San Gimignano
Beijing
Les Moulins
Habana
Roma
Sao Paulo
Paris
Luis E. López-Chávez (Manzanillo, Cuba, 1988) graduated from the Professional Academy of Plastic Arts in Manzanillo in 2007 and from the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) in Havana in 2013. In 2012 he received a scholarship for the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden.
In his work, he has been conducting a research exercise on the development of plastic form and the frictions it generates when introduced into the logical space of the world as an affirmation. Based on these frictions with the socio-historical context, language or with art itself, he proposes a visuality contained between a conceptual methodology and an unconscious pulse, between a philosophical proposal and a poetic image.
The initial motivation on certain subjects such as space or emptiness, the idea of death, in its different approaches, loses its protagonism in the work process. The forms that yield or are repeated in order to approach and enunciate these themes are fundamental, they become the imperative. For the artist, a work is the work process that it can generate, which implies movement of ideas, forms, and an autonomous decantation of these, where many remain unfinished and at the same time demand their own development.
Among his main solo exhibitions are: Los espacios del pánico (Estudios superficiales sobre el vacío y el color), El Apartamento Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2024); Nadine in Panicale, Arca di Pan, Panicale, Italy (2022); El acto total, National Union of Architects and Construction Engineers of Cuba (UNAICC), Havana, Cuba (2019); Las contravenciones, El Apartamento Gallery, Havana, Cuba (2019); Contra los poetas, Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba (2017); It's Useless, Johnson Drug Store Museum, Havana, Cuba (2016); Los síntomas del engaño, 12th Havana Biennial, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba (2015); Once upon a time in the Red Country, Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, Havana, Cuba (2014); Fuera de Campo, Visual Arts Development Center (CDAV), Havana, Cuba (2013).
His work has been featured in group exhibitions such as: La capacidad de soñar, Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba (2025); Transitions and Tres tristes tigres, BODE Gallery, Havana, Cuba (2024); Inhabited, BODE Gallery, Havana, Cuba (2023); Arena entre las manos, Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba (2023); Ato (Acto), Galleria Continua, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2023); +53 Slam, Galleria Continua, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2021); La brèche, Galleria Continua, Paris, France (2021); Mirador circular, Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba (2020); ¿Cómo está el agua? and Diamante en bruto, Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba (2018); Ola Cuba, Lille 3000, Lille, France (2017); Soy Cuba, Palazzina dei Bagni Misteriosi, Franco Parenti Theater, Milan, Italy (2017); Continua Spheres Ensemble, 104 (Cent Quatre), Paris, France (2017); Cuba mi amor, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France (2017); Nido sin árbol, organized by Galleria Continua at National Union of Architects and Construction Engineers of Cuba (UNAICC), Havana, Cuba (2016); La Pala (A la corta o a la larga), Visual Arts Development Center (CDAV), Havana, Cuba (2016); Por el dos, 6th Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art, Center for the Development of Visual Arts (CDAV), Havana, Cuba (2014); Agua salada, Hispanic American Cultural Center, Havana, Cuba (2014); The Silent Shout: voices in Cuba abstraction, ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries, Miami, USA (2013); La parte Maldita, Norwegian Embassy in Cuba, Havana, Cuba (2013); Spring Exhibition, Kungl. Konsthögskolan/The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden (2012); Escapando con el paisaje, 11th Havana Biennial, Luz y Oficios Gallery, Havana, Cuba (2012); Muestra de video arte cubano, 1st Lisbon Contemporary Art Biennial, Lisbon, Portugal (2010).
He has been awarded residencies at Dynamo Art Factory, Dynamo Camp, Pistoia, Italy (2023); Una boccata d'Arte, Fundazione Elpis, Panicale, Italy (2022); and Art Dubai Residents Program (2019)
2012
Kungl. Konsthögskolan/The Royal Institute of Art. Stockholm, Sweden
2008-2013
Higher Institute of Art (ISA). Havana, Cuba
2003-2007
Professional Academy of Plastic Arts. Manzanillo, Cuba
2024
LOS ESPACIOS DEL PÁNICO (ESTUDIOS SUPERFICIALES SOBRE EL VACÍO Y EL COLOR), El Apartamento Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2022
NADINE IN PANICALE, Arca di Pan, Panicale, Italy
2019
EL ACTO TOTAL, Unión Nacional de Arquitectos e Ingenieros de la Construcción de Cuba (UNAICC), Havana, Cuba.
LOS MUERTOS II, Cementerio Colón, Havana, Cuba.
LAS CONTRAVENCIONES, Galería El Apartamento, Havana, Cuba.
2017
CONTRA LOS POETAS, Galería Servando, La Habana, Cuba
2016
IT´S USELESS, Museo Droguería Johnson, La Habana, Cuba
2015
LA DISTANCIA. Galería Evolución, Lima, Perú
LOS SINTOMAS DEL ENGAÑO. 12 Bienal de La Habana, Museo Nacional de Bellas y Museo de Arte Universal, La Habana, Cuba
2014
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE RED COUNTRI, Fundación Ludwig de Cuba, La Habana, Cuba
2011
ABERTURA, Fundación Ludwig de Cuba, La Habana, Cuba
2007
UNA NOCHE CON NUBES PARA MAX PLANCK, Galery of the Popular Cinema, Manzanillo, Cuba
2006
FLORES PARA MINIMALISTAS, Galería del Cine Popular, Manzanillo, Cuba
THAW ING, Galería del Cine Popular, Manzanillo, Cuba.
2025
LA CAPACIDAD DE SOÑAR, Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba
2024
TRANSITIONS, BODE Gallery, Havana, Cuba
TRES TRISTES TIGRES, BODE Gallery, Havana, Cuba
2023
INHABITED, BODE Gallery, Havana, Cuba
ARENA ENTRE LAS MANOS, Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba
ATO (ACTO), Galleria Continua, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2021
+53 SLAM, Galleria Continua, Sao Paulo, Brazil
LA BRÈCHE, Galleria Continua, Paris, France
2020
MIRADOR CIRCULAR, Galería Continua. La Habana, Cuba
2018
¿CÓMO ESTÁ EL AGUA?, Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba
DIAMANTE EN BRUTO, Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba
2017
HAVANA ART WEEKEND, Cemetary Colón, Havana, Cuba.
OLA CUBA, Lille 3000, Lille, France
¿SOY CUBA? Palazzina dei Bagni Misteriosi-Teatro Franco Parenti, Milan, Italy
CONTINUA SPHERES ENSEMLE, 104 (Cent Quatre), Paris, France
CUBA MI AMOR, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, Paris, France
2016
NIDO SIN ÁRBOL. UNAIC Colegio de Arquitectura, La Habana, Cuba
LA PALA (A LA CORTA O A LA LARGA), Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana, Cuba
TUMBANDO, Galería Evolución, Lima, Perú
2014
POR EL DOS, 6to Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Habana, Cuba
AGUA SALADA, Centro Hispanoamericano, La Habana, Cuba
2013
THE SILENT SHOUT: VOICES IN CUBA ABSTRATION, ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries, Miami, USA
LA PARTE MALDITA, Embajada de Noruega en Cuba, La Habana, Cuba
ABIERTO, Galería Luz y Oficio, La Habana, Cuba
2012
SPRING EXHIBITION, Kungl. Konsthögskolan/The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
THE REALM OF EXPECULATION, Sturevägen 9, Stockholm, Sweden
ESCAPANDO CON EL PAISAJE, 11na Bienal de La Habana, Galería Luz y Oficios, La Habana, Cuba
ZONE, 11na Bienal de La Habana, Casa de la Comedia, La Habana, Cuba
LEYERS, 11na Bienal de La Habana, Galería del Instituto Superior de Arte, La Habana, Cuba
SEE CLEAR II, 11na Bienal de la Habana, Instituto Superior de Arte, La Habana, Cuba
2011
CRIPSIS, Galería del Instituto Superior de Arte, La Habana, Cuba
ZONA OSCURA, Galería del Instituto Superior de Arte, La Habana, Cuba
2010
EX INDUMENTIS, Iglesia del Carmelo, La Habana, Cuba
ARTE 10, 10ma Bienal de Portugal. Lisboa, Portugal
EMPLAZAMIENTO, Galería Mariano Rodríguez, La Habana, Cuba
VIENE EL LOBO (EL VERDADERO LOOP), Factoría Habana, La Habana, Cuba
QUINTO DÍA, Iglesia del Carmelo, La Habana, Cuba
ESPORAS, Pabellón Cuba, La Habana, Cuba
2009
SEE CLEAR I, 10ma Bienal de La Habana, Instituto Superior de Arte, La Habana, Cuba
FUERTE ES EL MORRO, WHO I AM, Galería Espacio Aglutinador, La Habana, Cuba
TAMBIEN, 18 e/ 15 y 17, Vedado, La Habana, Cuba
2008
LA (G)ESTACIÓN, Galería del Cine Popular, Manzanillo, Cuba.
CUADRADO Y PUNTO, Galería del Cine Popular, Manzanillo, Cuba
2012
Study scholarship. Kungl Konsthögskolan/The Royal Institute of Art. Stockholm, Sweden
2023
Dynamo Art Factory Residency. Dynamo Camp. Pistoia, Italy
2022
Una boccata d´Arte artistic residency, 2022 edition. Fundazione Elpis. Panicale, Italy
2019
Art Dubai Residents Program
2020
XIV Festival de Música Electroacústica y Electrónica, Primavera en La Habana, Teatro del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Edificio Arte Cubano, Havana, Cuba
2017
Havana Art Weekend, Colón Cemetery, Havana, Cuba
