The organizing committee of the 14th Havana Biennial has revealed details of the academic meetings, exhibitions and other cultural activities that will take place this month in the framework of the top visual arts event in Cuba.
Entitled ‘La Habana de la Bienal’, this second stage of the biennial or as the organizes also call it ‘experience’ runs through March 24th with attractive proposals by renowned Cuban and foreign artists alike, covering different artistic disciplines.
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Highlights include the collective exhibition ‘A puro color’, in the framework of the ‘Proyectos En Paralelo’ (Parallel Projects) segment of the Biennial. It comprises artworks by such renowned artists as Jesús Molina, Yuleisy Fernández, Aramis Santos, Saúl Vento, Jordán Calaña, Sarahy Rosario, Lisandra Quintana, among others.
Other group art exhibitions to be inaugurated in February, in the context of the 14th Havana Biennial, include ‘Libros y anaqueles de arte’, ‘Sin máscaras ante el espejo’, ‘Nuestros mundos diversos’, ‘Distancias conectadas’ and ‘El rostro anónimo del egoísmo’.
The program of the largest visual arts event on the Cuban calendar includes also individual exhibitions, among them ‘Corazón’ and ‘Incursiones’, by Cuban artists Pepe Menéndez and iris Fundora, respectively, and ‘Geometría variable II’, by Canadian artist Arthur Munk.
Seven artists participate in the collective show entitled ‘Fugas’, which value sound leakages as a musical movement, and also the show ‘Yemayá canta a La Habana’ (Yemaya sings to Havana).
Under the slogan ‘Future and Contemporaneity’, the present edition of the Havana Biennial proposes various segments devoted to contemporary visual arts production on the island with the collective shows ‘Farmacia: volver a la tierra’, ‘Imaginarios visuales femeninos’, ‘Disonancias’, ‘Islas’, ‘Detrás del muro’ and ‘A fin de cuentas’.
This 14th edition of the Biennial is being held with the expressed support of more than 400 thousand intellectuals and artists from around the world. Meanwhile, the academic events, held virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic, have had the participation via online of personalities in 82 nations, most of them across Latin America and Europe.
The third and final stage or ‘experience’ of the present edition of the Havana Biennial begins on March 25th and runs through April 30th. Entitled ‘Regreso al porvenir’ (Return to the Future), it will offer futuristic artworks by Cuban and foreign artists alike.
