Notes related to Perú

In conversation with Ilaria Conti, curator of the fair's Radar section, we learn how to adjust our gaze when encountering the Guatemalan work of Angélica Serech, presented by La Galería Rebelde.

The exhibition Lengua materna (Mother language) is a journey through the intimate and social spaces that have shaped the work of the artist.

"Repeating and mastering form, shaping clay spheres, is like offering a prayer with no beginning or end in time. When I look, I hear distant music" — Carlos Runcie Tanaka (A Zen Parable and Ten Small Stories, 2007)

As curator of the Peruvian pavilion in Venice, Andrade examines how the Shipibo-Konibo artist transforms a visual thinking system into an all-encompassing experience —and why that gesture reshapes the scale of what contemporary art can hold.

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.

The show presents six decades of artistic and cultural work by Francesco Mariotti and María Luy, two artists who have intertwined technology, collectivity, nature, and social commitment in their work.

The Brazilian museum presents works by Santiago Yahuarcani and Oscar Muñoz, exploring ancestral knowledge and the fragility of images in Latin America.

The fair commits to a program that brings together processes, technology, and identity, with curatorial sections that expand ways of thinking about contemporary art.

The Jan Mulder Collection showcases the intersections between Latin American tradition and global developments in the field. 

The exhibition evokes a present marked by oppression, where bodies, sensibilities, and politics are deeply intertwined.

In a context marked by the debate on immigration in the United States, Joan Jiménez Suero (Perú) has been recognized by the Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA) for a proposal that reflects on the identity, memory, and resistance of the Latin diaspora.

This exhibition brings together prominent artists from various Shipibo-Konibo communities, who now reside in the Cantagallo community, in Perú. Through their works, the collective shares artistic practices that are part of a living culture.

With the aim of safeguarding and promoting Peru’s artistic heritage, the museum unveils a catalogue that brings together both historical and contemporary works.

The photographic work of the Peruvian artist reveals the lived realities of Andean communities in the face of climate change.

The AM11 international prize brings visibility to a practice rooted in collective experience and a sensitive engagement with the landscape.

Andrea Canepa intervenes in the Palacio de Cristal at the Museo Reina Sofía with Fardo, an installation consisting of a large tarp inspired by pre-Columbian funerary bundles that transforms the building into a symbolic body, inviting reflection on what is visible and displayed, as well as on preservation and transformation.

The exhibition brings together a decade of technical and poetic experimentation that transcends the traditional boundaries of photography and places visual experience at the center of reflection. 

Argentine Luciano Giménez, who took part in the fair in Miami, was selected to undertake a two-month residency in Peru.

In its final weeks, the exhibition Mi país no es Grecia offers one of the most comprehensive overviews of the Peruvian photographer’s work—moving between the popular, the precarious, and the poetic.

With seven sessions and an extraordinary lot, the auction emphasizes this year three-dimensional and sculptural works.

Her project From Other Worlds will occupy the Peruvian Pavilion at the 61st Biennale, exploring the relationship between contemporary art, ancestral memory, and the Amazonian worldview.

The visual artist, winner of the 2023 BCRP National Painting Prize, presents her latest solo exhibition—an interdisciplinary proposal that weaves together painting, textiles, and performance.

Luna Dannon presents an exhibition born from her experience leading a mental health project involving 105 Amazonian communities during the pandemic.

The Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid presents Somos raíces (We Are Roots), an exploration of the creative worlds of Santiago Yahuarcani (Pucaurquillo, Peru, 1960) and Nereyda López (Pebas, Peru, 1965), two of the most prominent figures in contemporary indigenous art. Both artists draw from the oral traditions and cosmologies of their respective peoples—the Uitoto in Yahuarcani’s case, and the Tikuna and Cocama in López’s—to give voice to languages of resistance.

The museum recalls the artist’s deep commitment to Peruvian art as a founding member of the Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo, which celebrates its 70th anniversary this year.

Gonzalo García Callegari presents his twentieth solo exhibition at the Inca Garcilaso Cultural Center in Lima. In the wake of Peru’s bicentennial of independence, he invites us—with his signature dark humor—to question the unfinished ideals of national emancipation.

The Vigil Gonzales gallery announced that Peruvian artist Gonzalo Hernandez has been selected for MOAD’s artist residency at the Padrón Campus of Miami Dade College, which began on May 3 and will conclude on August 23, 2025.

The Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (ICPNA) presents at the Venancio Shinki Space in Miraflores Como si la verdad importara (As if truth mattered), an exhibition that deploys a series of pictorial strategies designed to challenge perception and question the notion of certainty in the image. 

This was my first visit to Lima (and I hope it’s the first of many), and I came to take part in Pinta Lima 2025—an incredibly enriching experience. From the opening to the close, the fair was full of life: buzzing rooms, lively conversations, and unexpected encounters. There was an unmistakable energy in the air, the kind that comes from a city that takes seriously its place on the Latin American contemporary art map.

After four days of intense activity, during which key figures from the international and regional contemporary art scenes came together, the twelfth edition of Pinta Lima concluded at Casa Prado, reaffirming itself as one of the main events for contemporary art in Peru. This edition, directed by Irene Gelfman, celebrated cultural legacy and projected the future of Latin American art at a time when the Peruvian ecosystem —with the international rise of its artists, the strengthening of its gallery circuit, and the growth of local collecting— is advancing strongly toward consolidation.