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ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE CUBA opened their first painting exhibition of 2019 with PRESENTE Y PASADO (Past and Present), featuring the work of ALFREDO MENDOZA and curated by Deivy Colina. 

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“It is a monumental sculpture (720 x 144 in.) Consists of two parts: a marble replica of the semi-modernist house of my childhood enclosed in a cage in the form of a much larger house. This is opposed to a sleigh pulled by a mockingbird.”

The Sugar House by ENRIQUE MARTÍNEZ CELAYA (CUBA-USA). DETRÁS DEL MURO, the massive public art intervention in Havana’s Malecón and opens officially on April 14, 2019 at 5:00pm at the corner of Malecón & Galiano. 

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MAS QUE ANATOMÍA (More than Anatomy), a solo show by Lisandra López Sotuyo is now open at the ‘Reino de Este Mundo’ gallery at the National Library. The exhibition features photographs and sculptures curated by Rafael Acosta and runs until April 12.

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Mark your calendars: The XIII Edition of the Havana Biennial will take place April 12 - May 12, 2019. With the goal to transform Habana into a ‘cultural corridor’, and under the motto ‘The Construction of the Possible, la Bienal takes over the city and transforms it into a living art laboratory. Stay tuned for our updates and coverage! 🇨🇺 

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You are cordially invited to attend the lecture by Jorge Fernández Torres, Director of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana and Professor at the Instituto Superior de Arte (Cuba).

The event has been organised by the Autonomous Section of Artistic Studies, in collaboration with the Department of Art History and with the support of the IHA – Institute of Art History at Nova University in Lisbon (NOVA FCSH).

Lecture "From the Havana Biennial to the National Museum of Fine Arts: Curatorial Strategies"

13 February 2026, 15:00 h at the Auditorium C1, NOVA FCSH (Av. de Berna, 26 C 1069-061 Lisbon)

Free entry, open to the public

ENLAAS member Margarida Brito Alves is one of the organisers of the event and will co-moderate the lecture with Cristina Pratas Cruzeiro.

In this lecture, Fernández Torres reflects on his extensive curatorial experience, drawing on his work as chief curator of three editions of the Havana Biennial, marked by interdisciplinarity, social engagement, and a focus on micropolitics and micro-communities. He will contrast this approach with the strategies he has developed at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, where he has questioned the traditional pinacotheca model through thematic and transversal narratives. The presentation will also address a curatorial project that reflects on the role of collecting and art in shaping the narrative of a national project.

About the speaker:

Jorge Fernández Torres is the current Director of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana and former Director of the Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Centre and the Havana Biennial (2008–2016). A long-standing art critic, curator, and educator, he has lectured internationally at institutions including the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Art Institute of Chicago, UNAM (Mexico), and many others.

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Please join @cocofusco (there’s a link on her IG page) to #protest the #BienalDeLaHabana. Please repost this! Send it to everyone! And sign the letter!!! “We say NO to participating in, attending, or supporting the 14th #HavanaBiennial because we have #exhausted other means of continuing our efforts to free our colleagues. We have sent #letters, issued #petitions, #expressed our #outrage in print and online. We have made #protestart and #music. We have #fasted in #public. We have #prayed in #churches. We have asked for a dialogue with the Minister of Culture and other #government leaders. Our friends abroad have marched and pressured their #politicians. The European Parliament and the United Nations have #condemned the #arrest and harassment of #Cubans who have sought to express their #creativity and #politicalwill without #violence.” #NoALaBienalDeHabana (at Bienal De La Habana) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVE3XFdlIwt/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Darwin Estacio Martínez The Unbeliever, 2017 Acrylic on canvas 150 x 120 cm

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📷by @melissa.emergui #havanabiennial #llallaviajes (at Havana, Cuba) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxqUTPLhaEv/?igshid=4ghk0yn60aad