Events

The eighth edition of the Prisma art contest, held between October and November 2024 as part of the 15th Havana Biennial, reaffirmed the enduring vitality of landscape as one of the most fertile genres in the visual arts. This year, the theme expanded beyond the representation of the natural environment to become a symbolic space for reflection on emotions, philosophy, and the human relationship with context. The selected works revealed the diversity of Cuban contemporary art, engaging with new technologies, personal poetics, and the challenges of a world increasingly mediated by the digital.…Read more …

The seventh edition of the Prisma competition, organized by the ArteMorfosis platform in March 2024, was titled “Lumen. Intervened Photography.” This edition explored the expressive possibilities of photographic imagery in dialogue with digital technologies. The open call invited Cuban artists living on the Island to experiment with photography beyond its documentary function—approaching it as a field of creative freedom where manipulation, recreation, and technical transformation become acts of visual thought. Through Lumen, ArteMorfosis presented an open perspective on photography as an expanded art form, capable of unveiling new aesthetic and conceptual truths in the era of the multiplied…Read more …

The sixth edition of the Prisma art contest, organized by the ArteMorfosis platform under the title Corpus, took place in 2023 with an open call inviting artists to explore the body as a center of meaning. “The body is the temple,” read the invitation—an idea that inspired a diverse and profound reflection on the symbolic dimensions of the human form through multiple artistic languages and media. Artists were encouraged to view the body not merely as anatomy, but as metaphor—a living territory where identity, memory, and contemporary sensibility converge. The human figure, an eternal motif…Read more …

In an era of increasing access to technology, creators seem less dependent on others to bring their visions to life. Many believe that individualism has become one of the defining traits of contemporary art. Yet, time and again, remarkable projects emerge from the fruitful collaboration between two or more artists—where the convergence of diverse poetics does not restrict creativity but multiplies horizons, expanding the spectrum of ideas, emotions, and expectations. The Prisma 5 Art Competition, organized by the ArteMorfosis platform in 2022, was born precisely from this spirit: to encourage collective art projects that celebrate…Read more …

The second edition of the Prisma Contest, organized by the ArteMorfosis platform, took place during the challenging year of 2020. With the theme of looking towards the future, young visual artists living in Cuba were invited to share their artistic goals for the new year through a short video, along with three recent two-dimensional works. From this selection emerged a collective exhibition titled New Year Resolutions of Contemporary Cuban Artists, which was presented in early 2021 at the ArteMorfosis gallery in Zurich. The call received a wide and diverse response, revealing the vitality and richness of Cuban…Read more …

During the most critical stage of the Covid-19 pandemic, when the world was asking what comes next?, the first edition of Prisma was launched by the platform ArteMorfosis. Just like a prism breaking light into a spectrum of colors, this initiative aimed to create an integrative perspective out of a shared human experience. Cuban artists were invited to reflect through their own sensitivity on the many nuances that emerged in the midst of the crisis, revealing the other face of the pandemic: not only the shadow of uncertainty but also the light of creativity…Read more …