VI Fuga Art Biennial

A PDE project:

Artist

Colectivo Fuera de Sí

Vicenta Gómez

Eduard Moreno

Fredy Clavijo

José Julián Agudelo

John Mario Ortiz

Jorge Magyaroff

Camila Arévalo

Felipe Bonilla

VI Biennial of Plastic and Visual Arts

In recent years, the Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation (FUGA) has become a point of reference for the visual arts at a national level. Different types of cultural activities are carried out at its headquarters; among them, perhaps one of the most important, is the Biennial Prize for Plastic Arts. This is conceived within parameters of interaction between the different languages ​​of the new contemporary artistic practices in a reflective dialogue with the FUGA headquarters and its area of ​​direct influence, positioning itself as a place of convergence for the exchange of the multiple artistic processes of the participants and their dissemination in various fields.

Throughout its history, the award has had the objective of promoting Research + Creation processes in the arts and adapting to new artistic languages. However, its objective has gone through different facets. It should be noted that in its first edition, in 2010, the conceptual guidelines did not include the connection of what FUGA represents as an architectural and cultural entity; in later versions, this aspect began to be considered, opening the way for dialogue between the different proposals created by the artists with their physical space and what it represents in the history, architecture and social context of downtown Bogotá. It is also worth mentioning that this biennial has been an important platform for the projection of mid-career artists within the national circuit of visual arts.

For this reason, it should be noted that in the proposals of this sixth edition some thematic connections between the group of participants stood out. This is how the historical event, in conjunction with reviews of social conflicts of a political nature within the framework of cities, served as a means of linking some proposals. Not in vain have these artists sharply addressed this great question about artistic activity in a given historical context and the different identity processes of Colombian society.

Finally, we highlight that the Biennial Prize for Visual Arts, in all its editions, has been a commitment to encourage and support – in addition to compiling – all these artistic productions over time to generate a memory and consolidate a tangible documentary archive that provides evidence of the development of the visual arts and that serves as input to build the current art panorama in Colombia.

Exhibitions that are part of the District Stimulus Program, since it is the process of one of the incentives that will be delivered by FUGA at the close of the process, which is the VI BIENNIAL OF PLASTIC AND VISUAL ARTS SCHOLARSHIP, which seeks to promote the circulation of works and projects by national artists, in a specific site, conceived for FUGA’s exhibition halls, which contemplate the architecture and/or the memory of the place, without restriction of practices, media or dimensions in the exhibition halls of the Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation.