Notes related to Peru

Peruvian photographer Roberto Huarcaya will represent his country at the Venice Biennale 2024 with his project Cosmic Traces.

The vindication of the Peruvian Jorge Eduardo Eielson (Lima, Peru, 1924) looks fundamental, far beyond any framed motivation in the round figures of the anniversaries. However, the work being done around the centenary of his birth shows a titanic effort to explore one of the most versatile artists in the plastic arts and, perhaps in his best-known aspect, in the literature of contemporary Peru.

Museo del grabado ICPNA presents Antonio Raimondi and the official representation of nature in republican Peru, curated by Luis Felipe Villacorta.

Casa de América inaugurated two exhibitions of Peruvian art: Memoria del Perú. Photographs 1890-1950, with works by various photographers that capture a significant period in the country's history, and Shipibo-Konibo. Portraits of my blood, with photographs by artist David Diaz on the life of the Shipibo-Konibo.

Lucila Gradin begins her work when creating her own natural dyes –through dyeing and medicinal plants from all over the world– and culminates it by pursuing the image that leaves every trace of this ancestral practice through embroidery, textiles and compositions on paper. The Argentine artist is part of the RADAR section of Pinta PArC 2024, together with COTT Gallery.

The Pontificia Universidad Católica (PUCP) launches the Eielson 100 festival, a week of celebration that concentrates a series of events, whose central date runs from April 8 to 15.

The exhibition Ver por contacto (Seeing by Contact). Fotogramas 2014-2024 brings together the work produced over the last ten years by Peruvian photographer and visual artist Roberto Huarcaya.

The Museo de Arte de Lima - MALI presents Francis Alÿs. When faith moves mountains (2002). Two decades later. This exhibition will immerse visitors in the extraordinary work of the renowned Belgian artist, Francis Alÿs, exploring a momentous milestone that took place in Peru on April 11, 2002.

Ways of disappearing is the solo exhibition of Peruvian artist Gonzalo Hernández at the Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (ICPNA). It is curated by Max Hernández Calvo.

Mariella Agois. Geometric Systems. Paintings 2008-2023 is the first anthological exhibition of the Peruvian artist's geometric painting at the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI). It is curated by Jorge Villacorta and Paulo Dam.

On April 6, the emblematic auction of the Museo de Arte de Lima - MALI returns in its XXXI edition at Casa Prado. The event will feature more than 60 pieces of art divided into micro sessions that mark a journey from historical to contemporary.

The Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (ICPNA) and Artus are joining forces to launch the call for the Wiels Artist-in-Residence Program, an international multidisciplinary production platform that hosts emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from around the world. Deadline to apply: March 22, 2024.

Pinta PArC returns with a new edition: from April 24 to 28 at Casa Prado Miraflores, the fair will present an experimental and ambitious program, along with a careful selection of galleries.

La Otra Verdad (The Other Truth), the most recent individual exhibition of the artist Harry Chavez, is presented at the Ricardo Palma Cultural Center.

On November 18, the iconic auction of the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) celebrates its 30th edition. This year, the auction will be held at Hotel B. with more than 60 pieces of art by some of the most outstanding artists in the history of Peruvian art.

Les Recontres d’Arles, the first international festival of photography, presents Traces, an exhibition by Roberto Huarcaya, a key figure in Peruvian contemporary photography.

The Jan Mulder Collection in collaboration with Casa de América and PHotoESPAÑA inaugurated the exhibition Martín Chambi and his Contemporaries. The Andes Photographed. The exhibition is part of the official tour of the PHotoESPAÑA2023 festival.

The Museo de Arte de Lima presents this May 31 the 29th edition of its traditional Art Auction.

Mateo Lopez (b. 1978), a Colombian artist with an outstanding career, has his first solo exhibition in Lima. Pasado futurista (Futuristic Past) is the title of his exhibition, curated by Maria Wills and Julien Petit, and comes with the Miguel Urrutia Museum in Bogota's seal.

Florencia Portocarrero, curator of the NEXT section at Pinta PArC, opens a space for us on her agenda from Lima to talk about her curatorial work this year. He brings us closer to his vision and his way of approaching this task through sensitivity and openness to dialogue with galleries and their emerging artists. As the director of Bisagra, an independent art collective that she directs together with Miguel A. López, and the artists Andres Pereira Paz, Eliana Otta, Iosu Aramburu and Juan Diego Tobalina, she shares with us her desire to "horizontalize" relationships when thinking and to create an exhibition, an attitude that translates into the moment of curating NEXT.

The tenth edition of Pinta PArC ended last Sunday, held at the mythical Casa Prado, in Lima, Perú. An epicenter of artistic identities of the region in which more than 200 artists and cultural institutions participated.

Last two days to visit Pinta PArC, Peru Contemporary Art! In its tenth edition, the renowned fair presents the sections Sculpture Garden, curated by Max Hernandez Calvo and Video Project, curated by Irene Gelfman.

In its tenth edition, Pinta PArC, Peru Contemporary Art presented the Amazonía section, which exhibits renowned artists from native communities and is curated by Gredna Landolt.

MAD Museo de Minerales Andrés del Castillo, presents Grados Conjuntos (Joint Degrees), a group exhibition by Melissa Dupont, Gianna Pollarolo and Michelle Prazak under the curatorship of GBG ARTS.

In this 2023 edition, Pinta PArC –the most important contemporary art fair in Peru– celebrates its 10th anniversary.

In this interview, Gredna Landolt, a Peruvian graphic artist and curator, shares with us her work curating the Amazonías section of Pinta PArC 2023, a section that exhibits renowned native artists.

Pinta PArC, Peru Contemporary Art inaugurated its tenth edition. A unique opportunity to discover and explore contemporary art proposals from around the world and, especially, innovative initiatives from the region.

Chilean gallery NAC exhibits at Pinta PArC the work of artists Diego Santa María, David Scognamiglio and Colomba Fontaine.

Pinta PArC celebrates its tenth edition from April 19 to 23 in Lima, Peru, where more than 45 galleries will participate, including Argentina's Rolf Art.

Ser Pallay is a "collaborative textile project'' that bet on an artistic praxis that critically responds to the ambivalent valuation of the extraordinary Andean textile tradition in the art narratives of Peru's cultural history.