A new series of exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art

Works in video art, installations, painting and photography, by Panamanian and international artists, is what you will find in three new exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama.

It recently opened its doors with its second exhibition cycle of the year, which includes the exhibitions: “This Is It: A Seriously Playful Retrospective” by artists Donna Conlon and Jonathan Harker, “Blow” by artist Minia Biabiany and “Cuidar, Heal, Remember, Resist” by invited artists and works from Museum collections.

“This is it: a seriously playful retrospective”

The show is co-produced with Casa Santa Ana Foundation and curated by Sandino Scheidegger and Juan Canela, brings together the entire video production of Conlon and Harker from 2006 to the present.

It consists of 18 videos that show a wide panorama of the world contemporary, showing the seams and gaps that reveal the fictional nature of personal and collective identities and realities.

This is the first retrospective art work, appearing in collections such as those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Tate Modern, London; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris/San Francisco; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, among others.

In the Panarte Hall, taking as inspiration the exhibition “exchange” Gladys Turner Bosso 2018 curator, Minia Biabiany (Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1988) was invited to create a production in dialogue with two delicate paintings by Haydée Victoria Suescum from the MAC collection, which Biabiany chose for their great resonance with common interests.

“Ruined”

Curator of the main curator Juan Canel Museum, It consists of a series of sculptures created by Biabiany during his 4-week stay in Panama together with local carpenters.

The elements that make up the installation are connected to medicinal plants that we share in the territory of Guadalupe and Panama, forming a kind of medicinal forest that accompanies Suescum’s paintings.

“Care, healing, memory, resistance”

It is a proposal by curator Ana Laguna, a participant of our training program in curated by the hand of Caneloand celebrates black ethnic month with artists such as Alfredo Sinclair, Giana De Dier, Risseth Yangüez, José Braithwaite, Agnes Essonti Luque, Hilary Cover, Dash Harris, Vinoss, Luna Wallace, Alexander Moralez Cruz and works from the MAC collection such as Olga Sinclair, Hugo Bilbao and Trixie Briceño.

through photography, collageinstallations, video and painting, the exhibition seeks to raise awareness about how the culture of care resonates more and more among the new generations and seeks to return to the ways of the ancestors in healing both physically, mentally and psychologically.

entrance to the museum is free for Panamanians and residents and for foreigners valued at $5, with hours of operation Tuesday through Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Thursdays until 8:00 p.m.