For his first Italian solo show, Sebas Velasco has chosen to accompany us on a journey through the countries of former Yugoslavia, made up of images, suggestions, reminiscences and memories. “When I was a child, I always chose Yugoslavia as my videogames team, maybe [...]
The 1980s and 1990s were peak moments for graphic design. After the death of Franco, with Spain’s full integration into Europe and the establishment of democracy, designers had the opportunity to participate in a process of creating and transforming the image of public institutions, [...]
Las Mitocondria (Alicia Herrero and María Ángeles Vila Tortosa) carries out a research between Visual Arts and Contemporary Dance, focused mainly on the theme of women, their social role and their part within the family environment . In this personal exhibition, the duo presents [...]
Is the first institutional solo exhibition of work by artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (b. 1977, Barcelona) in the United States. Based in Rio de Janeiro since 2004, Steegmann Mangrané is considered to be at the forefront of a generation of artists currently emerging from [...]
Moisés Yagües (*1972, Murcia) tells stories of borders and migration in his exhibition "on the other side". It is a graphic series in black and white combined with collages. The background to the idea is the sad but unavoidable reality of the refugee situation, [...]
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 [...]
Joan Fontcuberta, noted artist, curator and historian presents a new and surprising history of photography, featuring previously unknown works that expand our understanding of photography’s past and present. Photographs by Picasso, Dalí and Miró are featured alongside important commissions of Albert Renger-Patzsch, Man Ray, [...]
A Different Gaze organized in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso of Paris – home to the most complete collection of the artist’s works – and curated by Carmen Giménez, one of the world’s leading authorities on the artist. Through an unprecedented dialogue between [...]
Uriarte’s drawing practice is rooted in a mundane reality, based on small gestures that happen without artistic intention during office hours, for instance scribbling or drawing straight lines are examples of these gestures. He began his drawing practice in 2005, mostly by making monochromes, [...]
How many horizons are there? Imagine the surface of all the seas, oceans, rivers, and lakes of this world as a single horizon. The water line marks the boundary between everything that is above and all that lives below. In addition, water compels us [...]
Internationally renowned artists have been invited to present new or existing work at the interface between architecture, sculpture, installation and performance, based on the body of ideas that underpins baroque landscape architecture. This includes motifs such as the grotto, the maze, the tableau vivant, [...]
When the borders are underscored the time has come to ask what is it that is so valuable that it allows no mixture. Amongst the multiple and tendentious definitions of nation, country or homeland, we seem to juggle with notions that go beyond the [...]
The city of Antwerp celebrates the Baroque period and Rubens. Rubens as a source of inspiration. Politically and geographically the armed conflict between catholic and protestant religion dominated this time frame. In Antwerp, specifically, the Spanish occupied the city, the port, the area. In [...]
The works selected by curator Carolina López and include films by directors such as Segundo de Chomón, Josep Escobar, Francisco Macián, José Luis Moro, Jordi Amorós, Tomàs Bases, Raúl García, Juan Pablo Etcheverry, Isabel Herguera, Javier Mariscal, Anna Solanas, Marc Riba, Alberto Vázquez, Pedro Rivero, [...]
Can art be compared to love? “Love is to give something you do not have ... to someone who does not want it," said the French philosopher Jacques Lacan. If that is the case, can we then see similarities between artistic practice and love? [...]
This group exhibition examines contemporary attitudes toward the environment in a post-digital context. The focus is on the capacity of constructed natures to produce admixtures of the natural and the synthetic. The projects consider the changing character of the environment in the context of [...]
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 [...]
Jaume Plensa, one of the world’s most famous artists, will be exhibiting his work at Djurgården this summer. Sculptures with the total weight of approximately 30 tonnes will be brought from Plensa’s studio in Barcelona to Djurgården. Apart from three 7 meter high cast [...]
This exhibition gathers an exceptional group of large-scale works, from different periods, that exemplify his commitment to the complementary notions of fullness and emptiness, interior and exterior space, and gravity and balance. Highlights of the exhibition include Arco de la Libertad (1993) and Homenaie a Calder (1979). Chillida [...]
Where We Belong is a body of work exploring themes of belonging, femininity and escapism through a portrayal of Jane Austen devotees. The “Jane Austen Pineapple Appreciation Society” is a group of people who share a strong passion for the 19th century English author. [...]
Santiago Sierra’s work Political Prisoners in Contemporary Spain features 24 black and white photos of 74 political prisoners from different causes, with their faces pixellated. “The fact of having to visit penal institutions is in itself an indicator of the failure and powerlessness of society to [...]
“8th Under the Subway Video Art Night” is an event devoted exclusively to video art taking place simultaneously in Valencia (Spain), Kemzeke (Belgium), La Havana (Cuba), Sao Paulo (Brazil) and New York, and will feature the work of 4 Spanish artists. Since 2011, Under the [...]
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, [...]
“Heavy Metal,” the fifth installment in NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series, showcases contemporary artists working in metal, and includes works by Spanish sculptor Blanca Muñoz. Featured artists in Heavy Metal investigate the physical properties and expressive possibilities of metalwork through a wide variety [...]
Manolo Valdes is a rare breed of artists who has mastered multiple artistic disciplines in this career. Born in Valencia, Spain, Valdes works in paint, sculpture and mixed media and describes his works as having a life beyond the themes and boundaries of an [...]
With “Guernica Syndrome” Fernando Sánchez Castillo explores an extremely charged relic of recent Spanish history that places the focus on events that have been forgotten or have not been dealt with. Franco’s yacht Azor was a symbol of power, and he held important political discussions on [...]
Dora García’s new work Red Love is inspired by the Russian author, feminist, activist, political refugee and diplomat Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952) who propagated for radically transformed relationships between women and men. Free love and camaraderie were at the core of her thinking, as expressed [...]
“One time is no time” speaks to the importance of sustained work and its development over time; to an insistence on repeating processes which produce results with minimal yet significant differences. It’s all about a way of addressing everyday work as a kind of [...]
Miro is the artist, sculptor, ceramist whose works are presented in the best museums around the world. Miro drew inspiration from everyday life – it became the same as the unknown- before-world in his works, where a poetry and a dream dominated. Joan Miro [...]
José Carlos Naranjo describes his way of working as a tension between the pursuit of an image/idea and a simultaneous desire to deny, block or subvert the emerging image. He thinks of this process as like a rizoma (rhizome) – an underground stem system of lateral [...]
Basilea invites us to reflect on a city’s possibilities through a series of immersive projects connecting the City of Basel, its residents and the 95,000+ fairgoers anticipated to attend Art Basel. Conceived by artists Lara Almarcegui, Isabel Lewis and architecture studio Recetas Urbanas led by [...]
To complement The Playground Project, the Bundeskunsthalle is opening the roof garden and the museum square to Outdoor, an exhibition on the subject of ‘Play’. It provides the contemporary artists Nevin Aladağ, Kristina Buch, Ólafur Elíasson, Jeppe Hein, Carsten Höller, Christian Jankowski, Llobet & [...]
The exhibition presents the work carried out by Daniel G. Andújar (Almoradí, Alicante.1966) on the occasion of his participation in documenta14 in 2017. The project is structured as a visual protest against violence and an update of the current representation of conflict, showing how [...]
Jorge Mañes Rubio considers from an ethnographic point of view themes of vanishing civilization and shamanism, forgotten places and stories of the past, all of which are given a new meaning through his work. His experiments transcend the boundaries of art, in conjunction with offering alternative perspectives on politics, society [...]
Tere Recarens was born in 1967 in Arbùcies, Girona. Her woks have to do with moving, the turmoil it sometimes infers. Most of them are answers to precise contexts: Tere Recarens, by choice or necessity, can be brought to react to a situation, she [...]
Berena Álvarez Fernández’s showing of Infirmes introduces us to a classic art topic, especially in photography: the identity. Marcel Duchamp had already marked a precedent when he was photographed by Man Ray as a dame named Rose Selavy. Today, questioning identity and challenging the imposed [...]
‘A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes’. Mark Twain, 1919 The exhibition draws on the phenomenon of fake news which is now seen as one of the greatest threats to democracy, free debate and progress. [...]
As one of the most important representatives of Spanish contemporary art, Barceló is known for his pastose, relief-like mixed media and expressive ceramics, which also show influences from Catalan tradition and from his travels to West Africa. The artist’s native Mallorca, and in particular [...]
To decompress from the stress of covering human conflict, Cervera photographs surfing. He looks for that transcendental moment when you are so involved in what you are doing, that nothing else matters. That is the flow. Guillermo Cervera (Madrid, 1968) is a freelance Spanish photojournalist [...]
The title Contemporary Chaos will seem well suited to the visual experience that meets the visitor, for this exhibition embraces a huge variety of expressions and media: painting, photography, video, performance, and site-specific installations created for this occasion. As a whole, the exhibits reflect [...]
From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present looks at the transformation in our view of From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present looks at the transformation in our view of the arts of Africathe arts of Africa, Oceania [...]
Spanish architect Miguel Quismondo has been awarded the Honor in Architecture for the project Magazzino Italian Art on view at the Center for Architecture. The 2018 AIANY Design Awards exhibition features winning projects in the categories of Best in Competition, Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and [...]
“Nothing, absolutely nothing makes sense, if we don’t admit that people are not islands, independent of each other; every person is a piece of the continent, a part of the whole.” (Thomas Merton, 1955). In “We are not islands”,Ordóñez shows us more than twenty poetic landscapesclose [...]
The project, which will represent Catalonia in the Biennale Architettura 2018 as Collateral Event and which is curated by journalist Pati Nunez and architect Estel Ortega along with RCR Arquitectes, reveals an unknown side of Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta: their most intimate universe. [...]
The portraits of Pierre Gonnord celebrate the strength of the human condition that invite you to feel connected to it through the image of the faces of Asturian miners. Pierre Gonnord (Cholet, France, 1963) lives in Madrid since 1988. Shelf-taugh photographer, at the end of [...]
Rubén Salgado Escudero is a photographer / videographer born in Madrid, Spain. He lived in the United States throughout his teenage years, and graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design. He subsequently moved to Berlin, Germany, where he worked as a 3D character [...]
Fundació Suñol presents the exhibition ACTE 39: Antoni Abad. measure X measure. 1992’2015, a project specifically set for Nivell Zero, which includes Antoni Abad’s work from the 90’s up until 2010. All these works are directly related to his own research about the idea of measurement [...]
'becoming' is the name given to the exhibition proposal for 2018. Located among learning environments of Architecture and continuing with the appropriate and temporary character of the previous Spanish pavilion Unfinished, becoming shows Spanish architecture via the works of a superb set of home-grown [...]
Ca’ Pesaro hosts one of the most authoritative and eclectic Spanish practitioners of contemporary art and architecture: Juan Navarro Baldeweg (Santander. España 1939). Architect, painter, sculptor, engraver, lecturer and essayist, Baldeweg has designed some of the most emblematic Spanish buildings of recent decades, among [...]
On May 4, 1968, one day after students in Paris had occupied the University of Sorbonne and announced the so–called May 68, the exhibition 50 Years of the Bauhaus was opened at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart. The opening was accompanied by protests against the planned [...]
Internationally recognized from the start of his career, Blasco made NYC his hometown and inspiration. The works in the show have a strong sense of places where nothing is certain, except for permanent uncertainty. They provide an immersive experience of constructed escapisms referencing different areas of [...]
"Unspoken We" is an all-encompassing event that includes an exhibition and a number of parallel activities by international artists and theorists. With a focus on language, performativity and literature, the project explores the potentiality of the individual within a collaborative framework through notions of [...]
The works selected by curator Carolina López and include films by directors such as Segundo de Chomón, Josep Escobar, Francisco Macián, José Luis Moro, Jordi Amorós, Tomàs Bases, Raúl García, Juan Pablo Etcheverry, Isabel Herguera, Javier Mariscal, Anna Solanas, Marc Riba, Alberto Vázquez, Pedro Rivero, [...]
The Museo Reina Sofía presents a retrospective on Eusebio Sempere (Onil, Alicante, 1923–1985), one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century Spanish art who shared the platforms and ideas of Kinetic Art and whose work was set apart through its light- and colour-based poetics. “It’s [...]
Desde la década de 1950, el artista español Eduardo Chillida (San Sebastián 1924-2002) contribuyó a la renovación de la escultura desafiando las limitaciones de los materiales. Al asociar la herrería con la escultura moderna, que abarca el espacio circundante, ha contribuido a la redefinición [...]
“Noises in the Blood” is inspired by contemporary Jamaican dancehall ritual. Made in collaboration with a group of British Jamaican women in Birmingham, Lúa Ribeira recreated scenes from dancehall culture at the participants’ homes. By embracing the impossibility of fully understanding this cultural expression [...]
Under “natural” circumstances, the average woman would get pregnant about 15 times in her life, resulting in ten births. Seven of those babies would survive childhood. For centuries, people have searched for ways to delay or terminate pregnancy. Today, safe and efficient means of [...]
Esther Ferrer’s Fête Maison is an audio work recorded in 1998 in her home in Paris while cleaning, cooking, speaking on the phone and taking care of daily life. The sounds are familiar and unaffected, made with the most rudimentary means. This exhibition presents Ferrer’s piece [...]
A Sense of Wonder is an exhibition that brings together the latest projects by artist Carles Congost (Olot, Girona 1970). It includes videos that can be interpreted individually but which maintain many thematic connections that are common in his artistic practice (music, the world [...]
Sara Ramo (Madrid. Spain. 1975) explores notions of order and disorder by recording banal actions, that become surreal interventions in intimate, domestic settings. Strongly informed by performance art, Ramo sometimes appears in her own works. Using film, installations and photography, she is inspired by [...]
For this project the artist has recruited the help of a neural network – a type of machine learning algorithm – to explore the legacy of El Laboratorio de Formas; a proto-think tank established in the early sixties by a pioneering group of Galician [...]
The exhibiting photographers: Felipe Scheffel, Nuria Espuis, Jose Luis Barcia, Julia Eme, David Izkierdo, Nacho Rivera e Irene Herrero offer us their particular vision of different cities. Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Granada or London are all represented in this show. The photographs represent buildings, significant [...]
All matter is full of meaning and its place in the world is what gives it meaning. Chema Madoz works with the meaning of things as if it actually takes physical form. He uses objects and their graphic representation as if they were words [...]
Desde la década de 1950, el artista español Eduardo Chillida (San Sebastián 1924-2002) contribuyó a la renovación de la escultura desafiando las limitaciones de los materiales. Al asociar la herrería con la escultura moderna, que abarca el espacio circundante, ha contribuido a la redefinición [...]
Santiago Ramón y Cajal made transformative discoveries of the anatomy of the brain and nervous system, work that led to his receiving a Nobel Prize in 1906. This founder of modern neuroscience was also an exceptional artist. His drawings of the brain were not [...]
Irene Grau is a Spanish conceptual artist who challenges the boundaries of contemporary painting, the perception of color, and the limits of space. Taking the act of painting beyond the studio and off the canvas, she enters into the landscape to discover moments when [...]
The show features the work of seven MPA Gallery artists who currently live and work in New York City: Dennis Adams, Victoria Civera, Santiago Giralda, Carlos Irijalba, Muntadas, Tony Oursler and Juan Uslé. Some of the featured artists have lived in New York since [...]
Who would be interested in an empty parking lot? is part of a series of exhibitions that deepen Ian Waelder’s interest for skateboard and youth culture and their forms of reproducibility through film, photography or sound – a matter that has deeply influenced his [...]
The Examinations Centre is a place of memory for most of the Maltese. This exhibition, made up of commissioned and existing works by Maltese and international artists deals with the sea as a place of memory, romanticism, global trade of goods as well as mobility, [...]
Isabel Muñoz, National Photography Award 2016, presents in Tabacalera a selection of 97 photographs and six video installations about the photo works more representatives of her actual production. The Anthropology of Feelings is the title of the exhibition curated by Audrey Hoareau and François [...]
Hauser & Wirth is pleased to present its inaugural exhibition of works by Eduardo Chillida (1924 – 2002), Spain’s foremost sculptor of the twentieth century. Widely recognized for monumental iron and steel public sculptures displayed across the globe, Chillida is also celebrated for a wholly distinctive [...]
The Sheltering Pixel by artist, Javier Hirschfeld Moreno (b. 1979 Malaga, Spain) is a refreshing iconoclastic photographic project in which the artist proposes to “make people aware of the double-standards in image and representation”. Hirschfeld disrupts the natural order of image production by making [...]
Even today, church and art have more in common than it may seem at first glance: both help shape society, create social identity and provoke discussions of the same. The exhibition seeks out possible connections between temporal and secular zones, it explores forms of [...]
Is My Body Public is a new art work and fashion collection created by Alicia Framis (b. Barcelona 1967) For this work Framis has designed a new collection of dresses in which she explores the borders of that which is private and that which [...]
Lita Cabellut (Sariñena, Spain, 1961) is an artist whose work goes beyond the limits of conventional painting. A free, determined creator with a strong, passionate character, Cabellut advocates painting that is not restricted by the norms governing the art market. For her, art must [...]
Featuring a body of works that comprises both large- and small-scale paintings, drawings, and sculptures, PichiAvo's first exhibition at Underdogs Gallery presents a scenographic setting that materialises the artists' original dialectic approach based on a dialoguing combination between different elements that results in an [...]
Spanish artist Eugenio Merino presents an immersive installation criticizing mass tourism and the cultural industry of the city-brand. Here Died Warhol is an installation by Eugenio Merino featuring a life-size hyperrealistic sculpture of Andy Warhol accompanied by a black granite gravestone. A functioning souvenir shop [...]
María Luisa Fernández’s works are characterized be the use of disparate artistic languages, ranging from post-conceptual and minimalism to elements coming from the intersections between constructivism and the tradition of the Basque sculpture, training ground of the artist. The use of “doublé entendres” and [...]
The paintings of Secundino Hernández play with surface and depth. The artist is currently enjoying spectacular international attention and works with washing, scratching, and layering paint. Secundino Hernández (b. 1975, Madrid) is a painter who revels in tensions between making and unmaking, construction and [...]
For several years now Anaut has had a passion for Baroque Chamber music, notably string instruments, and such composers as Haendel, Telemann or Corelli, and he has used this as his source of inspiration for his abstract painting. The works presented here in the [...]
This solo exhibition of Domènec (Mataró, 1962) offers a retrospective of his work from the late 1990s to the present, including some new projects. Using certain emblematic buildings or monuments of modernity as referents, Domènec analyses the proposals of the modern movement and its legacy [...]
The exhibition features Giralda’s most recent work, with paintings that are presented to the public for the first time and are the product of a practice that he put in place upon his arrival to New York: “I give a lot of importance to [...]
What links did Picasso maintain with non-Western arts? This question, frequently addressed, was however avoided by the artist himself for a long time. This exhibition aims to decipher a relationship born of admiration, respect and fear. “Negro art? Don’t know it.” It was with [...]
This group exhibition, based poetically on a botanical phenomenon, brought together artistic practices that promoted or gave visibility to new possible scenarios for living together in the world. It was the result of the prize for young curators organised jointly by MARCO Vigo, FRAC [...]
Juan Muñoz (1953–2001) counts among the artists who, in the 1980s, responded to minimalism and other abstract tendencies in art by bringing figurative sculpture back into play. Muñoz is a storyteller who uses drawing and space to stage his figures and objects. It is [...]
This exhibition forms part of the events relating to “Picasso- Mediterranée” one of the most important initiatives organized around the figure of Picasso, in which over fifty institutions from all over Europe are involved. The idea behind it is to highlight the relationship that [...]
How is life after suicide? This is a documentary project, which gathers the experiences of people in Kenya who have tried to commit suicide or who have lost a loved one to suicide. Using photography I collect their testimonies throughout the country, on the [...]
The series Wild Laocoön (from a poem by Federico García Lorca), made up of over 200 photographs, constitutes a photographic documentation project of key places in Flamenco culture, featuring the historical, economic, social, administrative and political structure of the institutional/popular culture of Flamenco in [...]
The starting point of the project 12 Concrete Songs is a monument erected in the Weimar cemetery to honour the workers who lost their lives during the protests triggered by the Kapp Putsch in 1920. It was built by Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, later [...]
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 [...]
Alberto García-Alix was born on 1956, in León, Spain. When he was eleven years he moved with his family to live in Madrid, where he currently resides. His first negatives date back to 1976. At the beginning of the eighties he made his first [...]
The Spanish artist Amparo Sard, born 1973, was recently nominated in the Netherlands by LXRY as one of the 25 most important contemporary artists in the world. In 2015, she was awarded the “Medaglia d’oro dell Governo della Republica d ‘Italia” in Rome and [...]
The exhibition Dora García. Second Time Around centres on the artist Dora García (Valladolid, 1965), embarking on an open journey around a broad array of her works in diverse formats and mediums — film, performance, texts, drawings — and punctuating some of the constants running through her [...]
From the 1950s, Spanish artist Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002) contributed to the renewal of the kind of sculpture that challenged the constraints of materials. Associating ironwork with modern sculpture, encompassing the surrounding space, he has thus contributed to a redefinition of sculpture, along with DavidSmith [...]
”Space and its reflection” presents recent artworks of the sculptor Carlos Albert (*1978, Madrid) again. His sculptures made of corten-steel or forged iron show dynamic compositions containing linear as well as space embracing rhythms. Emanating from the pure Spanish tradition Carlos Albert shows us [...]
María Lino (Painting), Maria Lago (Sculpture) and Franciso Uceda(Photography) continue to defy stereotype and set out to confront one of the most relevant topics today: the rights of immigrants and displaced persons. In the process, they give voice to the voiceless through a series of self-portraits (Maria Lino), [...]
Two painters, two complimentary styles, yet two very different lenses onto the world around us. In Specially Normal, Kristin Hjellegjerde will present new works by Norwegian Audun Alvestad and Spanish Cristina BanBan. While their painterly portraits of people may at first glance appear similar in their depiction of [...]
Geopolitical tensions as well as unsettling ecological, social, and economic developments are challenging the current world order. Faced with such growing uncertainty, trust in the pillars of our society is continually waning. Although it is certainly not the first time in history that the [...]
The works selected by curator Carolina López and include films by directors such as Segundo de Chomón, Josep Escobar, Francisco Macián, José Luis Moro, Jordi Amorós, Tomàs Bases, Raúl García, Juan Pablo Etcheverry, Isabel Herguera, Javier Mariscal, Anna Solanas, Marc Riba, Alberto Vázquez, Pedro Rivero, [...]
"When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich."Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Based in Madrid, DEMOCRACIA collaborate on large-scale interventions, politicising spaces and situations through the apparatus of propaganda. Filmed between Dublin, Houston and London, ORDER moves between out-of-town shopping malls, open-carry demonstrations and lavish [...]
