The show brings together a selection of thirty works developed over the course of four decades and gathers paintings, collages and drawings. This is the gallery’s eleventh exhibition dedicated to Esteban Vicente, an artist who is intimately related to Elvira González. Born in Turégano, [...]
“The new 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 [...]
Paolo Gioli (Sarzano, Rovigo, 1942) and Joan Fontcuberta (Barcelona, 1955) have always shared an experimental approach towards the research on Nature and photographic images. Adopting different procedures and tecniques, the artists put in discussion the conventional photography’ schemes, developing an approach that leads them [...]
Ignacio Uriarte (1972) was born and grew up in Krefeld in Germany. He studied business administration in Madrid and Mannheim, then worked for various corporations in Germany, Spain and Mexico. There, he graduated in audio-visual arts from the Centro de Artes Audiovisuales in Guadalajara, Mexico. [...]
The intense responses which the artworks of both Enrique Brinkmann and Verónica Vázquez conjure up in us relate to one of the principle dilemmas which govern our lives: the need for order, whilst contemporaneously nurturing a primal desire for freedom. The evident sense of [...]
Max Estrella is pleased to present Nacho Martin Silva’s (Madrid, 1977) most recent work. Titled Woodworm in Lumber, this is his first exhibition at the gallery after joining Max Estrella’s roster. Three large-format paintings work as the show’s central axis and serve as a narrative [...]
Jaume Plensa was born in Barcelona in 1955. He graduated from the Llotja Advanced School of Art and Design and the Royal Academy (Sant Jordi) in the city. The artist’s first personal exhibition took place in 1980 at the Fundació Joan Miró. Plensa is [...]
The artists Walter Martin (1953 Norfolk, VA, US—Milford, PA, US) and Paloma Muñoz (1965 Madrid, ES—Milford, PA, US), who have been partners in life and work since 1993, have risen to renown with photographs and sculptures showing surreal landscape dioramas featuring absurd and bizarre [...]
This exhibition will focus on Picasso’s Mediterranean landscapes from the period when he lived in Southern France and the French Riviera The exhibition will showcase around twenty Pablo Picasso landscapes. In addition, there will be paintings of the same area in Southern France painted [...]
Javier Calleja intervenes in the space of the AishoNanzuka Gallery, distributed on different height levels, to locate two large-format sculptures, which are the true central thread of this exhibition, and which will be accompanied by 8 canvases and 15 drawings of different sizes. The [...]
On 11 September 2001, the Spanish artist based in New York Elena del Rivero, was in Madrid preparing her forthcoming inauguration when she saw the Twin Towers collapse on the television. While she watched the clouds of dust, she imagined that her studio (located [...]
Arturo Álvarez (b. Pontevedra 1964) Designer, craftsman, artist, he prefers to define himself as creator. Arturo Álvarez is a product of his life story. His childhood marked, without a doubt, his future as a creator. The exuberant nature of his native land, Galicia in [...]
At first glance, this cluster of figures appears caught in an impassioned exchange—three bodies huddle together, while two more hover on the outskirts. Upon closer inspection, their blank expressions betray nothing of the drama seeming to unfold. Full of uncanny contradictions, these quasi-human forms [...]
The Museo Reina Sofía stages a retrospective survey of the work of artist Miguel Ángel Campano (Madrid, 1948 – Cercedilla, Madrid, 2018) by way of a selection in excess of one hundred works made from 1972 onwards. The show, the last exhibition project in [...]
For Tàpies, art is ritual, not commodity. It is not intended to be worshiped, but neither is it meant to decorate or please. The purpose of art, then, is to alter and heighten consciousness, bringing us into contact in the most powerful way with [...]
Antonyo Marest explores the contrasts of the sunrises of this part of our country in order to create a tropical sensation but with an urban edge - with the idea that sometimes less is more, and a burst of colours and pure lines that [...]
The connection between geometry and nature inspired this mesmerising new artwork. The projection illuminates the trees on the banks of the River Wear with computer-generated patterns, created using the Fibonacci Sequence and other mathematical patterns found in the natural world. Javier Riera views geometry [...]
Nature’s Afterlives is the first shared exhibition of Gabriela Albergaria (Portugal/UK) and Jorge Otero-Pailos (Spain/US). This exhibition brings together two artists whose work focuses on Nature and the associated themes of growth and decay, history and memory, continuity and change. Albergaria’s large-scale drawings and [...]
Opera Gallery Singapore is delighted to announce the opening of our latest exhibition The Echo of the Masters by the remarkable Spanish contemporary artist, Lita Cabellut. To round-up our 25th anniversary celebrations, the solo exhibition will be held from the 15th of November to the 1st of December 2019, [...]
‘Empty Sea and Cavern’ is the first solo show of Alan Sastre in London, he shows a selection of his two latest series of works. On one hand a series of monochrome canvases that offer the shade of one of the possible ways of [...]
Daniel Canogar (Madrid, 1964) is one of the most important international artists in the field of multimedia arts and a pioneer in the use of new digital languages that for over 25 years have embodied an extensive and continuous path. There is a richness of [...]
Ana Pallares painted her own burial at the age of nineteen. In this dramatic scene, she included her family: her mother, her father, her sister…all of them screaming in a terrifying choir of deep sorrow, the priest in the background rolling his eyes up to [...]
Microscopic beings moving with the ocean currents are generally referred to as plankton. They are scarcely recognisable by the human eye, but the cycle of life cannot be imagined without them. They are the essential foundation of the food chain of marine ecosystems, and [...]
The show Adrià Julià: Not Even the Dead Will Survive, the first solo exhibition of the artist, born in Barcelona in 1974, to be held in Brazil. The show is curated by Fernanda Pitta, the museum’s curator, and artworks will be displayed on the [...]
This exhibition’s title paraphrases the zen koan, ”What is the sound of one hand clapping? to invoke a paradox or question that is essentially unanswerable. The artworks presented share an underlying concern regarding the essence of sentience. Are love, death or humour uniquely human [...]
The exhibition curated by Harald Theil and Salvador Haro in collaboration with Claudia Casali, plans the exceptional loan of 50 unique works of art from the collections of the Musée National Picasso-Paris. It is a corpus of works of inestimable value that faces the whole [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Infinite Light is the first solo exhibition to be held in Japan by Spanish artist, Javier Martin. Martin works in a variety of artistic mediums and since 2007, has continued to engage with the theme of ‘blindness’, exploring the oftentimes elusive and vague ideas [...]
This exhibition explores the role of paper in the work of Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002) as a medium for his prints and drawings as well as an innovative material for his sculptures. Chillida’s linear drawings of hands are also part of the exploration of the [...]
I don’t remember the flight; I don’t recall where I was headed; I don’t remember if I was alone. Yes – I was by myself with my forehead stuck to the plastic of the window, and behind me laid a world that in that [...]
Guillem Nadal (Sant Llorenç. Mallorca), 1957. His paintings acquire the consistency of sculpture and his painting takes on the appearance of the raw material. Nadal feels a fascination with the secret codes that govern nature and this is expressed in his work. He has participated [...]
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, [...]
In the exhibition Expanded Photography 2002–2018, Galerie Springer Berlin is showing three different work cycles by the Basque artist Aitor Ortiz in which traditional photographic boundaries are surpassed in surprising and fascinating ways. Beyond the documentary photography of architecture and industry, and asserting the [...]
It is a pleasure to present Juan Uslé's fourth solo exhibition at Galeria Joan Prats, titled 'Unsettled', which shows his latest paintings and photographs. "Unsettled" means unstable, but also variable, restless, something that includes opposites, or a paradox. In Uslé's paintings, the stripes of [...]
Eduard Bigas is, with weight and measure, methodical. He has, at the same time the wild spirit of a perpetual student, always eager to learn, to evolve. This means that he will obsess over his craft, the control of the light and the placement [...]
This October, Opera Gallery London is proud and excited to present the first solo exhibition dedicated to Manolo Valdés in the Mayfair district of the city. Internationally acclaimed both as a painter and as a sculptor, Manolo Valdés, born in 1942 in Valencia, Spain, [...]
Jaume Plensa has conceived this new exhibition as a silent conversation. In the first part of the gallery, three heads of young girls, some three metres high, stand on the floor. Originally carved from tree trunks then cast in bronze, the elongation of the [...]
In Ictu Oculi (“in the blink of an eye”) is concerned with the experience of time. The work’s title, which alludes to the brevity of human existence, is shared by a number of vanitas paintings from the 17th century. A dinner table, laden with [...]
Helena Goñi (Bilbao, 1990) With a BA in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country, she moved to London to continue her studies, completing a Master’s in Photography at Central Saint Martins. After graduating in June 2015, her first individual exhibition was [...]
The military summer camp in Mogyoród, Hungary, is a private project which each year sees the arrival of hundreds of children and teenagers between 10 and 15 years old. Some came attracted by the fascination of the military way of life, militarism which is [...]
Teresa Solar Abboud (Spain/Egypt) offers a variety of sculptural forms in bright and playful colours not avoiding the possible critical approach on consumption and desire. The concept of the museum and the imagined idea of a storage room of an amusement park defines Teresa [...]
Picasso et la famille explores Pablo Picasso’s (1881-1973) relationship to the notion of the family nucleus, encompassing everything from motherhood to children’s games, from the representation of conceptual intimacy to the numerous experiences of a fatherhood spent under the spotlight. Bringing together drawings, etchings, [...]
The exhibition offers an approach to this historical moment from the perspective of photography, addressing radically different areas and views. In the exhibition, which was presented at the Les Rencontres d'Arles festival in summer, you can see vintage photographs by Alberto García-Alix, Ouka Leele, Pablo Pérez-Mínguez and Miguel Trillo. After several [...]
The starting point of this project is the conception of time from the book The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. The time, the value that it acquires depending on the experiences we have, conceived as an elapse without objectives, together with a space-enclave that [...]
It is easy to forget that seeing is a learned response, and that sight is something we develop from looking at the world. Likewise, we project our thoughts, concepts, identities, and aspirations onto the world. This is the transaction between images and what they [...]
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 [...]
Many of the paintings that Picasso did over a period of some four years (summer 1926-spring 1930) form a cohesive group, which Christian Zervos would later (1938) as “Tableaux magiques”. With these works principally figure paintings – Picasso opened a new chapter in his [...]
In a career that spanned more than six decades of creative activity Joan Miró developed a formal idiom that transformed twentieth-century art. In painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, tapestry and printmaking Miró explored the language of signs, aligning his project with the Cubists’ interest in [...]
It is something new and a billion-dollar industry; something you have may never have heard about even though you may already be wearing it: modest fashion. As the first museum in the Netherlands we present this international fashion phenomenon together with work from contemporary [...]
For this body of work, created in Venice earlier this year, the artist focuses on the human form. The paintings – some no bigger than a hand’s width – condense Hernández’s signature approach to material and process, alighting on the classical subject of the [...]
The works of Antonio Ballester Moreno point to a world of primary colours and childish forms where materials like unprocessed jute or clay yield an oeuvre of singular beauty and austere shapes. Ballester Moreno’s artistic practice is a convergence of various themes, including that of the [...]
Engaging with non-hierarchical systems and non-academic methods of (un)learning, Leonor Serrano Rivas begins with historical fonts that relate to the theory of theatre, allowing herself to be seduced by interpretation and free association. Thoughts concatenate one from the other opposing framing and categorisation as [...]
The theme of the biennial, curated by French curator, author and academic Nicolas Bourriaud; is The Seventh Continent. Pera Museum will be transformed into an anthropology museum of parallel worlds — a place for faux-archeology and artists who reinvent history. As part of the Istanbul Biennial, [...]
The exhibition "Voyage", by the Spanish artist 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 [...]
Laia Estruch works with the voice as an extension of the body that can combine issues linked to language, gender and social structures. In Crawl they come together in a swimming pool: an unstable setting that becomes a laboratory for sound experiments. This project [...]
The project will feature about 90 works exploring the theme of crowd during different periods of Juan Genovés (b Valencia 1930) artistic journey: first, within the context of political struggle against the dictatorial regime of Francisco Franco (1960-70s), then through the transitional period that led to the establishment of Spanish democracy. [...]
GIBCA's central motif and method is the notion of “entanglement” and proposes to imagine the world outside the binaries and structural separations imposed by modernity. What images and narratives might reveal the inseparability and non-negotiable dependency of all of us on each other and [...]
The Biennale de Lyon is an international contemporary art event taking place every two years in Lyon and its Metropolis, France. It is built around the international exhibition, an inescapable artistic event that gathers about 60 worldwide artists to show their creations at the [...]
Beyond the documentary photography of architecture and industry, and asserting the dilution factor and transmutation of reality that is associated with the photographic representation, Aitor Ortiz works with space, architecture and object as starting elements to a number of visual and cognitive unknowns. His [...]
Brexit. Global Warming. Immigration. Identity. Fake News …These are among the controversial issues today that exemplify the idea of being betwixt and between - for many, liberating concepts; for others, deeply troubling, perhaps life threatening concepts. Our next exhibition, BETWIXT AND BETWEEN, featuring over 40 photographs [...]
Ángel Castillo Perona was born in Madrid (1975) and moved to Brussels in 2006. Already with a good eye for photography, it was in this new city that he developed his strong passion for the art of photography, developing and perfecting techniques which combined [...]
For her second presentation in the gallery, Núria Fuster has created an ambitious multi-dimensional universe, where movement, sound, and objects interrelate. Different notions of time intersect and are revealed in ‘CHRONO-MATTER – Objects are closer than they appear’. Fuster’s objects exist on their own [...]
The filmmaker is a celluloid architect. The cinema creates places that tell us about its builder, its visual universe and the human mind. In Bernardí Roig's films there are baroque halls, geometric structures, abandoned factories but there is also the desert. These are places [...]
The Kunstverein Bielefeld, under the new direction of Nadine Droste, is delighted to present Stay Twice, the first institutional solo exhibition in Germany by Beatriz Olabarrieta. Olabarrieta’s work deals with the visual representation of communication and language. It reflects on the relationship between literal [...]
In the late nineteen-eighties Miquel Barceló traveled throughout the West African Dogon Country. During the course of his nomadic wanderings—amidst the immensity of the land, a harsh sun whose rays projected an intensity that enveloped all things—he was struck by the pottery made by [...]
The show introduces artists and artist groups who resist authoritarian powers in their countries, who take to the streets, who participate in the social negotiation process and who call attention to threats and in turn provoke them. What political and artistic restrictions do they [...]
A response to the Museum’s exhibition Art and Empire: The Golden Age of Spain is on view concurrently in Gallery 20, a group of 12* resin-on-canvas “portraits” of Christ’s disciples by contemporary Spanish artist José-María Cano. Cano launched his career as a musician and [...]
AS_TR_Y is a “meta-haiku” that represents, at the same time, the idea of “as a try” and “ashtray”. Ashtrays are an object of special interest to Alejandro Palacín as an archetype of the object-function, as a symbol of the possibility of satisfying our needs [...]
The Kühlhaus Berlin will open its doors for eleven days during Artweek Berlin to let art and nature meet. More than 30 artists from Spain, Germany, Russia, Norway, Central Asia, Zimbabwe and many other countries will impress visitors, showing how unique, beautiful and fragile [...]
The work of Germán Gómez (b.Gijón, Spain 1972), of a marked autobiographical character, starts from photography to portray in a complex way, fruit of the mixture of several techniques, the identity of the human being. His own experiences, the people who surround his life [...]
Jaume Plensa (Spanish, b. 1955) is one of the world’s foremost living sculptors. He is widely known for large-scale public artworks and more intimate and meditative installations that aim to unify people through connections of spirituality, the body, and shared memory. Talking Continents is a [...]
Each of Rafa Macarron’s pieces embody mysticism, invitation, and provocation. Characters with five thumbed hands are mixed with proper canon and proportion. A strange cyclops rests by the pool, chastened, defending his cave while the wisps of smoke that surround him constantly look for a way [...]
The work of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (Barcelona, 1977; lives and works in Rio de Janeiro) ponders on the relationship between culture and nature. The artist’s interest in biology has led him to analyze complex ecological systems and introduce the natural world into his works. [...]
Initiated in 2002, Beijing International Art Biennale, China (BIAB), jointly sponsored by CFLAC, Beijing Municipal Government and China Artists Association, has witnessed a consecutive success in its seven sessions. Altogether over 4000 artists from more than 100 countries as well as over a million [...]
What links did Pablo Picasso maintain with the Mediterranean space? This exhibition gives an overview of the life and work of Pablo Picasso in the Mediterranean by showing the richness of links uniting Picasso with this geographical area. Thanks to innovative audio-visual equipment and [...]
For the third time we present a solo exhibition of the Catalan artist Joanpere Massana (Ponts 1968). This time he shows us paintings and sculptural objects in which he attaches great importance to the surfaces, the skin of the works. It is therefore essential [...]
In his first exhibition in the Philippines, Okuda San Miguel will display a unique and exciting show full of color and positivism. At “Spiritual Boreal World” everyone will be delighted with a selection of amazing creations, from paintings to new sculpture designs. Okuda reflects [...]
The Belonging to the Story exhibition hovers between reality and fiction and uses the techniques of contemporary photographic art to examine the way in which we cling to one another and the world, dream, create utopias, and imagine the future. The exhibition also explores [...]
Commissioned by the art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard, Pablo Picasso made one hundred etchings between 13 September 1930 and March 1937, which passed into the history of art under the name Suite Vollard. The set of 100 etchings appeared in 1939 in two [...]
This exhibition examines several perspectives of thinking and artistic proposals as significant examples of different projects and work issues developed by the artist through his career. It will be the artist’s first exhibition in the gallery. Muntadas was born in Barcelona in 1942 and has lived in New [...]
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 [...]
Extended Spaces is an acknowledgement of artworks developing a pragmatic architectural relationship, which in turn induces spiritual awareness through the subtle process of perception. Often, the artworks will transform space by means of expansion, contraction, addition or even subtraction. These artwork protocols create spatial [...]
The Institute for Endotic Research (TIER) seeks to present a transdisciplinary approach that brings together art practice and writing. The programme "Editing Spaces" unfolds as a group exhibition developed through time: every two weeks, one more contribution is added to the space, creating a palimpsest. [...]
Lucía Vallejo was born in Bilbao in 1975. Sculptor and art historian. Her artwork is related to the decomposition movement in painting, it expands and liberates the linen's materiality recovering this fabric's expressive potential. Painting loses its two-dimensional condition to become a 3d object. She [...]
María Jauregui Ponte plays with light – and (almost) blindly! This creates images in which colors, lights and lines of light arise a mysterious world. However, her work is the result exactly planned photographic processes. While the Überstrahlungen series has emerged in the laboratory without [...]
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 of flickering LED lights in moving, ever-changing, computer-generated abstract images that glide across four [...]
Known as the 'master of light' for his iridescent canvases, this is a rare opportunity to see the most complete exhibition of Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida's (1863–1923) paintings outside Spain. From the vivid seascapes, garden views, and bather scenes for which he is most [...]
Luis Salazar presents at the Museum La Boverie the fruit of forty years of creation. Over an evolutionary journey, the artist invites us to grasp the changes and innovations that he gradually infuses into his work. Like a breadcrumb trail, however, his eternal worries, [...]
For the exhibition, Blasco has built a large installation of iconic New York City bridges. Entitled Adrift Houses, this sprawling construction presents an unsettling narrative that reaches beyond its architectonic origins. In reality, bridges are physical structures that allow us to move from one place to [...]
This exhibition was inspired by Salvador Díaz, who was an intermediary between Dutch and Spanish forces during his short stay in Taiwan. Captured by the Dutch to serve as a translator in Taiwan, Díaz would steal intelligence pertaining mercantile ships in his time here, [...]
This exhibition explores how innovative individuals, communities and organisations are radically re-inventing how we grow, distribute and experience food. Taking visitors on a sensory journey through the food cycle, from compost to table, it poses questions about how the collective choices we make can [...]
Olga Khokhlova was born to a colonel in 1891, in Nijin, a Ukrainian town located within the Russian Empire. In 1912, she entered the prestigious and innovative Russian Ballet directed by Serge Diaghilev. It was in Rome, spring 1917, where she met Pablo Picasso [...]
There are many ways to use our eyes. We can choose to watch, observe or scrutinise someone or something. We can stand on the side of the road, remaining passive in front of the flow of images that come to us. Our gaze can [...]
"The asphalt covered streets and sidewalks during the everyday hustle and bustle are the ideal backdrop to study and record a city and has been an ongoing subject for the camera since the earliest days of photography, whether in books or exhibitions, and worthy [...]
Miró always expressed his admiration for Gaudí's work, valuing the architect's penchant for risk and improvisation. The two artists viewed nature as the root of all their creative endeavours. Gaudí used it as a source of inspiration for both his ornamental and structural elements. [...]
In her work, the international acclaimed Spanish artist Lara Almarcegui (*1972) investigates urban zones, she explores the relation between construction, decay and regeneration of our built world and engages with property situations of natural resources. Almarcegui describes her approach as follows: “I am searching [...]
Reading is one of the most exquisite pleasures there is, an act which produces different effects in each reader, caused by the story which the book’s author sends. Well, to contemplate a book is to say, “Reading the visual and looking at the textual”, establishes [...]
The sixth edition of GLASSTRESS brings together a new lineup of leading contemporary artists from Europe, the United States, Latin America, India, and China in an ambitious exhibition exploring the endless creative possibilities of glass. To celebrate 10 years of GLASSTRESS and 30 years [...]
In an article about Franz Mesmer, the Austrian physiologist who claimed he could cure ailments through channelling “animal magnetism,” writer Christopher Turner says that “The Lyonnais Mesmerists purported that their patients could see their own insides when in somnambulistic trances, and thereby make uncannily accurate self-diagnoses .” [...]
