The 18 new sculptures showcased in Alchemy in Motion are a refined and compelling extension of his well-known practice of folding metal to create wall works that evince painting and sculpture in equal measure. Working in aluminum, copper, brass, and for the first time [...]
Spanish artist César Dezfuli joins artists Brian Sokol, Maranie R. Staab, and Manar Bilal at Or Does It Explode? This exhibition is an effort to build awareness of the millions of lives affected globally, while offering figurative work merged with descriptive text that individualizes the numerous [...]
"Jet Lag" is a research-based art project by Ira Lombardia that looks to shorten the gap between Post-Modern art and theory and the practice of post-internet photography on social networks. The research juxtaposes internet memes to 1970’s Conceptual performance art that seem to anticipate the specific meme(s) [...]
Curated by José Caruncho, this exhibition presents a selection of 50 photographs by Alberto Martí on the Galician migrant exodus to the Americas between 1957 and 1963, taken at the Galician ports of A Coruña and Vigo in northwestern Spain. The exhibition is structured [...]
Through a new immersive installation, architectural interventions, a 16mm film and a virtual reality work, the Rio-based Catalan artist looks at how diverse mediums and technologies can represent aspects of the Mata Atlântica. Mata Atlântica, a rainforest stretching along the Atlantic coast of Brazil, [...]
The fluid and fragile nature of memory is extremely important to Daniel Canogar. Within his studio practice Canogar frequently posits technology as reflective of society’s shared consciousness in that technology is constantly changing; the new replacing the old at such a pace that recollections [...]
Voices is a multi-channel acousmatic work by Alejandra Hernández. The acoustic landscape of the mountainous region of Cantabria in northern Spain is marked by the sound of the cowbells used to call the flock. The craftsman who is in charge of tuning these objects [...]
Copy / Error presents a set of works developed by Pablo Barreiro (Pontevedra 1982) in two different moments (2015 – 2018) in Bassano del Grappa, Italy (artistic residency NUOVE) In this body of work, Pablo focuses on the mechanisms of reproduction, particularly on the [...]
Isidro Blasco combines architecture, photography and installation to explore themes of vision and perception in relation to physical experience. Using digital photography and common building materials to assemble three-dimensional constructions that reconstruct interior spaces and outdoor environments culled from the artist’s personal New York cityscape. [...]
Kunstverein München presents a major solo exhibition by the emerging Spanish artist Eva Fàbregas (b. 1988, Barcelona), which will be her first in Germany, and her largest exhibition to date. Fàbregas works in sculpture, design, video, installation, performance, and sound, to explore the logics [...]
Internationally acclaimed authors explore Spain’s leading collection of contemporary art in this series of four displays taking place over the course of a year. A haunting portrait by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932, Germany), I.G (1993), features a nude with her back to us, facing [...]
The exhibition, curated by Llucià Homs, provides fresh insights into Guinovart’s artistic discourse while considering the fact that today, ten years after his death, he still connects with new generations of critics and curators, with works displaying immense topicality. The exhibition directs its attention to the [...]
Suspension, evanescence, abstraction: these are the first sensations the sculptures of Isabel Alonso Vega evoke. The artist will present her works in Italy for the first time during her next solo show, Senza Fuoco, opening on January 19th at White Noise Gallery, Rome. Her [...]
This event is a personal exhibition dedicated to the work of Oriol Vilanova. It will be composed of a group of new works, entirely produced for the exhibition, and presented at the centre d’art Le LAIT for the first time. For the exhibition at centre [...]
Ephemeral and immersive sculptures, Pablo Valbuena’s works highlight the architecture of the space that welcomes them, whilst also going further. Using simple elements - lines, dots, notes, geometrical shapes - and technical tools of great precision, the artist fashions sound, light and movement to [...]
The international group exhibition addresses queer identity as a still under-represented social category, often associated with stereotypical thinking and social exclusion. The concept of queer goes beyond LGBTIQ identities as it challenges and questions personal or assigned identities. Thereby it addresses power relations, post-colonial [...]
Trugeda’s solo exhibition, Passion and Emptiness, features multiple paintings and small-scale sculptures, which have embodied the artist’s exploration of his creative inspiration and talent charged by the collision and interaction between sensibility and rationality. However, when such talent becomes contained by rules, it can [...]
The exhibition features Miró's bronze sculptures from the years 1973 to 1977 and a selection of works on paper from the years 1973 to 1981. Until the last years of his life, Miró has created unclassifiable, magical works, like the sculptures he made while [...]
Sometimes an exhibition is not about just one thing, subject or theme, but rather about individual voices and the relationships they have with each other. 'Even if it's Jazz or the Quiet Storm' establishes open associative connections and does not encourage you to understand, [...]
Temporal. Programa de residencias aims to reflect on the practice of artistic residencies from the perspective of collaboration between individuals and hospitality. Most of these artists’ projects revolve around the ethical problems and conditions of work (understood as an occupation in a broader sense), [...]
Within the framework of the “Foco Cultura España-Colombia” (Spanish / Colombian Culture Spotlight), AC/E has programmed several activities at the festival with participation by Spanish artists Toni Mascaró, Rubén Romero, Ana Penyas, Nicolas Castell, Álvaro Ortiz, José Jajaja, Ricardo Cavolo, Los Bravú and Enrique Bordes, just to name some. Since 2010 this Festival has [...]
Kike Ortega showcases an exclusive selection of works in Miami using recycle materials. Originally from Pontevedra, Spain, Kike Ortega draws inspiration from his formal training as an architect, profound curiosity in people and their emotional state, as well as his passion for the environment. [...]
The exhibition, which includes about one hundred works created in Antibes Juan-les-Pins, places in a new light those that were eminently studious vacations. It is in 1920 that Pablo Picasso begins to spend his holidays in Antibes Juan-les-Pins, a place where he will return [...]
Ignacio Llamas (b. Toledo 1970) graduated from the University Complutense of Madrid (UCM) in fine arts after he had finished his education by forming part of artist’s studios, such as Luís Gordillo’s, Musuo Miura’s, Jaime Lorente’s or Gerardo Aparicio’s. He realized his first individual [...]
SCAN is pleased to announce the opening of ATAVIC MEMORY, a project curated by Sara Torres and Regina Pérez for the SCAN Project Room with works by Álvaro Albaladejo, Cristina Ramírez, Moreno & Grau, Alegría & Piñero and Fran Pérez Rus. To look back [...]
"Man or Rabbit" shows us the latest artistic productions of this Mallorcan painter, where he recreates the real world from his personal perspective, which is often very disturbing. The great theme of his work is the reflection about the human condition: Bestard (b Palma [...]
“Stardust Wishes” is an interactive playground where visitors can create their own fireworks and kaledoiscopic lightshows. Stardust Wishes at Coolture Impact, the largest interactive public art platform, intertwines reality and fantasy through the looking glass. By moving, dancing, waving, or pointing, visitors create their own [...]
We have been told that plastic is necessary for our daily life... what we have not been told is that plastic will kill us. Once it has reached our lives and begun to be received with open arms we fear it will not be [...]
Celebrating 17 seasons of thought-provoking exhibitions under the leadership of Joseph V. Melillo, this group show brings together artists who reevaluate the history of material culture—presenting installation, painting, and sculptural works that speak to a mystical, transcendent, and visionary future. Towards a New Archaeology [...]
Dora García’s artistic practice spans over various fields and the exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall highlights her interest in performance art, politics, and psychoanalysis. Through free association, the works are intertwined in the exhibition and thus open up for various possible readings. What is truth [...]
“Joan Miró and the Death of Painting” focuses on works of the year 1973 when the eighty-year old artist was preparing for an important retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris. In a series of slashed and punctured canvases of 29 March 1973, woven [...]
If we operate under the premise that the role of artist is to give spirit form, it goes without saying that abstraction and representation are simultaneous aesthetic and emotional concerns. It’s the power—and process—of apprehending allusion that enraptures us most. Lush Strokes, Phantom Forms [...]
Feast for the Eyes shows the rich history of food photography - not only in the visual arts, but also in commercial and scientific photography and photojournalism. From the banality of the diner-breakfast special of Stephen Shore to the allegorical still life of Laura [...]
Luna13 Galeria will present the exhibition “The world of illustration” at the Techhub office in London. Showcasing a selection of works by eight different artist, with the strong presence of female creators, it will be opened until the end of February 2019. The exhibiting [...]
Curated by María Andueza FASE 8 Augmented Spatialtiy Non-Site (A conversation)is a collective situation dealing with the public space in relation to the exhibition device. During the first week of FASE a group made up by Rocío Calvo, Juan Cantizzani, Marina Hervás and Martyna Poznańska will explore on the displacement of the concept [...]
Jaume Plensa (Barcelona, 1955) is an artist of materials, sensations and ideas. His references include literature, especially poetry, music, religion and thought. He considers himself, above all, a sculptor, although his creative process has included multiple disciplines. His work addresses the very condition of [...]
The exhibition "Os Sonhos de Helena" presents a set of illustrations based on the texts of the book by the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano and also some figurative objects - sculptures of resin and wood - also by Isidro Ferrer. This initiative is the [...]
A partnership with the Sorolla Museum, Madrid, this exhibition, curate by Carmen Pena, will bring together 118 paintings by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Valencia, 1863 - Cercedilla, 1923) from the museum and from Spanish private collections. The exhibition shows how Sorolla, the master of [...]
The exhibition features a selection of the most representative recent visual work by the artist Luis Úrculo’s in the City of Querétaro Museum. Furthermore, the work is linked to the city's artistic community through a workshop and to the public through a conference and [...]
Uslé’s practice reflects on the possibilities of painting. His works possess an intriguing intensity borne from plays of colour and the nuances of pattern and gesture. The canvases in this exhibition, which range from the intimate to the very large, have evolved slowly over [...]
Fontcuberta attempts to salvage the remains of the photographic substance from the ruins, an element to which we attribute the alchemical power of retaining life, whilst evading the call of death. With ridiculous arrogance, we humans boast of using the camera to beat time [...]
This latest exhibition features a suite of new sculptural works with lustrous silver and gold patina shown alongside selected paintings. Born in Valencia, Spain, in 1942, Manolo Valdés is one of the few artists who have mastered multiple mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture and [...]
This exhibition is a retrospective look at 20 years|20 projects, selected to explain the approach and the working methods of the b720 team. These projects cover multiple scales. The material remains of the studio’s output over the last 20 years are now assembled in [...]
The exhibition includes 52 portraits of actors, actresses, writers and directors of Catalan cinema taken during the shooting of her movies. Photographer and director Isabel Coixet decribes her series with this poem: Faces are my landscape. Not walls, nor sunsets. Not even oceans or [...]
Once again, at the end of this year, at the Fundació Joan Miró, we celebrate the holidays with an art project created specifically for the occasion. This time we will be presenting a piece by Patricia Dauder arising from her research in astronomical phenomena, [...]
The Musée d’Orsay and the Musée national Picasso-Paris are organising an exceptional event dedicated to Pablo Picasso’s blue and rose periods. This exhibition is the first large-scale collaboration between our two museums. It features masterpieces and proposes a new interpretation on the years 1900-1906, [...]
Nuria Delgado, a native of Malaga, put together this art project in order delight the Swiss public with “a little sun, a little of the south”. November being rather grey and rainy here in Switzerland, we sure can do with a little colour that [...]
“Josep Maynou’s work is bound to curious storytelling – moments lost in translation and chance experiences, both real and imagined. From textiles and sculpture to drawings and video, each piece tells a witty tale of social exchange. On his journeys across Europe, North Africa [...]
A visual exploration of excess in territories that are more exposed to environmental issues and less prepared to its consequences. Cristina de Middel probably needs no introduction. Born in Spain in 1975, she shot to fame in 2012 with her self-published book The Afronauts. [...]
Olga Khokhlova was born to a colonel in 1891, in Nijin, a Ukrainian town located within the Russian Empire. In 1912, she entered the prestigious and innovative Russian Ballet directed by Serge Diaghilev. It was in Rome, spring 1917, where she met Pablo Picasso [...]
Ramon Llull’s worlds were very rich and varied and were simultaneously Catalan, European and Mediterranean: he wrote more than 250 books in Catalan, Latin and Arabic; he travelled through the East and the West; he sought a model of knowledge that would embrace God, [...]
Javier Calleja produces works that bring surprise and humor to viewers by incorporating subtle twists and interventions to various events within everyday life. Expressing a fondness for the works of Rene Magritte, Calleja attempts to reference and reinterpret the techniques of the surrealist master [...]
Variation on the exhibition Esther Ferrer. Todas las variaciones son válidas, incluida esta, presented at the Palacio Velazquez of the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid (from October 26, 2017 to February 25, 2018), the selection of works for CN D explores the different forms addressed by [...]
The Spanish photographer living in Kenya Patricia Esteve has closed "Wordless dialogues: Africa" Since last june we have had an on-line conversation through the images of the 19 participating African photographers. The complete result can be seen in https://quepintamosenelmundo.com/blog/en/wordless-dialogues-africa/ Throughout the process the only communication we have had has [...]
“The Bears” is a series of photographs portraying women who are part of Brown University’s rugby team. While being part of an intellectually exigent environment, these students have decided to also join a very physically demanding sport. A sport that will introduce them to [...]
A great part of our visual education is encoded in the landscape. We soon learn to read it, interpret it and we become sensitive to the emotions it awakens. What is more, at some point, we start translating emotions into landscapes. In North, Jon Gorospe [...]
With its exhibition Eduardo Chillida – Architect of the Void, Museum Wiesbaden presents a sweeping retrospective of one of the most significant Spanish sculptors of the late 20th century. Today, Eduardo Chillida’s (1924–2002) monumental, site-specific sculptures of steel, stone and concrete have achieved iconic [...]
“Memory, and its loss, are a central theme in my work. Unless we remember, we are condemned to an amnesiac present, textureless and flat, lacking the perspective of time. My recent artwork tackles such issues in different ways. I have scoured junkyards, recycling centers [...]
Bernardi Roig (Palma de Mallorca, 1965) is one of the most important artists of the current Spanish art scene. His work includes sculptures and light installations, as well as videos, photographs and drawings. Characteristic are the human sculptures made of polyester resin in combination [...]
Blasco combines architecture, photography and installation to explore themes of vision and perception in relation to physical experience. Using digital photography and common building materials to assemble three-dimensional constructions that reconstruct interior spaces and outdoor environments culled from the artist’s personal New York cityscape. [...]
Through artistic practices that appropriate satellite images and archival material, listen to oral histories and engage with the materiality of water, the works in the exhibition underline the difference between an everyday relationship to the river and to nature vs the macro plans made [...]
Based on a selection of thirty portraits taken by photographer Óscar Fernández Orengo, who over a period of seventeen years (2000–2017) has photographed more than 450 Spanish and Ibero-American filmmakers, this exhibition traces the history of cinema in Spain and Colombia. Some of Fernández [...]
Álvaro Sánchez-Montañés (Madrid, 1973), winner of the 2017 Fundació Vila Casas Photography Prize, presents the photography show Not like Chaos at the Can Framis Museum, curated by Glòria Bosch, director of art at the Fundació Vila Casas, and the photographer himself. The contrast between abandoned human constructions [...]
The exhibition is organized around the most iconic complete series of the artist, Eugenio Ampudia, Donde dormir (2008-2018), which is set in dialogue with three more works: The dream of every artist (2000), Una corriente de aire (2015) ), and Museum and Space (2011). [...]
The exhibition entitled 'The Rivals Of The Sea' consists of three works of large format 2x153cm and three medium pieces of 76x56cm. The technique used is oil charcoal and oil pastel on Saunders Waterford's paper. For Puche it is important that "the drawing is [...]
The works of Gema Rupérez develops around the desire to survive in a complicated society where not even Democracy is perfect. Instability, vulnerability and frustration are part of the emotive content of her works and in her research it is strong the awareness of [...]
Works presented by the awardees Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Sam Laughlin and Lua Ribeira explore themes such as belonging, fragility of the natural world and death. Alejandra Carles-Tolra is interested in the relationship between individual and group identity and how one identity influences the other. In Where We Belong she explores [...]
Throughout his career as a sculptor, Jaume Plensa (Barcelona, 1955) has drawn on spirituality, the body and collective memory as the primary sources which tie together his visual artwork. Literature, psychology, biology, language and history become strategic tools in the creation of his work, [...]
Since 2013, Barcelona based photographer Aleix Plademunt has been working on MATTER, his most extensive photographic project so far. Deriving from mater, the Latin word for mother, matter refers to the substance from which all things are made. In English, the word matter can [...]
Thirty-five works by Spanish artists, dedicated to interpreting and paying tribute to Fernando Pessoa and the Portuguese capital’s literary fascination, have arrived at the heart of Lisbon. From September 15 to November 15, the paintings will be on display at Lisboa Pessoa Hote The [...]
a…is alter(ed): Open Sessions 12 explores the imaginative determination of “drawing” and “line” by relating it to a development process, social artifacts, psychological trace, and prosthetic memory—journals, maps, technology, and calendars. The poetics of flow between known and unknown is a feedback murmur that [...]
Within her practice, Alicia Framis blends architecture, design, fashion and performance. Forbidden Collections brings together two collections that are designed and made for women by women. Is My Body Public? is a collection that explores the borders between what is public and private in our everyday lives. [...]
“Present Imperfect, Future Tense” reflects on the importance of water for all animals. We as humans are comprised of around 60% water, the planet is 3/4th water, and in the quest for a habitable planet, water is essential " The images recreate hypothetical scenarios [...]
Contemporarte is a project born in 2008, involving the joint work of ten pubnlic universities from Andalucia. The project acts as a launch pad for emerging artists within the academic community through contemporary photography. Visiones desde la Andalucia Contemporánea gathers a selection of award-winning [...]
The installation of drawings, documents, and objects marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Copenhagen, which has been organized for SixtyEight by our resident Assistant Curator, Clara Bernal. The Stolen Hour consists of new artistic research looking to tie the act of daily drawing [...]
Spain joined the ranks of the nations that embraced the new medium of photography very shortly after its invention in the XIX century. Over time it has contributed to the development of this important element of European cultural heritage with many names of note [...]
The Ibero-American Cultural Attachés Association (AACIA) presents Women Who Make a Better Ibero America: Power Behind the Everyday, an exhibition aiming to show how Iberoamerican women contribute to their cultural, economic, scientific, educational, social, and inclusive development. The exhibition features artwork by contemporary photographers from [...]
The artists Fernando Gonzalez, Lucia Berra , Maria Elisa Quiaro y Evangelina Esparza they all work the analogue collage technique. Fashion and cinema magazines, books, encyclopaedias from the last century, old photographs or museum leaflets are the materials they use to give a new [...]
A video presenting Gravel - a large installation that grows every day following the pace of extraction of a Basel gravel pit- 250 tons every day- mirroring the average volume of gravel extracted from a Basel quarry, the work serves as an invitation to reflect on [...]
The aim of ’50 Years of Realism – From Photorealism to Virtual Reality’ is to present to the Brazilian audience a rich exhibition of a few well-established contemporary hyperrealist artists working today, some of whom are showing their work in Brazil for the first [...]
In No Particular Order brings together a selection of more than 70 prints from three major projects of Magnum nominee Cristina de Middel. The first-floor gallery space of the Magnum gallery in Paris is dedicated to Christina de Middel’s series Party. In an attempt to build a [...]
Ever since his career began in the late 1990s Jorge R. Pombo (Barcelona, 1973) has immersed himself in a continuous reflection on the practice of painting. In the current context, few artists have looked as deeply as he has into the creative processes of the old [...]
The retrospective “Madrid, October 68. The Spanish experimental scene” portrays the incredible adventure of the University of Madrid’s Computing Center, which brought together artists, architects, engineers, scientists and intellectuals to explore the possibilities offered by automatic computer generated calculation. These pioneers formed a community [...]
The first ever exhibition in Italy dedicated to Picasso, the sculptor. Picasso visited Rome, Naples and Pompeii in 1917 and saw, for the first time, statuary from Ancient Rome and the Renaissance, as well as seeing the murals at Pompeii. He also visited the [...]
Throughout history, museums have provided inspiration for artists who have gone to contemplate and study the works of their predecessors on display, sometimes to follow their teachings and occasionally to challenge them. In both cases, the dialogue between the artists of the past and [...]
Coolture Impact is the largest interactive public art platform that intertwines reality and fantasy on the windows of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Times Square. The Now, the first featured art presentation at Coolture Impact, offers a journey into magical worlds, opening doors [...]
A group exhibition with work by Dora García, Sharon Hayes, Emily Jacir, Mahmoud Khaled, Carlos Motta, Wu Tsang, and Akram Zaatari, as well as a letter by Quinn Latimer This group exhibition explores the ways in which visual artists are reflecting on the history [...]
Exhibition dedicated to the multifaceted and fruitful relationship that the Spanish genius has developed, throughout his extraordinary career, with myth and antiquity, proposes the exploration from this particular perspective of its intense and complex creative process. The project, a Milanese stage of the great [...]
The exhibition A FOREST brings together artists mobilised directly or indirectly by the plant world and their method of organisation in complex systems, called ecosystems. Trees, plants, moss, lichens: all so much more sophisticated than we thought for a long time, these beings have [...]
The exhibition provides a follow-up of the transformation process of the Plaza de la Gardunya between the beginning of 2005 and the spring of 2018. Or rather, from 2018 to 2005, that is, as a reverse chronology, from the present to the past. Obviously, [...]
The exhibition resonates with the black tones of an alchemist of haute couture : variations of black repeated in over a hundred of pieces from the Galliera collections and the archives of Maison Balenciaga. Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895 – 1972), the most “Couture” of Couturiers. [...]
José David Valiente, Virginia Rota, Jesús Madriñan and Alejandra Carles-Tolra participate in the exhibition “Common Places / Parallel Stories” In May 2018, #SKG Bridges Uprising Art & Culture Festival, an international cultural festival for young people of the European South, was inaugurated in Thessaloniki. The [...]
“Footbal Field” is a video installation by Maider López in which street furniture interfere with the game, suggesting new uses for the square and a new structure for the urban space. Festival for the People celebrates the rich subcultural forms across Philadelphia and aims [...]
The Anthropology of Feelings is the title of the exhibition curated by Audrey Hoareau and François Cheval, co-founders of The Red Eye. The exhibition builds a thematic journey around the obsessive and heterogeneous representation of the human body, from the origins of the humanity [...]
Known for his large-scale public art installations series The Ethics of Dust, Jorge Otero-Pailos displays a new body of work in-situ, titled Répétiteur, at New York City Center’s Harkness Studio. One of the first-ever City Center visual art commissions, Répétiteur is a site-specific art installation consisting of custom [...]
Born in Valencia, Spain, in 1942, Manolo Valdés is one of the few artists who have mastered multiple mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking. In each form he is considered highly original, technically sound and constantly provocative. Manolo Valdés began training as a [...]
Mansilla is a village in the north of Spain. In 1960, during Franco’s dictatorship, it was evacuated to build a dam. The residents of a village that had been there for generations lost their home. Like a memorial, the reservoir lies within their sight: [...]
Although it is clearly retrospective, the exhibition “Toni Catany: Back and Forth” offers to reveal quite a different Catany from the one we know and the memory we normally have of his work. Often labelled “classical”, “traditional”, “neopictorialist” and even “nostalgic”, Catany’s work sometimes [...]
In her installation Global Mode/Playground for Drowning Animals, 2016-2018, Eva Davidova creates a surreal environment of invented animals that point a gun at themselves. These female animals express humankind and our unique ability to create and destroy at the same time. In her new VR [...]
Known as the Salvador Dali in the design world and the next Philippe Starck, Jaime Hayon, one of the most famous Spanish designers, will host his first Hong Kong solo exhibition, ” The Cosmos of Jaime Hayon ” in Harbour City The exhibition comprises two parts. [...]
