about

Panam Gallery is an independent, artist run space dedicated to the promotion of the visual arts in Santiago, Chile. Created and directed by artist and exhibition manager Ana Sanhueza it has become a center of activities that coexists within the standards that govern the art world and art galleries in Santiago today.

Located in downtown Santiago, in a neighbourhood that during recent years has been activated with a growing population of immigrants and hipsters, and home to the ARCIS Art School, it is a growing and diverse district in what used to be Santiago’s´ uptown in the 1900s. In this scenario Panam has been the home to 25 exhibitions since 2014. Its activities and its capacity to capture an audience have made it into a art space that through perseverance is slowly making a niche for itself.

It is the gallery´s determination is to produce and promote the work of contemporary artists that have, or will have, an active presence in our local art scene, and who are necessary players for the understanding of how and why things are as they are.

Panam aims to consolidate a space for art practices based on a specific curatorship for each presentation, prioritizing the artistic value of the works and the coherence of the exhibit over the need for its commercialization. The creative freedom that comes with the non-existence of ties and compromises faced by commercial galleries makes Panam unique.

Implement an infrastructure that opens opportunities to a strong and flourishing art community and in this way participate directly en the professionalization and promotion of artists.

Panam Gallery offers in Barrio Brasil an alternative to the traditional art gallery; with its influences and capacity to gather a crowd it pretends to make space for experimental and new artistes and art.