Indigo Celebrates its 21st Anniversary with Exhibitions and New Collections

The Indigo Gallery, a leading space for the dissemination of contemporary Peruvian art, celebrates 21 years of promoting and supporting the development of creators who explore painting, sculpture, textile art, objects, and new materials.

Since its opening in San Isidro, the gallery has established itself as a meeting point for artists, collectors, and the public, fostering a diverse, vibrant, and constantly evolving art scene.

To commemorate its 21st anniversary, Indigo presents the solo exhibition “Night Strolls” by Sara Merel, an artist trained in Lima and at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, whose work has been exhibited in various countries in the Americas and Europe and is part of international private collections. In his painting, as critic Manuel Munive points out, “the energetic execution on the support is immediately apparent, generating a rupture in the order of things, leaving the marks of that battle to grant meaning to matter, and taking a turn in search of the impossible.

In his compositions, a refined experience of the urban environment emerges, evident in the conception of interior and exterior spaces, and in that kind of architecture in vibrant tones in whose intricacies his experience of inner and fictional universes peeks through.”

50 artists

Alongside this exhibition, the group show “Carpe Diem—Now or Never” is presented, bringing together the work of 50 Peruvian artists, displaying a wide variety of languages, techniques, and perspectives. The exhibition invites us to inhabit the present as a space for creation and contemplation, reminding us that the experience of art happens here and now, as an unrepeatable instant. Paintings, sculptures, textiles, ceramics, and experimental pieces make up this journey that celebrates the power of artistic creation in its diversity.

Participants include Rhony Alhalel, Ronald Companoca, Soledad Cisneros, Daniel Defilippi, Toto Fernández Ampuero, Rafael Lanfranco, Luz Letts, Pablo Patrucco, Jesús Pedraglio, Daniella Queirolo, Germán Romero, Gustavo Salas, Eduardo Tokeshi, Martha Vargas, Paolo Vigo, Leoncio Villanueva, Marcelo Wong, among others.

New Collections

Indigo also announces the launch of three new collections: “M M” by Hernán Sosa, an exploration of the construction of fame and image through the figure of Marilyn Monroe; “La Memoria Anudada” by Alexandra Grau, a contemporary quipu that confronts Andean memory with the colonial imaginary to generate a restorative symbolic fabric; and “Lux Naturae” by Fito Espinosa, a collection of pieces in stoneware, porcelain, gold, crystal, and pedal loom that celebrates everyday beauty as an act of contemplation.

Public Intervention

The façade of the Índigo gallery has become a focal point, amplifying the discourse of “M M,” the collection of works by Hernán Sosa that is part of the new collections.

The presence of Marilyn Monroe on the façade functions as a visual call that connects the urban space with the central reflection of the exhibition: the tension between the hypervisible and the anonymous.

In a particularly significant context—as 2026 marks the 100th anniversary of Monroe's birth—this figure acquires a renewed resonance that invites us to revisit her legacy through the critical lens of contemporary art. This exterior intervention not only extends the exhibition experience beyond the gallery walls but also invites passersby to question how icons are constructed, consumed, and perpetuated in contemporary culture.

The exhibitions and new collections will be open to the public until January 4, 2026, at the Índigo gallery located at Av. El Bosque 260, San Isidro. Admission is free.

This art gallery, founded with the vision of bringing together established artists and emerging voices in a shared space for dialogue and discovery, continues to reaffirm its commitment to Peruvian art and its community, celebrating the present as a vibrant territory of creation.

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