Artium museum in Vitoria, Spain, has opened a retrospective exhibition titled "Juana Cima: Una mirada disidente" dedicated to Cuban-born artist Juana Fernández Cima (b. 1951). The show traces her career from the late 1970s through the 1990s, highlighting her pioneering work on identity, gender, and ecology, which was progressively marginalized from the dominant artistic narrative. The exhibition is organized around five conceptual territories—Bilbao, mythical ecofeminist landscapes, insular identity, spirituality via India and Buddhism, and mountain retreat—and runs until August 30, 2026.
The exhibition matters because it recovers a silenced dissident voice whose formal rawness and emotional openness fell outside institutional frameworks, leading to her near disappearance from art history. By rehabilitating Fernández Cima's practice and critically reflecting on the processes of marginalization, Artium restores her significance to public debate and underscores the ongoing relevance of her themes—identity, gender, ecology—in contemporary art discourse.