THE EVENTS AND CULTURE AGENDA IN CUBA IN JUNE

Travelling to Cuba in June , just when the Summer begins, is a highly recommendable time as there is an extensive cultural Cuban agenda, although currently, due to the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic in Cuba, a 5-day lockdown is mandatory when getting to the Island.

With the cultural offer marked by this context, today we show you our proposal for June, dedicated exclusively to the world of visual arts of Cuban artists, with online events, as well as with face-to-face options, both in Cuba, Spain or the United States.
Highlighting both the exhibitions of young women Cuban artists – Adriana Arronte, Alejandra González- as well as other cuban artists who are more established, such as Waldo Balart, Moisés Finalé and José Manuel Fors.
Many cuban artists address the topic of the nation in their works, topics such as the exercise of power, freedom of expression, the construction of history are questioned.
Within them, creator Reynier Leyva Novo is one of the critical voices emiting his thoughts on these topics from the art world.
If you visit the exhibition “Lo que es, lo que ha sido” by the Galería El Apartamento, you can see how the artist, starting from the subtopic "Cartography of freedom (Prison, economy and freedom)" explores the concept of freedom from the Cuban context.
Reynier is interested in those problems that afflict the ordinary citizen. Therefore through this series you will feel you travel to Cuba while researching into those official constructions that have drawn the history of the island since the triumph of the revolution.
You will find a language loaded with a large conceptual dose and at an aesthetic level permeated by strategies such as ready made.
If you want to know more, visit the first part of this project, entitled “Ni mármol ni suspiros (Los fundamentos de la nación)”, where the figure of the hero is disassembled.

The world of tarot, divination and spiritual guidance is addressed in this exhibition through graphic representation and drawing: twenty-two lithographs and five canvases of the Major Arcana of the Tarot.

The artists Diana Balboa, Betzy Arias and Iris Fundora have selected this topic to refer to that path also explored by Cubans to find answers and explanations in the face of the unknown and uncertainty.
Most of the pieces were composed among several artists, which implies collective work and reaffirms the integration of different artistic disciplines.
And as part of the cultural syncretism featuring in Cuba, the artists incorporate details of the cuban culture and thus create a fusion between the tarot and other divinatory systems present in the afro-cuban culture.
The exhibition can be visited through the social networks of Taller Experimental de Gráfica of Havana and Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plásticas; but it can also be visited in the studio itself, in its main room.
And speaking of Afro-Cuban religion, don't miss our post “Cuba and the Afro-Cuban religion: Santeria, orishas and a lot of aché”
Spain has historically welcomed within its cultural proposals the work of cuban artists, and this time he does it from the Museo Francisco Sobrino, where you can catch up the exhibition “Ritmo y campos de sentidos” from Holguin artist Waldo Balart.
If you have the opportunity to get closer, you will be able to know the proposal of this creator, who features the influence of the historical avant-gardes.
The exhibition, curated by María José Gutiérrez Muñoz and Ángel Llorente, is made up of a selection of the artist's most recent works.
These are paintings where a geometric visuality prevails and where rhythm plays a leading role. The exhibition highlights the work of this cuban artist globally acclaimed.
If you come visit, you can learn about his most recent production and see how his style has evolved, full of colors and geometries. But if you want more about cuban art, we suggest you check the spots we visit on our tourOld Havana and visual arts.
If you are in New York you really should visit the personal exhibition by cuban artist Harold García, curated by Gretell Rasúa.
The exhibition takes place at headquarters of the gallery Thomas Nickles Project, a space that has the purpose of being a platform for the contemporary Cuban artists residing in New York.
“Welcome to the everglades”Is composed of a mural, a video and eleven watercolors based on the fashion plates of the Victorian era.
Portraits, sketches and female representations in Victorian-era costumes with colorful watercolors prevail.
In them, the artist depicts fictional landscapes and mixes the visuality of Victorian-era fashion plates with contemporary digital photographic images of the Everglades, one of the most important natural ecosystems located in South Florida.
In the exhibition, he reveals his concern about the actions that have ruined the Everglades, which date back to the late 1800s.
The Colectivo Resiliencia premieres its first exhibition at the Espacio Visión Ultravioleta and in this way the cuban artists Daniel Barrio and Ledián Hedinger (RENÓ) are inserted into the Spanish art scene.
The title of the exhibition, “A las almas valientes, corred”, which sets a play on words with one of La Bayamesa's lines, already alludes to the conceptual background of the exhibition.
If you want to discover Cuba through art, we invite you to do it through these artists, concerned with history, power narratives from where they build stories.
Artists who have opted to disrupt Cuban identity symbols -the shield, the flag-, to subvert them and deconstruct stories of power.
It is a proposal that has a political and social background and that, although based on the cuban context, is extensible to the rest of contemporary society, immersed in a world crisis.
Curated by Yudinela Ortega, you can enjoy this exhibition in the Espacio Visión Ultravioleta in Madrid and, in this way, get in touch with one of the newest proposals of the contemporary cuban art in Spain.
After its recent remodeling, Galería Servando welcomes in its halls the work of one of the young women artists with more recognition within the scene of cuban art.
Adriana Arronte arrives for the first time to Galería Servando with a personal exhibition in which she harmoniously integrates silver acrylic drawing, ink printing, painting and installation.
At a conceptual level, the common thread of the show is the concept of the system, which is understood by the artist as the interrelation of elements that make up a whole. This definition takes her to various areas of everyday life such as the economy, politics and the environment.
Its intention is to highlight how systems constitute structures that are equally fragile, vulnerable, subject to change and capable of fracturing and even failing.
If you want to visit, you can do so by making an appointment in the gallery. In addition, you can consult updated information of the exhibition in its official pages at Facebook and Instagram.
And if you want to discover more art and architecture during your trip, check our recommendations inwhat to see about art and architecture in Havana..
Regarding the day against homophobia and transphobia, the exhibition “Díselo a todo el mundo: sexual and gender diversity in Cuban photography”, organized by the National Council of Plastic Arts (CNAP).
With this exhibition, you can discover Cuba through a different perspective. This exhibition highlights the intense photographic work that has been carried out on the island since the 90's around the topics of homosexuality, the queer subject and transgender.
You will be able to appreciate the photographic production that explores, documents and investigates the lives of these people with a sexual orientation different from the socially accepted one, through the lens of Alejandro González, Raúl Cañibano, Alejandro Azcuy, Álvaro José Brunet,  Derbis Campos and Irene Pérez.
All of them explore with their own poetics the wide universe of the trans and homosexual world, with their corresponding visualities, some documenting and appealing to the genre of the portrait; others appropriating relevant works of art history.
If you want to find out more about the exhibition, do not miss the details in the following promo video of the exhibition.
But if you are passionate about the world of photography and want to put your skills into practice, check out our recommendations for a photographic safari in Cuba in the blog postExplore Cuba: tailor-made photo safaris.
The famous cuban artist Moisés Finalé has inaugurated his most recent personal exhibition "Entre senufo y meninas" at the Galería Habana with a streaming event through social networks of the gallery.
The exhibition will be up through online channels through a 360 ° interactive tour with real images of the exhibition in the gallery's physical space, since the rooms will still be closed due to the epidemiological crisis.
With this online premiere, the artist celebrates the forty anniverasry of his first personal exhibition.
He does it with an expo in which he collects his interest for many years in the sculptural images of African tribes and ethnic groups. He links this vocation with one of the great masterpieces of Western culture: “Las Meninas”, by Diego Velázquez.
With this dialogue he seeks to counterpoint cultures that are apparently opposite, from which he works and alters the symbols of senufo and meninas, achieving in each piece the symbiosis between both worlds.
If you are thinking about travelling to Cuba in June we recommend you to discover the work of one of the masters of cuban art, José Manuel Fors.
On this occasion, he gets to Galería Acacia former member of the legendary grupo Volumen I having developed a solid work throughout his consolidated artistic career.
This time, withLas marcas descifrableshe addresses the topic of memory one more time, a concern that has always been present in his works, either through his photographs or his installations.
The museography of the exhibition includes installations that occupy a large part of the gallery walls, which allows the visitor to be enveloped by the poetics of the artist.
The work with metal and wood reaches prominence in each of the pieces, which function as an archaeological proposal of memory.
If you want to know more about the work of José Manuel Fors you should not miss our thematic tour "Vedado and visual arts”which we begin precisely from the studio of this artist.
The young cuban artist Alejandra González, recently winner of the fourth edition of the Fundación ENAIRE Young Photography Award, will present her work at the event Photo España, with a prominent place in the inaugural exhibition in Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid.
The gardens will undoubtedly be the ideal setting to appreciate the artist's work, which is distinguished by the use of photography, performance, video art and digital art.
It is a self-referential work, since Alejandra starts from her personal experiences, but at the same time she has a marked interest in making women's problems visible and giving them a voice through her pieces.
Especially the exhibition has as its starting point the biblical passage in which Lilith, the first woman from paradise, left, thus becoming, why not, the first feminist woman.
If you are interested in keeping up to date with art events such as PhotoEspaña, you will surely be interested in discovering the Havana Art Biennale. For this we recommend you check our post about the XIII edition inCuban artists in Havana Art Biennale.

Travelling to Cuba in June involves coming into direct contact with the typical Caribbean climate: sun, momentary rains and a cool breeze that comes from the coast.

Summer begins in June and, although temperatures are already hot, they are still not as high as in July and August. However, if you intend to discover Cuba at this time of year, you should always carry your sunscreen in your backpack because Cuba is an eternal summer!
Visiting Cuba in June is an ideal setting to go to the beach or to enjoy a refreshing cocktail on a rooftop above the malecon.
The sea temperature during June is constant around 28 ° C, so you can practice watersports, as well as visit the paradisiacal beaches and cays in Cuba.
You will also find a wide variety of cultural events that are usually celebrated around these dates, including: the Ernest Hemingway International Marlin Fishing Tournament and the International Festival of Golden Boleros.

You have thousands of choices to enjoy your holidays in the real Cuba and its cultural power.

From our tailor-made trips agency to Cuba we recommend that you follow our advice to travel to Cuba without complications.
We suggest some of our most popular organized tours to Cuba , and, if possible, spend at least 10 days in Cuba to avoid missing the essentials, and above all, we recommend that you closely follow our suggestion of activities on the blog if you plan a cultural trip to Cuba in June to keep you up to date on the events you don't want to miss.
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Julienne López Hernández
Degree in History of Art
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