“In what ways have artists from the African continent and its far-flung diaspora processed the experience of the quotidian in their painting over the last 100 years? Koyo Kouoh, Director and Chief Curator of the Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, South Africa, and her team...
To build a collection is to make a journey without a precise destination. It is, above all, a vision of the world, a warp woven with the semiotics, evident or hidden, of the threads that make it up. Thus, Jorge M. Pérez (1949), born in...
To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection celebrates numerous textile-based works from the Pérez collection – many of which have never been publicly exhibited before – and engages these acquisitions as focal points from which to structure creative dialogues with...
October 27, 2022
After a significant donation of contemporary Cuban art to the Pérez Art Museum Miami in 2016, this exhibition highlights works acquired since 2017 as part of an ongoing investigation and interest in Cuban and Cuban diaspora art. Rather than a...
December 2020 - JUNE 11, 2022
One year after its grand opening, El Espacio 23 presents its highly anticipated second exhibition, Witness: Afro Perspectives from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection. Guest curated by Zimbabwean curator Tandazani Dhlakama, Assistant Curator, Zeitz MOCAA, in collaboration with...
December 2019 - March 2021
The inaugural exhibition Time for Change: Art and Social Unrest in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection uses contemporary art to explore conflicts and contradictions of contemporary society, as well as analyze the historical events and reframe them within the...