The program of activities proposed by the 14th edition of the Havana Biennial leaves no room for the indifference of spectators, who will have the possibility, one more year, to choose what and how they wish to enjoy this great banquet of contemporary art. Thus, the great visual arts festival in Cuba is going through its second stage, the most intense of these months in terms of programming and extension, and which ends on March 24.

This second experience proposes a wide range of activities that will be divided into three categories, according to what Nelson Ramírez de Arellano, director of the great international visual arts event in Cuba, told the national press.

According to its organizers, the balance achieved to date has been positive and in the words of Norma Rodríguez Derivet, president of the National Council of Plastic Arts, “the development of the Biennial has been excellent, since we have managed to summon a large number of experts for our theoretical exchanges, with an enormous reach through digital platforms,” according to the newspaper Juventud Rebelde.

The projects of the experience entitled The Havana of the Biennial will serve as the central axis for the entire program of meetings, exhibitions and performances that will take place during these intense months, since “our aim is to include as many projects and artists as possible in galleries that could function within the framework of the Biennial,” explained Ramírez de Arellano, who is also director of the Wifredo Lam Center for Contemporary Art.

As part of these objectives, the State of the Spirit exhibition is now available to the public, which since December 3 has brought together a large group of young creators, with different artistic concerns, in a collective exhibition for the 35th anniversary of the Hermanos Saíz Association, in the Cuba Pavilion.

The unifying and diverse character of the collective exhibitions is replicated in other proposals such as Feminine Visual Imaginaries, in the Luz y Oficio Gallery; Islands, which premiered at the José A. Díaz Peláez Experimental Center for Visual Arts, as well as Spiral Gesture, at the National Ceramics Museum.

Creators such as Yovanis González Elizalde, Lianet Martínez, Alejandro Lescay and Santiago Rodríguez Olazábal will defend personal exhibitions at different moments and spaces of this second experience, and the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts will present the artistic-pedagogical project based on the history of the institution in the Havana biennials, with open workshops that will allow the public to interact with the educational process.