Spain, Guest Country of Honor at FILBo 2025: A Conversation Between Cultures Through Peace, Memory, and Diversity
Launch for Latin America
Spain, Guest Country of Honor at FILBo 2025: A Conversation Between Cultures Through Peace, Memory, and Diversity
Launch for Latin America
Spain, Guest Country of Honor at FILBo 2025: A Conversation Between Cultures Through Peace, Memory, and Diversity
Over 140 authors from Spain, representing its languages and regions, will participate in FILBo 2025 with more than 100 public activities.
Spain’s pavilion, covering 3,000 m², pays tribute to mobile libraries and promotes a culture of peace through sustainability and dialogue.
The Spanish program will feature a majority of women participants and a multilingual presence, emphasizing diversity as a cultural value.
Thirty-three years after its first participation as a guest country, Spain returns to the Bogotá International Book Fair (FILBo) 2025 with a profound, sensitive, and contemporary proposal: a culture for peace. Under this theme, Spain’s presence at the Fair invites dialogue, recognition of differences, and the meeting of memories and territories which, despite being separated by the Atlantic, share a common vocation for understanding, justice, and expression.
Until May 11, more than 140 Spanish authors, editors, illustrators, poets, academics, and playwrights will gather at Corferias to participate in over 100 public events, reflecting the richness and diversity of Spanish culture. As expressed by Santiago Jiménez Martín, Spain’s ambassador to Colombia, this participation is not envisioned as a showcase but as an equal conversation: “We want to come to converse, not to tell. To share stories, not to impose versions.”
Spain’s pavilion, designed as a vibrant space engaging in dialogue with Colombia, will span more than 3,000 m² and be considered a living work of symbolism, shared memory, and sustainability. Inspired by rural mobile libraries (a tradition shared by both countries), the space pays homage to democratic access to knowledge as a fundamental tool for peacebuilding. Its façade will be a large macramé piece, woven by Colombian artisans, inscribed with words and symbols that encourage imagining possible futures through empathy and collective care.
Designed by architects Luis Alexander Casanova, Enrique Espinosa (both Spanish), and Santiago Pradilla (Colombian), the pavilion reflects the spirit of binational collaboration for this edition of the Fair. Inside, two exhibitions will be showcased: one dedicated to comics and the other to photography and photobooks, both addressing themes linked to historical memory, such as migration, postcolonial legacies, and ecological challenges.
Ambassador Jiménez revealed that the pavilion will be built with reusable materials, adhering to ecological principles. After the Fair, its components will be donated to libraries, cultural centers, a university, and a training school, extending the FILBo’s social impact beyond Bogotá.
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Press Staff 360 Raw Magazine /Correspondence LATAM
Jenny Alexandra González Fandiño Press Chief Bogotá International Book Fair, FILBo 2025
Photos /360 Raw Magazine correspondence LATAM/ Daniel Eduardo Rojas Sánchez/
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