Asunción prepares to live its art week

From August 5 to 11, the Paraguayan capital will host art exhibitions and various free-entry activities to enjoy seven days of artistic celebration throughout the city.

Pinta Sud-ASU presents the third and last edition of Asunción's Art Week, a week in which contemporary art will take center stage in our capital, inviting a dialogue with the best of the Paraguayan art scene. It will be from Monday, August 5 to Sunday, August 11 with an extensive curated agenda that includes art exhibitions at Casa Pinta, at the Cultural Center of the City Manzana de la Rivera, and in more than 20 sites, including galleries, cultural institutions, museums and self-managed spaces, with guided tours and free public activities.

One of the event's central activities will be held at the Casa de la Integración of CAF, the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean. It is FORO, a discussion group that will bring together curators and key figures in the international art circuit from prestigious institutions and museums in the United States, Brazil, Spain, Mexico and Argentina. These conversations, whose objective is to create spaces for debate, reflection and encounter, are aimed at art professionals, students and teachers.

Among the special guests who will come from abroad to participate in this meeting are Isabella Lenzi (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid), Raphael Fonseca (Bienal del Mercosur, Porto Alegre), Bianca Bernardo (A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro), Cuauhtemoc Medina Gon

zález (MUAC - Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City), María Amalia García (Malba - Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires), Inés Katzenstein (MoMa - Museum of Modern Art, New York), Vivian Crockett (New Museum, New York), Isabella Rjeille (New Museum - New York), Luciana Pereira (Pompidou - Secretariat of Culture of Paraná - Brazil).
CURATORS

The cultural program is curated by Adriana Almada under the accompaniment of Irene Gelfman, global curator of Pinta. They are joined by prominent national curators who will be in charge of various exhibition proposals, such as Ticio Escobar, Lia Colombino, Fredi Casco and Damián Cabrera.

This new edition incorporates as a novelty the Young Curatorship program, to which Gustavo Riego, Majo Fiorio and Luis Ocampos Pompa, young Paraguayan curators who will present emerging and mid-career artists, have been invited.
Pinta Sud-ASU is much more than a cultural program: it is a meeting point and cultural cohesion that promotes opportunities for professionalization and appreciation of cultural and tourist heritage, offering a strengthening of the artistic scene and the national art market. The agenda of activities is already available at sud.pinta.art/Agenda.

The event promotes opportunities for professionalization and appreciation of cultural and tourist heritage, while strengthening the artistic scene and the national art market.
PROMOTION OF LATIN AMERICAN ART

Pinta is the leading platform for promoting Latin American art worldwide. It brings together artists, galleries, curators, collectors and the general public through its three annual art fairs: Pinta Miami, Pinta BAphoto and Pinta PArC; the publishing house Arte al Día founded in 1980; and innovative initiatives such as Pinta Sud, among other exclusive events.

Since 2022, the Pinta Sud initiative has been carrying out cultural programs in Latin American cities to celebrate their art scenes. Its mission is to strengthen cultural networks between the international art world and the local scene, resulting in projects and economic, market, training and positioning opportunities for Latin American art. The third edition of Art Week Pinta Sud-ASU is presented by Pinta with the support of the Main Sponsor EFG Wealth Management. In turn, it has the support of CAF-Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, the General Directorate of Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Asunción, the Manzana de la Rivera Cultural Center and important private companies.
“POSITIONING ASUNCION AS A CULTURAL DESTINATION”
Diego Costa Peuser, global director of Pinta

“Asunción has a unique and attractive cultural vitality. The Art Week of Pinta Sud-ASU seeks to enhance not only its cultural ecosystem, bringing the public closer to the visual arts, but also strengthens the dynamics of professionalization and, in this way, collaborates in positioning Asunción as a cultural destination in Latin America,” says Diego Costa Peuser, global director of Pinta.

“We have a diverse program to explore the local scene first-hand. We invite you to get to know the most relevant institutions and galleries in Asunción, visit artists’ workshops, participate in the FORO, the program of talks that revolves around Latin America and the curatorial practice with voices from international guests from the most relevant institutions, among other activities,” Costa Peuser invites. Diego Costa Peuser is a cultural manager specialized in Latin American art. In this field, he has led various initiatives that allowed for a greater and better understanding of the artistic creation of the region. He is the director of the magazine Arte al Día, founded 41 years ago by Jorge Costa Peuser and considered a leader among the media specialized in Ibero-American art. In this way, he has contributed to the recognition of currents and developments in artistic modernity. Arte al Día has built a unique archive of reviews, interviews, profiles and news that show the exponential growth of the artistic ecosystem in the region and the world.

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