Exhibitions
Pinta Panama Art Week is filled with contemporary art and proposals
From May 21 to 25, Panama City is organizing the first edition of Pinta Panama.
The capital of Panama is organizing the first edition of the Pinta Panama Art Week, an artistically powerful program, with activities that allow the public to explore a city in constant cultural boom. With this first edition, within the Pinta Art Weeks, the aim is to position the Panamanian capital as a key destination on the international artistic and cultural calendar.
Five days in which visitors will find contemporary art exhibitions, guided tours of artists' studios, artistic tours of galleries, collections, foundations and museums in the city, a whole framework under the curatorship of Irene Gelfman (global curator of Pinta) and Emiliano Valdés (curator of Guatemala who in the past was the chief curator of the Museum of Modern Art in Medellín).
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Escultura d'Hugo González
The uniqueness of Panama City gives rise to a context full of plurality and diversity, in addition, Pinta Panamá Art Week will bring together contemporary art, without ceasing to be captivated by architecture, gastronomy, traditions, starting with the exhibition Lo que sueña toda vida, a collective of Felipe Gómez, Jonathan Harker, Libertad Rojo and the Enlaces program.
Based on the specific concept of 'effervescence, construction and identity', Emiliano Valdés will focus this first edition of Pinta Panama Art Week. According to the curator, contemporary art is marked by a constant agitation that seeks to connect and transform identities. With him at the helm, the aim is to reflect on how the construction of the identity of Panama and Latin America is influenced by multiple historical, social and cultural interactions.
Renowned artists, as well as emerging ones, will have the opportunity to use these five days to represent different ways of creating, diverse realities, but above all, represent an enormous opportunity to position Panama as a key cultural center in the entire region. Within the exhibition framework, it will be time to develop samples from some of the country's main institutions, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama (MAC), Museu de la Mola (MuMo), the Museum of the Interoceanic Canal of Panama or Casa Santa Ana.
Obra de Joan Salo
However, galleries will also have their place, highlighting the role of Diablo Rosso and its international projection, in addition to ArtConsult, a gallery in the capital and an indispensable space for the conservation, management of art and commercialization of contemporary art. Pinta Panama will end with a guided tour of the commercial collection Formes ampliadas del dibujo with works by Armando Reverón, Marisol Escobar, Jesús Soto, Gego, Carlos Zerpa and selected contemporary artists.
Lima marked the beginning of the Pinta 2025 artistic tour, with the second stop in Panama, to arrive in August with the third stop that Pinta marks in Asunción, Paraguay, ending in October in Buenos Aires and from December 4 to 7, the last Art Week of Pinta in Miami. Within this framework, Panama will also organize the Forum as a close and reflective way to get to know art from multiple perspectives with Julia Morandeira (Museo Reina Sofía), Gerardo Mosquera (critic in Havana and Madrid), María Sancho-Arroyo (Sotheby's in New York) and Sofia Villena (chief curator of the MADC in San José).
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