Throwing material on the canvas and observing what is happening, was the form of creation used by British artist Francis Bacon. For him, art rises from the productive tensions established between shapes and colors in a fortuitous way. For the Spanish sculptor Jorge Oteiza, [...]
Solo exhibition of Catalan artist Berta Sesé, born in Barcelona and based in Paris since 2002, where she worked as a fashion designer for twelve years. Berta Sesé decides to devote herself exclusively to Art since 2014. The artist’s work alternates between painting and [...]
Marres presents Dreaming Awake, a tropical rainforest peeled back in layers. The exhibition is about the experience of touch caused by strong outside forces. The Amazon wilderness, moist, damp, sticky, deafening, breathtaking, is the most invasive form in which a landscape forces itself upon us. [...]
In the influence of Surrealism, the photographer becomes a sculptor, on a line stretched between the real and the imaginary. By transforming objects, often utilitarian, playing with collage, juxtaposition, reflections, he then brings chaos in everyday life and seems to allow silent things to [...]
This exhibition, drawn entirely from the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, offers a fresh assessment of the late period in Miró’s work. The exhibition brings together over 50 paintings, drawings and sculptures made in the period between 1963 [...]
One of the characteristics of today’s global, hyper-communicated and hyper- populated world is that it has lost its human scale. Everything is grandiose, vertiginous and immeasurable. Cities bursting at the seams, thousands of millions of displacements per year, thousands of millions of pieces of [...]
Xavier Puigmartí (b. Barcelona 1952) returns to Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art to display his new collection of artworks.This time the major theme of the exhibition is landscapes, especially those of Lake Qarun in Fayoum, where the artist has been working in his own [...]
Spanish video artist Antoni Muntadas is one of twelve international artists whose work will be shown in an exploration of monitor-based sculpture. Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995 shines a spotlight on a historical moment and a body of work in the history of media art [...]
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 [...]
Arete Venue and Gallery is proud to present The Art of Protest, an exhibition curated by Elizabeth Cooper that joins NYC artists together in a show of video, drawing, collage, photography, sculpture and protest signs. The Art of Protest investigates the different ways in [...]
What is a literary rebellion? Can literature change the world? To read and write is a slow pursuit, and often a solitary one. Still reading and writing are often seen as something threatening. Texts have been censored and banned, authors have been threatened, persecuted [...]
P420 is pleased to announce the exhibition foreign bodies, a double solo show by the artists John Coplans (London 1920 - New York 2003) and June Crespo (Pamplona, 1982) curated by João Laia. Coplans and Crespo, respectively through photography and sculpture, have conducted research with a [...]
Under the exhibition title "La Fin de Babylone. Mich wundert, dass ich so fröhlich bin!” the curator Chus Martínez invites you to listen to the stories that the park has to tell. The focus is on eight new works by artists Andrea Büttner, Claudia [...]
Peryton is a new exhibition space in central Copenhagen and the home to Oberon, an international contemporary art journal. It was conceived as a way to develop the themes and content of the journal within an exhibition program, and as a way to locate [...]
Santiago’s self-portraits are especially expressive. They are based on a photo series in which he is seen in a snowy landscape with his face covered in white cream. These paintings examine the primal origins of human nature. They depict the animal in the human. [...]
Hernández is known for his expressive paintings, deriving from the premise of figurative expression and abstract expressionism. The youthful energy of Secundino Hernández’s paintings has captured worldwide attention. Somewhere between figuration and abstraction, Hernández’s works are powerful in its insistence to lead the gaze across [...]
Each of Hugo Fontela’s recent seascapes portrays an island at the center of its composition. These present and mysterious rock formations inhabit a space that is difficult to define. Whether agitated or tranquil, the surrounding sea, like the island itself, is entirely imaginary. In [...]
Xavier Miserachs (Barcelona, 1937-1998) was the youngest member of a collective which in the late 1950s revived the creativity and innovation of applied photography, all trace of which had been lost after the Spanish Civil War. He brought about a break with the past in [...]
Joan Ponç (Barcelona, 1928 – Sant Pau, 1984) was a visionary and mercurial insular artist who played an important part in the history of art of the post-war years in Catalonia and Spain. He set in motion the artistic renewal of the avant-garde after the Civil [...]
Elena Asins and Esther Ferrer belong to that landscape of transgression of the artistic behaviors that crystallized in Spain from the second half of the sixties until the end of the seventies. An anxious time of liberties in which the practice of art was [...]
The world’s most iconic street artists present their provocative works together for the first time in Southeast Asia. From its beginnings in prehistoric cave painting and inscriptions on the walls of Pompeii, to Chinese dazibao and beyond, graffiti – from the Italian verb ‘to scratch’ – [...]
With „RUBEDO“, Matías Krahn presents the last series of his alchemistic journey into his self-knowledge as an artist, which bonds and unite the preceding ones. After “Nigredo” and “Albedo” Krahn’s unadulterated image-language and stylistic handwriting reaches yet again a higher level of harmonic stability: [...]
This major exhibition explores Pablo Picasso’s life-long fascination with African and Oceanic art, as well as works from the Americas, uniting his paintings and sculpture with art that fueled his own creative exploration. In addition to paintings, sculpture, and drawings by Picasso, the exhibition [...]
The exhibition Spectacle / Power / Mass Media presents works from the 1990’s to the 2010’s, most of them never shown before in Portugal. Muntadas’ multidisciplinary practice explores and analyses the social, political and anthropological phenomena of our world, in order to reveal the [...]
González shows in his works ‘surrealistic’ architecture in a natural landscape. His visionary constructions are close to Le Corbusier, projects of buildings made out of béton brut and futuristic visions of cities inspired by Japanese metabolism architecture especially Kenzo Tange and Kisho Kurokawa. But [...]
The exhibition ‘Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis’ is based on the collection of 85 works by Miró, owned by the Portuguese State. This important exhibition is curated by Robert Lubar Messeri, a leading world expert in Miró's work. The exhibition covers a six-decade period [...]
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, considered the father of modern neuroscience, was also an exceptional artist. He drew the brain in a way that provided a clarity exceeding that achieved by photographs. Combining scientific and artistic skills to produce drawings with extraordinary scientific and aesthetic [...]
Under the title Welcome to the Jungle, the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf will bring together a selection of international works that critically, reflectively, and often humorously, yet without moralistic finger-pointing, refer to those conditions and paradoxes in which we become entangled while attempting to do the [...]
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 [...]
'Tierra Santa' is a documentary project on cultural rites of passage but it is also (and perhaps more relevant) an introspective look at his own roots and memory. The Spanish photographer Guille Ibáñez explores the theatre of religion and the way in which people [...]
This exhibition aims to explore the connections between art, education and everyday life through the artistic practice. This would take us through a parcours where research and production processes, together with different approaches to the understanding of pedagogy and knowledge transmission –very much connected [...]
What are the social, environmental, and political consequences of our urban lifestyles? This year, Sex and the City, New York City’s most influential archisocial manifesto, turns twenty. The series, an often prescient telling of the cultural trends that have played out in the two decades [...]
Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002) is one of the major sculptors of the post-war international art movement. His monumental public works can be found throughout Spain, Europe and the Americas. Memory, Mind, Matter: The Sculpture of Eduardo Chillida presents 66 works of sculpture, drawing, collage, gravitations, graphic works, [...]
“I have always asked myself, what it is that I see in the artworks by Concha Argüeso. There is something that is not really visible –not in a way that is clearly recognizable. Sometimes it is the silhouette of a body, or just a [...]
Manifesta is proud to present Terrestrial Records by Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS. Terrestrial Records is part of an ongoing series of in-house exhibitions hosted by Manifesta in its Amsterdam headquarters. Every 6 months, a different contemporary art gallery from Amsterdam is invited to curate [...]
Together with Constantin Brancusi and Pablo Picasso, the Spanish artist Julio González (1876 – 1942) is considered one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. This retrospective of over 100 works, most of which are being exhibited in the Netherlands for the [...]
The exhibition includes the series of drawings entitled Sèrie Teresa (Teresa’s Series, 1966), together with the series of lithographs, litho-collages and collages Cartes per a la Teresa (Letters to Teresa, 1974), pays tribute to their relationship by celebrating a private language accessible only to [...]
Marta Soul´s exhibition, Ama y Bebe (Love and Drink), is a series of theatrical photographs, films and live performance where the camera investigates the hidden world of the individuals’ private relationships. Marta Soul is the winner of The Potential Prize, an annual arts award [...]
Marcos Moreno has been a photojournalist since 2004. He collaborates as a correspondent for several photography agencies such as Agence France Presse (AFP), Getty Images and Associated Press (AP), among others. He has also collaborated with Europa Press, La Vanguardia, El País, Libération and [...]
This unique exhibition examines the relationship between Salvador Dali and the father of conceptual art, Marcel Duchamp. It is the first show dedicated to their friendship and the mutual influence on their work, exploring the common ground, both personal and aesthetic. Dali and Duchamp maintained [...]
Interview Room 11 celebrates its 6th edition of the Hidden Edinburgh event in 2017, which once again highlights the work of Spanish artists in the Scottish capital. In the project, each one engages in a dialogue with Edinburgh, but not with the Edinburgh we [...]
The Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Vilnius is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by Spanish artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané in the Baltic States. The exhibition Phantom comprises two works in the form of an interconnected installation, presented in the CAC’s South Hall. The work [...]
Following the 80th anniversary of the creation of the work, the Musée national Picasso-Paris, in partnership with the National Museum Reina Sofía Art Center, presents an exhibition about Guernica, masterpiece of Pablo Picasso. The anti-Franco, anti-fascist and pacifist symbol, was preserved in 1981 to [...]
In relation to contemporary artistic practices, the work of Francesc Torres (Barcelona, 1948) lays halfway between the proposals of those artists who, in the mid-sixties, were in favour of institutional critique and those who, during the eighties, refused to be part of the art market by [...]
The Kunsthal Rotterdam 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 [...]
Attempting to go through any work by Nano 4814 (Vigo, 1978) involves delving into a hole-like shape––a space appearing laconically before us and dragging us toward the joys of synesthesia, where we know full well that one or another of our senses may undergo [...]
Contemporarte comes to Utrech to give you the possibility to admire the most recent photography created in Andalusia: contemporary images with different aesthetics to allow you to value the visual wealth in young creators’ works. Contemporarte is an artistic creation competition organised by the [...]
For years the Institute of Space Systems (IRS) at the University of Stuttgart has been enticing space experts and space enthusiasts with the traditional lecture series “A passion for space” to the Vaihingen Campus. Now art experts and art lovers are also now coming [...]
Conceived in situ, Surface is Patricia Dauder’s poetic elaboration of an image as a complex architecture, composed of layers of memory and meaning. The installation builds up a dialogue amongst several elements, carefully distributed in a space, which are commonly dark, flat, and that share a [...]
The exhibition will be one of the most significant shows the gallery has ever staged. It will take visitors on a month-by-month journey through 1932, a time so pivotal in Picasso’s life and work that it has been called his ‘year of wonders’. More [...]
In Xavier Toubes’ PushMoon4, the deft handling of material and skillful glaze technique is created by the palms but executed at the back of the mind. The “fluttering inventions” mingle experience with emotions, touching on the real, aware of the historical moment but un-consumed by [...]
Luna13 Galeria in collaboration with Spanish House London will present the exhibition “A Collage of drawings” that shows a fantastic collection of Uriel Segui’s drawings. Uriel Segui is a Doctor in Architecture, University Professor, artist, tireless creator and above all a person with a [...]
MUNICH. Haus der Kunst. 2 march – 19 august, 2018. 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 [...]
Times Square. Spring Break Art Show 2018. 6 – 12 march, 2018. Spanish filmmaker Laia Cabrera and animator / videomapper Isabelle Duverger co-create an interactive immersive installation for Spring Break Art Show 2018.Through immersive interactive projection mapping, video art, illustration and animation, Laia Cabrera [...]
MILWAUKEE. Jaime Hayon: Technicolor. The Bradley Family Gallery. Milwaukee Art Museum until 25 march 2018. Jaime Hayon: Technicolor brightens up wintertime in Milwaukee with a colorful splash of fun and fantasy. The energetic exhibition features work from two decades of the Spanish artist-designer’s career, [...]
Mauro Vallejo and Monica Restrepo. Locating Outside the Sign. SCAN Project Room. 3 – 14 april, 2018. This exhibition project curated by Rafael Barber, with the participation of the artists Mauro Vallejo and Mónica Restrepo, is the result of a research project carried out [...]
TEGUCIGALPA. From doodles to pixels. Over a hundred years of Spanish Animation. Centro Cultural de España. 1 – 30 march, 2018. The works selected by curator Carolina López and include films by directors such as Segundo de Chomón, Josep Escobar, Francisco Macián, José Luis Moro, [...]
Quintina Valero. Life after Chernobyl. GX Gallery 22 february – 6 march, 2018 Quintina Valero (b. 1970, Germany) is an award-winning documentary and press photographer. Her documentary work focuses on human rights and humanitarian crisis with an emphasis on migration, working often with local NGOs [...]
MADRID. Ignacio Uriarte “Tipología de dibujo escultórico” Galería Nogueras Blanchard 21 enero – 18 marzo, 2017 En esta nueva exposición Ignacio Uriarte acentúa el carácter más poético de su trabajo a través de la exploración de distintos gestos comunes, como la aleatoriedad de doblar hojas, [...]
Carlos Irijalba / Jon Cazenave “Simultaneous Eidos” Guangzhou Image Triennial 2017 Guangdong Museum of Art , Er-sha Lsland ,Guangzhou , China. 15 december 2017- 8 march 2018 The predecessor of Simultaneous Eidos -- Guangzhou Image Triennial was Guangzhou International Photography Biennial Exhibition hosted by [...]
Alicia Framis “Stedelijk Statements: Century 22” Stedelijk Museum Stedelijk Museum. Museumplein 10 . 1071 DJ Amsterdam 01/01/2018 - 01/01/2018 Stedelijk Statements: Alicia Framis, Century 22is the first edition of Stedelijk Statements, a program series in which a scholar, artist, critic, or cultural entrepreneur composes an evening [...]
Dali Moco Museum Museumplein Amsterdam Honthorststraat 20 1071 DE Amsterdam 01/10/2017 - 31/10/2017 A short time before the birth of Salvador Dalí on 11th May 1904, his brother – who was also called Salvador – died. Dalí grew up in the small town of [...]
Group Exhibition Le Cartel de la Friche, 41 rue Jobin - 13003 Marseille This is a group exhibition in which AC/E is supporting the participation of Spaniard Adrià Julià along with artists Bas Jan Ader, Meris Angioletti, Ali Cherri, André Cadere, Mathis Collins, Alighiero [...]
It smells like dust and wood. We get into the limbo of memory. An endless number of carefully carved objects tell us that there was once a time when clocks could take their time. There are mirrors of all sizes. Contained inside the glass is a heavy, sparkling history that [...]
