Arts Program in Bogotá

ARTBO | Weekend 2025 takes over Bogotá with more than 150 free cultural activities
April 25, 2025
Bogotá, April 2025. From April 25 to 27, the ninth edition of ARTBO | Weekend will take place. This initiative, an arts program of the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce (CCB), will transform the city into an expanded art circuit.
This edition will bring together 86 cultural spaces distributed across six creative circuits in Bogotá and will offer free transportation so the public can explore the city through exhibitions, workshops, talks, publishing projects, and signature designs.

The Palacio de San Francisco (Avenida Jiménez # 7-56), a neoclassical national monument, will be the official venue and meeting point for the event. There, for three days, the public will be able to enjoy free access to: a presentation, conversations, and an editorial meeting.
Intervention

This component seeks to promote collecting and introduce new audiences to contemporary art through a group exhibition of works from participating galleries by 30 selected artists. The curator will be María Isabel Rueda, an artist and curator from Cartagena with a distinguished career in the national and international cultural scene.

Curator: The Spider Has a Fly on Its Head Inspired by the theories of biologist Jakob Von Uexküll, this exhibition proposes a reflection on perceptual worlds, the dehierarchization of knowledge, and the possibility of harmony between the human, the non-human, and the environment.

Conversations

A free space for academic reflection on contemporary art that this year will be curated by Raphael Fonseca, curator of Latin American art at the Denver Art Museum. It will bring together 20 national and international curators to discuss topics such as curating, Indigenous art, performance, collecting, new media, and global narratives.

The panel agenda includes prominent guests such as Jo-ey Tang (Director of KADIST San Francisco), Pedro Rocha (Curator of Music and Performance at the Serralves Foundation), and Amanda Carneiro (Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art of São Paulo). All talks will include simultaneous translation and interpretation into Colombian sign language.

Publishing Meeting

Curated by Relámpago (a project by Andrés Fresneda and Valeria Giraldo), this component will bring together 43 publishing houses from Colombia, Latin America, and other regions, exploring the book as an art object.

Under the title Rosas entre el viento (Roses between the Wind) and in a commercial format, there will be launches, workshops, and open talks that reflect the intersections between literature, art, and visual memory.
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