By
María Laura Hernández de Agüero
THREE PERUVIAN GALLERIES AT PINTA LIMA 2026: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL
Galería Enlace, Forum, and Livia Benavides participate in the fair with a selection of artists with a presence in the national and international contemporary landscape.
April 20, 2026
Luz Letts. Trepadores
Three galleries incorporate both emerging and established creators into their proposals for Pinta Lima 2026, fostering an ongoing dialogue between tradition and contemporaneity, and committing to practices that explore diverse languages: painting, sculpture, installation, and new media, approached from a range of local and global contexts.
Founded in 2006, Galería Enlace has established itself as a pioneering space dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of plastic and visual arts, with an internationally oriented scope. Its proposal brings together diverse perspectives from emerging artists in a dialogue that connects the local with the international, reaffirming a curatorial approach centered on linking the Peruvian context with contemporary practices of global reach.
The gallery nurtures artistic production rooted in the local territory, inviting international artists to develop work in direct dialogue with the Peruvian context, its culture, and its scene. In this edition of Pinta Lima, it presents works by Marc Badia (Spain), Seleka (Spain), Gonzalo Hernández (Peru), James Jessiman (United Kingdom), Jane Yang D'Haene (South Korea), Cisco Merel (Panama), Ricardo Cárdenas (Colombia), Isabelle Borges (Brazil-Germany), and Óscar Florit (Spain).
With over 52 years of history and located in the same place since its founding, Forum has left a landmark in Peruvian modern and contemporary art: it has discovered young talents and exhibited their works at countless art fairs both in Peru and abroad. This year it presents at Pinta Lima ten contemporary Peruvian artists whose practices shape a vibrant picture of the current scene.
Committed to bold proposals, the exhibition offers a journey where languages and generations converge, tracing a dynamic dialogue between matter and memory through a contemporary lens. The gallery presents works by Carmen Letts, Carolina Kecskemethy, Denise Jiras, Eduardo Tokeshi, Lorena Castillo, Luz Letts, Maricruz Arribas, Silvia Westphalen, Melissa Larrañaga, and Micaela Aljovín.
Since its opening, the primary goal of Livia Benavides gallery has been the development of critical discourses on contemporary issues. The voices of the artists who exhibit in this space invite deep political and social reflection. The proposal for Pinta Lima 2026 brings together works by Iosu Aramburu, Chonon Bensho, Daniel de la Barra, Piero Figueroa Bravo, L. Emperatriz, José Vera Matos, and Andrés Pereira Paz.
In addition, the gallery presents for the first time at the fair Ishmael Randall-Weeks, Darío Escobar, and Elena Damiani, whom it has represented since last year. Escobar is currently exhibiting at the Museo Jumex and presents works from his Modern Sculptures series.
The selection also includes artists with established careers such as David Zink Yi, Sandra Gamarra Heshiki, and Ximena Garrido-Lecca. Gamarra Heshiki is currently presenting her first retrospective at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, while Garrido-Lecca will exhibit this month at the High Line in New York, reinforcing the presence of Peruvian and Latin American art within international institutional circles. Furthermore, Garrido-Lecca, together with Randall-Weeks and Damiani, recently presented Signal and Strata at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, a group exhibition that brought together three Peruvian artists represented by the gallery.
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