The Philharmonie’s Musée de la Musique is sure of it; music is omnipresent in fine arts. In many exhibitions, the institution tends to show the influence of music in works by major painters or plastic artists. Until January 3, 2021, come and study Pablo Picasso’s work even though [...]
Manolo Valdés, an internationally renowned artist, returns to Rome after 25 years (Galleria Il Gabbiano, 1995), with a solo exhibition titled Le forme del tempo (The Shapes of Time) held in the magnificent halls of the Museo di Palazzo Cipolla curated by Gabriele Simongini. [...]
Fermín Jiménez Landa proposes a group of small interventions with the idea of exploring the notion of home, seeking to scrutinize the public dimension of the domestic, as well as the possibilities of touching, of meeting, of winking from the isolated. It can be [...]
Javier Calleja produces works that bring surprise and humor to viewers by incorporating subtle twists and interventions to various events within everyday life. Expressing a fondness for the works of René Magritte, Calleja attempts to reference and reinterpret the techniques of the surrealist master [...]
Deering State will host a unique, outdoor installation that combines ‘land art’ with healing soundscapes at the Deering Estate by Spanish artist Javier Riera on November 20th, 7:30PM. This ephemeral collaboration, titled “A Growing Transparency,” merges the geometric imagery of Spanish artist Javier Riera, projected onto a lush backdrop of mangroves, [...]
In Nocturne, a word evocative of the night, Plensa navigates the symbolic dichotomy between lightness and darkness. The artist presents his newest body of work in a gradient of material density, beginning with the most substantial sculpture crafted from black basalt and bronze, and concluding [...]
“Who is talking about Living?” will bring for the first time to the United Kingdom the video fiction with the same title, directed and produced by El Instante, with the original and edited work created around the performance that took place in the Prado [...]
This exhibition brings together sculptures by contemporary artists and casts from the collection of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon, analysing the relevance of the casting technique in current artistic practices and exploring its infinite possibilities. This exhibition brings together works by 18 [...]
Statuesque horses appear half hidden in thick swathes of colourful fabric while canvases of painted hands reach through backgrounds of vibrant flora. Bringing together the sculptural work of London-based artist Richard Stone and Spanish artist Lorena García Mateu’s paintings, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery presents A [...]
Lita Cabellut (b. 1961) is a leading female contemporary multidisciplinary artist in Spain most well-known for her paintings on large scale canvases using a contemporary variation of the fresco technique. Beyond her monumental paintings, her work also includes drawings on paper, sculptures, photography, scenography, [...]
SCAN is pleased to present 'Being pulled all over the place', a group show curated by Cristina Ramos and with works by Katharina Siegel, Carlos Monleón, Marc Vives, Ingela Ihrman and Elena Aitzkoa 'Every story begins in water. So it does this exhibition, articulated while [...]
Unflappable is a rare body of work – completed in the months of the COVID-19 global crisis. To describe the artist duo is to allow for disruption and continuity to exist together, to perceive the static vagabond. Diego Omil & Dea Gómez are partners in [...]
"Within Reach" is an interactive art installation about transformation, reconnecting with the origin, nature and our relationship to it, created by filmmaker Laia Cabrera and visual artist Isabelle Duverger in collaboration with interactive designer Aniol Saurina Masó and composer Nana Simopoulos. Conceived as a seamless projection mapping design with [...]
Known for his works featuring vibrant hues, Spanish artist Okuda San Miguel will be showing a solo exhibition titled The New Digital Love, the latest from the painter and sculptor will feature new works created during self-isolation. “This exhibition arises from the emergency situation and confinement we’re all experiencing. During this [...]
Poured Architecture: Sergio Prego on Miguel Fisac establishes a dialogue between the work of the late architect Miguel Fisac (1913–2006) and the work of the artist Sergio Prego (b. 1969) and it is curated by Carlos Copertone, Patxi Eguíluz, and Iker Gil. Sergio Prego (b.1969) is a Basque sculptor and part [...]
It has taken nine months and an infinite amount of effort within a Chinese-Spanish multidisciplinary team working in the midst of a global pandemic crisis. But finally, ‘Kaos trip’ made its debut last July 10 in K11 Art Mall in Guangzhou, China. This show [...]
The exhibition title comes from “El poeta pide a su amor que le escriba…” (trans. “The poet asks his love to write”), a poem by renowned Spanish poet Federico García Lorca from his famous work Sonetos del Amor Oscuro (trans. Sonnets of Dark Love). [...]
Galerie Mokum is devoted to contemporary art and it was founded in 1962. This gallery played an important role for the development of post-war realist Dutch paintings. Today it is still very influential, representing both Dutch and foreign artists, among whom are, in addition [...]
“Another panorama of the “cold war” with false information and demonstration of forces. Therefore, the use of black and white flags that colonize the periphery of a body (the body as a metaphor for individual geography, also as a border) hidden behind a cape. [...]
DontGiveADamns is an eclectic selection of 18 international artists whose creative practice carries the “f**k it!” attitude at some level. Whether approaching the rendering of their visuals loosely, being purposely careless or sloppy about the technical aspect of their work, or resolutely trying to [...]
The artist offers a complicit scenario, a witness to a run away, to a knowledge in motion, to care and to resistance – a shared space that seeks to bear witness to a radical sociability. To put ourselves in risk, to allow access, to [...]
The celebration of life is central to every painting by Eva Navarro. The pleasure of all people that can be the joy of every person. Always placed in backgrounds that are as abstract as they are recognizable. In her recent work, Navarro has increasingly [...]
The artist’s work alternates between painting and photography. Berta is captivated by the Japanese principle wabi sabi, which consists in seeing in the imperfect, the modest, a form of beauty in motion, where the subject becomes another. She is also interested in the principle [...]
The data-sphere is a driving force of society and the economy, despite its invisible nature. This lack of visibility can make it difficult to comprehend how information affects daily life. Billow attempts to expose the hidden threads of data networks. The exhibition consists of six sculptural [...]
Jaume Plensa is universally known for his monumental sculptures that reveal a philosophical and spiritual expression of the human body. Sculptures like Julia in Madrid’s Plaza de Colón, Voices at New York City’s Hudson Yards, Crown Fountain in Chicago’s Millennium Park, and St. Helens’ Dream [...]
This project originates from a fragment by translator Kate Briggs in her book 'This Little Art', in which she reflects on her experience translating Roland Barthes’ last talks and notes, compiled in his posthumous book 'How to Live Together' (2013). Briggs’ text raises questions about translation as [...]
In this exhibition Daniel G. Andújar (Almoradí, 1966) investigates those utopias that, from the field of art, aspired to construct an aesthetics of the working class, what assaults were made on the revolutionary impetus by the normalising power, and what overflows and struggles remain [...]
Pilar Albarracín’s new exhibition in Paris is based on a critical and political exploration of the Semana Santa («Holy Week») in Seville. For a week in April, the whole city lives to the rhythm of plural and thematic processions. About sixty fraternities commemorate the [...]
« Picasso poète » explore un aspect méconnu de l’œuvre de Pablo Picasso en montrant l’importance de l’écriture poétique dans sa démarche créatrice. L’exposition propose un parcours à travers de nombreux poèmes manuscrits de l’artiste, en les confrontant aux dessins et peintures qui leur [...]
One of the elements that became quite fundamental during the recent period is the need for self-care. Since a long time, with Audre Lorde we have learned that self-care is an act of political warfare. This time of necessary confinement has shown again and [...]
Taking its name from Franz Kafka’s famous story published in 1915, Metamorphosis presents almost 100 works produced by Miquel Barceló between 2015 and 2020. The selection at Museo Picasso Málaga will include paintings, works on paper, ceramics, notebooks and bronzes. The centrepiece of the exhibition is a selection [...]
Voices of great personalities and international associations speak to us about what is happening on the Planet and about the negative impacts these changes are having on Nature and the beings that inhabit it. Sixe Paredes, who finds himself in the middle of this [...]
Conceived specifically for Galería 6 at IVAM, this project by Jorge Peris (Alzira, 1969) co-opts the actual structure of the exhibition hall itself, with the categorical presence of its diagonals, columns and staircase. Taking the gallery as a kind of blank sheet, Peris constructs [...]
Exposures is a series of online exhibitions that aims to reflect on topics related to the current context, and around the general idea of ‘The body and the other’. The second proposal brings together conceptual practices around the word and the language, basic tools in [...]
Josep Grau-Garriga (Born 1929 in Barcelona, Spain- Died 2011 in Angers, France) Lived and worked in Catalonia until 1991 when he settled in the French region of Anjou Having begun his artistic career in painting and drawing, when Grau-Garriga was still very young he [...]
Diego Ibarra Sánchez, (1982 Zaragoza. Spain) Co-founder of MeMo Coop, is a documentary photographer and filmmaker based in Lebanon. Diego assumes a very critical stance regarding the use of images in our own society, defining this historical moment as «lobotomized era of “tourism” on [...]
A possible future of an eternal cemetery. Developed as a research for a future film about a cemetery of elephants. The research is based on classic adventure films, Lost World literature adaptations and exotic adventure films from the 30´s, 40´s, 50´s, 60´s, the golden [...]
This exhibition initiates an exciting collaboration between SCAN + INTERSTICIO at a new facility on 469 Bethnal Green Rd. This new space offers larger and more flexible exhibition rooms close to transport – Bethnal Green tube - and conveniently situated between the Herald Street and Vyner [...]
Axel Vervoordt Gallery is pleased to present J'efface, et cela apparaît, the third exhibition of Angel Vergara in Belgium with the gallery. In the Patio Gallery at Kanaal, several oil paintings on canvas will challenge recognisability and abstraction: Vergara created colour evocations that make certain [...]
When Salvador Dalí & Luis Buñuel’s film Un chien Andalou premiered in the City of Light, Paris was an avant-garde hothouse rife with artistic conflict and friendly rivalry. Midnight in Paris: Surrealism at the Crossroads, 1929 immerses visitors in this particularly rich and vital [...]
Malba opens its 2020 exhibition calendar with an anthology exhibition of Remedios Varo (Anglès, Spain 1908 - Mexico City, Mexico 1963). She is a central figure in Latin American surrealism and fantastic art and an essential reference in Mexico's mid-20th-century art scene as a [...]
With the exhibition "Space and Colour" we present a new facet of the artist Carlos Albert: his coloured sculptures. If his works so far have shown the natural surface of iron, corten steel or stainless steel, the artist has been experimenting with the expressiveness [...]
2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote in the United States. Even though voting was not truly available to all women in the country, particularly not to women of color, this right was hard-won [...]
The multiple art practice by Karlos Gil (Toledo, 1984) thrives on paradox, memory and navigation between the past and the present to articulate or question the codes that construct meaning. His latest projects reflect on the cadences of language as a narrative element and [...]
Flutter is an innovative, immersive art experience featuring virtual reality, projection mapping, climbable furniture as well as a giant sphinx, day-glow lighting, and architectural structures. Flutter’s mission is to bring contemporary fine art into everyday life in a way that is interactive. The inaugural [...]
Affection as Subversive Architecture is a project by the Spanish architecture collective Recetas Urbanas exploring how to create alternative architectural and educational spaces through participatory self-construction and active citizenry. By destabilising mainstream assumptions about public structures and their legislative frameworks, this project features new architectural strategies for [...]
The show Saudades de Sao Paulo. Photographs by Palmira Puig and Marcel Giró is a tribute to the photographic output of Palmira Puig (Tàrrega, 1912 - Barcelona, 1978) and Marcel Giró (Badalona, 1913 - Mira-sol, 2011) as well as a record of the lifetime of an extraordinary couple. Curated by Rocío [...]
In situ installations and paintings mark out a visit to ZOO, the new MIMA exhibition. References to pop, humour and anthropomorphic art provide the backdrop. The artist Marti SAWE was born in Barcelona in 1986. He began to write graffiti at the age of [...]
"I have not painted the war because I am not the kind of a painter who goes out like a photographer for something to depict. But I have no doubt that the war is in these paintings I have done." Picasso, 1944 The exhibition [...]
Carlos Pérez Siquier (1930), a leading figure in the forging of photographic modernism and the professionalizing of this medium in Spain, enjoys a prominent place on the Spanish scene, firstly for his neorealism work and later as a pioneer of color photography. Pérez Siquier [...]
The Mayoral Gallery is pleased to present the second exhibition at its parisian space: "Tàpies, Aujourd’hui". The exhibition will include a selection of eight paintings by Antoni Tàpies –carefully chosen by curator Arnau Puig for his plastic and expressive force– that date from a [...]
Algorithms create a steadily growing part of our world. But we actually don't visually grasp them. The pure mathematics that take place behind the appearances of the digital age remain invisible to most people. The formal computing processes in the server halls of social [...]
Luis Burgos is a figurative artist born in La Rioja, Spain, with an extensive international career. Well known for his unique strong characters, and his depiction of larger than life portraits, Luis explores in this work the words never told, those hidden behind closed [...]
Science affirms that we are made out of atoms, but Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano states that we’re also made out of stories. In his book, Los hijos de los días (Children of the Days), he writes one story that reflects the feelings and vicissitudes for every [...]
Barcelona, the cosmopolitan capital of Spain’s autonomous Catalonia region, draws many visitors with its plentiful tourist attractions, such as the cuisine, sports, and the World Heritage Site of Sagrada Familia. With France to its north and blessed with a temperate climate due to the [...]
With the exhibition “To be again” Evru/Zush returns to the art scene after a forced retirement due to health issues. We find ourselves in front of a long series of small pencil drawings, on which he worked exclusively. In these works we find ourselves [...]
Galería RGR is honored to present the exhibition "Big Time Data" by Felipe Pantone. The artist's plastic concerns - between the representation of the digital image and street art - have placed him at the center of the contemporary art scene. Pantone will take [...]
By means of sculpture and installation Spanish artist Ana Esteve Llorens presents a new group of works that enquire about the reality of space as a sensory experience. Utilizing natural and manufactured materials, craft techniques and industrial processes, the artist engages with different methods [...]
Almine Rech Brussels is pleased to present Antoni Tàpies's first solo show with the gallery. Indeed, over half of the works on view have been featured in museum and gallery exhibitions, and most are documented in related publications. This is his first solo exhibition in [...]
Albano Hernández, joins the pictorial language with the linguistic expression. The artworks delve deeper into the limits of writing as a pictorial expression. The purpose of this creation is to fly between the rigor of the word and the richness of plastic creativity, where [...]
This exhibition explores the immigration of form. It regards a cultural product that is as much the result of local traditions as it is a cosmopolitan artifact. Here, consider Delft Blue in the Netherlands. Now, consider a piece of Qinghua Porcelain in China, or [...]
Sara Ramo’s exhibition Cartas sobre la mesa (Cards on the Table) presents sculptures, collages and interventions which, inspired by the Theatre of the Absurd, evoke with critical eye the structures that have conducted and still conduct Brazil’s and the World’s current social and political tensions. The [...]
Focusing on family portraits, this series of work spans three generations and includes family pets, suggesting the significance of familial bond and time spent together. Based in Barcelona, Eva is instantly recognised through her child-like, but never childish, works. With a focus on capturing [...]
“Welcome?” is a visual installation raising awareness on borders and refugees. In a time when we are witnessing a rise in populism and an increase in the closure of borders, the Welcome? exhibition seeks to spark a debate about the meaning of border walls in our [...]
For her first solo exhibition in the United States, Spanish artist Dora García (b. Valladolid, 1965) focuses on her work of the recent years to open new platforms of analysis, reflection and visibility. Through a practice that prioritizes the use of performance in a participative manner, García will transform the Lois [...]
Jacobo Castellano’s (*1976 Jaén. Spain) art evolves from the materials and places that become part of his own personal story. The sculptures and installations he creates, often constructed from old and patinated objects, create a special atmosphere, that oscillates around the melancholia and lightness [...]
Anaqronías is a photographic interpretation of Miguel de Cervantes´s Quijote from a modern perspective. The photographer, Juan Antonio Cerón, wants to rescue the secondary and imaginary female characters from novel by transforming them into a photo to create an anachronism that represents their character. [...]
The black and white photographs by Chema Madoz are characterized by their sharpness and fineness. Simple objects of everyday life appear in his pictures. The photographer has manipulated them, often combining two objects, looking for associations or paradoxes. These sculptures created by the artist [...]
The Manege Central Exhibition Hall will host the exhibition Salvador Dalí. Magic Art, organized by the Link of Times Foundation and the Fabergé Museum in partnership with the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation (Figueres) and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid). The exhibition [...]
A forest creeper invades the gallery with its sinuous tendrils. This hanging sculpture by Concha García (b. 1960, Spain) is made of bright red wool, alerting us to the danger that all is not right in the world. Nearby, an enlarged eye looks out at the [...]
SAN FRANCISCO. Daniel Canogar “Surge” 17 january - 29 february 2020. Minnesota street Project. Luminous, connected, resonant. For this third major public art commission at the Moss Art Center, Daniel Canogar has created a site-specific sequence of dynamic, data-fed sculptural forms. Surge encompasses thousands [...]
José Manuel Ballester (Madrid, 1960), painter and photographer, started his artistic career as a painter, paying particular attention to the techniques used by the Italian and Flemish schools. To begin with, his painting was realistic, but he soon started using a more personal, minimalist [...]
A giant peanut with a blue face and red lips resides as deity over a vibrant world of cartoon-like creatures. This is Maní, the fictional civilisation created by Spanish artist Ana Barriga (Jerez 1984)in which society centres around the peanut. For her solo show [...]
The exhibition features printed photographs from Arturo Steele’s “almosthere” series and sculptural work from the “unfold” series by Guillermo Rodríguez. Steele and Rodríguez, both born and raised in Spain, have never crossed paths before. Their work, however, speaks to each other, exploring the underlying [...]
Holi is the festival of color that is celebrated throughout India and which commemorates the beginning of spring, the ending of the harvest as well as the triumph of good against evil. The young throw around powders of different colors to wish each other [...]
Muntadas, interconexiones, interconnessioni is the first exhibition in the MAMbo·Villa delle Rose di Bologna dedicated to the work of Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona 1942). Winner of the National Plastic Arts Award in 2005 and Velázquez Prize in 2009, Muntadas has participated in all major international [...]
Santiago Sierra (Madrid, 1966) Lives and works in Madrid, Spain and Mexico City.The work of Santiago Sierra has been characterized by showing situations where survival is a fundamental element. He translates into artistic practice the inhuman aspects of the economic system, the mechanisms of [...]
Since October 2019, when the Havana Theater Festival began, the social architect Santiago Cirugeda and his team Recipientes urbanos have been working with the neighborhood community of the mythical Dulce María Loynaz house in Havana to intervene spaces around Havana . With the collaboration of neighbors of these spaces, [...]
In her works, Ángela de la Cruz, who was born in Spain in 1965, puts the structural qualities of painting into question by liberating them from their two-dimensional existence. Canvases and stretcher frames are cut, torn, and broken for this purpose and emerge as [...]
Dressed and nude. Insistent and introvert. As models and as themselves. Curvy and jagged. Observing and sleeping. Over the course of seven decades, the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) depicted the female form as a colourful metamorphosis; always full of yearning and steely will, [...]
This is the thirteenth edition of Video Auteur Festival FLUX, characterized from the beginning by focusing the protagonism in the authors linked to Barcelona working in the field of video creation (video art, documentary, video installations, etc.). In this edition of the festival the [...]
The exhibition of the Basque artist Susana Reberdito shows a contrast between two of her series: on the one hand the completely new series of sculptural still lifes and on the other the spectacular and sonorous paintings of the series Meeresrauschen. The vitality of [...]
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 [...]
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not” Pablo Picasso In celebration of Pace’s fifth anniversary in Palo Alto, the gallery is pleased to present a chronological survey of Pablo Picasso. The first ever [...]
Laura Iniesta was born in Barcelona in 1955, she also had her first exhibition in 1979 in the same city. Then she lived for 10 years in Ecuador and Colombia. Her artistic work spans more than four decades with exhibitions in the USA, Chile, [...]
The starting point of the group exhibition Double Wall of Silence is a field of tension between the spoken and the unspoken, between the muted and the forgotten, between the individual and the collective. Migration as a dominant theme in recent years has sparked discussions about [...]
The exhibition of Les Abattoirs in Toulouse Picasso and the exile. returned to the painful period of the Spanish War, the establishment of the dictatorship and the massive exodus it brought (la Retirada). The exhibition in the Majorat focuses on artistic, musical and cinematographic phenomena that [...]
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition is about Dr Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad. It is about how sexual violence has been, and still is, used as a weapon of war worldwide. –The violence itself is in many cases so overwhelming that it’s hard [...]
Within the scope of the exhibition Walking Through Walls that marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most symbolic events of the 20th century, interrogating the experience of vulnerability and anxiety caused by power structures that thrive on confinement [...]
Jaume Plensa, born in Barcelona in 1955, is concerned principally with “the interplay between spirit and matter, not mere form”. In his multifaceted sculptural work he poetically dissolves the physical body and converts the intangible into concrete forms. Thus he achieves a poetic intensification [...]
Pictures are representations. In other words; Pictures represent something and show this something in a certain way. This basic realization can be an important point when looking at works by the Spanish artist duo Cabello/Carceller. Helena Cabello and Ana Carceller have been working together [...]
Formas e ilusiones, o cómo la forma juega con nuestra percepción, nos engaña y nos sorprende. Los artistas en exhibición no solo juegan con las formas de arte clásico y desafían el espacio de exhibición. También están jugando con nuestros ojos. Okuda rompe nuestra [...]
José Maria Cano launched his career as a musician and composer, most notably as a member of the best-selling Spanish pop band Mecano. For the past 20 years, he has devoted himself exclusively to painting and has gained acclaim for his meticulous and visually [...]
Aires makes an statement with this exhibition’s title against the self-imposed pressure on artists who create in search of originality or those who end up seeing their art turned into a product whose value is solely imposed by the market. Thus, the strategy of [...]
In this edition, the 14th, the Curitiba Biennial of Contemporary Art is made under the concept of "open borders", showing how the word "border" can have several meanings and how art has always been involved in that concept. With the presence of other countries artworks and its representatives, it will be possible to [...]
Javier Abella was born in Madrid in 1971. He’s one of the artists of greater creative production in the field of urban photography. He began his career in the field of advertising and in the late 90s he entered the world of artistic photography. [...]
Antonio Saura, like Picasso, makes of the figure of the woman less a theme of predilection than a field of research. From 1954 on he envisages her as the mother form—the matrix—as a mould out of which form will emerge, as a breast that [...]
In this exhibition, Juan Miguel Palacios investigates "the skin of the hedgehog". ‘I take a tour of some of the works, in my opinion the most important of the last three years. Like the skin of a hedgehog I wanted to create an uncomfortable [...]
A notable group of works by Aurèlia Muñoz (Barcelona, 1926-2011) will be entering the Museu Nacional, which will enable us to see the diversity and the originality of her techniques and the coherence and intensity of her poetics. The artist’s family has donated seven [...]
Lucía Vallejo was born in Bilbao in 1975. Sculptor and art historian. Her artwork is regularly exhibited in galleries and international art fairs like ARCO, Art Cologne or Pulse New York, ZONAMACO, among others. She has worked with Maior art gallery for a decade, and with Distrito4 [...]
