Havana Biennial

Founded in 1984 in La Havana, Cuba
Director : Rubén del Valle Lantarón

Since 1984 we have focused our attention on the artists from the South whose works represent concerns and conflicts – many times of universal scope – that are common to our regions. In this regard, issues like the existing tensions between tradition and contemporariness, the challenge to the historical colonization processes, the relations between art and society, the individual and his memory, human communication in the face of technological development and the dynamics of urban culture have become topics of particular interest, without distinction among the multiple forms of visuality that operate in culture as a system.

However, the Biennial cannot ignore the geopolitical reconfiguration occurred in recent years and consequently the increase in the number of countries that approach the conditions of the so-called South and those that, in precarious positions of development, aim at inserting themselves in the economic blocks of more favored countries.

Previous Editions
11th Edition –  11.05 / 11.06 / 2012
10th Edition – 27.03 / 30.04 / 2009
9th Edition – 27.03 / 27.04 / 2006
8th Edition – 01.11 / 15.12 / 2003
7 th Edition – 17.11 / 2000 – 06.01 / 2001
6th Edition – 03.05 / 08.06 / 1997
5th Edition – 06.05 / 30.06 / 1994
4th Edition – 16.11 / 31.12 /1991
3rd Edition – 27.10 / 31.12 / 1989
2nd Edition – 26.11 / 31.12 / 1986
1st Edition – May – June, 1984