The link between the works of the artists Isabel Consigliere (Italy), Irene Cruz (Spain-Germany) and Belen Ordovás (Spain) is undoubtedly the subtle, and perhaps sometimes unconscious, representation of the feminine. The eternal feminine, that favor Dei that every woman possesses within herself, inherently, and that is [...]
The title of Spanish artist José Carlos Casado’s new interactive sculpture refers to the poem entitled Sympathy by African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar that inspired writer and poet Maya Angelou’s 1969 debut autobiography, the modern American classic I Know Why the Caged Bird [...]
Active since the years 90, Dora Garcia has been recognized internationally for her work incisive and rigorous based on extensive research on the diffuse limits between the real and its representation. Through performances, drawings, films, texts, expanded books or installations, García makes visible the [...]
Lita Cabellut (born 1961 in Sariñena, Huesca) is a Spanish painter who lives and works in The Netherlands. She grew up as a street child in Barcelona until she was adopted at the age of twelve. During this time, she was introduced to the [...]
An exhibition exploring the connection between Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis and key figure of the ideas of the 20th century, and Salvador Dali, the Spanish artist whose imagery and understanding of art have shaped the world of culture ever since. As a passionate [...]
Born in Valencia, Spain in 1930, Genovés was a distinct voice who advocated for political change from the dictatorship of Franco, and his works created a stir in a country run under the regime. Among his original artistic influences were the films of Russian [...]
The exhibition ‘Unfinished’ was a project curated by Iñaqui Carnicero and Carlos Quintáns for the Spanish pavilion at the Venice International Architecture Biennale 2016. It takes a a look at unfinished architecture in order to discover virtues that can be turned into design strategies. During the past period [...]
A woman is doing administrative work, legal research to become a stateless person. Unsuccessfully. Her failure illustrates a certain fixedness of our identity, which is the property of the state. What is this connection that binds us to a nation? Does it have anything [...]
The meter, the kilogram and the second are three of the seven basic units of the International System, adopted in its entirety only in 1971, and from which all other physical units can be derived. They draw our relationship to the world and structure [...]
Carlos Sagrera on Patterns: ‘In 2012 I found photos of my grandparents house from the 70’s, the images showing the empty rooms of the house they were about to move in to. After they passed away these images motivated me to start a series of [...]
Bringing together nearly 150 works, this retrospective traces the technical and stylistic evolution of the artist. Miró creates from his dreams and opens the door to his poetic universe. Miró transformed the world around him with an apparent simplicity of means, whether a symbol, [...]
The exhibition will present works of 17 renowned contemporary Spanish artists: Ángel Mateo Charris, Marcelo Fuentes, Dis Berlin, Damián Flores, Carlos García Alix, Paco de la Torre, Teresa Tomás, Joël Mestre, Roberto Mollá, Jorge Tarazona, Fernando Martín Godoy, Elena Goñi, Juan Cuéllar, Guillermo Peñalver Fernández, [...]
Sixe Paredes is a full-time artist. He lives as he works. Absorbed by Andean and Pre-columbian cultures, inspired by the cosmos, by Universe-Earth connexions and by Human-animal connexions. His colored, symbolic, abstract or figurative work, is painted, weaved, created in ceramic when he spends [...]
This is Mallo’s first exhibition in New York since 1948, and presents a selection of works produced in both Spain and Latin America. Born in rural Galicia, Spain in 1902, Mallo moved to Madrid in 1922 to receive art training. She quickly became a [...]
Francisco López's "Hyper-Rainforest" is an amazing variety of field recordings composed into a "concert-installation" that, unfortunately, raises all sorts of uncomfortable questions about culture and appropriation. Lopez, a sound artist and experimental composer, has recorded sounds of rain forests from around the world for [...]
Invoice es una instalación de vídeo donde tres cantantes interpretan una adaptación del canto gregoriano O Virgo Splendens, sustituyendo el texto original por la enumeración de las facturas emitidas durante el proceso de realización de la obra. Un rasgo distintivo del canto gregoriano es el escaso [...]
SCAN is pleased to announce, Several Times Twice, a solo project by Fermín Jiménez Landa as part of Frieze week. Fermín Jiménez Landa's work shifts unpredictably between artist's actions, interventions in the public realm, videos, installations or drawings. His work involves a minimum intervention of reality, [...]
“Intriguing uncertainties” highlights the significance of the narrative in contemporary art that focus on singular socio-cultural constellations as well as specific and situational meanings, based on anthropological considerations. The realm of darkness, chaos and fear is part of our anthropological reality and it is the artist’s role to [...]
Madrilenian artist Luis Úrculo (1978) presents this September at Max Estrella his second solo exhibition ‘Paisajes intuidos pt. 2’, a journey around the architecture of what we do not see when visiting an archaeological site. Just as in criminology and astronomy, there are always [...]
Lluis Lleó (Barcelona, 1961) who has lived in New York since 1989, is an artist who moves with identical ease between painting and sculpture, making his work especially difficult to catalogue. His recent works are neither sculptural paintings nor painted sculptures: they are works [...]
Palacios’ new work is not only focused on the already-inflicted violent action of the hurters. His new, more richly textured, almost sculptural paintings, stand as an invitation to the potential helpers who can actually do something about it. In his “Set Me Free” series, [...]
Joan Fontcuberta is an internationally acclaimed artist from Barcelona. A wide range of writings as well as curatorial and lecturing activities accompanies his prolific artistic practice. Since the start of his career in the mid-80s, his highly conceptual works have been imbued with ambiguity [...]
As a space for critical reflection on design established in a historically rich context, the Istanbul Design Biennial offers the opportunity to question the very production and replication of design and its education. In 2018, the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial builds on the legacy [...]
Night Currents is the first individual exhibition of Spanish artist Javier Pérez in Belgium which is part of his most recent production, including sculptures, drawings and photography. With a particular cyclical view of time, in which life and death are only two stages within [...]
In 1966, Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012) began writing his memoirs. Motivated by his need to embrace militancy as a political strategy, he undertook a review of his personal biography and his career as an artist, a project that was completed in 1977 with the publication [...]
The exhibition, which is Elespe’s fourth solo exhibition mounted by the gallery is the most comprehensive exhibition to date in New York of the artist’s work featuring over twenty works across different mediums. The exhibition debuts Elespe’s largest paintings and places his paintings, drawings, [...]
”A beaver’s DNA doesn’t stop expressing itself at the end of its whiskers, but at the edge of its dam,” writes the ecological theorist Timothy Morton. What if the physics of entropy was sliding between humans and objects through pure inertia? What if an [...]
Daniel García Andújar (1966,Almoradi, Spain) is a central figure in the Spanish internet art scene. Since the late 80s he has been starting up internet projects, he is a founding member of the irational.org web collective, and developed Technologies To The People® (TTTP), a non-profit organization that [...]
‘Extra States: Nations in Liquidation’ brings together artists whose works aim to critically address, recompose or bypass the traditional readings of the state. How do we think of “the state” in contemporary society? How much agency and effect do “extra state” power structures have, [...]
"Stillleben" is a specific installation for the exhibition space at the Tête project in Prenzlauer Berg. In this room, despite its decadent appearance, the beauty of the city from other times is still visible. It is one of the few spaces in Berlin that [...]
In the past three decades, sound art has been consolidated as a new artistic category, giving way to the development of specific types of research, monographic exhibitions and specialized bibliography. Listening with the eyes. Sound art in Spain, curated by José Iges and José Luis Maire, [...]
The United Soya Republic presents a journey through the heartlands of the Southern Cone’s agribusiness; it is a portrayal of the changes to the landscape and socio-economic tissue brought about by intensive farming and the exportation of produce in Argentina and Paraguay. Jordi Ruiz Cirera has [...]
The exhibition will have 34 black and white photographs. In this new show, we see how the decontextualization of the image of the photographed object provides a new meaning, which in itself has a new meaning for each viewer. Chema Madoz (Madrid, 1958) began [...]
The honey bee — we know about its important role as a useful insect and pollinator, but equally as a biological indicator of environmental change. The disproportionally significant part it plays in ecosystems is becoming better known, not least because it is under threat. [...]
Pablo Picasso jammed plenty of creativity into his 91-year life, including paintings, sculptures, prints, ceramics, stage design, plays, poetry and more. During the 1930s, he also etched and engraved a set of 100 pieces, in a series that was named after the art dealer [...]
Jaume Plensa ( b.Barcelona 1955) produces large-scale sculptures and installations that use language, history, literature and psychology to draw attention to the barriers that separate and divide humanity. In Talking Continents, Plensa used stainless steel to create a floating archipelago of 19 cloud-like shapes. The [...]
Since its inception, Paris La Défense has been a cultural territory that is unique in the world. Beyond its skyscrapers and globally renowned architecture, it’s a real open-air museum that will see the installation, just for the summer, of a contemporary art exhibit both [...]
Night is sublime, day is beautiful. Immanuel Kant The Gravity of Place is a project made during an artist’s residency at Domaine de Kerguéhennec in Brittany. Kerguéhennec is a contemporary art centre that has over thirty sculptures installed in its surrounding landscape. The place, [...]
“Véase ibíd.” refers us to the thing immediately previous and invites us to look attentively at it. Maybe it's something that we just observed on the street, or something we were thinking about a minute ago, before arriving at the gallery. Ibíd. seems to tell us: the [...]
In Hexagons, Gema Álava's first solo exhibition at Maus Contemporary, the Spanish-born, New York-based artist presents incredibly subtle and beautiful commentaries on gender, power, movement, and the crowd mind. Exhibiting mixed-media paintings — works built and layered from a palette of materials including, in part, [...]
Coincidingwith the retrospective organised by Jean-Louis Prat at the Grand Palais in Paris, Galerie Lelong & Co is presenting a selection of works on paper from two decades (1930-1950), a period where the artist’s work reached its full expression. The bilingual exhibition catalogue (French [...]
A meeting of two souls linked through time and space : Ernst Fuchs (1930-2015) and Beatriz Moreno (1971). Two artists who never met in real life – neither of them knew of the existence of the other, however… Could it be part of an [...]
Antonio Ballester Moreno (Madrid, Spain, 1977) approaches his curatorial project for the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo as a way of contextualising a universe based in the close relationship between biology and culture, with references to the history of abstraction and its interplay with [...]
Research undertaken upon the Meadows’ 2014 acquisition of Salvador Dalí’s painting The Fish Man (L’homme poisson, 1930) opened doors to areas within Dalí’s 1930s oeuvre worthy of further study; foremost among them, Dalí’s propensity for painting on a small scale. Dalí: Poetics of the Small, 1929-1936 is the first exhibition [...]
The gallery 100 Kubik shows as the highlight of the year for the first time the works of the artist Daniel Verbis (*1968, León). His paintings, part of important collections, are surprising and unforgettable. He has a very individual way to express his universe, [...]
The exhibition offers the general public a great opportunity to become acquainted for the first time with the history of cubism, one of the most important trends in 20th century art (1907–1923). British art historian John Golding wrote in a monograph that cubism is [...]
“Correspondence” features a new series of weaving-objects through which artist Ana Esteve Llorens explores the relation between abstraction, memory and the process of making. Utilizing a loom attached to her body and drawing inspiration from past family living spaces, Spanish artist Ana Esteve Llorens [...]
The Noguchi Museum presents an overview of the work of Spanish sculptor Jorge Palacios (Madrid, 1979) with Link, a monumental public work installed on Flatiron Plaza North, across from the Flatiron Building and adjacent to Madison Square Park, and an exhibition of nine sculptures in the Museum [...]
What is the meaning of masterpiece for Pablo Picasso? The exhibition “Picasso: Masterpieces! answers this question by bringing together some of his greatest works, some of which will be shown in Paris for the first time. Thanks to exceptional loans, masterpieces from all over [...]
The iconic underworld figure in Greek mythology, Charon, appears in the Renaissance painting by Joachim Patinir, portraying the ferryman in a small boat, amidst the river surrounded by two islands. Charon’s role is to ferry the dead across the Styx River, which separates Hell [...]
For the past two decades, Spanish artist Santiago Sierra has carried out provocative actions around the world. Influenced by the formal language of the minimal and conceptual art movements of the 1960s and 70s, Sierra’s work addresses the hierarchies of power and class that [...]
Guillermo Mora lives and works in Madrid, Spain, and is one of the most accomplished artists of his generation. In recent years, he has created a particular visual vocabulary in which formal elements like color gradients, layers, textures and shapes are used to create [...]
Even in the busiest cities it is possible to find a place for calm and rest. Eva Nararro’s latest paintings celebrate summer, with figures bathed in sunlight relaxing in invisible parks or calmly strolling down unseen avenues. They represent characters she has found enjoying [...]
The “fever” art exhibit in Long Island City is tackling the subjects of climate change and global warming. “The show incorporates painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation. It will be installed alongside informative quotes from world leaders, challenging and bringing awareness to a serious [...]
In video, installation, collage and object Carlos Aires confronts us with the ambiguity of our world order and the constant presence of money, be it specifically as the collages are made of original banknotes or abstract as symbols of dreams, power and both moral [...]
Steegmann Mangrané’s works often unsettle the conventional ways in which art is seen or felt; examples include his virtual reality–based project Phantom (2015) and his subtler drawings and sculptures that entwine light, color, and the architecture of the venues they are displayed in. In its emphasis [...]
During the summer, many people have been able to view the 7 meter high cast iron portraits located along Djurgårdsbrunnskanalen, along with the white silhouette placed in the water itself. Autumn season at Galleri Andersson/Sandström begins with an extensive exhibition where you will be [...]
The Kunsthal Tübingen crosses over to the third dimension with the exhibition ‘Hyperrealism Sculpture’. This exhibition will show a unique selection of three-dimensional works by all important hyperrealist sculptors of the past 50 years. From the early American pioneers, including George Segal, Duane Hanson [...]
This exhibition revolves around our trips and the ways in which make us grow and learn. To travel is to cultivate, to absorb unfamiliar landscapes, to encounter strangers, to learn beyond books and screens. From the encounter between who we are, the expectation of [...]
For its summer exhibition, the CRP/ is teaming up with Contretype, the contemporary photography center in Brussels, to co-construct a project based on their respective collections, born of the production and residency activity of these two organizations. In its gallery in Douchy-les-Mines, the art [...]
Gonzalo Orquín is a Spanish artist and photographer based in Rome, Italy, best known for his controversial 2013 photo series, titled "Sí, quiero", featuring gay and lesbian couples kissing in Roman Catholic churches in Rome. Orquín was born in Seville Spain, in 1982. He [...]
After presenting their female giant Euterpe at last year’s Burning Man, street theater group Carros de Foc is making its second appearance at the Festival with Step Forward / Joining Minds, bringing Euterpe and her grandfather Alberto together. The two giant puppets, 20 feet tall and [...]
Interpreting the reality of objects through his unique and alternative viewpoint, Spanish photographer Chema Madoz creates poetic metaphors and new visual feasts especially in his black and white photographs by helping ordinary objects escape their daily tasks. In his works, Madoz makes art lovers [...]
The exhibition “Charlie Chaplin. A visión” attempts to re-evaluate Chaplin’s revolutionary artistic heritage. With over 300 photographs and documents from the Chaplin Archive and almost two hours of film clips, the exhibition also includes items from private collections and public institutions (original posters, videos, [...]
The exhibition brings together part of his most recent production, which includes sculptures and drawings, most of which are unpublished in Spain. With a particular cyclical vision of time, in which life and death are only two stages within the permanent transformation, Javier Pérez [...]
Through various works and documents rarely presented in France, the BnF and the Opéra national de Paris explore the different facets of Picasso’s relationship to dance. A major 20th century painter, Picasso produced a work of an extraordinary richness. A long time before his [...]
Spanish artist Alberto Reguera continues his fascination with the vibrant colours of his homeland, reflected in the vivid hues used by the artist in his geometric objects. From warm golds to intense blues and glowing reds, his three-dimensional abstracts capture impressions of the rural [...]
The exhibition title “Asian Protocols” refers to various conventions related to certain official and private matters either in society generally or in people’s personal lives. When used in different situations, the word “protocol” can have a variety of meanings, such as a diplomatic procedure, [...]
This exhibition presents the rise of a generation of photographers who demanded that ‘creative’ or fine art photography be accepted as an art in its own right by the institutional and artistic system during the 1970s and early 1980s. It ranges from the opening [...]
Prompted by the Japanese concept of Ma – a consciousness of the dynamic between mass and void, Spanish photographer Xavier Comas rode multiple elevators in Tokyo photographing his fellow passengers in situ. Shooting in black & white, Comas discovered the appearance of an extra [...]
Hybridizations: the ghost of the painting reflects on the recurrent announcement of the death of painting throughout the 20th century. While painting and its principles have always been present as "a spectrum" that survives in other contemporary art formats. Therefore, this exhibition contains works [...]
This year’s exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, videos and sound works by thirty-two contemporary artists or collectives living along the US-Mexico border. The artwork explores issues related to the U.S.-Mexico border region, including immigration, crossing, and physical, linguistic and cultural hybridity. For her part, Partegás presents Invisible Forces (flyers), [...]
PLAY is a headstrong city festival that will take over the centre of Kortrijk with contemporary artworks. You can immerse yourself in the unique world of national and international visual art at diverse indoor and outdoor locations in the city. MAP13 presents the project [...]
Little by little, aspects of culture slip out of daily life, almost without us noticing. In this thought-provoking new exhibition, international photographers were tasked with capturing these slices of life –with an emphasis on traditional skills and musical heritage -before they are lost forever. [...]
The horse casts an atavistic spell over humans and has permeated art since time immemorial. Perhaps it’s because the animal’s unique beauty stirs a deeply rooted desire to possess one of our most treasured belongings. And art, as French art historian, René Huyghe, argues [...]
Alberto Schommer, Carlos Pérez Siquier, Gabriel Cualladó, Gonzalo Juanes, Joan Colom, Julio Ubiña, Leopoldo Pomés, Oriol Maspons, Francisco Gómez, Francisco Ontañon, Ramón Masats, Ricard Terré, Xavier Miserachs. The collective of photographers which operated under the name AFAL Group hailed from the publication AFAL, a magazine specialised [...]
Gala (7th September 1894 – 10th June 1982), born into a family of intellectuals from Kazan (Russia), she lived her childhood in Moscow. Once she had settled in Switzerland, she met Paul Éluard, who she moved to Paris with and came in contact with the members of the [...]
Each year the Solar – Cinematic Art Gallery works closely with Curtas Vila do Conde to present an exhibition during the festival and create a dialogue between the works which feature in it and the contents of the film programme. Last year the “Terra” [...]
Along with some of the biggest names of the Californian art scene, a selection of artworks by Xippas artists Yves Bélorgey, Rhona Bitner, Jeremy Dickinson, Dean Monogenis, Richard Nonas, Matthew Porter, Pepa Prieto and Bettina Rheims will be presented. These artworks show their artists’ [...]
Chus Burés introduces CHUS X CHUS, a New-York-based brand that acts as an incubator of creativity and serves up fresh takes on classic pieces. The exhibition includes his latest designs and Burés’s own designs developed over the decades. His strong creative personality derives initially from time [...]
The 2018 Twisted Oyster Film and Time-based Art Festival places its focus on the environment and the impact of climate change on the planet. The festival is a platform to drive awareness with an impactful exhibition that brings forward works that speak to this [...]
The exhibition Women & Women, curated by Blanca Berlin, its purpose was to familiarise audiences with the work of Spanish artists at their height of creativity. The photographs featured in the exhibition portray the essence of the female body and express the changes that have occurred on the [...]
Ira Lombardía (Asturias 1977) is an artist and researcher and works in different media such as photography, video, graphic design or sculpture. With her work she questions discourses, dynamics and rhetorics that have been assumed in the realm of contemporary art, image and philosophy. [...]
The show aims to create a dialogue between the two artists, confronting their personal approaches to the bi-dimensional surface as a space in which display their aesthetic and procedural imaginary. In the body of works “Profili” Gianni Pellegrini defines light out of the contrast [...]
In 1957, Spanish art experienced a pivotal shift in its visual framework. In the wake of this change, Equipo 57 was formed in Paris, and was one of the first and most important groups to come out of this renewal. The founders include: Juan [...]
This project questions two certainties that have framed the interpretations of art, knowledge and images: sharpness versus opacity, transparency versus secrecy, light versus blackout. The latticework offers all its disruptive power here: it is a space ready to look at, but at the same [...]
The gardens of the palace in Hellbrunn are rich in history and have been used for many purposes – as a recreational facility, a place to meet, a sports venue, and somewhere to simply spend an enjoyable time. So now they are being used [...]
Esteban Vicente was born in Turégano, Spain in 1903. His father served in the Civil Guard and was an amateur painter who took the young Vicente with him on visits to the Prado Museum. In 1918, Vicente entered military school, but left after three [...]
Manifesta 12, taking place in Palermo in 2018, is the latest installment of the world’s only nomadic biennial of contemporary art and culture. Throughout its 11 editions, Manifesta has always been politically and socially engaged, beyond producing an experimental and emerging art experience. With [...]
The exhibition is the result of a residency of Santiago Ydañez. During his stay in Palermo, the artist set himself the goal of “to feed himself off of the living imagination of the city,” where the natural pre-cultural world coexists in harmony with the [...]
“I have been thinking about this concept of ‘Bare’ for some time, considering what is open to view, what is exposed, what the future holds.... I feel like we are walking into an unknown. The works in this show are all united through their [...]
The History of America has been and will be forever linked to the History of Africa. The African drive in Latin America is visible and strongly alive across the whole continent. Historically many processes tried to silence its voice, dilute its soul and whiten [...]
Joan Fontcuberta is an internationally acclaimed artist from Barcelona. A wide range of writings as well as curatorial and lecturing activities accompanies his prolific artistic practice. Since the start of his career in the mid-80s, his highly conceptual works have been imbued with ambiguity [...]
Love Drone, is a selection of artworks expressly developed by the artist during 2018 for Dimora Artica gallery. In this show, Mit Borrás deals through installations and videos with themes such as technology, progress and the intervention of the human being on nature. Born [...]
The Portrait Show is a group exhibition exploring portraiture from traditional to non-traditional approaches in a range of media including photography, painting, sculpture, and works on paper. This exhibition will include works by Robert Arneson, John Bankston, Dawoud Bey, Jonathan Calm, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Rupert [...]
Works by renowned contemporary artists paying tribute to soccer have been brought together in the Ball in Art exhibition. The exhibition at Zariadie park, near the Kremlin, brings together more than 60 works from 20 different artists, including pioneering Spanish video artist Antoni Muntadas. [...]
Aleix Plademunt (*1980, ES), Juan Diego Valera (*1976, AR) and Roger Guaus (*1972, ES) founded in 2012 the independent publishing house Ca l’Isidret Edicions, after meeting and subsequently pursuing a collective project in Argentina in 2010. As well as being a platform for disseminating the [...]
Imprimatur speaks of the construction of our cultural heritage, about books, about pictorial imagery, and about the knowledge and vicissitudes of their transmission. The exhibition is articulated around two video projections: a conversation between Francisco de Goya and the businessman Martín Zapater, and the trial [...]
A tender and slightly surreal portrait of an artist’s mother appearing to drink tea has won one of the UK’s most prestigious art prizes. Miriam Escofet, a London-based artist, was named winner of the 2018 BP portrait award for a painting praised by judges for its [...]
In Jordi Alcaraz: defying boundaries, the artist furthers his explorations and near-obsessive ruminations on the limits of interior/exterior concepts, reality and evocation, presence versus absence, volume and void –the rational and the poetic. Even boundaries created by frames enclosing his paintings and drawings are altered [...]
