Hamlet Lavastida

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Hamlet Lavastida Cordoví is a Cuban artist and activist born in Havana, Cuba, in 1983. He trained at the San Alejandro Academy of Arts and the Higher Institute of Art.

Lavastida belongs to a generation of Cuban artists whose work is censored on the island for violating the norms set by official cultural institutions. His political and so…

Díaz-Canel to State Security: "Knowing the identity of one of you is an excitement for Cubans"

Luis Manuel opens his cell at the Havana Biennial: “So that they can see the work I have developed in prison.”

Hamlet Lavastida presents the Cuban prison system at the Kiev Biennial

Yotuel to the leader of the Popular Party: Meliá has 32 hotels in Cuba

Movimiento San Isidro and 27N rise in the annual ranking of the most influential in art

Hamlet Lavastida, Freedom of Expression in the Arts Award 2022

Repression and Art in Cuba: "The Idea of Cultural Resistance" Travels to Documenta

Cubans mock the acronym UJC in tribute to the organization: “Union of Jicoteas and Clarias”

Katherine Bisquet presents the poetry collection "Uranium Depleted" in Barcelona

Hamlet Lavastida locates a residence in Havana where he was held captive by State Security

Katherine Bisquet celebrates the publication of her poetry collection "Uranium Enriched" in exile

American magazine highlights the work of Cuban artivists against the government in 2021

The German museum hosts Hamlet Lavastida and Katherine Bisquet after being expelled from Cuba

Hamlet Lavastida will present his performance featuring Cuban currency at the Miami art fair

Katherine Bisquet: "The State Security has done a good job."

Humberto López publishes photos of Yunior García's departure from Cuba

Journalist Yoani Sánchez denounces pressure from State Security to leave Cuba

The boycott of the Havana Biennial and "normal life" in Cuba

Cuban artists and activists are calling on their foreign colleagues not to participate in the XIV Havana Biennial

Cuban artist Hamlet Lavastida joins the call for a boycott of the Havana Biennial

Tania Bruguera: The Cuban government no longer has any myths left to disguise its repression

Hamlet Lavastida identifies another of his oppressors in Villa Marista

Liberal International condemns the exile of Cuban artists Bisquet and Lavastida

Hamlet Lavastida identifies one of his oppressors in Villa Marista

Hamlet Lavastida reunites with his son and expresses gratitude to Poland

Hamlet Lavastida on his detention in Cuba: The MININT had lobsters and shrimp to offer me

The Lavastida-Bisquet affair increases disrepute for late Castroism

Exile is not freedom: Hamlet Lavastida, Katherine Bisquet, and the prisoners of the Black Spring

Neither prize nor choice: the forced exile of Hamlet and Katherine is violence

Hamlet Lavastida arrives in Poland and makes statements to the press

Chess player Lázaro Bruzón: "No one should go to prison or be exiled for thinking differently."

PEN International: "Hamlet should never have been imprisoned"

Andy Vázquez on the exile of Hamlet Lavastida: That has to end, Cuba belongs to all of us

Cuban journalist Héctor Valdés: Exile must stop being a method of punishment for dissent

Katherine Bisquet: The political police imposed exile on us as the only option to free Hamlet Lavastida

The artist Hamlet Lavastida has been released from prison and is forced to leave Cuba along with Katherine Bisquet

Carlos Lechuga receives award at the San Sebastián Festival: "There are many mothers suffering in Cuba, let's not turn our backs on them."

The U.S. denounces the arbitrary detention of Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero in its campaign "Prisoners For What?"

Tania Bruguera: It is immoral to announce a Havana Biennial while there are artists in prison

The Cuban artist Hamlet Lavastida has spent 80 days in prison in Villa Marista

Cuban artist Hamlet Lavastida included in the JailedForWhat? campaign by the U.S. government.

Hamlet Lavastida had COVID-19 and was isolated in a center without his family's knowledge

Independent journalist Héctor Luis Valdés Cocho arrested in Havana

Spain defends its actions regarding the repression in Cuba: A statement, a tweet, and a conversation with Yotuel

Havana Biennial censors writer Katherine Bisquet on Facebook

Hamlet Lavastida has been imprisoned in Villa Marista for 60 days

Alexis Valdés dedicates heartfelt verses to the bravery of the Cubans who demonstrated on July 11th

State Security "gives" ten minutes to Hamlet Lavastida to speak with his girlfriend

They demand freedom for the Cuban artist Hamlet Lavastida, who will spend his birthday imprisoned in Villa Marista

Hamlet Lavastida's mother sends a letter to Díaz-Canel: "Look at your behavior as human beings."

Carlos Manuel Álvarez calls for the release of Maykel Osorbo, Luis Manuel Otero, and Hamlet Lavastida: "We owe them a lot."

Change of measure denied for Hamlet Lavastida: the artist remains detained in Villa Marista

Tania Bruguera released after 11 hours of interrogation at Villa Marista

State Security summons Tania Bruguera for interrogation at Villa Marista

State Security blames the artist Hamlet Lavastida for the protests in Cuba

Cacerolazo in Holguín amidst a blackout

Cuban actor Daniel Triana was arrested for a peaceful sit-in in front of the Museum of Fine Arts

Protests for the freedom of Hamlet Lavastida reach the contemporary art fair in Madrid

Protests at the ARCO fair in Madrid against the arrest of Hamlet Lavastida and the repressive wave of the Cuban government

Luis Manuel Otero takes to the streets for the freedom of political prisoners