Artefactus Cultural Project

The City of Columns

La Ciudad de las Columnas

On Thursday, June 20, “The City of Columns” opens, by visual artist Felipe Alarcón Echenique (Havana, 1966), who currently resides in Madrid. This exhibition, inspired by Alejo Carpentier’s emblematic metaphor, is a pictorial reinterpretation of Havana from a perspective that combines Neo-Cubism and Antillean Baroque. The city’s columns multiply, fragment, and transform into signs of […]

Puzzles – A nostalgia without the drama.

Rompecabezas - Una nostalgia sin dramas

The Queer Showcase season opens on Friday, June 6, 2025, at 8:30 p.m., with the exhibition “Rompecabezas: Una nostalgia sin dramas” (Puzzle: A Nostalgia Without Drama), by visual artist Sergio Chávez (Havana, 1965), who has lived in the United States since 1999. Trained at the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts and the National School […]

Multiple Dimensions by César García

Multiple Dimensions

“Multiple Dimensions” by visual artist César García. César García (Havana, Cuba, 1961) had his first encounter with art through his uncle, a Cuban artist trained at the prestigious San Alejandro Academy. From childhood, the hours spent in that studio shaped his sensitivity and awakened a deep calling. In 1969, he emigrated with his family to […]

Color – by Gustavo Pérez Fernández

Color - by Gustavo Pérez Fernández

Preaching with Light What distinguishes this species from the rest of the animals is its capacity for artistic creation. Art is the guiding light of the path and the bow that man bends to transcribe his history, his vital environment, his inner demons, and the flight of time. The material from which works of art […]

The Kingdom of Confusion by Aisar Abdalá Jalil

El reino de la confusión by Aisar Abdalá Jalil

Born in Camagüey in 1953, Aisar Abdalá Jalil Martínez has built an artistic career that spans more than five decades of plastic exploration, combining academic influences with a contemporary sensibility. His training began at the Professional School of Arts in Camagüey, and then continued at the National School of Art in Havana. Later, he perfected […]

Gallery – Essence and Form by Rubén Rodríguez

Galería - Essence and Form by Rubén Rodríguez | January 31 - March 2, 2025

Through clean, defined lines, the artist captures the essence and emotion of women in an original composition and abstraction of the female figure. The vision and execution of these pieces are far removed from traditional representations, making this artistic proposal unique and original.

Diversity – Small Format For Every Taste

Diversidad

Diversity – Small Format For Every Taste The small format not only allows artists to reach a wider audience. The painterly maturity allows these artists to create large compositions in a very small space, exploring new techniques, new colours, new expressions.

Aqua

Aqua

On June 1 at 8:30 p.m. The photographic exhibition “Aqua” is inaugurated, a project by Ena Columbié that has the participation of Marta Cubillas and the poets Germán Guerra and Lizette Espinosa. “Aqua” is an artistic-literary exhibition that explores the theme of water in Everglades National Park, a region of tropical wetlands in Florida. This […]