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In early September, Madrid’s gallerists and collectors come back to life after a scorching summer lull. El Apartamento’s Madrid space is showing Bedia’s latest series, which explores the violence, mysticism, love, heritage, and nature which gallerist Luis Sicre says can be read as “representative” of Latin America.
En sus nuevos trabajos, que llegarán a España en septiembre con una exposición titulada La pesca —en la galería El Apartamento dentro de Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend, el evento que inaugura la temporada expositiva y que este año se celebra entre el 10 y el 13 de ese mes—, su paleta cromática se ha oscurecido, y sus prototipos se enfrentan al agua.
"La pesca" es la primera exposición personal de la artista Brenda Cabrera en El Apartamento. La muestra reúne una selección de pinturas recientes e invita al público a adentrarse en el singular imaginario de la artista, resultado de sus investigaciones en torno a la naturaleza del alma humana y a las estructuras de poder que la civilización ha construido para condicionarla.
Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend celebra, del 10 al 13 de septiembre, su edición más amplia hasta hoy, con sesenta galerías que presentan conjuntamente sus nuevas exposiciones. El cruce de generaciones aparece en El Apartamento, que presenta a dos cubanos, José Bedia y Brenda Cabrera, separados por casi cuatro décadas.
La temporada artística tiene una fecha muy concreta de arranque en Madrid: la que marca Apertura Gallery Weekend, el evento que da el pistoletazo de salida a las citas culturales en la ciudad después del parón estival (...) Empezaremos la ruta en nuestra propia casa, El Apartamento (Calle de Puebla, 4) que inauguran con José Bedia y Brenda Carrera, presente y futuro de la pintura cubana.
“Diálogos en el desierto” es la primera exposición personal de José Bedia en El Apartamento. La muestra reúne una selección de pinturas, obras sobre papel y textiles que acercan al público algunas de las investigaciones más recientes del artista (...) El título de la exposición alude a las innumerables expediciones e investigaciones de campo que el artista ha realizado a lo largo de las últimas décadas por distintos territorios de Latinoamérica, el Caribe y algunas regiones de África.
The Space 23 Exhibition Reimagines Territory and Belonging
ArtBurst
In a city where borders feel permeable and reinvention is a local instinct, El Espacio 23 returns with a timely question: What is territory now? Is it land? History? A wound? A spiritual force? A place we inherit, or a place we imagine? That inquiry anchors “A World Far Away, Nearby and Invisible: Territory Narratives in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection,” the sixth exhibition at the contemporary art space founded by Miami developer, art collector and philanthropist Jorge M. Pérez.
Venice Biennale 2026 Highlights: Off-Site Exhibitions
Art Review
Roberto Diago's Cuban Pavilion brings together rusted iron heads, fragmented wooden figures and small birdhouse-like structures that recall the structures of a shrine, shelter or prison cell. Installed within the rough brick architecture of the Venetian space, the works carry the appearance of things salvaged after collapse: weathered surfaces, patched timbers and bodies assembled from scraps.
At the Cuban Pavilion, a physical and symbolic journey through Afro-descendant memory
Il Giornale Dell'Arte
In a material context, for his participation in the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, the artist Roberto Diago does not represent black skin as a passive surface, but as an archive of trauma, resistance and survival.
Writer Carmen Maria Machado Turns Curator for a Subversive New Show in New York: Rocío García
VOGUE
Themes of power, pain, desire, sexuality, and fear animate much of Machado's work as well as García's, making a multimedia collaboration between the two creatives feel especially apropos. Machado, who is also of Cuban descent, notes that while working with García, who lives in Havana, posed certain logistical challenges-“since bringing stuff out of Cuba is pretty hard right now”-encountering the artist's work in person was a revelation.
Roberto Diago to Represent Cuba at the 2026 Venice Biennale With “Hombres Libres / Free Men”.”
BAM! Black Art Magazine
Afro-Cuban artist Roberto Diago brings a new salvaged-material installation to Cuba's pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, treating scar and surface as a language of memory, resistance, and survival.
Roberto Diago, protagonist of the Cuban Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
PAC
‘Free Men’ is Roberto Diago's proposal for the Pavilion of the Republic of Cuba at the 61st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Nelson Ramirez de Arellano Conde and commissioned by Daneisy Garcia Roque. The project, which can be visited from May 9 to November 22, is located at Il Giardino Bianco - Art Space, located in via Garibaldi 1814, between the Giardini and the Arsenale.
The Space 23 Exhibition Reimagines Territory and Belonging
ArtBurst
In a city where borders feel permeable and reinvention is a local instinct, El Espacio 23 returns with a timely question: What is territory now? Is it land? History? A wound? A spiritual force? A place we inherit, or a place we imagine? That inquiry anchors “A World Far Away, Nearby and Invisible: Territory Narratives in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection,” the sixth exhibition at the contemporary art space founded by Miami developer, art collector and philanthropist Jorge M. Pérez.
Venice Biennale 2026 Highlights: Off-Site Exhibitions
Art Review
Roberto Diago's Cuban Pavilion brings together rusted iron heads, fragmented wooden figures and small birdhouse-like structures that recall the structures of a shrine, shelter or prison cell. Installed within the rough brick architecture of the Venetian space, the works carry the appearance of things salvaged after collapse: weathered surfaces, patched timbers and bodies assembled from scraps.
At the Cuban Pavilion, a physical and symbolic journey through Afro-descendant memory
Il Giornale Dell'Arte
In a material context, for his participation in the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, the artist Roberto Diago does not represent black skin as a passive surface, but as an archive of trauma, resistance and survival.
Writer Carmen Maria Machado Turns Curator for a Subversive New Show in New York: Rocío García
VOGUE
Themes of power, pain, desire, sexuality, and fear animate much of Machado's work as well as García's, making a multimedia collaboration between the two creatives feel especially apropos. Machado, who is also of Cuban descent, notes that while working with García, who lives in Havana, posed certain logistical challenges-“since bringing stuff out of Cuba is pretty hard right now”-encountering the artist's work in person was a revelation.
Roberto Diago to Represent Cuba at the 2026 Venice Biennale With “Hombres Libres / Free Men”.”
BAM! Black Art Magazine
Afro-Cuban artist Roberto Diago brings a new salvaged-material installation to Cuba's pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, treating scar and surface as a language of memory, resistance, and survival.
Roberto Diago, protagonist of the Cuban Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
PAC
‘Free Men’ is Roberto Diago's proposal for the Pavilion of the Republic of Cuba at the 61st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Nelson Ramirez de Arellano Conde and commissioned by Daneisy Garcia Roque. The project, which can be visited from May 9 to November 22, is located at Il Giardino Bianco - Art Space, located in via Garibaldi 1814, between the Giardini and the Arsenale.