PERU BIENAL

Peru Bienal, an exhibition that brings together a wide range of creative and cultural activities in Latin America, returns in 2024 with a program featuring launches, exhibitions, conferences, and recognitions across different artistic fields, including visual arts, digital arts, and performing arts. The event seeks to position Peru as a leading hub for cultural and creative activity in the region.

For its 2024 edition, the event received an extensive international response, with more than 20,000 submissions from 60 countries in the visual and digital arts categories. Following the selection process, 560 artistic works were chosen to participate in the event.

The selection was carried out by an international jury comprising renowned professionals from different countries, including Carlos Gonzales (Peru), Elly Prestegard (Canada), Péter Pócs (Hungary), Martha Escondeur (Uruguay), Monirul Alam (Bangladesh), Filippos Fragkogiannis (Greece), Naufan Noordyanto (Indonesia), Mohammad Afshar (Iran), Ana Brum (Brazil), and Jason Zúñiga (Peru).

The official opening took place on Friday, December 6, 2024, at 7:15 p.m., at the Museo Aeronáutico del Perú in Lima. The exhibition brought together visual, fine-art, and performing-art projects from countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Poland, Switzerland, France, China, Brazil, Uruguay, and Peru.

Among the international artists recognized in this edition were Carlos Smith (United Kingdom), Faezeh Mohammed (United Arab Emirates), FØGRA (United States), Nick Mendoza & Pouya Jahanshahi (United States), Jianzhong Liu (China), Aleksander Walijewski (Poland), Szymon Szymankiewicz (Poland), Melchior Imboden (Switzerland), David Lambert (France), Yessica Texeira (Brazil), Yastian Petit (France), Tatana Zubeldia (Uruguay), Martin French (United States), and Slawomir Kosmynka (Poland).

The edition also highlighted the work of numerous Peruvian artists, including André Granados, Álvaro de la Puente, Cécile Grecca, Danilo Bojanich, Esteban Altamirano, Felipe Coaquira, Héctor Guzmán, Ingrid Arias, Italo Flores, Jarufe Vargas, Jesús Salvador, José Carlos Vargas, Mónica Ccalla, Víctor Chura, and Samuel Coriat.

According to Fidel Cárdenas, President of Peru Bienal, the organization seeks through this edition to strengthen Peru’s position as a leading artistic, creative, and cultural hub in the region, as well as a destination for the development of the creative industries in Latin America. The initiative also seeks to promote, preserve, and transmit art as an important tool for safeguarding the cultural heritage of communities and regions.

The international exhibition in the visual and digital arts categories was open to the general public at the Museo Aeronáutico del Perú through December 9, 2024, with free admission

La República — Peru, December 3, 2024