Arvin Golrokh on display at the The Pontevedra Art Biennial

Arvin Golrokh’s striking work Visione Fantastica is part of the 32nd Pontevedra Art Biennial in Spain.

 

The Pontevedra Art Biennial, the oldest contemporary art biennial in Spain, returns from 21 June to 30 September 2025 after a fifteen-year hiatus. Founded in 1969 as a local art competition, it quickly evolved—becoming national in the 1980s and international by the 1990s—thanks to the involvement of prominent European curators and an increasingly global outlook. Over the years, it established itself as a key event in Spain’s contemporary art scene, opening its themes to critical dialogue and international engagement. With the slogan “Being Human Again. Regarding the Pain of Others”, this new edition positions Pontevedra as a vibrant space for reflection, exchange, and celebration of contemporary culture.

 

This important achievement was also made possible thanks to the generous collaboration with @dela.art_collection , who kindly lent the painting for this significant occasion.

 

• About the artwork:

 

Visione Fantastica ("Fantastic Vision") is a work created two hundred years after Francisco Goya’s 1823 painting of the same name, reimagining it through a contemporary lens. It reflects on the modern experience of forced migration—portraying disoriented figures crossing hostile, altered landscapes in search of safety, only to encounter new forms of exclusion, discrimination, and subjugation. Nature, space, and the human body are the central elements in this vision, as the journey transforms into a trial marked by control, fear, and the politics of survival. In the distance, ghostly armed figures watch over a supposed refuge, evoking a world where even arrival offers no real relief—only further boundaries to overcome.