Exhibitions in museums and galleries of Bogotá

Art recommendations: exhibitions in museums and galleries in Bogotá to visit Holy Week

The artistic agenda flows powerfully in these days of reflection and free time, with new exhibitions in different tones and with different levels of transgression, in museums, galleries and cultural spaces in Bogotá. SEMANA recommends these.

Chromophilia, by Carlos Cruz-Diez
Until the 9th of June. Location: Mambo, Calle 24 No. 6-00

A visit to the center is obligatory to witness in this space, still under the curatorial guidelines of Eugenio Viola, the sensory and thematic attack of the three exhibitions on display. Cromofilia commemorates the centenary of the birth of one of the main references of Latin American optical art, the Venezuelan Carlos Cruz-Diez (Caracas, 1923-Paris, 2019). Internationally recognized for his explorations with light, color and space, Cruz-Diez produced dynamic and captivating works based on chromatic interactions that take place in the plane, space and retina of the viewer, a fact that the museum has known deploy with talent. It is accompanied by the exhibition The Past Never Dies. It's not even past, by the Colombian Carlos Castro Arias, and Posture and geometry in the era of tropical autocracy, the first exhibition in the country by the Spanish-Venezuelan Alexander Apóstol.
Until: Saturday, April 6 Place: El Museo Gallery, Calle 80 No. 11-42

Immersing yourself in The Museum these days is worth it, with three exhibitions as different as they are valuable. On the one hand, the wonderful exhibition dedicated to the work of Hernán Díaz. With 50 of his photographs, which, regardless of whether they are in large format or not, amaze with Díaz's framing, his eye and his masterful use of black and white. Portraying famous people from the country's history, such as Gabo, Obregón, Botero or Galán, strangers on a street, on a beach or scenes from the life of the many places visited by the most influential photographer in Colombia in the second half of the 20th century. , always captivates and you should not miss the opportunity to experience it in this display. She is accompanied in the space by two hypnotic proposals: Stardust, by Pilar Aparicio, and Twenty-four paintings around a landscape, by Rubén Rodrigo.

Obsession
| Photo: Courtesy CASA HOFFMAN
Until April 30. Location: at Casa Hoffmann, race 2A no. 70-25

Curated by Caridad Botella, the exhibition brings together the work of 21 artists (including Iván Castiblanco, whose work visually accompanies this note) brought together under a common denominator: the development of a reiterated, insistent and rhythmic artistic practice, which develops over time. over time under a thematic recurrence. In this process, these works and their creators address manias, neuroses, their own fixations, and that is why the most interesting thing about perceiving it is making visible what time reveals: those patterns of shape and color repeated, alternating and combined, those images reproduced so many times. times that nestle in artists until they reach the surface of their work. The psychological aspect of the artist, always fascinating, as well as its impact on his mind and how it is reflected in his practice, is an absolute protagonist.
PALYMPSESTS Images of the old “New World”, the first exhibition of 2024 at the MAV
Context: “Palimpsests - Images of the old ‘New World’”, the first exhibition of 2024 at the Museum of Visual Arts
Light Mirror

| Photo: JEFERSON CARDOZA, COURTESY FDC
Up to april 28th. Place: at the Bogotá Cinematheque, race 3 no. 19-10

An interactive and traveling experience (promoted by the CNACC, with resources from the FDC and developed by Proimágenes), commemorates 20 years of the Film Law in Colombia, and aims to highlight how cinema has shaped the country's identity and its influence on culture, society and politics. It does so by covering the years of validity of the Law through devices that bring visitors closer to various cinematographic processes. Interaction is key here, with characters, stories and places representative of the productions possible since then. It is worth taking advantage of the fact that, also at the Cinematheque, Códice Future opened, an exhibition with a strong audiovisual and sound component that proposes the future as a framework that overcomes the utopian and dystopian visions promoted by popular narratives, from which it departs and with which it dialogues. .
Olivier Dubois presents in Bogotá 'Tragédie, New Edit', a version adjusted to the times of the choreographic poem that made him a world figure in dance.
Context: “Artists are playing a game that is not theirs,” prodigy Olivier Dubois comes to Colombia and speaks with SEMANA
Geo-Graphic: new territorial aesthetics
| Photo: Luzángela (Lux) Brito/CCA
Until July 6th. Location: at Colombo Americano, 98th Street No. 17-32, Bogotá.

Demonstrating that today art is made from anywhere, not only in big cities, the exhibition brings together the work of a group of ten young artists who come from San Juan del Cesar (La Guajira), Ipiales and Pasto (Nariño), Puerto Asís (Putumayo), Santa Rosa de Cabal (Risaralda), Mariquita (Tolima), Zipaquirá (Cundinamarca) and Bogotá, all young illustrators, cartoonists and designers who explore in their work themes that come to them such as feminism, popular culture, violence and love, from their different perspectives and through different languages. Paola Camargo, curator of the exhibition, emphasizes that although these women belong to the same generation, they address very different topics. The exhibition is the result of an investigation into the production of graphic artists in Colombia.
The teacher David Manzur, born in Neira, Caldas, in 1929, poses in his studio in Barichara.
Context: David Manzur: the University of Antioquia grants a well-deserved Honoris Causa Degree to the teacher
The fulminant, by Nadia Granados
| Photo: Juanita González/Idartes
Until May 26th. Location: at the Santa Fe Gallery, race 1A between streets 12C and 12D

This project, central to the work of the artist who won the Luis Caballero Prize in 2022, began to be developed in 2010 when she created a character with a blonde wig and golden heels called La Fulminante, who has grown over 14 years and who has lived in digital art, video, performance and cabaret. In the skin of her character, Granados has intervened in public space, internet pages, art galleries, bars and nightclubs alike, with a message about the social construction of femininity. She does it through a violent eroticism with which she transgresses art, the market and puts urgent political discussions on the table. The project is curated by the Mexican artist Pepx Romero, who, using dramaturgical tools and stage direction, shaped the historical narrative of a unique one like La Fulminante.