Grupo ABTV was the name given to the artistic collaboration between Cuban artists Tanya Angulo, Juan Pablo Ballester, José Angel Toirac Batista and Ileana Villazón by the Uruguayan artist and critic Luis Camnitzer

Luis Camnitzer

Luis Camnitzer is a German-born Uruguayan artist and academic who resides in the United States. He is a conceptual artist who creates work in a variety of media—including installation, printmaking, drawing, and photography—that breaks down limitations and questions that define the center versus...

. ABTV did not consider itself a group in this respect until their work began to be written about by foreign critics.

One of Grupo ABTV's more notorious projects was the exhibition Homenaje a Hans Haacke, an exhibition in homage to the German conceptual artist Hans Haacke

Hans Haacke

Hans Haacke is a German-American artist who lives and works in New York.- Early life :Haacke was born in Cologne, Germany. He studied at the Staatliche Werkakademie in Kassel, Germany, from 1956 to 1960. He was a student of Stanley William Hayter, a well-known and influential English printmaker,...

. The exhibition was due to open as part of a cycle of installations at the Castillo de la Real Fuerza

Castillo de la Real Fuerza

The Castillo de la Real Fuerza is a fortress on the western side of the harbour in Havana, Cuba, set back from the entrance, and bordering the Plaza de Armas. Originally built to defend against attack by pirates, it suffered from a poor strategic position too far inside the bay...

 in Havana

Havana

Havana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...

in September 1989, but was cancelled due to pressure from the National Council of Fine Arts.