Rachel Weiss

A Certain Place and a Certain Time: The Third Bienal de La Habana and the Origins of the Global Exhibition

Since its inception in 1984, the Bienal de La Habana has followed a trajectory that culminated culturally and curatorially in the third edition in 1989, and which peaked in other terms (institutional solidity, organisational professionalism, international recognition) somewhat later.

Lázaro Saavedra in conversation with Rachel Weiss

Lázaro Saavedra was born in 1964 in Havana, where he continues to live. He graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, in 1988, and has been a lecturer there since 1991. Saavedra’s practice combines pictorial work with other media, including texts, performances, happenings and video installations. He was a member of the Grupo Puré in the 1980s; the Pilón community project from 1988 to 1989; and the collective Enema, a group composed of former ISA students, in the 1990s. His work was included with that of other young Cubans in the ‘La tradición del humor’ (‘The Tradition of Humour’) exhibition as part of the 1989 Bienal de La Habana.

Alex Ángeles and Alfredo Márquez in conversation with Rachel Weiss

The Peruvian collective NN had work in the central ‘Tres Mundos’ (‘Three Worlds’) exhibition of the 1989 Bienal, installed at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. The four founding members of NN were Alex Ángeles, José Luis García, Alfredo Márquez and Quique Wong, all architecture students at the Universidad Ricardo Palma in Lima. They worked together under this name from 1988 to 1991.