On December 16th, at PADRE Gallery on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the Spanish artist and long-time Brooklyn resident, Juan Miguel Palacios -more interested in showing than telling- will unveil his entirely new painting series, featuring pigs mostly, in Un Final Feliz. Translated into English [...]
Brossa Poetry is a comprehensive survey of the work of this pioneering artist, from his early books to his latest visual investigations, and including his work in the theatre, cinema, music and artistic actions. Joan Brossa (Barcelona, 1919-1998) was first and foremost a poet, but [...]
The Phillips Collection presents a Digital Intersections project by Daniel Canogar in celebration of the museum’s 100th anniversary. Amalgama Phillips will premiere on the Phillips’s YouTube channel on September 8, followed by a site-specific multichannel projection. The Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain joins the Phillips’s centennial celebration by [...]
In the last few years, Guillermo Mora has charted a unique path in the field of painting. Working at the crossroad of other disciplines, he raises fundamental questions from a physical and corporeal perspective. The pieces presented in the exhibition set up a story and construct a collective portrait through [...]
BanBan’s large scale paintings are immediately recognizable. Their broad range of fleshy hues and voluptuous brushstrokes depict scenes of contemporary life and snapshots of intimacy. Her female subjects tend toward the Rubenesque, with features enlarged and elongated that spilltowards the edge of frame. These [...]
Distributed Monuments is an exhibition of new works on canvas presenting dust extracted from two historic sites: the Old U.S. Mint in San Francisco and the Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, New York. Like two sides of a coin, they show distinctive yet interconnected remains of [...]
1001 gathers thirty-eight prints and four videos, resulting from several trips to Japan between 2017 and 2020. Largely unpublished, Muñoz’s photos offer us multiple portraits, all of which preserve a trace rooted in Japanese alternative culture, mingling respect and transcendence of tradition. A striking [...]
Mateo Maté (* 1964, lives in Madrid) is considered one of the most famous Spanish artists of his generation. In his installations and video works everyday objects and routines are linked to socially relevant issues, mixing up the private and the public, the political [...]
One of the foremost Spanish sculptors of the twentieth century, Eduardo Chillida (1924 – 2002) is widely celebrated for his monumental public sculptures and enduring fascination with interconnected shape, space and organic form. Chillida challenged the constraints of materials such as iron and steel [...]
Nuria Mora’s visual language is strictly connected to her ability to observe the surrounding space, whether it is an urban or natural landscape, capturing and isolating details that she synthesizes in abstract-concrete chromatic modules and expanding in constantly evolving motives. It is a geometric [...]
Lidia Masllorens (*1967, Girona) is an artist with high recognition value, especially through her large-format facial images, with which she transports us into a world of feelings and details. Expressivity is the most important thing for her and her direct brushstroke resembles Japanese calligraphy [...]
Over a four-decade career, Uslé has established a distinctive pictorial grammar; gestural brushstrokes systematically applied in tandem with his heartbeat to convey a poetic-fluid landscape. Dividing his time between Spain and New York City since the 1980s, Uslé’s practice has engaged with the various movements [...]
The Kunsthalle Bremen holds one of the most important collections of Pablo Picasso’s printed works in Germany. Like no other artist of the twentieth century, Picasso embraced the diversity of graphic techniques and substantially expanded them through artistic variation and experimentation. For the first [...]
Petrit Halilaj and Alvaro Urbano’s individual research, both combining an interest for the encounter of nature and architecture, has merged on numerous occasions in recent years, creating works that renegotiate the relation between built and natural environments. On one of the staircases of Palazzo [...]
Barceló returns to Malaga after more than a decade, with an exclusive selection of works made over the past few years: 30 ceramics, 13 paintings, 42 watercolours, 6 travel logs and a small sculpture, along with an installation comprising 7 large bronzes that has [...]
Co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art, this is the first U.S. exhibition in over 35 years dedicated to the Spanish artist Juan Gris. Cubism in Color: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris highlights the artist’s pioneering and revolutionary contributions [...]
In ‘Future Tense of the Past’ Ellen Pil, Nokukhanya Langa and Almudena Lobera illustrate in an intriguing way the possibility of imagining and creating a new reality with building blocks from the past and present. Or how time, space and object become infinitely flowing [...]
Martínez Barreto, the gallery’s most recent addition to the roster, presents us with a stunning collection of paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture and a diptych formed of erased antique letters. This diptych, titled ‘A letter to the son and a letter to the daughter’, is [...]
An outdoor display of monumental sculptures by contemporary art master, Manolo Valdés, will be featured throughout the City of Doral. In partnership with the City of Doral, the monumental sculptures will be installed in the main public parks of the City of Doral, including Doral Central [...]
Martínez Bellido's work delves into complex issues related to the primary nature of images. Through the manipulation and repositioning of found vernacular photographs, this project inhabits a poetic territory situated in temporal suspension between day and night, light and shadow, the visible and the [...]
Bordeaux/Madrid, 1888. Sixty years after Goya’s death in Bordeaux, the Spanish consul discovers his grave and arranges for the exhumation of the body. But the contents of the tomb hold a surprise: the artist’s head is missing. Bernardí Roig (*1965, Palma de Mallorca) has [...]
Fina Miralles (Sabadell, 1950) is one of the most significant Spanish artists active from the seventies to the present day. Her work arose in the context of the Franco dictatorship, a hostile, limiting and castrating environment in which censorship controlled all forms of expression for [...]
Illustrator Carla Berrocal pays tribute to classic and contemporary Spanish culture in her intervention on the facade of the Former Residence of the Spanish Ambassador in the United States. Spanish artist Carla Berrocal creates new art intervention on some of the windows of the Former Residence [...]
Coup de coeur, already allows us to glimpse: a hunch, a heartbeat. The selection has been made under the inspiration of a game, the “cadavre exquis”, which did already serve the surrealist movement to create chained sequences of works and which today has allowed [...]
To some extent, art is always an expression of the artist’s view of the world and their attempt to understand, portray or organise it. For the Collection Satellite #5, the Kunstmuseen Krefeld have invited the Krefeld-born artist Ignacio Uriarte to take a very personal [...]
I have always thought that the words ‘Good artists copy, great artists steal’ were Picasso's. I discovered later that many others preceding him had already used that phrase in slightly different versions. Masters and spiritual fathers of modernity such as Oscar Wilde and T. S. [...]
A major personality in the Contemporary Art world, Manolo Valdés is one of the rare artists of his generation to work with painting, drawing and sculpture. His style is unique, and one of the most innovative of the second half of the 20th century. [...]
The exhibition Riga Notebook. Following the Lines of Wacław Szpakowski takes as its starting point the work and life of Wacław Szpakowski (1883–1973). Focusing in particular on the years he spent living and studying in Riga at the beginning of the twentieth century, the exhibition also [...]
Luisa Pastor participates at “Paper Routes,” the sixth installment in “NMWA’s Women to Watch” exhibition series that showcases contemporary artists working in paper. The exhibition series is presented every two to three years and is a dynamic collaboration between the museum and participating outreach [...]
The exhibition “Palpable Surfaces” will take place, organized by the contemporary art space Tilde in Amsterdam and Trixie, a gallery in The Hague managed directly by the artists. The exhibition will feature works by the Spanish artist Nora Aurrekoetxea, as well as other international [...]
Andrea Santolaya (Madrid, 1982) has developed a personal and honest photographic language to portray the life of small communities where timelessness as a social bond stands out. Whether with the Mikhailovsky Ballet of Saint Petersburg, in Russia; the Warao ethnic group of the Orinoco [...]
The aim of the exhibition, curated by Nuria Delgado, director of VESANIART, is to bring Spanish contemporary art to the Swiss public and to reflect through art on the richness of cultural mix throughout history, highlighting the rich Arab cultural heritage in Spain after [...]
The exhibition route establishes differentiated relationships between the works, from different periods, starting with the first short films that here find another dimension of more direct and intimate coexistence with the audience, going through a project of multichannel projection, therefore, specific to the gallery [...]
The XXIII edition of PHotoEspaña which started this year with a call for photos of the Spanish lockdown and with open-air exhibitions in 50 Spanish cities is now moving to Washington, D.C. The exceptional situation around the world caused by the current health crisis [...]
In celebration of the Fundació’s 30th anniversary, this exhibition focuses on the period when Antoni Tàpies was in his thirties: the decade between 1953 and 1963. It was during those years that Tàpies’ art reached maturity with the creation of the so-called matter paintings. [...]
Fabienne Levy is pleased to announce the opening of the first solo show in Switzerland of photographer and visual artist Jorge Conde, born in Barcelona, Spain in 1968, where he lives and works. The artist’s interest in archaeology is rooted in the summer of [...]
A group exhibition with Lara Almarcegui, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Daniel Jacoby, David Maroto, Falke Pisano, and Victor Santamarina. Curated by Tiago de Abreu Pinto. The exhibition The total scab-free solidarity and performative silence that struck floor-shows and soundstages from Desert to NJ coast for over half [...]
On August 20, 2020, the Parrish opened Field of Dreams, our inaugural sculpture exhibition created to extend the galleries outdoors and activate the Museum’s meadows with work that engages and responds to the Parrish’s architecture and landscape. The exhibition series is part of the Museum’s [...]
Dog Eye – taking the place of an introduction to the show of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané is the eye of a dog that has undergone a metamorphosis: it has transformed into a geometric form of in-distinct origin. The animal’s intensive gaze escapes us. Through the [...]
In this project, the idea of fog operates on a fictional plane, a territory calling for exploration and understanding, whose codes and mysteries are an alternative to scientific vocabulary; mist as an epistemological antidote to previously produced and acknowledged narratives – a gateway into [...]
The Alto Tajo Valley, located in Spain, is one of the most unpopulated territories in Europe. There we find a region where nature and climate dominate in a wild way, imposing an ancestral vision of reality. This region is called “Spanish Siberia,” a territory [...]
The places that man has been unable to conquer and shape to his taste are, paradoxically, those where we can find freedom and rediscover our identity. In this regard, the Arctic is one of the most inaccessible places where we can return to the [...]
The 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art takes place at various venues in Berlin and has appointed collaborating curators María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado, and Agustín Pérez Rubio. The members of this intergenerational, female identified team of South-American curators come together in a four-voice [...]
Joaquín Sorolla (1863- 1923), is one of the greatest Spanish painters of the twentieth century. He produced one of the most outstanding and vibrant representations of a luminous, Mediterranean, optimistic, and modern Spain. The international exhibitions devoted to Sorolla’s work, held during the last [...]
Galerie 100 Kubik opens its new exhibition with the promising title Wild Tales, which brings together works by the two successful Spanish artists Juana González (*1972, Ciudad Real) and Silvia Lermo (*1986, Cádiz). The paintings contrast with each other and are accompanied by written [...]
La novena exposición de Muntadas en la Galería Luisa Strina muestra simultáneamente dos conjuntos de piezas que el artista catalán nunca antes había mostrado en Brasil: Palabras… (Palabras…, 2017) y Cercas (Fences, 2008). Palabras ... (Words ...) es un proyecto directamente vinculado a las [...]
The Osthaus Museum 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 [...]
Using around 2 km of rubber and copper piping, the installation pervades the space like a pulsating three-dimensional drawing. Small motors bestow movement upon the static rubber tubing creating a human characteristic to an inanimate object. Rosana AntolÍ works across drawing, sculpture, video and performance [...]
“Life” is a solo exhibition by contemporary Spanish artist Eva Armisén whose paintings, drawings, and etchings have the capacity to transform each day into a unique occasion. Eva Armisén brings something that goes almost beyond definition: an affirmation of life that vetoes any form [...]
Concha Jerez (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1941) studied Music and Political Science before fully undertaking her artistic practice under the label of conceptual art in the early 1970s, a period in which she would produce drawings and collages, often basing her work on [...]
Like a strange dream that seems to go on forever, The Awakening reanimates a building whose life appears to have expired long ago. Through an immersive installation comprised of fragments that make up the body of a building, a forgotten edifice is reactivated to provoke speculative [...]
Trained as a civil engineer and with an outstanding career as an urban artist, Rubén Martín de Lucas (Madrid, 1977) has directed his latest works towards a research focus that, under the heading Landscape and associated behavior, refects on the emergence of problems derived [...]
The exhibition highlights how the great exponent of modern art was able to use pencil and ink in a highly original way, painting words and transforming them into pictograms that tell us about his world and memories. It features examples of facsimiles, photographs and [...]
Picasso didn’t just draw on paper – he tore it, burnt it, and made it three-dimensional. From studies for ‘Guernica’ to a 4.8-metre-wide collage, this exhibition brings together more than 300 works on paper spanning the artist’s 80-year career. For Picasso, paper was both [...]
Illustration is one of the most imaginative branches of creation, currently undergoing a remarkable cycle, the work of illustrators, and especially female illustrators, is being highly recognized at both the professional and artistic levels. In the publishing field, where the concept of the illustrated [...]
«Picasso y los cómics» es la primera exposición dedicada a los vínculos entre el trabajo de Pablo Picasso y el mundo del cómic. A través de una selección de dibujos, grabados y láminas originales, la exposición primero recuerda la pasión de Picasso por el [...]
The sculpture Compostela Fractal Study of a Shell is based on origami studies and is composed of broken steel planes that cause the sculpture to change or live with sunlight. It reflects in an abstract way the fractal system of matter, looking for a simplicity that [...]
The Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico (CCEMx) in collaboration with Acción Cultural Española, AC/E and AECID presents the exhibition "La cuestión es ir tirando"(On the Importance of Thriving). A curatorship of Angel Calvo Ulloa that brings together the work of 27 essential artists within [...]
"Words are all we have".Samuel Beckett Without image is basically composed of two elements, distinctive but at the same time completely related. On the one hand, an architectural intervention that alters the perception of the exhibition space and movement through it, while remaining completely integrated [...]
The exhibition On Abortion is the first chapter of a long-term project titled A History of Misogyny from the photographer, a visual investigation of misogyny through historical and contemporary comparisons. In this chapter that she presents documents and conceptualizes the dangers and damages caused by women’s lack of [...]
David Rodríguez Caballero, one of the main representatives of Contemporary Spanish Sculpture, opens his first solo show in London. Composed of fifteen works in aluminum, brass and copper, in large and small formats, and a selection of original drawings on paper never showed until [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
