Ch.ACO 2017

Over its eight years of existence, Ch.ACO Fair has established itself as Chile’s main international contemporary art fair, and as one of the most relevant fairs in Latin America.

Year after year, tens of thousands of people attend the Fair to get to know the proposals presented by renowned galleries from Chile and abroad. In its previous edition, over one thousand works of art were in exhibition, including pieces by Andy Warhol, Juan Pablo Langlois, Miss Van, Robert Mapplethorpe and Francisca Benítez, amongst many others.

For its ninth version, the Fair is consolidating its position as one of the region’s foremost cultural events, with four sections that offer a complete panorama of the latest tendencies in contemporary art: “Main”, the main section, which shall host galleries from Chile, United States, Italy, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, and Puerto Rico; “Focus”, curated by British/Venezuelan art historian Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, who has invited 18 artists represented by nine different galleries to hold a dialogue on the issue of object-subject in contemporary art; “Planta”, which gathers eight young Latin American creation projects selected by Chilean curator Carolina Castro Jorquera; and “Nave de Ediciones”, directed by Chilean editor Camila Opazo, which brings together 14 publishing projects from Chile, Argentina, Colombia, United States, Italy, Mexico and Peru, with the objective of generating a dialogue with regard to the subject of traveling ideas, through publications and artist books. In addition to this, the Fair shall offer a conversation panel, workshops, exclusive programs for collectors and a complete range of gastronomic offers.