The exhibition is organized around the most iconic complete series of the artist, Eugenio Ampudia, Donde dormir (2008-2018), which is set in dialogue with three more works: The dream of every artist (2000), Una corriente de aire (2015) ), and Museum and Space (2011). [...]
The exhibition entitled 'The Rivals Of The Sea' consists of three works of large format 2x153cm and three medium pieces of 76x56cm. The technique used is oil charcoal and oil pastel on Saunders Waterford's paper. For Puche it is important that "the drawing is [...]
The works of Gema Rupérez develops around the desire to survive in a complicated society where not even Democracy is perfect. Instability, vulnerability and frustration are part of the emotive content of her works and in her research it is strong the awareness of [...]
Works presented by the awardees Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Sam Laughlin and Lua Ribeira explore themes such as belonging, fragility of the natural world and death. Alejandra Carles-Tolra is interested in the relationship between individual and group identity and how one identity influences the other. In Where We Belong she explores [...]
Throughout his career as a sculptor, Jaume Plensa (Barcelona, 1955) has drawn on spirituality, the body and collective memory as the primary sources which tie together his visual artwork. Literature, psychology, biology, language and history become strategic tools in the creation of his work, [...]
Since 2013, Barcelona based photographer Aleix Plademunt has been working on MATTER, his most extensive photographic project so far. Deriving from mater, the Latin word for mother, matter refers to the substance from which all things are made. In English, the word matter can [...]
Thirty-five works by Spanish artists, dedicated to interpreting and paying tribute to Fernando Pessoa and the Portuguese capital’s literary fascination, have arrived at the heart of Lisbon. From September 15 to November 15, the paintings will be on display at Lisboa Pessoa Hote The [...]
a…is alter(ed): Open Sessions 12 explores the imaginative determination of “drawing” and “line” by relating it to a development process, social artifacts, psychological trace, and prosthetic memory—journals, maps, technology, and calendars. The poetics of flow between known and unknown is a feedback murmur that [...]
Within her practice, Alicia Framis blends architecture, design, fashion and performance. Forbidden Collections brings together two collections that are designed and made for women by women. Is My Body Public? is a collection that explores the borders between what is public and private in our everyday lives. [...]
“Present Imperfect, Future Tense” reflects on the importance of water for all animals. We as humans are comprised of around 60% water, the planet is 3/4th water, and in the quest for a habitable planet, water is essential " The images recreate hypothetical scenarios [...]
Contemporarte is a project born in 2008, involving the joint work of ten pubnlic universities from Andalucia. The project acts as a launch pad for emerging artists within the academic community through contemporary photography. Visiones desde la Andalucia Contemporánea gathers a selection of award-winning [...]
The installation of drawings, documents, and objects marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Copenhagen, which has been organized for SixtyEight by our resident Assistant Curator, Clara Bernal. The Stolen Hour consists of new artistic research looking to tie the act of daily drawing [...]
Spain joined the ranks of the nations that embraced the new medium of photography very shortly after its invention in the XIX century. Over time it has contributed to the development of this important element of European cultural heritage with many names of note [...]
The artists Fernando Gonzalez, Lucia Berra , Maria Elisa Quiaro y Evangelina Esparza they all work the analogue collage technique. Fashion and cinema magazines, books, encyclopaedias from the last century, old photographs or museum leaflets are the materials they use to give a new [...]
A video presenting Gravel - a large installation that grows every day following the pace of extraction of a Basel gravel pit- 250 tons every day- mirroring the average volume of gravel extracted from a Basel quarry, the work serves as an invitation to reflect on [...]
The aim of ’50 Years of Realism – From Photorealism to Virtual Reality’ is to present to the Brazilian audience a rich exhibition of a few well-established contemporary hyperrealist artists working today, some of whom are showing their work in Brazil for the first [...]
In No Particular Order brings together a selection of more than 70 prints from three major projects of Magnum nominee Cristina de Middel. The first-floor gallery space of the Magnum gallery in Paris is dedicated to Christina de Middel’s series Party. In an attempt to build a [...]
Ever since his career began in the late 1990s Jorge R. Pombo (Barcelona, 1973) has immersed himself in a continuous reflection on the practice of painting. In the current context, few artists have looked as deeply as he has into the creative processes of the old [...]
The retrospective “Madrid, October 68. The Spanish experimental scene” portrays the incredible adventure of the University of Madrid’s Computing Center, which brought together artists, architects, engineers, scientists and intellectuals to explore the possibilities offered by automatic computer generated calculation. These pioneers formed a community [...]
The first ever exhibition in Italy dedicated to Picasso, the sculptor. Picasso visited Rome, Naples and Pompeii in 1917 and saw, for the first time, statuary from Ancient Rome and the Renaissance, as well as seeing the murals at Pompeii. He also visited the [...]
Throughout history, museums have provided inspiration for artists who have gone to contemplate and study the works of their predecessors on display, sometimes to follow their teachings and occasionally to challenge them. In both cases, the dialogue between the artists of the past and [...]
Coolture Impact is the largest interactive public art platform that intertwines reality and fantasy on the windows of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Times Square. The Now, the first featured art presentation at Coolture Impact, offers a journey into magical worlds, opening doors [...]
A group exhibition with work by Dora García, Sharon Hayes, Emily Jacir, Mahmoud Khaled, Carlos Motta, Wu Tsang, and Akram Zaatari, as well as a letter by Quinn Latimer This group exhibition explores the ways in which visual artists are reflecting on the history [...]
Exhibition dedicated to the multifaceted and fruitful relationship that the Spanish genius has developed, throughout his extraordinary career, with myth and antiquity, proposes the exploration from this particular perspective of its intense and complex creative process. The project, a Milanese stage of the great [...]
The exhibition A FOREST brings together artists mobilised directly or indirectly by the plant world and their method of organisation in complex systems, called ecosystems. Trees, plants, moss, lichens: all so much more sophisticated than we thought for a long time, these beings have [...]
The exhibition provides a follow-up of the transformation process of the Plaza de la Gardunya between the beginning of 2005 and the spring of 2018. Or rather, from 2018 to 2005, that is, as a reverse chronology, from the present to the past. Obviously, [...]
The exhibition resonates with the black tones of an alchemist of haute couture : variations of black repeated in over a hundred of pieces from the Galliera collections and the archives of Maison Balenciaga. Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895 – 1972), the most “Couture” of Couturiers. [...]
José David Valiente, Virginia Rota, Jesús Madriñan and Alejandra Carles-Tolra participate in the exhibition “Common Places / Parallel Stories” In May 2018, #SKG Bridges Uprising Art & Culture Festival, an international cultural festival for young people of the European South, was inaugurated in Thessaloniki. The [...]
“Footbal Field” is a video installation by Maider López in which street furniture interfere with the game, suggesting new uses for the square and a new structure for the urban space. Festival for the People celebrates the rich subcultural forms across Philadelphia and aims [...]
The Anthropology of Feelings is the title of the exhibition curated by Audrey Hoareau and François Cheval, co-founders of The Red Eye. The exhibition builds a thematic journey around the obsessive and heterogeneous representation of the human body, from the origins of the humanity [...]
Known for his large-scale public art installations series The Ethics of Dust, Jorge Otero-Pailos displays a new body of work in-situ, titled Répétiteur, at New York City Center’s Harkness Studio. One of the first-ever City Center visual art commissions, Répétiteur is a site-specific art installation consisting of custom [...]
Born in Valencia, Spain, in 1942, Manolo Valdés is one of the few artists who have mastered multiple mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking. In each form he is considered highly original, technically sound and constantly provocative. Manolo Valdés began training as a [...]
Mansilla is a village in the north of Spain. In 1960, during Franco’s dictatorship, it was evacuated to build a dam. The residents of a village that had been there for generations lost their home. Like a memorial, the reservoir lies within their sight: [...]
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 [...]
In her installation Global Mode/Playground for Drowning Animals, 2016-2018, Eva Davidova creates a surreal environment of invented animals that point a gun at themselves. These female animals express humankind and our unique ability to create and destroy at the same time. In her new VR [...]
Known as the Salvador Dali in the design world and the next Philippe Starck, Jaime Hayon, one of the most famous Spanish designers, will host his first Hong Kong solo exhibition, ” The Cosmos of Jaime Hayon ” in Harbour City The exhibition comprises two parts. [...]
The link between the works of the artists Isabel Consigliere (Italy), Irene Cruz (Spain-Germany) and Belen Ordovás (Spain) is undoubtedly the subtle, and perhaps sometimes unconscious, representation of the feminine. The eternal feminine, that favor Dei that every woman possesses within herself, inherently, and that is [...]
The title of Spanish artist José Carlos Casado’s new interactive sculpture refers to the poem entitled Sympathy by African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar that inspired writer and poet Maya Angelou’s 1969 debut autobiography, the modern American classic I Know Why the Caged Bird [...]
Active since the years 90, Dora Garcia has been recognized internationally for her work incisive and rigorous based on extensive research on the diffuse limits between the real and its representation. Through performances, drawings, films, texts, expanded books or installations, García makes visible the [...]
Lita Cabellut (born 1961 in Sariñena, Huesca) is a Spanish painter who lives and works in The Netherlands. She grew up as a street child in Barcelona until she was adopted at the age of twelve. During this time, she was introduced to the [...]
An exhibition exploring the connection between Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis and key figure of the ideas of the 20th century, and Salvador Dali, the Spanish artist whose imagery and understanding of art have shaped the world of culture ever since. As a passionate [...]
Born in Valencia, Spain in 1930, Genovés was a distinct voice who advocated for political change from the dictatorship of Franco, and his works created a stir in a country run under the regime. Among his original artistic influences were the films of Russian [...]
The exhibition ‘Unfinished’ was a project curated by Iñaqui Carnicero and Carlos Quintáns for the Spanish pavilion at the Venice International Architecture Biennale 2016. It takes a a look at unfinished architecture in order to discover virtues that can be turned into design strategies. During the past period [...]
A woman is doing administrative work, legal research to become a stateless person. Unsuccessfully. Her failure illustrates a certain fixedness of our identity, which is the property of the state. What is this connection that binds us to a nation? Does it have anything [...]
The meter, the kilogram and the second are three of the seven basic units of the International System, adopted in its entirety only in 1971, and from which all other physical units can be derived. They draw our relationship to the world and structure [...]
Carlos Sagrera on Patterns: ‘In 2012 I found photos of my grandparents house from the 70’s, the images showing the empty rooms of the house they were about to move in to. After they passed away these images motivated me to start a series of [...]
Bringing together nearly 150 works, this retrospective traces the technical and stylistic evolution of the artist. Miró creates from his dreams and opens the door to his poetic universe. Miró transformed the world around him with an apparent simplicity of means, whether a symbol, [...]
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, [...]
Sixe Paredes is a full-time artist. He lives as he works. Absorbed by Andean and Pre-columbian cultures, inspired by the cosmos, by Universe-Earth connexions and by Human-animal connexions. His colored, symbolic, abstract or figurative work, is painted, weaved, created in ceramic when he spends [...]
This is Mallo’s first exhibition in New York since 1948, and presents a selection of works produced in both Spain and Latin America. Born in rural Galicia, Spain in 1902, Mallo moved to Madrid in 1922 to receive art training. She quickly became a [...]
Francisco López's "Hyper-Rainforest" is an amazing variety of field recordings composed into a "concert-installation" that, unfortunately, raises all sorts of uncomfortable questions about culture and appropriation. Lopez, a sound artist and experimental composer, has recorded sounds of rain forests from around the world for [...]
Invoice es una instalación de vídeo donde tres cantantes interpretan una adaptación del canto gregoriano O Virgo Splendens, sustituyendo el texto original por la enumeración de las facturas emitidas durante el proceso de realización de la obra. Un rasgo distintivo del canto gregoriano es el escaso [...]
SCAN is pleased to announce, Several Times Twice, a solo project by Fermín Jiménez Landa as part of Frieze week. Fermín Jiménez Landa's work shifts unpredictably between artist's actions, interventions in the public realm, videos, installations or drawings. His work involves a minimum intervention of reality, [...]
“Intriguing uncertainties” highlights the significance of the narrative in contemporary art that focus on singular socio-cultural constellations as well as specific and situational meanings, based on anthropological considerations. The realm of darkness, chaos and fear is part of our anthropological reality and it is the artist’s role to [...]
Madrilenian artist Luis Úrculo (1978) presents this September at Max Estrella his second solo exhibition ‘Paisajes intuidos pt. 2’, a journey around the architecture of what we do not see when visiting an archaeological site. Just as in criminology and astronomy, there are always [...]
Lluis Lleó (Barcelona, 1961) who has lived in New York since 1989, is an artist who moves with identical ease between painting and sculpture, making his work especially difficult to catalogue. His recent works are neither sculptural paintings nor painted sculptures: they are works [...]
Palacios’ new work is not only focused on the already-inflicted violent action of the hurters. His new, more richly textured, almost sculptural paintings, stand as an invitation to the potential helpers who can actually do something about it. In his “Set Me Free” series, [...]
Joan Fontcuberta is an internationally acclaimed artist from Barcelona. A wide range of writings as well as curatorial and lecturing activities accompanies his prolific artistic practice. Since the start of his career in the mid-80s, his highly conceptual works have been imbued with ambiguity [...]
As a space for critical reflection on design established in a historically rich context, the Istanbul Design Biennial offers the opportunity to question the very production and replication of design and its education. In 2018, the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial builds on the legacy [...]
Night Currents is the first individual exhibition of Spanish artist Javier Pérez in Belgium which is part of his most recent production, including sculptures, drawings and photography. With a particular cyclical view of time, in which life and death are only two stages within [...]
In 1966, Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012) began writing his memoirs. Motivated by his need to embrace militancy as a political strategy, he undertook a review of his personal biography and his career as an artist, a project that was completed in 1977 with the publication [...]
The exhibition, which is Elespe’s fourth solo exhibition mounted by the gallery is the most comprehensive exhibition to date in New York of the artist’s work featuring over twenty works across different mediums. The exhibition debuts Elespe’s largest paintings and places his paintings, drawings, [...]
”A beaver’s DNA doesn’t stop expressing itself at the end of its whiskers, but at the edge of its dam,” writes the ecological theorist Timothy Morton. What if the physics of entropy was sliding between humans and objects through pure inertia? What if an [...]
Daniel García Andújar (1966,Almoradi, Spain) is a central figure in the Spanish internet art scene. Since the late 80s he has been starting up internet projects, he is a founding member of the irational.org web collective, and developed Technologies To The People® (TTTP), a non-profit organization that [...]
‘Extra States: Nations in Liquidation’ brings together artists whose works aim to critically address, recompose or bypass the traditional readings of the state. How do we think of “the state” in contemporary society? How much agency and effect do “extra state” power structures have, [...]
"Stillleben" is a specific installation for the exhibition space at the Tête project in Prenzlauer Berg. In this room, despite its decadent appearance, the beauty of the city from other times is still visible. It is one of the few spaces in Berlin that [...]
In the past three decades, sound art has been consolidated as a new artistic category, giving way to the development of specific types of research, monographic exhibitions and specialized bibliography. Listening with the eyes. Sound art in Spain, curated by José Iges and José Luis Maire, [...]
The United Soya Republic presents a journey through the heartlands of the Southern Cone’s agribusiness; it is a portrayal of the changes to the landscape and socio-economic tissue brought about by intensive farming and the exportation of produce in Argentina and Paraguay. Jordi Ruiz Cirera has [...]
The exhibition will have 34 black and white photographs. In this new show, we see how the decontextualization of the image of the photographed object provides a new meaning, which in itself has a new meaning for each viewer. Chema Madoz (Madrid, 1958) began [...]
The honey bee — we know about its important role as a useful insect and pollinator, but equally as a biological indicator of environmental change. The disproportionally significant part it plays in ecosystems is becoming better known, not least because it is under threat. [...]
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 [...]
Jaume Plensa ( b.Barcelona 1955) produces large-scale sculptures and installations that use language, history, literature and psychology to draw attention to the barriers that separate and divide humanity. In Talking Continents, Plensa used stainless steel to create a floating archipelago of 19 cloud-like shapes. The [...]
Since its inception, Paris La Défense has been a cultural territory that is unique in the world. Beyond its skyscrapers and globally renowned architecture, it’s a real open-air museum that will see the installation, just for the summer, of a contemporary art exhibit both [...]
Night is sublime, day is beautiful. Immanuel Kant The Gravity of Place is a project made during an artist’s residency at Domaine de Kerguéhennec in Brittany. Kerguéhennec is a contemporary art centre that has over thirty sculptures installed in its surrounding landscape. The place, [...]
“Véase ibíd.” refers us to the thing immediately previous and invites us to look attentively at it. Maybe it's something that we just observed on the street, or something we were thinking about a minute ago, before arriving at the gallery. Ibíd. seems to tell us: the [...]
In Hexagons, Gema Álava's first solo exhibition at Maus Contemporary, the Spanish-born, New York-based artist presents incredibly subtle and beautiful commentaries on gender, power, movement, and the crowd mind. Exhibiting mixed-media paintings — works built and layered from a palette of materials including, in part, [...]
Coincidingwith the retrospective organised by Jean-Louis Prat at the Grand Palais in Paris, Galerie Lelong & Co is presenting a selection of works on paper from two decades (1930-1950), a period where the artist’s work reached its full expression. The bilingual exhibition catalogue (French [...]
A meeting of two souls linked through time and space : Ernst Fuchs (1930-2015) and Beatriz Moreno (1971). Two artists who never met in real life – neither of them knew of the existence of the other, however… Could it be part of an [...]
Antonio Ballester Moreno (Madrid, Spain, 1977) approaches his curatorial project for the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo as a way of contextualising a universe based in the close relationship between biology and culture, with references to the history of abstraction and its interplay with [...]
Research undertaken upon the Meadows’ 2014 acquisition of Salvador Dalí’s painting The Fish Man (L’homme poisson, 1930) opened doors to areas within Dalí’s 1930s oeuvre worthy of further study; foremost among them, Dalí’s propensity for painting on a small scale. Dalí: Poetics of the Small, 1929-1936 is the first exhibition [...]
The gallery 100 Kubik shows as the highlight of the year for the first time the works of the artist Daniel Verbis (*1968, León). His paintings, part of important collections, are surprising and unforgettable. He has a very individual way to express his universe, [...]
The exhibition offers the general public a great opportunity to become acquainted for the first time with the history of cubism, one of the most important trends in 20th century art (1907–1923). British art historian John Golding wrote in a monograph that cubism is [...]
“Correspondence” features a new series of weaving-objects through which artist Ana Esteve Llorens explores the relation between abstraction, memory and the process of making. Utilizing a loom attached to her body and drawing inspiration from past family living spaces, Spanish artist Ana Esteve Llorens [...]
The Noguchi Museum presents an overview of the work of Spanish sculptor Jorge Palacios (Madrid, 1979) with Link, a monumental public work installed on Flatiron Plaza North, across from the Flatiron Building and adjacent to Madison Square Park, and an exhibition of nine sculptures in the Museum [...]
What is the meaning of masterpiece for Pablo Picasso? The exhibition “Picasso: Masterpieces! answers this question by bringing together some of his greatest works, some of which will be shown in Paris for the first time. Thanks to exceptional loans, masterpieces from all over [...]
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 [...]
For the past two decades, Spanish artist Santiago Sierra has carried out provocative actions around the world. Influenced by the formal language of the minimal and conceptual art movements of the 1960s and 70s, Sierra’s work addresses the hierarchies of power and class that [...]
Guillermo Mora lives and works in Madrid, Spain, and is one of the most accomplished artists of his generation. In recent years, he has created a particular visual vocabulary in which formal elements like color gradients, layers, textures and shapes are used to create [...]
Even in the busiest cities it is possible to find a place for calm and rest. Eva Nararro’s latest paintings celebrate summer, with figures bathed in sunlight relaxing in invisible parks or calmly strolling down unseen avenues. They represent characters she has found enjoying [...]
The “fever” art exhibit in Long Island City is tackling the subjects of climate change and global warming. “The show incorporates painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation. It will be installed alongside informative quotes from world leaders, challenging and bringing awareness to a serious [...]
In video, installation, collage and object Carlos Aires confronts us with the ambiguity of our world order and the constant presence of money, be it specifically as the collages are made of original banknotes or abstract as symbols of dreams, power and both moral [...]
Steegmann Mangrané’s works often unsettle the conventional ways in which art is seen or felt; examples include his virtual reality–based project Phantom (2015) and his subtler drawings and sculptures that entwine light, color, and the architecture of the venues they are displayed in. In its emphasis [...]
During the summer, many people have been able to view the 7 meter high cast iron portraits located along Djurgårdsbrunnskanalen, along with the white silhouette placed in the water itself. Autumn season at Galleri Andersson/Sandström begins with an extensive exhibition where you will be [...]
The Kunsthal Tübingen 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 [...]
This exhibition revolves around our trips and the ways in which make us grow and learn. To travel is to cultivate, to absorb unfamiliar landscapes, to encounter strangers, to learn beyond books and screens. From the encounter between who we are, the expectation of [...]
For its summer exhibition, the CRP/ is teaming up with Contretype, the contemporary photography center in Brussels, to co-construct a project based on their respective collections, born of the production and residency activity of these two organizations. In its gallery in Douchy-les-Mines, the art [...]
Gonzalo Orquín is a Spanish artist and photographer based in Rome, Italy, best known for his controversial 2013 photo series, titled "Sí, quiero", featuring gay and lesbian couples kissing in Roman Catholic churches in Rome. Orquín was born in Seville Spain, in 1982. He [...]
After presenting their female giant Euterpe at last year’s Burning Man, street theater group Carros de Foc is making its second appearance at the Festival with Step Forward / Joining Minds, bringing Euterpe and her grandfather Alberto together. The two giant puppets, 20 feet tall and [...]
Interpreting the reality of objects through his unique and alternative viewpoint, Spanish photographer Chema Madoz creates poetic metaphors and new visual feasts especially in his black and white photographs by helping ordinary objects escape their daily tasks. In his works, Madoz makes art lovers [...]
The exhibition “Charlie Chaplin. A visión” attempts to re-evaluate Chaplin’s revolutionary artistic heritage. With over 300 photographs and documents from the Chaplin Archive and almost two hours of film clips, the exhibition also includes items from private collections and public institutions (original posters, videos, [...]
