Andaz Art Week, the Peninsula Papagayo art exhibition returns to Andaz Costa Rica Resort for its second edition during Holy Week, following the success of its inaugural showing over the Christmas period. Organised and curated by MÍRAME Fine Art, the event transforms the hotel’s studio space into a temporary gallery, welcoming natural light from Culebra Bay and expansive views over the Papagayo Peninsula.

This ongoing collaboration between the hotel and MÍRAME Fine Art reflects a broader shift in how cultural programming is being presented to new audiences. Rather than replicating the formality of a gallery or museum, the exhibition invites a slower, more intuitive engagement — open to collectors, hotel guests, and international visitors.

Peninsula Papagayo Art Exhibition | Material approaches and coastal context

Katrin Aason, MAI006, Textile composition with cuculmeca and avocado pits

The works on view span painting, textile, photography and process-based installation. The exhibition avoids a unifying theme, but reflects an interest in material sensibility and responsiveness to context, whether ecological, architectural, or perceptual.

A large-scale textile work by Katrin Aason, dyed with natural pigments cuculmeca and avocado pits, is a prominent inclusion. The piece formed part of Aason’s solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MADC) in San José in 2024. Her ongoing focus on natural processes and weaving techniques positions the work as site-responsive and environmentally attuned —particularly resonant in a venue defined by its open-air structure and proximity to the coastline.

Isaac Loria, a standout among Costa Rica's emerging artists, contributes new landscape paintings informed by his life near Jacó. Working with loose, expressive brushwork, Loria conjures Guanacaste’s distinct geography in golden tones.

Issac Loria, The Fields, After Degas, Oil on canvas

A dedicated photography section introduces Edwar Herreno's underwater images that document marine life with precision and intimacy, while Leonardo Ureña's abstract compositions present Guanacaste's coastal environment, using light, texture and motion as his primary tools.

The presentation also features work by Roberto Carter, whose atmospheric paintings have gained recent attention for their restraint and emotional tone. His inclusion here precedes a solo exhibition scheduled to open at MADC later this year, and reflects growing institutional interest in his practice. Carter’s soft, diffuse colour fields sit in quiet contrast to more assertive painterly gestures elsewhere in the exhibition.

Local inclusion and international visibility

Among the most context-specific contributions is a group of fish prints by Jimmy Downing, a Playas del Coco-based artist who works with the traditional Japanese Gyotaku technique. By applying ink directly to sea life before transferring the impression to paper, Downing creates prints that function simultaneously as document and object. The inclusion of Downing provides a grounded, regional perspective within the presentation.

Works by other established artists, including Miguel Hernández Bastos, provide further depth. Hernández Bastos’s figurative work in smoke and oil carries a sense of psychological tension and physical impermanence, reinforcing the exhibition’s emphasis on process and ambiguity.

Miguel Hernández Bastos, Secuencia del Tiempo, Smoke on canvas

This Andaz Art Week - Peninsula Papagayo art exhibition - offers a curated selection of current practices that are materially engaged and open-ended. The setting, while unconventional, is intentional, allowing for multiple forms of interaction, positioning contemporary art as something that can exist meaningfully in shared, everyday spaces.

For hotel guests during Easter week, the Peninsula Papagayo art exhibition is an opportunity to engage with the ideas, processes and voices shaping Costa Rica’s contemporary cultural discourse. In doing so, it reflects a wider shift toward meaningful, content-driven guest experiences—where education, conversation and cultural exchange are central to the hospitality offering.

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