Climbing Aboard
Climbing Aboard
Analays Alvarez Hernandez
Climbing Aboard
Havana Apartment-Galleries and International Art Circuits
Worlding Public Cultures
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023
ISBN 978-3-96558-063-3 | Paperback | 10 EUR | v, 63 pp. | 9 colour images | 17.8 cm x 12.7 cm
ISBN 978-3-96558-064-0 | PDF | Open Access | 9 colour images | 8.6 MB
ISBN 978-3-96558-065-7 | EPUB | Open Access | 9 colour images | 13.1 MB
Havana’s apartment-galleries have been vital venues for the city’s art scene since the 1990s, hosting art exhibitions, workshops, and conferences. In the context of Cuba’s limited art market and dearth of cultural institutions with international reach, these residential spaces have offered artists a unique opportunity to display their work and to connect with international art circuits. Focusing on the histories of three specific apartment-galleries — El Apartamento, Estudio Figueroa-Vives, and Avecez Art Space — this chapbook reflects on the complex interplay of the local and the global in the ‘worlding’ of cultural institutions.