Panama, October 24, 2025. - For the second time Panama will be presenting with a pavilion at the prestigious Art Biennial of Venice. To the call came 89 proposals, including 13 collective and 76 artists.

The Jury is currently undergoing an examination and its decision will be officially announced on November 7. It's an independent Jury, made up of well-known curers, researchers and cultural managers from Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Panama, each with a diverse, strict and sensitive look to ensure a transparent and high level of professional conduct.

"It's very important to have Panama's name in one of the pavilions of the Venice attic biennale, because it's a platform that exposes the greatest of visual art at an international level and that Panamanian artists are at that platform really shows that level of talent of our country," emphasized Gianni Bianchini, National Director of the Arts at the Ministry of Culture.

Bianchinni also commented that the 2026 process has been an inspiring exercise of national participation and commitment and an open and transparent effort that has been characterized by the enthusiasm of artists, collective and cultural managers.

The organizing committee, composed by Gianni Bianchini, National Director of the Arts of the Ministry of Culture and Commissioner, Ana Elizabeth González, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Canal Museum, Dr. Mónica E. Kupfer, History of art and curator. President, Foundation of Art and Culture, Mariana
Núñez, Vice President of Communications and Culture of the City of Knowledge Foundation and Luz Bonadies, Communications and Marketing Manager of the City of Knowledge Foundation.

The first Panamanian participation at the Venice Art Biennial gave significant results:
• Almost $300 million was raised, most of them from private and public contributions.
• More than 45 thousand people visited Panama's National Pavilion in Venice.
• More than 70 national and international publications highlighted the country's proposal.

Currently, the exhibition "Surcos: in body and ground," is the sample that presents the works of the first National Pavilion of Panama at the Venice Art Biennial 2024, that it exhibits at the Canal Museum.