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Charmaine Poh’s First Institutional Solo Exhibition in Berlin

PalaisPopulaire in Berlin presents Make a Travel Deep of Your Inside, and Don’t Forget Me to Take, the first institutional solo exhibition by Chinese-Singaporean artist Charmaine Poh (b. 1990), Deutsche Bank’s “Artist of the Year” 2025.

A place for resistance. Ninth Video & Media Art Biennial, Chile 2009

The Ninth Video & Media Art Biennial, Chile 2009, is far more than a collection of a hundred pieces –situated halfway between art and technology, with an Internet accent and a touch of interactivity and Latin America– displayed between August and

ANOTHER (NEW) SHORTCUT TO POGOLOTTI

Cuba’s visual arts are going through an interesting moment as far as publishing matters are concerned.

SOULFUL COLOR AND LIGHT

Though an individual exhibit not always puts the artist’s work in the limelight of enthusiast and plentiful publicity –due to the artworks’ conception– and he or she doesn’t even get the kind of media hype he or she expected, the overall insertion of

Alfaro: Ritual Memory

In Memoria Ritual (Ritual Me-mory), Cuban fine artist Angel Alfaro Echevarria sets out a historic and imaginary voyage in an effort to offer an artistic vision of the Yoruba world.

A Galician in The Caribbean

In my third time around for The Archivist section, I want on the one hand to piece together some sort of a trilogy of a number of artists who are likened to the advance of the fine arts in the Caribbean and Central America, while on the other hand I…

Land. An exhibition on Uruguayan posters

Sebastian Alonso / Martin Craciun (Alonso+craciun). Afiches: Santiago Velazco y Javier Cirioni. Montevideo is recognized as a city where posters, billboards and paintings in public places are key players of the burg’s visual repertoire.

Local traces

 

The Traces: The Private Eye exhibition is an initiative thought out by artists who set up a company for the registration and transfer of the personal stamps of their works out of the artistic scene each and every one of…

Cildo Meireles. Against hegemonic ideas in art

Frames, as much as borders, bug Cildo Meireles. That’s why he doesn’t make movies despite the interest he once had in it 40 years ago. The point is films usually end with a similar format and is not a form of art you can enjoy through taste, touch…

Conect-art

It’s becoming increasingly common to see brick-and-mortar art promotional places getting their virtual correlate on the world wide web or the Internet. There are times when the giant network helps to legitimize a certain project, making…

Editorial - 3

Art by Excelencias puts its sight on the fine arts to address, in an updated fashion, the ongoing developments and their influence in the Americas and the Caribbean, such as the Central American Isthmus Biennial, the La Joven Estampa Engraving Prize…

One out of Eleven

An artist’s monographic book is not always breaking news.

A Passion for Humor

One of those indispensable books is no doubt A History of Graphic Humor in Cuba, launched in 2007 as part of the History of Graphic Humor collection directed by the General Foundation of the Alcala de Henares University.

Roberto Diago: The Nigro Enigma

There’s no social layer, group or status racism is at odds with. You may fall victim of racism no matter how deep your pockets are, the place where you live or the position you hold down.

Four in a Drawer

Earlier today I skimmed through my archives and I drew out not one but four files at the same time.