The Custodio García Rovira House of Culture Museum of Fine Arts opens its 2026 cultural programme with the exhibition ‘Primigenio’, a collective exhibition that invites the public to reconnect with the essential forces of human experience through art. The opening will take place on Friday, 6 February, at 6:30 p.m., at the museum’s headquarters located at Calle 37 #12-46, with free admission for all.
Under the direction and curatorship of Juan Carlos Linares (Mausoleo), a history student at the Industrial University of Santander, and B. Marcell Bohórquez Gualdrón (El Narrador de Salem), a student of Fine Arts at the Institute of Regional Projection and Distance Education (Ipred), this exhibition brings together nearly 40 works by 28 artists from the region, including established masters and emerging creators.
The exhibition encompasses various artistic techniques and languages such as drawing, painting, sculpture, engraving and photography, reflecting the aesthetic and conceptual diversity of the local scene.
Primigenio is conceived as a space for encounter, reflection and cultural appropriation, where art is presented as a channel for exploring the depths of the human condition. During the opening night, poetry will also play a leading role, with readings accompanying the visual tour and enhancing the audience’s sensory experience.
Un viaje a lo esencial de la experiencia humana
In the words of the co-curators, Primigenio refers to that which is primitive or original, to that which precedes all constructed forms. The exhibition offers a glimpse into those primal forces that continue to inhabit human beings—hunger, fear, love, pleasure, and pain—impulses inscribed in a genetic, spiritual, and symbolic memory that spans generations.
The exhibition explores the primal in multiple dimensions: sensuality, nature, rebirth, happiness, good and evil, the divine and the mundane, as well as the urgency of movement and transformation.
From this perspective, the artist appears as a channel capable of breaking down the barriers that separate human beings from the original essence of their emotions, translating those experiences into artistic manifestations that range from the miracle of birth to the harshness of urban life.
‘Primigenio brings together creators who engage in dialogue with both the harshest aspects of the social fabric and the depths of human experience, while continuing to reveal those glimmers of light that still sustain hope,’ say the curators.
An open space for culture and community
The exhibition will be open to the public from 6 to Friday 27 February, Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. The invitation is open: let’s celebrate art in all its forms together and embrace our culture.
