive
One of your plans for this weekend in Buenos Aires should be to ride on a train and locomotive like a century ago, aboard one of the trains that you will find in the Railway Museum of Retiro.
Buenos Aires Railway Museum
📍405 Libertador Avenue
The Buenos Aires Railway Museum is open every day (including weekends) from 10am to 8pm.
7. Choose your theater play for this weekend.
A weekend without theater? No way because there are so many plays to choose from. Dramas, comedies, dramas with comedy, historical, alternative and not so alternative, and in all neighborhoods. There are plenty of stories and many of the theaters also have cafes where you can meet and have a drink before or after. Isn’t it one of the best plans for this weekend you can imagine?
8. Visit the Aeronautical Museum
Every weekend, you can go a little further away from Buenos Aires and visit, for example, the aeronautical museum of Morón: it has two giant hangars with a very important collection of airplanes and learn about the history of aviation in Argentina. For fans of flying and airplanes, one of the best plans and events for your weekend in Buenos Aires.
📍Eva Peron Av. 2200
9. Concerts in magical places by candlelight
This weekend you can’t miss some of the Candlelight concerts, the candlelight concerts (thousands of candles) where you can listen to the best songs of Coldplay, Adele, Queen and many other great artists, performed by a string quartet in a unique place in Buenos Aires. Buy your tickets because it’s a great gift for April!
10. Visit the Automobile Museum of Buenos Aires
If you don’t have plans for this weekend, discover the Automobile Museum if you have never been there before. With intact examples of the most classic cars in the industry, a section dedicated to Fangio and the Galvez brothers and collectibles, this museum is the perfect place to be transported to another era.
Automobile Museum📍Irigoyen 2265 Cap. Fed. Villa Real.
Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 2pm to 7pm.
10. Find your neighborhood organic fair
In case you didn’t know it or didn’t know it, Sabe la Tierra is a network of organic fairs where producers of fruits, vegetables and organic products gather to offer you a wide variety of products free of pesticides and totally friendly with health and the environment. You can find these fairs every weekend:
📅 Thursdays in Microcentro from 10 am to 6 pm. Sáenz Peña and Florida Av.
Thursdays at Tribunales from 11 am to 7 pm. Libertad and Lavalle
Friday in Caballito from 4pm to 9pm. Rivadavia Park
Sunday in Caballito from 8 am to 2 pm. Plaza Irlanda
Sunday in Saavedra from 8 am to 2 pm. Saavedra Park
Sunday in Palermo from 4 to 9 pm. Las Heras Park
11. Bs As Market through the squares of Buenos Aires.
If you don’t know what to do this weekend in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Market is back at night! Always a different square, always the best products and local producers and a great variety to choose to eat and eat, but now that the summer is already palpable, in night version to dine by moonlight.
📍Martín Rodriguez Square
May 3rd and 4th. From 10hs to 19hs.
12. The exhibitions of Arthaus
You may not have heard of them but Mondongo is a group of artists who create very unusual works with unconventional materials. The result is a captivating exhibition that is different from those found in other galleries or museums. In addition, at Arthaus you will also find theater and changing exhibitions so that you will always have something new to discover. In Buenos Aires, this weekend to see the work of Mondongo is a great plan.
📍Bartolomé Mitre 434
13. Erotic art with free admission
ErotixXx is the new exhibition of Condesa, a Buenos Aires gallery specialized in erotic art and BDSM. In this exhibition you will find photographs, video performances and objects of the artist Juliette Puch. A work that crosses the boundaries between sex work and art work.
📍Matheu 1156. From April 18th
14. Festival del Asado y la Empanada
What to do in Buenos Aires this weekend when the day is nice and you are hungry, the answer to such a question is simple: go to the Festival del Asado y la Empanada. Admission is free and you will be able to eat meat in all its forms and variants. A must-see festival at the Palermo Racecourse.
📍Palermo Racetrack (Entrance by Avenida del Libertador and Dorrego).
May 3 and 4. From 12hs to 23 hs.
15. Sunsettrip with Hernan Cattaneo on the Costanera
This weekend comes a new edition of Sunsetstrip Buenos Aires, Hernan Cattaneo ‘s show this Thursday May 1st and Friday May 2nd. Get ready for the best electronic music at sunset.
May 1st and 3rd.
📍Costanera Av. 2100