Actualities
Discover our various actualities:
Herbariums, Seen and Dreamed is an exhibition presented at the Fundação de Serralves in Porto from October 28, 2024, to April 27, 2025..
It explores the relationship between art and science through historical and contemporary botanical representations, including cyanotypes, herbariums, and botanical illustrations. A captivating journey into the world of plants, blending visual exploration with ecological reflection.
For more information, visit the Herbariums page on our website:
On 21 june, come and attend the presentation of:
Plant Impressions by Alexandre de Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland
This work, containing unpublished impressions from the manuscript (Ms988), is preserved at the Library of the Institut de France.
The presentation will be accompanied by a screening of the impressions from the manuscript and a book signing in the presence of the curator of the exhibition The American Journey of Alexandre de Humboldt (1799-1804), Claudia Isabel Navas.
Opening of the Naked Glaciers exhibition by Ania Freindorf
At Chouraqui & Harzic Avocats
On June 15, 2022, at 6 PM
Support evening for the mission in the Pyrenees of photographer and mountaineer Ania Freindorf
© Francesco Galli; Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia
Join Cultura Orquídea at the opening of the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale.
To learn more about this new edition, which opened on April 23, 2022, read this article from Revista Diners.
The Way, Ania Freindorf
Naked Glaciers Expedition
The conversation Glaciers and Their Ecosystems will take place on December 12 at 5 PM at Cultura Orquídea, 9 Cité de l'Alma, 75 007 Paris
Cultura Orquídea's group exhibition, featuring artists Ania Freindorf, Philippe Durand, and Lorenza Panero, se tiendra du 12 décembre 2021 au 22 janvier 2022 dans ses locaux.
Reservations: contact@cultura-orquidea.com or +33 6 76 41 21 10
Le 4 décembre 2021 à 14h30, assistez à la conférence Le Voyage américain d'Alexander von Humboldt et Aimé Bonpland en images, par Claudia Isabel NAVAS, historienne de l'art et muséographe
Lieu : Amphithéâtre de paléontologie du Jardin des Plantes / MNHN
(Entrée la plus proche au Jardin des Plantes située au 47 rue Cuvier 75005 Paris)
RSVP auprès de la Société des Amis du MNHN
Du 18 novembre 2021 au 22 mars 2022, retrouvez l'exposition
Sur les Pas de Humboldt et Bonpland, Orchidées de Colombie, au Antiguo Colegio de la Compania de Jesus, Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID), Embajada de Espana - La Antigua Guatemala (www.aecid-cf.org.gt)
L'ambassade de Colombie au Guatemala, le Festival de las flores de la Antigua, la Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) présentent un projet réalisé en partenariat avec le Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris, l'Association Enlaces Artisticos, la Asociacion Bogotana de Orquideologia, el Banco Davivienda, la Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France et Cultura Orquidea
Le 18 novembre 2021, suivez la conférence en ligne sur la mission de terrain en Colombie, Sur les Pas de Humboldt et Bonpland, organisée par l'ambassade de Colombie en Russie
Conversation entre Margaux Cannamela, Alliance française de Medellin et Claudia Isabel Navas, artiste
L'exposition a lieu à Lisbonne du 21 octobre au 26 octobre 2021,
au Jardim Botanico de Ajuda, "Colombia, Terra de Orquideas" organisée par l'ambassade de Colombie au Portugal présentant le projet réalisé en partenariat avec le Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris, l'Association Enlaces Artisticos, la Asociacion Bogotana de Orquideologia, el Banco Davivienda, la Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France et Cultura Orquidea
Entretien : http://casamericalatina.pt/2021/11/03/claudia-isabel-navas-as-orquideas-eram-consideradas-como-pecas-unicas-ao-nivel-das-obras-de-arte-e-das-pedras-preciosas/
Cultura Orquídea is delighted to annonce its participation in the Venice Art Fair Bodies and Cities Skin, organized by ITSLIQUID Group from June 14th through 4th July 2021 at The Room,
located at 374 Calle Larga San Marco.
Yvette Marie DOSTATNI - Ramon LASERNA - John LEE
Christian McMANUS - Claudia Isabel NAVAS
Mario Alberto PEDRAZA - Wes POPE
Guy DE ROUGEMONT
The works presented in the Beyond Borders exhibition embody a wide range of disciplines and approaches. We begin with the work Untitled by Guy de ROUGEMONT, where his personal definition of modernity is expressed through his concept of the "unfinished." One can observe visible forms on the white canvas, left in its natural state. The serpentine line he favors creates distorted threads and a movement reminiscent of Mannerist art from the late Renaissance.
On the other side of the room, a video installation projects the shadows of American plants and orchids brought back from the Americas by Alexander von Humboldt in the early 19th century. The unique historical herbarium Impressions de Plantes (Ms 998), preserved at the Library of the Institut de France, as well as other orchid impressions from Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth's French collection at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, have been reinterpreted by Colombian artists Claudia Isabel NAVAS and Ramon LASERNA. They explore, through a metaphor of migration and survival, the adaptation to various environments and ecosystems across continents and borders.
Orchids, these unique flowers that grow on trees, soils, or rocks, survive independently and strongly by maintaining their balance amid external circumstances. This ecological harmony between orchids and the varied ecosystems in which they evolve is highlighted in the photographs by Mario Alberto PEDRAZA.
Just like plants, humans migrate across continents and borders, for various reasons and through different means. The selection of portraits in Beyond Borders presents a wide range of techniques and diverse locations.
The exhibition includes the photo-documentary Pop 66 by Wes POPE, shot with a pinhole camera along the legendary Route 66 (USA), as well as the Polaroid portrait series Evolution by Christian McMANUS. Another series, Quartiers du Monde, offers a unique reinterpretation of certain places, with McMANUS playing with colors and chemicals of the Polaroids during the drying process to blur the boundaries and distort these familiar locations.
The more intimate portraits by John LEE, who followed a Chinese circus on tour in the United States at the end of the 20th century, or those, full of spirit and humor, by Yvette Marie DOSTATNI, taken between Mississippi and Chicago, remind us of the multiplicity of lives in motion in this world.