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This edition will bring together 86 cultural spaces distributed in six creative circuits of Bogota, and will have free transportation so that the public can tour the city through exhibitions, workshops, lectures, publishing projects and author design. The Palacio de San Francisco (Avenida Jiménez # 7-56), a neoclassical national monument, will be the official venue and meeting point for the event. There, for three days, the public will be able to enjoy free of charge: Intervention, Conversations and Editorial Encounter.
Intervention
This component seeks to encourage collecting and bring new audiences closer to contemporary art through a group exhibition of works by 30 selected artists from the participating galleries. The curatorship will be in charge of María Isabel Rueda, an artist and curator from Cartagena with an outstanding career in the national and international cultural scene. Curatorship: The spider has the fly on its head Inspired by the theories of biologist Jakob Von Uexküll, this exhibition proposes a reflection on perceptual worlds, the de-hierarchization of knowledge and the possibility of harmony between the human, the non-human and the environment.
Conversations
A free space for academic reflection on contemporary art that this year will be curated by Raphael Fonseca, curator of Latin American art at the Denver Art Museum. It will bring together 20 national and international curators to discuss topics such as curatorship, indigenous art, performance, collecting, new media and global narratives.
The panel agenda includes prominent guests such as Jo-ey Tang (Director of KADIST San Francisco), Pedro Rocha (Curator of Music and Performance at the Serralves Foundation and Amanda Carneiro (Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art of São Paulo). All talks will have simultaneous translation and interpretation in Colombian sign language.
Editorial Meeting
Curated by Relámpago (a project by Andrés Fresneda and Valeria Giraldo), this component will bring together 43 publishers from Colombia, Latin America and other regions that explore the book as an artistic object. Under the title Rosas entre el viento (Roses in the wind) and in a commercial format, there will be launches, workshops and open talks that reflect the crossings between literature, art and visual memory.
2025 news and highlights:
Book Route, a new route that connects independent bookstores with artistic publications.
Design Route, with spaces for author design, furniture and functional objects.
157 activities distributed in the circuits: Centro Histórico, Macarena, Teusaquillo, Chapinero Central, San Felipe and Chapinero Norte.
Participation of 253 artists (211 national and 42 international), with 83 exhibitions (50 individual and 33 collective).
60 pet-friendly spaces and a mediation team that will guide visitors to the participating exhibition spaces.
Schedules:
Friday, April 25 and Saturday, April 26: 11:00 a. m. to 8:00 p. m.
Sunday, April 27: 11:00 a. m. to 6:00 p. m.
Notes to editors:
ARTBO, the arts program of the Bogota Chamber of Commerce, was born in 2004 as part of the CCB's commitment to the Cultural and Creative Industries, with the purpose of promoting and positioning Bogota as a place and destination for culture and business, as well as to create a commercial platform for art and a space for cultural exchange and audience formation.
The ARTBO Program comprises three lines of action that carry out different activities throughout the year to promote circulation, training and commercialization in the visual arts sector: ARTBO | Weekend; ARTBO | Bogota International Art Fair; and ARTBO | Salas, Tutor and Trama.
In cases where ARTBO is cited in a text or note, sustained capital letters should be used (note that ARTBO is a single word). Correct usage: ARTBO. Incorrect usage: ArtBO, ARTBo, Art-BO, etc.
The Bogotá Chamber of Commerce is a private entity that serves business people and entrepreneurs to achieve a more prosperous and equitable society in Bogotá and Cundinamarca. The CCB accompanies companies in their different life cycles through programs, initiatives and free tools, provides legal security and develops actions that improve the competitive environment.
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