The sustained rise of Peruvian artists in the contemporary art circuit abroad, the incipient professionalization of the gallery circuit and an expanding local collecting are symptoms of an ecosystem that, although still young, is consolidating. In this context, Pinta Lima inaugurates its 2025 edition as a platform that makes the country's artistic production visible and presents its circuit of Collection Talks within the framework of the FORO conversation.

This 2025, the EFG Latin America Art Award celebrates its 15th anniversary, consolidated as one of the most relevant recognitions of contemporary creation in the region. Within the framework of Pinta Lima, one of the fairs where the selection of nominated artists takes place, the impact this award has had on the visibility of Latin American visual arts is highlighted.

MAC Lima has inaugurated Contemporáneo 1. Materia :: Alchemy :: Device :: Flow, an exhibition poised to become a landmark for contemporary art in Peru. The show, the first in a series of biennial exhibitions based on the museum's collection, brings together the work of over 100 local contemporary artists.

The exhibition Amo el hinojo (I Love Fennel) weaves together art, nature, and healing. Curated by Cristina Schiavi, it emerges from an artistic practice deeply rooted in the everyday life of the artist, far from the city and devoted to the cultivation of her garden.

The Jorge López Gallery in Valencia is currently presenting Tierra de Nadie, a project by Candela Bado (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1991), curated by Agustina Bornhoffer. The exhibition is the result of Bado's participation in the first edition of the Petrona Program, which she won. The artist developed her proposal during a one-month residency at Miguel Hernández University, as part of the gallery’s second artist-in-residence initiative.

Through the idea of an endless spiral, this exhibition at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) unfolds as a reverse retrospective of artist Magali Lara (Mexico City, 1956), beginning with two murals created especially for the show and tracing back to her earliest drawings from the 1980s and 1970s.

Patricia Domínguez (Santiago, Chile, 1984) presents Lactómeda in her first solo exhibition at The Ryder Projects in Madrid. The title, a fusion of Vía Láctea (Spanish for Milky Way) and Andromeda, alludes to a portal—a space related to physics where the artist brings together her videos, sculptures, photographs, and paintings. Thus, the Chilean artist explores how different worlds interact to shape the spaces where we exist and act.

Peruvian artist Yerko Zlatar, alongside Mariana Otero, director of Puna gallery (Peru), explores the contemporaneity of traditional crafts in the NEXT Section of the fair. The collaborative duo showcases unique pieces rooted in traditional practices such as weaving, ceramics, and basketry, understood as living languages that enable the creation of new works of art.

Pinta Lima returns for its 12th edition from April 24 to 27, 2025, bringing with it three Bogotá-based galleries offering versatile and thought-provoking proposals. Together, they create a dialogue that spans a wide thematic universe characteristic of contemporary art: exploring the passage of time and materiality, questioning art history and identity, and exposing the visual culture of mass media.