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This year I am participating in the 25th edition of the International Biennial Poster Design Terras Gauda – Francisco Mantecón Competition, one of the most recognized platforms in contemporary poster design. For this anniversary edition, I present a work that blends pop imagery, visual humor, and a mechanical‑surreal twist: a hybrid creature—part bottle, part fish, part machine—conceived as a small manifesto on movement, identity, and graphic play.
The official exhibition brings together 2,120 posters from 83 countries, becoming a visual map of trends, languages, and approaches within international graphic design. All participating works — including mine — are on display at the Maritime Station in Vigo, a space that resonates with ideas of transit, travel, and openness to the world, concepts that also shape this edition.
The exhibition is open to the public every day until June 3, during the following hours: ⏱ 11:00–14:00 | 18:00–21:00
Participating in this biennial is an opportunity to position my work within a global context of graphic creation, share processes, and continue expanding my institutional and exhibition archive.
Participation in the 25th International Biennial Poster Design Terras Gauda – Francisco Mantecón Competition
PAPER & PIGMENT brings together a group of artists at Altstadthalle Zug who explore contemporary materiality through paper, color, and their many technical variations. The exhibition proposes a journey in which the surface ceases to be a mere support and becomes territory, gesture, archive, and experimentation.
Within this dialogue, the work of Honys Torres introduces a perspective that observes and challenges Swiss everyday life from an intimate and incisive angle. Her pieces —including works from the Heidi POP collection— operate as visual micro‑chronicles in which the domestic, the ritual, and the seemingly neutral reveal themselves as scenes charged with displacement, restrained humor, and editorial precision. Her presence offers a counterpoint that expands the reading of pigment toward the affective, the migratory, and the everyday.
Over the course of four days, visitors will encounter works that move between painting, photography, collage, expanded printmaking, and new materialities. Each artist contributes a singular interpretation of how pigment —in its broadest sense— constructs visual narratives that oscillate between the intimate, the political, and the sensorial.
Organized by AC Latin Art and AZ Contemporary Art Zug, the project celebrates the diversity of languages and backgrounds, creating a space where Latin American, European, and transnational perspectives converge. PAPER & PIGMENT thus emerges as a platform for encounter, exchange, and visibility for practices that understand art as a living, permeable, and constantly evolving field.
The exhibition invites viewers to pause, to read the layers, to discover how each work unfolds its own rhythm and breath. Together, the pieces form a vibrant map of contemporary sensibilities that find in paper and pigment not only a medium, but a way of thinking.
United Art Zürich – Farewell to a Beloved Art Home
Joss Toledo Art Studio & Gallery, Zürich
Since 2021, Joss Toledo Art Studio & Gallery has been more than an exhibition space for Honys Torres —it has been an artistic home. It was here that she first joined United Art Zürich, an annual project that brought together contemporary artists in a dynamic and ever‑changing dialogue of styles, voices, and perspectives.
Over the years, Honys became a recurring presence in the gallery: she participated in several editions of We Love Zürich, presented her solo exhibition Arroz con Mango, and later took on a new role when Joss entrusted her with the gallery to create and lead FRAUENZONE, a project that deepened her connection to the space and its community.
Her relationship with Joss Toledo —artist, gallerist, and friend— has been central to this journey. Built on trust, respect, and creative affinity, their collaboration shaped a shared history within the walls of the gallery. For Honys, this space has been a site of growth, experimentation, and genuine artistic companionship.
United Art Zürich – Farewell to a Beloved Art Home
This final edition of United Art Zürich marks the closing of a chapter. It is not only the farewell to a gallery, but also a celebration of everything that happened there: the exhibitions, the encounters, the conversations, and the friendships that will continue to resonate far beyond its doors.
Galeria de arte nacional venezuela
Honys Torres’ participation in Sin Censuras. Nudes in Venezuelan Art, presented at the Galería de Arte Nacional in 2026, reaffirms her active connection to the Venezuelan art scene and her ongoing dialogue with the country’s cultural institutions. The exhibition, organized from the collection of the Fundación Museos Nacionales, revisits the representation of the body in Venezuelan art from both historical and contemporary perspectives, questioning the boundaries between intimacy, politics, and censorship.
Torres’ work enters this context through her Neo Pop language and her interest in dismantling cultural, media, and social symbols. Her contribution to Sin Censuras highlights the ways in which her practice addresses vulnerability, identity, and the symbolic construction of the body—central themes that run through her visual production and her research on memory, power, and representation.
This event marks a significant moment in her recent trajectory: an institutional return to Venezuela that resonates with her active presence in Europe, consolidating a transnational practice that connects Zurich and Caracas through image-making, critique, and visual culture.
“Johnny Bravo (Uncensored)” is a work that reinterprets the iconic animated character from a contemporary and critical perspective. The piece combines pop aesthetics, urban graphic language, and a composition saturated with symbols, phrases, and visual gestures that engage with digital culture and the construction of desire.
Johnny Bravo’s hyper‑masculinized body appears exposed and demystified, confronted with elements of humor, irony, and references to consumer culture. The presence of Ariel introduces a narrative counterpoint that heightens the tension of the gaze and questions stereotypes of gender, beauty, and media‑driven fantasy.
The work is part of the “Uncensored” exhibition, which explores the boundaries between what is permitted, suggested, and explicit within the contemporary pop imaginary.
Heidi POP presents a vibrant and critical reinterpretation of Swiss cultural imagery through the Neo Pop language characteristic of Honys Torres. The collection takes the figure of Heidi—a national myth, a global brand, and an exported symbol of Alpine innocence—as a point of departure to dismantle its cultural layers and reveal how seemingly naïve narratives also construct identity, power, and belonging.
In these works, Torres combines color, irony, and visual appropriation to confront the distance between literary Heidi, media Heidi, and the Heidi that circulates as an international stereotype. She transforms this icon into a critical device that dialogues with her own migrant experience in Switzerland, questioning which images define a country and who is included—or excluded—from those narratives.
The exhibition at Galerie NUMAS IGRA in Basel marks a key moment in her recent trajectory: a project that connects her research on Latin American popular culture with her immersion in Swiss cultural symbols, creating a bridge between geographies, memories, and collective fictions. Heidi POP is simultaneously homage, parody, and reflection on the power of images to shape national imaginaries.
HEIDI POP
GALERIE NUMAS IGRA
LIEBE 2026
Contemporary Art Zug
Honys Torres participates in LIEBE, an exhibition organized by Contemporary Art Zug at the Altstadthalle Zug, where love is explored through historical, cultural, and emotional perspectives. The show brings together works that question how narratives of love are constructed and which images sustain our ideas of partnership, desire, and emotional connection.
Torres presents pieces from her Pelucas collection, a series that reinterprets cultural icons through her Neo Pop language to examine how popular culture shapes our perceptions of affection and identity. Her contribution centers on two emblematic couples from radically different eras: Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, figures marked by power, theatricality, and historical tragedy, and Homer and Marge Simpson, a contemporary couple embedded in the global entertainment imaginary.
The works operate as a dialogue between times and symbols.
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In Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, Torres highlights the political dimension of love: the couple as public spectacle, symbolic construction, and myth that survives history.
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In Homer and Marge, love appears as a space that is everyday, imperfect, humorous, and deeply human, revealing how media culture redefines affection through a pop lens.
By placing these couples within the same visual space, Torres proposes a reflection on the persistence of love archetypes and on the ways images—from the French court to contemporary television—continue to shape our emotional expectations. Her participation in LIEBE affirms her ability to connect cultural critique, humor, and collective memory within the Swiss art scene.
Elsa Morales Salon 2025 Luisa Palacios Award
for Graphic Arts
Honys Torres participates in the 2025 Elsa Morales National Art Salon, one of Venezuela’s most significant platforms dedicated to contemporary graphic arts. In this edition, her work Chronicles of the Pietà Reloaded receives the Luisa Palacios Award for Graphic Arts, a distinction that recognizes proposals that renew the graphic language through conceptual, technical, and symbolic experimentation.
As an acquisitive award, the prize incorporates the work into the permanent collection of the Museo de la Estampa y el Diseño Carlos Cruz-Diez in Caracas, one of the most important institutions dedicated to printmaking and design in Latin America. With this acquisition, Chronicles of the Pietà Reloaded becomes part of Venezuela’s public heritage, strengthening Torres’s presence within the recent history of the country’s graphic arts.
The awarded work reinterprets the motif of the Pietà as a contemporary critical device. Through a series of visual chronicles, Torres examines human fragility, collective memory, and the symbolic structures that shape our relationship with grief, representation, and power. Her Neo Pop approach—combining color, irony, and visual appropriation—turns the image into a space where the intimate and the political intersect, challenging the narratives that organize our ways of seeing.
Her participation in the Elsa Morales Salon and the reception of the Luisa Palacios Award affirm the strength of her visual research and her ability to renew graphic practice from a critical, contemporary, and culturally grounded perspective.
67th Arturo Michelena Salon ALO
Honys Torres participates in the 67th Arturo Michelena Salon, one of the most emblematic and long‑standing platforms in Venezuelan art. The salon, known for bringing together works that engage with identity, memory, and the cultural transformations of the country, becomes the ideal context for presenting ALO, a piece that revisits Venezuelan childhood through a critical, affective, and deeply symbolic lens.
The work ALO
ALO is part of Torres’s ongoing visual research on popular memory and the collective imaginaries that shaped an entire generation.
The piece brings together iconic elements from Venezuelan culture of the 1980s and 1990s, including POPY, the beloved television character who embodied innocence, joy, and early childhood education on national TV. His presence acts as an emotional trigger, activating shared memories and opening a dialogue between the personal and the cultural.
The work also incorporates retro objects and visual codes—such as the red rotary phone, the hopscotch grid, the sleeping television screen, playful onomatopoeias, and vibrant childlike graphics—that reconstruct an emotional landscape where nostalgia intertwines with critique. Through her Neo Pop language, Torres transforms these symbols into a mirror of who we were: a country shaped by televised innocence, popular creativity, and an identity built from humor, tenderness, and chaos.
Meaning within the Salon
Within the context of the 67th Arturo Michelena Salon, ALO acquires a historical dimension. The work not only recovers a fragment of Venezuelan childhood but also re‑inscribes it into an institutional space where cultural memory is examined, questioned, and reimagined. Its presence in the salon affirms the importance of popular culture as an emotional archive and as a legitimate territory for artistic reflection.
Torres offers a reading of the past that neither idealizes nor simplifies. ALO becomes a reminder of who we were, while inviting viewers to consider how these symbols shaped our sensibility, our identity, and our way of imagining the country.
Im Zwischenraum — Asheé Connecting Art & Cultures, Zürich
Honys Torres participates in Im Zwischenraum, an exhibition organized by Asheé Connecting Art & Cultures in Zurich that explores the in‑between spaces where identities, memories, migrations, and visual languages intersect. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices engage with intercultural dialogue and the experience of inhabiting multiple worlds simultaneously.
Artistic participation
Torres presents works rooted in her ongoing research on memory, popular culture, and shared imaginaries. Her Neo Pop language—marked by critical appropriation, color, and irony—acts as a bridge between geographies and sensibilities, articulating a perspective that connects the intimate with the collective. Her contribution to Im Zwischenraum emphasizes the condition of being in transit: living between cultures, between languages, and between symbols that shift as they migrate.
Production and curatorial role
In addition to her participation as an artist, Torres is part of the production team of the exhibition, contributing an integrated vision that combines editorial, curatorial, and museographic expertise. Under her imprint HT Kunstprojekt, she develops:
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the official exhibition catalogue,
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the curatorial text,
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the selection of works,
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and the exhibition design.
Her work ensures a coherent narrative that connects the artworks to one another and to the central concept of the exhibition, reinforcing the intercultural dimension that defines Asheé.
Significance within her trajectory
Im Zwischenraum becomes a key moment in Torres’s transnational practice. Her dual role—artist and cultural producer—demonstrates the breadth of her work and her ability to shape projects that integrate critical thinking, editorial design, and curatorial sensitivity. The exhibition strengthens her presence in the Zurich art scene and highlights her commitment to initiatives that celebrate cultural diversity and dialogue between communities.
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Critical reading
The hybrid figure functions as a cultural mirror:
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Chucky introduces themes of fear, manipulation, and symbolic violence.
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Ronald McDonald brings in branding, repetition, and the cheerful façade of global capitalism.
By fusing them, Torres reveals how consumer culture absorbs even the darkest narratives, transforming them into commodities. The series highlights the paradox of a society that embraces hyper‑infantilized imagery while normalizing increasingly accelerated rhythms of life.
Significance within United Art Zürich
Within United Art Zürich 2024, the series stands out for its ability to connect humor, cultural critique, and shared visual memory. Torres’s contribution resonates with the exhibition’s aesthetic diversity, offering a sharp reflection on pop culture and its impact on contemporary identity. Her participation strengthens her presence in Zurich’s art scene and reinforces her exploration of global symbols through a migrant, ironic, and deeply reflective perspective.
United Art Zürich 2024
Joss Toledo Art Studio & Gallery
Honys Torres participates in United Art Zürich 2024, a platform that brings together contemporary proposals from both emerging and established artists within the Swiss art scene. Organized by Joss Toledo Art Studio & Gallery, the exhibition is known for its focus on hybrid visual languages, urban culture, and the critical appropriation of global symbols. Within this context, Torres presents Mc Chucky, a graphic series that reflects on speed, consumption, and the omnipresence of pop iconography in everyday Swiss life.
In Mc Chucky, Torres merges two figures deeply embedded in global popular culture: Chucky, the horror‑film doll associated with chaos and violence, and Ronald McDonald, the global mascot of fast‑food culture. The resulting hybrid character is both familiar and unsettling, embodying the tension between innocence and threat, entertainment and consumption, humor and critique.
The works incorporate visual elements drawn from global pop culture—cartoon characters, childlike graphics, saturated colors, onomatopoeias, and advertising codes—framed within a Neo Pop aesthetic that exposes the ideological neutrality often attributed to these icons. In the Swiss context, Mc Chucky becomes a commentary on fast‑paced living, the standardization of consumption, and the pervasive presence of international franchises in the urban landscape.
The Mc Chucky series
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Editorial, curatorial, and museographic role
Beyond her participation as an artist, Torres plays a central role in the intellectual and visual production of the exhibition. Under her imprint HT Kunstprojekt, she develops:
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the official exhibition catalogue,
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the curatorial text,
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the conceptual framework,
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and the exhibition design.
Her contribution ensures a coherent narrative that connects the diverse artistic approaches to the color red, reinforcing the conceptual foundation of the Kunstverein.
RedART — Kunstverein Salz in der Suppe & Joss Toledo Art Studio & Gallery, Zürich
Honys Torres participates in RedART, a group exhibition organized by the Kunstverein Salz in der Suppe, of which she is an active member. Presented at Joss Toledo Art Studio & Gallery in Zurich, the exhibition explores red as a contemporary expressive force—a color that carries emotional, cultural, and political weight, moving between passion and urgency, memory and intensity.
Artistic contribution
Torres presents Rojo que te quiero rojo, a work that condenses her Neo Pop language through a constellation of red comic characters, graphic symbols, and pop‑cultural references. The piece gathers figures and signs that function as a shared emotional archive, using red not merely as a dominant hue but as an emotional language that activates collective memory and questions how chromatic codes shape perception.
Her approach positions red as a space where energy, danger, nostalgia, and visual power intersect. The work aligns with her broader research on migrant memory, popular culture, and the critical appropriation of globally circulating images.
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Frauenzone Zürich
Frauenzone is a project conceived, developed, and fully produced by Honys Torres, presented at Joss Toledo Art Studio & Gallery in Zurich. The exhibition brings together nine contemporary women artists and functions as a space of visibility, dialogue, and affirmation for creators working from diverse perspectives within today’s art landscape. The project emerges from the conviction that women’s artistic production requires platforms that not only exhibit work but also build community, critical thought, and institutional presence.
Project conception and direction
Torres develops Frauenzone from the ground up, assuming the entire conceptual and operational process under her imprint HT Kunstprojekt. Her work includes:
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the curatorial concept and thematic framework,
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the selection of participating artists,
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the exhibition design and spatial layout,
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the production of the exhibition catalogue,
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and the writing of the curatorial text.
This comprehensive structure transforms Frauenzone into a project that not only presents artworks but also proposes a contemporary reading of women’s creative practices, their tensions, their languages, and their transformative power.
Conceptual focus
The exhibition centers on the notion of “zone” as a symbolic territory—one that is inhabited, contested, constructed, and redefined. Frauenzone asserts that women’s presence in the arts is not decorative or tokenistic but an active field where discourses, images, and experiences are produced, expanding our understanding of the contemporary world.
The selected artists work across different media and sensibilities—painting, printmaking, installation, photography, digital art—yet share a perspective that interrogates the body, identity, memory, migration, intimacy, and visual culture. Torres’s curatorship weaves these voices into a coherent path that reveals affinities, tensions, and resonances among diverse practices.
Zürich: Pop and Dynamic
Galerie am Lindenhof, Zürich
Zürich: Pop and Dynamic brings together Venezuelan artists Honys Torres and Pedro Blas at Galerie am Lindenhof, in the historic center of Zurich. The exhibition presents a dialogue between two contemporary visual languages that reinterpret the city’s energy through movement, color, and cultural hybridity.
Exhibition concept
The show is built around the encounter between two distinct yet complementary approaches:
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Pedro Blas works from the tradition of kinetic art, creating dynamic compositions that evoke the rhythm, precision, and constant motion of Zurich. His pieces function as visual mechanisms that translate the city’s structure and pulse into geometric vibration.
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Honys Torres, through her Neo Pop Art, reimagines cultural icons and urban references with humor, irony, and critical appropriation. Her work introduces a playful yet incisive reading of Zurich, contrasting the city’s order with the expressive excess of pop culture.
Together, their works generate a landscape where kinetic dynamism meets pop exuberance, offering a multifaceted portrait of the city.
Zurich through two Venezuelan perspectives
The exhibition gains depth through the artists’ shared migratory experience. Their perspectives reveal Zurich as:
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a space of order and movement,
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a city layered with cultural intersections,
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and a site where global symbols coexist with local identity.
Blas captures the city’s structural rhythm, while Torres highlights its cultural contradictions and visual stimuli. The result is a map of Zurich that blends precision with playfulness, geometry with narrative, and urban logic with pop imagination.
Art Friends
Art Center Basel, Switzerland
Art Friends is one of the most active and diverse contemporary art gatherings in Basel. Hosted at the Basel Art Center, the event brings together international artists in a collective format that celebrates aesthetic plurality, experimentation, and cultural exchange. The 2025 edition takes place from 13 to 15 February, featuring a vernissage, public activities, and a festive closing that transforms the center into a meeting point for both local and international art communities.
The festival is known for its open and dynamic character: more than twenty artists from different backgrounds, media, and generations participate, making it one of the most vibrant events in Basel’s cultural calendar.
Honys Torres’s participation
In this edition, Honys Torres presents her series Monumentos Lúdicos, a body of work that reinterprets monuments, urban symbols, and architectural references through a Neo Pop lens. The series introduces humor, color, and critical appropriation to transform monumentality—traditionally associated with solemnity, power, and permanence—into a space of play, memory, and cultural reinterpretation.
United Art Zürich DELUXE 2024
Galerie Art & Business, Zürich
United Art Zürich DELUXE 2024, held at Galerie Art & Business in the historic center of Zurich, brings together a wide community of contemporary artists in a dynamic format that celebrates aesthetic diversity, cultural exchange, and the creative pulse of the city. The 2024 edition takes place from 15 to 19 May, featuring a vernissage, extended exhibition hours, and a special event that transforms the gallery into a meeting point for both local and international audiences.
Artistic contribution
Honys Torres presents works from her collection Zürich POP, a series that reimagines the city through the Neo Pop language that defines her practice. The collection transforms urban symbols, cultural references, and everyday elements of Zurich into vibrant compositions that blend humor, irony, and visual critique.
ARTBOX.PROJECT Zürich 6.0
SWISSARTEXPO, Zürich, Switzerland
ARTBOX.PROJECT Zürich 6.0 is part of SWISSARTEXPO, one of Europe’s most visited contemporary art festivals, held inside the Event Hall of Zurich Main Station (Zürich HB). The 2024 edition takes place from 21 to 25 August, attracting thousands of daily visitors and bringing together artists from around the world in a hybrid format that combines physical and digital exhibition spaces.
The project is known for its international reach and its selection process, which distinguishes finalists and semi-finalistsamong hundreds of global participants. Being selected as a finalist grants artists a physical exhibition space within the fair, located in one of the busiest public venues in Switzerland.
Honys Torres — Finalist 2024
Honys Torres is selected as a finalist of ARTBOX.PROJECT Zürich 6.0 with her artwork Zürich HB, part of her Zürich POP collection. This recognition grants her a physical exhibition spot at the fair, allowing her work to be seen by a massive audience at the heart of Zurich’s central station.
The physical display of the artwork—alongside its digital presentation on large-format screens—positions her practice within a high‑visibility international platform aligned with the project’s mission to promote contemporary artists globally.
The artwork Zürich HB
The selected piece, Zürich HB, is a vibrant Neo Pop collage that reimagines the central station as a cultural stage where:
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iconic pop‑culture characters,
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Swiss urban elements (Mondaine clocks, trains, historic architecture),
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graphic gestures, humor, and nostalgic references,
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and hybrid figures blending the ordinary with the fantastical
coexist in a single visual field.
The result is an emotional cartography of Zurich: a city oscillating between Swiss precision and cultural exuberance. The artwork captures the energy of transit, the layering of identities, and the accelerated rhythm of the city’s most emblematic public space.
In The POP Art Context
The exhibition In the Pop Art Context took place at FRESA y CHOCOLATE Gallery, located on Rue de la Madeleine 12 in the historic center of Vevey. This cultural space, known for its openness to contemporary proposals and its commitment to fostering dialogue between diverse visual languages, offers a spacious and flexible environment ideal for large‑scale projects within today’s art landscape.
The exhibition proposes a contemporary approach to Pop Art, understanding this language not as a fixed style but as an expanded territory where memory, popular culture, consumption, identity, and visual appropriation converge.
For this exhibition, Honys Torres presented several of her collections developed in Switzerland, all articulated within her ongoing Neo Pop research. Her work unfolds a visual universe in which the everyday becomes symbolic, culture becomes play, and the city—both as an emotional and aesthetic space—becomes material for reinterpretation.
FATart Art Fair
Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Participation of Honys Torres
In the 6th FATart Art Fair, Honys Torres presented works from her collection N° Edición Limitada, a series that explores Neo Pop aesthetics through a contemporary lens, blending visual appropriation, critical humor, and a personal reading of cultural consumption.
Her work received excellent feedback from the event organizers, who highlighted the visual strength of her pieces, the conceptual coherence of the series, and the way her Neo Pop language resonates with current tendencies in contemporary art.
The FATart Art Fair, held at the cultural venue Kammgarn West in Schaffhausen, is a contemporary art fair recognized for its independent spirit, inclusive approach, and commitment to offering real visibility to contemporary artists from diverse backgrounds. Each edition brings together a wide range of proposals—painting, installation, photography, digital art, and experimental practices—making it an important meeting point within the Swiss art scene.
The fair is known for its professional atmosphere, strong visitor attendance, and its ability to foster meaningful connections between artists, curators, collectors, and specialized audiences.
ARTBOX.PROJECT Zürich 5.0
ARTBOX.PROJECT Zürich 5.0, held in 2023 as part of the SWISSARTEXPO at Zurich Main Station (Zürich HB), brought together international artists in a hybrid format combining physical and digital exhibition spaces. The fair is known for its high visibility—thousands of daily visitors—and for highlighting works that engage with contemporary cultural, social, and economic issues.
In this edition, Honys Torres participated with a work that became particularly relevant to the Swiss context of the moment: Swiss Story.
Swiss Story
A work that captures a historic moment
Swiss Story is situated within Torres’s characteristic Neo Pop language, but with a sharper edge: a critical, humorous, and visually saturated interpretation of the collapse of Credit Suisse and its emergency acquisition by UBS in March 2023.
Context of the event (2023)
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Credit Suisse, one of Switzerland’s most emblematic banks, collapsed after years of scandals and a severe loss of public trust.
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The Swiss government, together with FINMA and the Swiss National Bank, negotiated a forced takeover by UBS to prevent a systemic financial crisis.
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UBS acquired Credit Suisse for 3 billion Swiss francs, a symbolic amount compared to its historical value.
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The operation sparked intense debates about responsibility, transparency, and the future of Swiss banking.
It was one of the most widely discussed economic events in Europe that year.
Relevance of the work in 2023
Swiss Story was especially significant because it:
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captured a historic event in real time,
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offered a critical artistic reading,
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resonated strongly with the Swiss public,
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and aligned with the spirit of ARTBOX.PROJECT: works that engage directly with the present.
In a year when Switzerland questioned its own myth of financial stability, the work acted as both a playful and unsettling mirror.
ART FUSION ZÜRICH 2023
Galerie am Lindenhof, Zürich
The exhibition ART FUSION ZÜRICH 2023 takes place at Galerie am Lindenhof, in the historic center of Zurich, from July 25 to 31, 2023. The space, known for its diverse programming and intimate atmosphere, hosts a show that brings together contemporary proposals in a vibrant visual dialogue.
The program includes a vernissage accompanied by instrumental music by Manuel Giron and a finissage open to the public, creating a welcoming environment that encourages exchange between artists, visitors, and collectors.
Participation of Honys Torres
In this edition, Honys Torres presents a selection of works from her Heidi POP collection, a series that reinterprets Swiss imagery from a playful, critical, and deeply contemporary perspective. The artist transforms the figure of Heidi—an emblematic Swiss cultural icon—into a hybrid character that moves between tradition, pop culture, and urban aesthetics.
The Heidi POP collection immediately resonates with the local public, who recognize in it a fresh and provocative reading of a symbol deeply rooted in Swiss identity.
Participation of Honys Torres
Honys Torres participates as the invited artist representing Venezuela, presenting a series of works that reinterpret the imagery of Heidi from a Latin American and migrant perspective. Her work engages with:
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the global circulation of the myth, showing how Heidi evolves from a local figure into a transnational icon,
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cultural appropriation, understood not as imitation but as creative reinterpretation from other realities,
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the emotional memory of childhood, where Heidi appears as a shared reference across countries far from her Alpine origins,
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the tension between Swiss and Latin American identities, a hybrid territory that the artist inhabits and explores through her own migratory experience.
Her contribution integrates seamlessly into a body of works that reveal how Heidi becomes a hybrid symbol, reimagined through diverse geographies, histories, and cultural lenses. In Torres’s case, this reinterpretation carries particular strength: her work not only observes the journey of the myth but embodies it, transforms it, and returns it to Swiss audiences through a perspective that blends affection, critique, and cultural displacement.
Heidi in Lateinamerika
HEIDISEUM, Zürich, Switzerland
The exhibition Heidi in Latin America is presented in Zurich from June 1 to July 6, 2023, organized by the Heidiseum in collaboration with the Predigerkirche. The project brings together works by artists from Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, and Mexico, inviting viewers to explore how the myth of Heidi transforms, travels, and acquires new meanings within Latin American contexts.
The exhibition is conceived as a cultural bridge, a space where memory, migration, literature, identity, and visual reinterpretation converge. The Heidiseum seeks to highlight the surprising presence of Heidi in Latin America since the mid‑20th century, when Johanna Spyri’s books became part of the emotional landscape and childhood reading of entire generations. The show reveals how a character deeply rooted in Swiss identity becomes, upon crossing the Atlantic, an adopted and reimagined symbol within cultures shaped by different histories, geographies, and sensibilities.
As part of the exhibition program, the event includes a public conference that highlights the cultural importance of Johanna Spyri’s Heidi in Latin America. Scholars and organizers emphasize how the novel, originally rooted in the Swiss Alpine landscape, becomes a formative literary reference across multiple Latin American countries throughout the 20th century. The discussion underscores the book’s unexpected yet profound impact on childhood reading, collective memory, and cultural imagination in the region, providing essential context for the artworks presented in Heidi in Latin America.
United ART zürich DELUX 2023
Galerie Art & Business, Zürich
The exhibition United Art Zürich Deluxe, presented by Joss Toledo Art Kunstatelier, takes place from May 30 to June 3, 2023 at Galerie Art & Business, located on Trittligasse 4 in the historic center of Zurich. The event brings together a diverse group of international and local artists, creating a vibrant panorama of contemporary practices ranging from painting and collage to installation and graphic experimentation.
The program includes a vernissage on May 30 and a finissage with a closing party on June 3, turning the exhibition into an active meeting point for artists, collectors, and the general public. Joss Toledo’s curatorial approach is defined by its inclusive spirit and its intention to create a space where different visual voices coexist without hierarchy, amplifying aesthetic and conceptual diversity.
Participation of Honys Torres
Honys Torres participates in this edition with her work Letzte Chance!, a piece situated within her critical Neo Pop language, always attuned to the cultural and media events shaping the present moment. The work unfolds as a visual fantasy of Lady Diana’s symbolic revenge in response to the coronation of King Charles III and his consort Camilla—an event that, in 2023, reignited global conversations about memory, power, legitimacy, and public narrative.
Participation of Honys Torres
Maggi Collection
Honys Torres represents Venezuela with her Maggi collection, a series that reinterprets the iconic Swiss soup brand through a pop, critical, and migration‑centered lens.
About the Maggi Collection
The work explores the omnipresence of Maggi in Swiss culture and its surprising resonance across many Latin American countries, where it becomes a familiar, emotional, and cross‑generational symbol. Torres uses this culinary object as a cultural bridge, something that travels, adapts, and acquires new meanings depending on the territory.
In her pieces, the artist transforms the soup package into a pop icon, infused with humor, nostalgia, and social commentary. Her vibrant aesthetic and graphic appropriation engage with themes such as:
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the globalization of domestic symbols,
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migrant memory and its emotional objects,
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the tension between local and imported identity,
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and the cultural circulation between Switzerland and Latin America.
Frauen
Kunst
Migration
Frauen – Kunst – Migration — IntegrArte‑Galerie, Rapperswil‑Jona
The exhibition Frauen – Kunst – Migration is presented on May 5–6, 2023 at IntegrArte‑Galerie, located on Schönbodenstrasse 5 in Rapperswil‑Jona. The project is organized by IntegrArte, a Verein (non‑profit cultural association) dedicated to promoting integration, diversity, and the visibility of migrant artists in Switzerland.
This first edition brings together 14–15 women artists from various European and Latin American countries, all living in Switzerland and whose artistic trajectories are shaped by migration. The exhibition is conceived as an intercultural meeting space where painting, photography, textile art, ceramics, poetry, and audiovisual work converge.
The opening takes place in a bilingual format (German–Spanish), reinforcing the inclusive nature of the event and its intention to build bridges between communities.
ARTe FUSION
Messe Stuttgart, Germany
The fair ARTe FUSION, held from 14 to 16 April 2023 at Messe Stuttgart, stands as one of the most dynamic contemporary art events in southern Germany. As part of the broader ARTe fair ecosystem, the FUSION edition is distinguished by its focus on vibrant, accessible proposals deeply connected to today’s visual culture.
The event brings together galleries, independent artists, and collectives working across contemporary languages—pop, neo‑pop, urban art, expanded illustration, collage, and experimental painting—creating a diverse and energetic environment that attracts both collectors and the general public.
Participation of Honys Torres
Honys Torres takes part in ARTe FUSION 2023 with a selection of works from different collections, showcasing the breadth of her Neo Pop language and her ability to engage with global cultural references. Her presence in Stuttgart marks an important moment in her international trajectory, not only through exhibiting in a high‑visibility European context but also through the professional experience of managing transportation, customs, and fiscal procedures across countries.
This participation represents a significant step in consolidating her artistic practice within the European circuit, demonstrating her ability to move artworks with logistical and professional competence and to meet international standards for the circulation of art.
Participation of Honys Torres
From the series El Imperio Contraataca
Venezuela es Arte
Galería de Arte Nacional (GAN), Caracas
At the Galería de Arte Nacional (GAN), located on Avenida México in Caracas, the exhibition “Venezuela is Art” is currently on view. The project is directed by Clemente Martínez, General Director of the institution and Executive Director of the Fundación Museos Nacionales (FMN).
“Venezuela is Art” opened in December 2023 and is available to the public from Tuesday to Sunday, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Visitors can experience a selection of 194 artworks created by Venezuelan artists, offering a broad panorama of the country’s artistic production across different generations, styles, and historical moments.
Honys Torres participates in “Venezuela is Art” with a large‑format work belonging to the collection of the Fundación Museos Nacionales. The piece, measuring 6 meters x 1.50 meters, is part of her acclaimed series El Imperio Contraataca.
This monumental work embodies Torres’s Neo Pop language, characterized by its critical humor, vibrant color, and incisive engagement with media culture, power structures, and collective imagination. Through appropriation, visual saturation, and symbolic layering, the piece reflects on the tensions between spectacle, politics, and contemporary identity.
Its inclusion in the exhibition underscores the relevance of Torres’s practice within the national artistic heritage and highlights her contribution to the visual narratives that shape Venezuela’s cultural landscape.