“Pulguero” is the Puerto Rican word for “flea market”. El Pulguero de los Artistas is an experimental and truly unique flea market: a two-day exhibition and sales event in the Pabellón de la Paz at the Parque Muñoz Rivera in San Juan, Puerto Rico where both renowned and emerging artists will mount solo shows and then mingle with visitors and fellow artists.

Flea markets symbolize the sub- or counter-culture and offer an ideal opportunity to study a culture in its historic context. El Pulguero visually reflects Puerto Rico’s economic (and colonial) situation. But instead of lamenting or becoming depressed, the participating artists want to invite both the specialized and general public to invest in contemporary art and freely discuss art and market related topics.

According to the French philosopher Michel Foucault cementeries, brothels, prisons and colonies are heterotopias - places, where culture is simultaneously represented and discussed. The same can be said about flea markets as they too provide a counterpoint to utopias...


Program summary:

• market with contemporary art, objects and artefacts from renowned and emerging artists, local artists as well as visiting artists
  
  
• encounters
  
  
• interventions and performances
  
  
• and more. A collective experiment - come and participate!

IMPORTANT information for participating artists:
An official document called Certificado de Registro de Comerciante is required in order to be allowed to sell art and goods at the Pulguero!

El Pulguero is a project by El Status - Independent Platform for Contemporary Puerto Rican Art. Organizers: Carmelo Sobrino and Lisa Ladner.

If you have questions, you may write in English, Spanish, German, French or Italian to pulguero@el-status.com!