Coordinated by Giuliana Vidarte
The FORO of Pinta Lima 2025, is a reflective space focused on new perspectives of the Latin American artistic ecosystem.
Different guests and specialists will discuss the challenges and opportunities within the contemporary art field of Latin America. The FORO aims to go beyond traditional debates, offering a fresh and critical view of the intersection between contemporary art, curation, collecting, and other current topics. Throughout its program, meetings will take place to question and expand contemporary thought, serving as a bridge between the public and experiences of artistic creation, the evolution of museums, collections, and the curatorial process in the Latin American context. It will also be a space to rethink the structures of the art market and collecting in Latin America, with the intention of reimagining new relationships between the different actors and strengthening collaboration networks across the region.
Collection Talks
As part of the FORUM, the Charlas de Colección series will be launched—a program of training and reflection that will address the various forms of collecting in Latin America. This is a program of formation and reflection that will address the various formats of collecting in Latin America.
In ‘Charlas de Colección’, two talks will take place: one will focus on an institutional collection, and the other on a private collection, diving into the specifics of each. Additionally, the book “Inversión o Pasión. Una guía para navegar por el mercado del arte” (Investment or Passion: A Guide to Navigating the Art Market) by María Sancho-Arroyo will be presented, offering key tools to understand the current landscape of collecting.
Thursday, April 24, 2025
16:00 to 17:30 h
THE GLOBAL CONTEMPORARY ART MARKET IN 2025: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
A tour of the current state of the global contemporary art market: evolution in recent years, key trends, most in-demand artists, collector behavior, prices, and the fundamental role of galleries and fairs in an environment full of contrasts and possibilities.
Participants
Maria Sancho-Arroyo, Art market expert and adjunct professor at the Sotheby’s Institute in New York (USA)
Livia Benavides, Director of 80M2 Livia Benavides (Peru)
Alejandra Monteverde, Director of CRISIS GALERÍA (Peru)
Thursday, April 24, 2025
18:00 to 19:30 h
COLLECTION TALKS
COLLECTING FROM THE INSTITUTION
Participants
Manuel Segade, Director of the Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Spain)
Sharon Lerner, Director of the Museo de Arte de Lima (Peru)
Moderated by: Pablo León de la Barra, Curator at Large for Latin America at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (USA)
Friday, April 25, 2025
15:30 to 16:20 h
THINKING THE MAKING, MAKING THE THINKING
Talk with artists participating in the NEXT Section
Participants
Celeste Valero, Artist (Argentina) [Textiles Semillas], represented by Galería Linse
Yerko Zlatar, Artist (Peru), represented by Puna
Sofía Véliz, Artist (Guatemala), represented by Segismundo
Moderator: Emiliano Valdés, Curator and strategic advisor (Guatemala)
Friday, April 25, 2025
16:30 to 17:50 h
COLLECTION TALKS
THE PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY OF PRIVATE COLLECTING
Participants
Catherine Petitgas, Collector and art historian (UK)
Alberto Rebaza, President of the Board of Directors at the Museo de Arte de Lima (Peru)
Moderated by: Pablo León de la Barra, Curator at Large for Latin America at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (USA)
Friday, April 25, 2025
18:00 to 19:30 h
PRESENTATION OF “EL INCONDICIONADO DESOCULTAMIENTO. THE RAFAEL HASTINGS FILM PROJECT” AND SCREENING OF “WE ARE NOT A FAMILY”
Presentation of the book El incondicionado desocultamiento. The Rafael Hastings Film Project, which gathers the extraordinary audiovisual work of Rafael Hastings, with special emphasis on his recently recovered film work, and screening of We Are Not a Family (1973), an intimate film shot in Super 8mm documenting Hastings' house on the Barranco cliff, where he lived with his family, just before it was destroyed by the October 1974 earthquake. The book presentation coincides with the exhibition El incondicionado desocultamiento: The Audiovisual Experimentations of Rafael Hastings, which is on display at the ICPNA San Miguel until April 26, 2025.
Participants
Alberto Servat, Cultural Manager of ICPNA (Peru)
José Carlos Mariátegui, Curator and editor of the project (Peru)
Yvonne von Mollendorff, Dancer, choreographer, and partner of the artist (Peru)
Manongo Mujica, Musician, percussionist, and close collaborator and friend of Hastings (Peru)
Saturday, April 26, 2025
3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
MARTHA VÉRTIZ, MUJER Y ARTISTA AL FILO DEL TIEMPO
Book Presentation: The Language of Martha Vértiz
Location: Casa Prado, Av. 28 de Julio 878, Miraflores
This book offers an initial approach to the work of this remarkable Peruvian artist, who began with expressive abstraction and later transitioned to a constructive art form, driven by a strong intention to research and experiment endlessly in her creative process.
Participants:
Borka Sattler, Artist (Peru)
Elsa Vértiz, the artist’s sister (Peru)
Jorge Villacorta, Curator and art critic (Peru)
Livia Benavides, Director of 80M2 Livia Benavides (Peru)
Saturday, April 26, 2025
17:00 to 17:50 h
MATERIAL THINKING
Talk with artists participating in the RADAR Section
Participants
Ivet Salazar, Artist (Peru), represented by BLOC ART
Colomba Fontaine, Artist (Chile), represented by Galería NAC
Sergio Murga Rossel, Artist (Peru), represented by CRISIS GALERÍA
Moderator
Florencia Portocarrero, Curator, researcher, writer, and curator of RADAR Pinta Lima (Peru).
Saturday, April 26, 2025
18:00 to 18:50 h
WHAT THIS LANDSCAPE CAN SAY ABOUT THE FUTURE
Talk with artists participating in the Special Project
Participants
Silvia Westphalen, Artist (Peru)
Gabriela Flores del Pozo, Artist [FIBRA Colectivo] (Peru)
Luis Enrique Zela-Koort, Artist (Peru)
Camila Rodrigo, Artist (Peru)
Moderator
Giuliana Vidarte, Independent curator and art historian, and curator of the Special Project Pinta Lima (Peru)
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El mercado global del arte contemporáneo en 2025: desafíos y oportunidades
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El mercado global del arte contemporáneo en 2025: desafíos y oportunidades
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Charlas de colección: Coleccionando desde la institución
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Charlas de colección: Coleccionando desde la institución
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Charlas de colección: Coleccionando desde la institución
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Charlas de colección: Coleccionando desde la institución
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Pensar el hacer, hacer el pensar. Charla con los artistas participantes de la Sección NEXT
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Pensar el hacer, hacer el pensar. Charla con los artistas participantes de la Sección NEXT
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Charlas de colección. La responsabilidad pública del coleccionismo privado
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Charlas de colección. La responsabilidad pública del coleccionismo privado
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Charlas de colección. La responsabilidad pública del coleccionismo privado
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Charlas de colección. La responsabilidad pública del coleccionismo privado
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Charlas de colección. La responsabilidad pública del coleccionismo privado
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Martha Vértiz, mujer y artista al filo del tiempo. Presentación del libro El lenguaje de Martha Vértiz
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Martha Vértiz, mujer y artista al filo del tiempo.
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PENSAMIENTO MATERIAL - Charla con los artistas participantes de la Sección RADAR
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PENSAMIENTO MATERIAL - Charla con los artistas participantes de la Sección RADAR
Giuliana Vidarte (Lima, 1981)
Curator, art historian and teacher. She has developed research and exhibition projects on the relationship between visual arts and literature, the rewriting of history from the recovery of unofficial discourses and the history of the arts and contemporary creation from the Peruvian Amazon. She works as a Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and develops projects as an independent curator and researcher. Between 2015 and 2018, she was curator of the research, management and promotion project of Amazonian art Bufeo. Amazonía+Arte. In 2019, she was curatorial assistant of the Peruvian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. Between 2018 and 2023, she was Head of Curatorial and Collection at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima.
Irene Gelfman
Graduate and teacher of Middle and Higher Education in Arts (FFyL - UBA); she attended the # 11 Artists Program at UTDT (Critic and Curator). She is the winner of the first prize New Curators of the AMALITA Collection and the Argentine Association of Art Critics. She works in curation, management, and art criticism. She is the founder and director of Minerva Universos Visuales, an art studio focused on the dissemination of Art History content for diverse audiences, giving a clinic for artists and consulting for cultural projects. She writes for various media, publications and catalogs (Otra Parte, Colección de Artistas, among others). With more than seven years of experience in different areas of cultural management, both public (national and local) and private (foundations and NGOs), she coordinates and produces content. In addition, she put together the programming in areas such as theater, visuals, and music for different festivals, fairs, and international events in which Argentina was invited as a guest country. She developed and coordinated an aid program to promote Argentine artists abroad (APEX-Ministerio de Cultura Nación) and was a strategic advisor for the Barrios Creativos program.
Pablo León de la Barra was born in Mexico City in 1972 and currently lives in Rio de Janeiro. He has a Ph.D. in Histories and Theories, from the Architectural Association in London. Since 2013, he has been the Curator for Latin America at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where he has curated exhibitions such as Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today (2014-16), Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene (2022), and Gego: Measuring Infinity (2023). He is also responsible for acquiring works by Latin American artists for the museum's collection. León de la Barra worked as Chief Curator on the Museum of Contemporary Art in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro (2016-2020), and as Director of Casa França-Brasil in Rio de Janeiro (2015-2016). He is the founder and co-curator of the 1st and 2nd Tropical Biennials in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2011 and 2016). Over the course of his more than two-decade curatorial career, he has curated numerous international exhibitions. He was a co-curator of the Santa Fe Biennial in New Mexico (2017) and the curator of the Mexican Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, showcasing the work of Carlos Amorales. In 2012, he received the first Travel and Research Grant from Independent Curators International/ Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros for Central America and the Caribbean, in honor of Virginia Pérez-Ratton. He is a member of advisory boards, including the Luis Barragán Foundation in Mexico, the Nasher Sculpture Prize in Dallas, the Caribbean Art Initiative in Basel, and serves as the chair of the jury for the Prince Claus Fund Impact Awards in the Netherlands.
Photos by David Heald, Guggenheim Museum.
Maria Sancho-Arroyo
María Sancho-Arroyo is a renowned expert in the art market with over 30 years of international experience. She began her career in the restoration laboratory of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, later continuing at the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) in Barcelona and the Louvre in Paris. She then moved to London, where she worked for more than 20 years at Sotheby’s, gaining in-depth knowledge of the many aspects of the art market. Currently, she is an adjunct professor at the Sotheby’s Institute in New York, specializing in international markets and auctions. In addition to teaching, María is dedicated to research, consulting, and participating in international conferences on art market trends.
She is the author of several publications, including her latest work, Investment or Passion? A Guide to Navigating the Art Market, published on October 16 by Deusto (Grupo Planeta). She regularly collaborates with Il Giornale dell'Arte and Artealdia (market section), is a member of The International Art Market Studies, and actively participates in charitable organizations related to art.