Neida Peñalver Díaz

 

Neida Peñalver Díaz is a researcher and expert in the life and work of the Cuban painter Servando Cabrera Moreno. She is the curator of the Servando Cabrera Moreno Library Museum and a member of the Commission of Experts for the Certification of Authenticity of this artist’s work. She was curator of the project Detrás del muro / Behind the wall, included in the 14th Havana Biennial (2022), and she was invited with the project to ARCO Madrid in 2021. She has collaborated in exhibition projects with NG Art Gallery in Panama City. Neida was Curator of the traveling exhibition Switzerland-Cuba, with the project: Between genders and worlds. Dr. Favez with the Cantonal Museum of History and Archaeology, Lausanne, Switzerland 2021-2022. Curator of the Itinerant exhibition, project: Todas, en busca de un espacio with the Invisible Film Festival of Bilbao, in collaboration with Kultura Communication Desarrollo (KCD ONGD), Bilbao, 2019. She has been consultant for cultural issues for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). General Coordinator of the cultural platform Fondo de Arte Joven / Youth Art Fund.

Yohy Suárez

Yohy Suárez’s paintings and drawings—with a language of expressive urgency—are based on the anthropological value of the image and his peculiar way of dialoguing with unusually described architectural scenarios. It has the indisputable stamp of a marked and very personal aesthetic, worked with natural pigments and charcoal.

His work has been exhibited in personal and collective exhibitions in Italy, Panama, United States, Cyprus, Spain and Cuba. Winner of the Special Prize of the Arte Laguna competition in Venice 15, in 2021, and The International Prize Caravaggio, 2018, Milan, Italy.

He has participated in the art residency programs of the Espronceda Institute of Art and Culture, Barcelona, Spain (2021), and of Isolo17 Art Gallery, Verona, Italy (2019, 2021). His works are part of collections such as: Los Carbonell Foundation, Panama City, Panama; Viñas-Gil Collection, Spain; José Álvarez Collection, Spain; also in private collections in Germany, United States, Italy, Argentina, Cyprus, France and Portugal.

Kalí Rodríguez-Peña

Latin-Grammy nominated Cuban trumpeter and composer Kalí Rodríguez-Peña is one of the leading voices of a young generation of Cuban musicians living in New York City. His sound fuses the traditional motifs of his native Cuba with a passion for jazz classicism influenced by Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

​Born and raised in Havana, Cuba, Kali was 14 years old when he caught the attention of multi-instrumentalist Bobby Carcasses, the world-renowned guru of Afrocuban jazz whose mentorship introduced Kalí to the jazz idiom. After winning top prizes in important national jazz related events, he was awarded a full scholarship to the prestigious Manhattan School of Music where he studied under the tutelage of Jon Faddis and Stefon Harris.

Since, Kalí has led his own bands in top venues and festivals in North America, and has also shared the stage with distinguished musicians such as Wynton Marsalis, Arturo O’Farrill, Paquito D’Rivera, Chucho Valdés, Michel Camilo, Esperanza Spalding, Miguel Zenón, Anat Cohen, Jeff “Tain” Watts, David Murray, Cándido Camero, Ricky Martin, Luis Fonsi, Olga Tañón, among others.

​Kalí has been awarded Harlem Stage’s WaterWorks Emerging Artist cohort (2023), New Music USA’s Creator Development Fund (2021), Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Inc. Scholarship (2017), and was a finalist at the National Trumpet Competition (2016). His album Mélange (2022) was released under the Truth Revolution Records label, and its music is featured on the TV show “Let The Right One In” by television network Showtime. He also participated as a guest performer in the CD "Familia" by Grammy-winning artists Arturo O'Farrill and Chucho Valdés, as well as Michel Camilo's latest release "Essence," and Pedrito Martínez’ “Acertijos.” He has also been a guest lecturer at the University of California, Riverside, and the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.

Yanelis Mora Morales

Yanelis Mora Morales mentally maps impossible routes, found paths, and lost ones too. Instead of using canvas as media support, she needs to fragment it, assuming the pieces as mental spaces for survival or ways of finding herself. Since 2003, Morales has acted in plays, radio shows, and television in Cuba and has been awarded three times in the modality of best female performance. In 2017, she began to venture into the world of visual arts, converting her drawings into textiles. As a visual artist, she works mostly with a patchwork technique called Fundación (“paper piecing”), making textile works on small and large format paper.

Notable solo exhibitions include: BÚJULA at Plusartis Space, Madrid (2024); SUPER-OBJECTIVOS at the Kaplan Project Gallery, Palma de Mallorca (2024); Consonancia at Tomás y Valiente Art Center, Madrid (2024); La Iberoamericana de Alcalá: Mujeres y artes visuales del siglo XXI at La Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid (2023); and Polen at Plusartis Space, Madrid (2021). Select group shows include: Memoria oculta at the Brownstone Foundation, Paris (2023); AQUÍ at Dagoberto Rodríguez Studio, Madrid (2023); No es no es Cuestión de Azar at Espacio Lobo, Madrid (2022); Concreto at Malafama Studios (ARCO) Madrid (2022); Ellas at Fundación Iberoamérica de Europa, Madrid (2021).