Events

Contemporary Cuban art is fundamentally sustained by a dialogue with its points of reference. Strictly speaking, there is no absolute invention, nor is there a rupture completely detached from what came before. Even when an artist seeks to reject a tradition, they necessarily begin from it—questioning, transforming, reinterpreting, or contradicting it. Dialogues Between Tradition and the Contemporary Art is an online contemporary art exhibition featuring the work of Cuban artists Alex Martínez, Yeinier Núñez, Bryan Romero, Yainit Alcázar, and Natacha Forcade. Through this selection, the exhibition explores the relationship between…Read more …

In the photography of visual artist Yordan Duke Lazo, there is no room for empty aestheticism—for a self-contained beauty that exhausts itself at the surface of the image. Instead, each photograph is grounded in an idea that articulates a system of implications, transforming every frame into the starting point for interpretation. Duke Lazo’s work reveals a minimalist approach that extends beyond form. His practice is not limited to the refinement or reduction of visual elements; minimalism also shapes the conceptual structure of the work itself. This sense of essentiality remains…Read more …

What Can I Say Through Myself?, presented by the ArteMorfosis platform, explores female identity and self-representation in contemporary art through a theme that has remained central throughout art history: self-referentiality and the artist’s desire to reinterpret personal circumstances, memories, and lived experiences through creative practice. The exhibition brings together works by Lisandra Isabel García López, Nadia Díaz Graverán, Olivia Torres Díaz, Shanaya Herrera Vega, and Adriana Mugia, whose practices create spaces for exploring identity, representation, affection, memory, and female experience. Through diverse techniques, media, and conceptual approaches, each artist transforms…Read more …

Study in Light and Matter presents the work of Cuban contemporary artist Jennifer Ruiz, whose intervened photography explores the shifting boundaries between image, memory, light, and materiality. Moving from self-referential investigations to subtle and often playful reflections on everyday events and processes, Ruiz transforms photography into a space for experimentation, imagination, and symbolic construction. Her work reveals a strong painterly sensibility. Ruiz often begins with an image that might initially be perceived as documentary, only to transform it through artistic intervention into a layered visual composition. The photographic image thus…Read more …

Dayron Gallardo continues an artistic exploration that appears to be concerned less with representing the world than with revealing its underlying essence. His works evoke organic forms that suggest living matter in a constant state of transformation, while never being confined to a single interpretation. They emerge as presences animated by an inner energy, oscillating between the natural and the imagined. Much of the power of Gallardo’s work lies in this ambiguity. His art invites viewers to contemplate matter as a territory of continuous metamorphosis, where form, memory, and perception…Read more …

Milena Saavedra’s work traverses a wide range of landscapes, yet throughout them all there remains the unmistakable imprint of an identity that, even while engaging with universal concerns, is distinctly Cuban. Her images move through settings where nature enters into dialogue with the traces of human intervention, while also venturing into intimate spaces that reveal fragments of popular culture, collective memory, and the tensions that shape everyday life. From this thematic breadth, her photography constructs a vision that finds in the local a pathway to the universal, never relinquishing the…Read more …

One Stroke, One Instant brings together works by Duvier del Dago, Airel Suárez, Alexandra Álvarez Carvajal, Roger Toledo, and Damián Pozo in an exhibition that highlights the remarkable diversity of approaches found in contemporary Cuban drawing. From lyrical introspection to critical reflections on contemporary society and its complexities, each work contributes a distinct perspective while engaging in a broader dialogue with the others. The exhibition invites viewers to discover how a single artistic discipline can generate profoundly different visual languages and conceptual worlds. Despite their stylistic differences, the participating artists…Read more …

The selection of works that contemporary Cuban artist Damián Pozo brings together under the title Stories of the Revolution confirms one of the most distinctive directions of his recent practice: the appropriation of the visual language of comics, graphic novels, and elements of pop culture to construct narratives that, beneath their playful appearance, unfold into a complex network of meanings. Pozo’s characters appear to emerge from adventure comics and graphic storytelling traditions, yet they quickly reveal conflicts related to the formation of consciousness, power relations, memory, heroism, and the construction…Read more …

Within this body of work, Ismael Olazábal Báez immerses viewers in the imagination and lived experiences of a working class that has played a decisive role in shaping Cuban national identity and sustaining, with all its contradictions, a particular social project. Far from epic representations or legitimizing narratives constructed by institutions of power, the artist turns his attention to the anonymous heroes of history—those whose lives have often remained at the margins of official archives. Olazábal’s artistic research seeks to reframe this memory through an affective and generational perspective, recovering…Read more …