Company
Artex S.A. Art and Literature Promotion provides comprehensive services in the world of Cuban culture for business people, art managers, artists, art academies and professors.
Artex is the leading company dealing in Cuban culture, with over thirty years of experience, known for its versatility in products and services:
- Export of technical assistance and work teams specialized in the arts.
- Touristic and academic services associated to culture.
- Management of literary and musical copyright and co-productions.
- Production of musical shows and events.
- Representation of artists and music bands of different genres of Cuban culture and traditions.
- E-commerce
Our experience has been showcased in over fifteen international events, music fairs such as Miden and Womex; book fairs such as the International Book Fair in Frankfurt and in Guadalajara; in tourism such as ITB Berlin in Germany, FITUR in Spain and Top Resa in France.
Our work is divided among seven agencies, two divisions and fourteen branch offices with over 3900 staff; a large commercial network of Stores, Cultural Centers, Academies and Tourism Bureaus all over Cuba, in the main cities, touristic destinations and airports.
Cuban culture must be lived, learned, enjoyed, and shared!
Paradiso: 28 years of cultural tourism in Cuba
The only one of its kind in Cuba, the Paradiso Cultural Tourism Agency, belonging to Promociones Artísticas y Literarias S.A.,
Artex S.A, celebrates its 28th anniversary, a fruitful trajectory during which it has contributed to promoting the most authentic
roots of the destination, its customs and traditions.
The agency has a portfolio of products where the most demanded Cuban international cultural events stand out, such as the Festival of New Latin American Cinema;
Casa de las Américas Literary Award; Book Fair: Havana Biennial; Jazz Plaza Festival; Ballet Festival; Theatre festival; Craft Fair, FIART; Cubadisco Fair;
Fire Festival, based in Santiago de Cuba; the Romerías de Mayo festival and the Gibara Film Festival, in Holguín, among others.
Its star event stands out as the World Meeting of Dancers and Dance Academies of Casino and Salsa "Baila en Cuba", organized by Paradiso in conjunction with
other cultural institutions to promote the learning of the main Cuban dance rhythms through workshops, classes masterclasses, and great concerts.
It also markets specialized programs prepared by the agency itself in coordination with the entities that govern the policy of all artistic manifestations
and literature on the Island, as well as with other centers not attached to the Ministry of Culture.
The potential of Cuban culture, its deep-rooted traditions and the growing interest that it awakens in the inhabitants of all latitudes, make this agency
also offer clients academic services such as postgraduate courses, training, master's degrees, doctorates taught by accredited teachers, specialized
cultural programs, city tours, theme parties, visits to cultural institutions, community projects, art schools, museums, theaters, artists' workshops and other
places of cultural attraction.
Paradiso has representations in different provinces of the country, in which popular and traditional festivities of great cultural value are organized.

Business

This is the only Cuban Agency specialized in cultural tourism. It banks on the immense potential of Cuban culture. Organizing and commercializing programs for participants to events and meetings associated to culture and creative spaces in festivals

This is the imports division, supplying cultural goods to the Artex stores network.Its innovative and creative products make it unique in the market

An agency with two main lines of business: a Publishing House, and Cartelera, a tourism, culture and trade magazine. The publishing house produces a host of publications of a varied nature, written by well-known authors.

This is the specialized exports agency for the commercialization and promotion of Cuban cultural products and services: literature, music, crafts, couture, and other.

BIS MUSIC, ARTEX´s record company and music producer, focuses on Cuban music and audiovisual material. It commercializes recordings in different formats and supports, master licensing, editing and subediting

CLAVE CUBANA is the agency which represents and promotes small and large format popular Cuban music bands and their performances and shows.

The Artex Cultural Centres are built to the rhythm of Cuban culture. These are establishments distributed all over the island that offer artistic shows of the highest quality, complemented with gastronomic offers for the most demanding tastes.

This agency promotes and commercializes Cuban art and professional services abroad. It is staffed by qualifies specialists, certified by the Cuban system of academic and cultural institutions.

MUSICALIA is the agency which represents and promotes small and large format popular Cuban music bands and their performances and shows.
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Contact us
Hours: Mondays to Thursdays: 08:00 – 17:30 – Viernes: 08:00 – 16:30
Phone: +53 7 2045462
Email: infoartex@artex.cu – artexcasamatriz@gmail.com