Arts Connection

🌍 Venezuelan art and research left their mark in Paris! 🏛️✨

Within the framework of the International Congress LASA 2026, which celebrated its 60th anniversary, researcher Emilio Piñango (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle / Université Côte d’Azur) shared with us an overview of his presentation on artistic freedoms and cultural rights in Venezuela during the 1999–2019 period. 📄🔍

In his speech, Piñango analyzed the contrast between Article 98 of the Venezuelan Constitution —which defends free creation— and the harsh reality of institutional censorship, persecution, and exile faced by so many visual creators in recent decades.

This rigorous scientific research took as one of its core areas of study the work of Nina Dotti, the emblematic artistic alter ego of our founder, Andreína Fuentes Angarita. It was a milestone to see how the collection and the artistic archive formally entered the field of academic and international rigor. 💬👇

Emilio Piñango

What happens when the museum steps outside?
Andreína Fuentes Angarita has been answering that question with action for decades. A wall becomes a canvas. A beach becomes a screen. A neighborhood becomes an exhibition hall.
The new museology doesn’t ask whether art fits inside a building — it asks how art can reach people where they already are. From that conviction, Arts Connection has projected videos on the shores of Choroní, on Miami Beach, on the walls of Doral. It has brought exhibitions to communities that had never set foot in a museum. It has proven, time and again, that art needs no permission to occupy space.
The museum is not a place. It’s an intention.

For one evening, Albalat de la Ribera became the center of a conversation that matters.

On May 13, Andreína Fuentes Angarita inaugurated the international residency program of Plan B — the new contemporary creation center led by artist Rebeca Plana in Valencia’s Ribera Valley — as its first artist in residence.

At Casa del Bou, the two spoke about art, memory and territory: about how cultural management can actively intervene in the construction of identity, about affective museology as a living methodology, and about what it means to collect from the margins.

An irreverent collection is not just the name of the talk. It’s a way of existing.

Thank you to the community of Albalat de la Ribera, the Ayuntamiento, and Plan B for this inaugural encounter.

How do you write the history of those who were forced into silence?

The Divas de Venezuela archive is far more than paper. It is a testament to resistance — to vigils held, to fights for identity, to the stories the system chose not to tell.
Among the works that Arts Connection Foundation will donate to Museo C.A.V. La Neomudéjar is the triptych Transición — a piece that was part of one of the first exhibitions of the Fundación de Artistas Emergentes and will now become part of the permanent collection of this institution in Madrid.

What was born as an act of resistance in Venezuela will find in Europe the preservation it deserves.

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What began as a provocation has become a legacy.

In 2004, through the Fundación de Artistas Emergentes (FAE), Andreína Fuentes Angarita launched Álbum de Boda at CELARG, Caracas. It was not just art — it was a demand for citizenship at a moment when trans and q***r identity in Venezuela faced its harshest challenges.

FAE understood then that to change the future, you first had to make the present visible. That conviction — born in Caracas, built on the foundations of New Museology — is the same one that drives Arts Connection Foundation today.

Thirty years later, the seed is still bearing fruit.

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Tomorrow.

Andreína Fuentes Angarita and Rebeca Plana sit down to talk about what isn’t always said out loud.
Art, identity, migration, motherhood. Unfiltered.

📅 Tomorrow · May 13 · 7:00 PM
📍 Casa del Bou, Albalat de la Ribera
🎟 Free admission