Overview
- Fundación Paiz has appointed Mexican curator and scholar Cuauhtémoc Medina to lead the 25th Bienal de Arte Paiz, with the foundation announcing he will shape the programme for the upcoming edition.
- The biennial is scheduled to run from November 2027 to February 2028 and will take place across Antigua and Guatemala City as part of the foundation’s fiftieth anniversary activities.
- Medina brings longstanding institutional and international experience, including research at UNAM since 1993, roles at Tate Modern, chief curatorship at MUAC (2013–2024), and leadership of Manifesta 9 and the 12th Shanghai Biennale.
- Fundación Paiz and Medina frame the edition as a deliberate moment to rethink the format of biennials, with an explicit aim to raise the regional profile of Guatemala and Central America in global art conversations.
- The foundation has been strengthening local exhibition capacity by opening the Centro Cultural Fundación Paiz and presenting works from its 300‑plus collection, addressing a national gap created by the absence of a public contemporary art museum and promising greater local impact from the biennial.