The exhibition brings together part of his most recent production, which includes sculptures and drawings, most of which are unpublished in Spain. With a particular cyclical vision of time, in which life and death are only two stages within the permanent transformation, Javier Pérez [...]
Through various works and documents rarely presented in France, the BnF and the Opéra national de Paris explore the different facets of Picasso’s relationship to dance. A major 20th century painter, Picasso produced a work of an extraordinary richness. A long time before his [...]
Spanish artist Alberto Reguera continues his fascination with the vibrant colours of his homeland, reflected in the vivid hues used by the artist in his geometric objects. From warm golds to intense blues and glowing reds, his three-dimensional abstracts capture impressions of the rural [...]
The exhibition title “Asian Protocols” refers to various conventions related to certain official and private matters either in society generally or in people’s personal lives. When used in different situations, the word “protocol” can have a variety of meanings, such as a diplomatic procedure, [...]
This exhibition presents the rise of a generation of photographers who demanded that ‘creative’ or fine art photography be accepted as an art in its own right by the institutional and artistic system during the 1970s and early 1980s. It ranges from the opening [...]
Prompted by the Japanese concept of Ma – a consciousness of the dynamic between mass and void, Spanish photographer Xavier Comas rode multiple elevators in Tokyo photographing his fellow passengers in situ. Shooting in black & white, Comas discovered the appearance of an extra [...]
Hybridizations: the ghost of the painting reflects on the recurrent announcement of the death of painting throughout the 20th century. While painting and its principles have always been present as "a spectrum" that survives in other contemporary art formats. Therefore, this exhibition contains works [...]
This year’s exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, videos and sound works by thirty-two contemporary artists or collectives living along the US-Mexico border. The artwork explores issues related to the U.S.-Mexico border region, including immigration, crossing, and physical, linguistic and cultural hybridity. For her part, Partegás presents Invisible Forces (flyers), [...]
PLAY is a headstrong city festival that will take over the centre of Kortrijk with contemporary artworks. You can immerse yourself in the unique world of national and international visual art at diverse indoor and outdoor locations in the city. MAP13 presents the project [...]
Little by little, aspects of culture slip out of daily life, almost without us noticing. In this thought-provoking new exhibition, international photographers were tasked with capturing these slices of life –with an emphasis on traditional skills and musical heritage -before they are lost forever. [...]
The horse casts an atavistic spell over humans and has permeated art since time immemorial. Perhaps it’s because the animal’s unique beauty stirs a deeply rooted desire to possess one of our most treasured belongings. And art, as French art historian, René Huyghe, argues [...]
Alberto Schommer, Carlos Pérez Siquier, Gabriel Cualladó, Gonzalo Juanes, Joan Colom, Julio Ubiña, Leopoldo Pomés, Oriol Maspons, Francisco Gómez, Francisco Ontañon, Ramón Masats, Ricard Terré, Xavier Miserachs. The collective of photographers which operated under the name AFAL Group hailed from the publication AFAL, a magazine specialised [...]
Gala (7th September 1894 – 10th June 1982), born into a family of intellectuals from Kazan (Russia), she lived her childhood in Moscow. Once she had settled in Switzerland, she met Paul Éluard, who she moved to Paris with and came in contact with the members of the [...]
Each year the Solar – Cinematic Art Gallery works closely with Curtas Vila do Conde to present an exhibition during the festival and create a dialogue between the works which feature in it and the contents of the film programme. Last year the “Terra” [...]
Along with some of the biggest names of the Californian art scene, a selection of artworks by Xippas artists Yves Bélorgey, Rhona Bitner, Jeremy Dickinson, Dean Monogenis, Richard Nonas, Matthew Porter, Pepa Prieto and Bettina Rheims will be presented. These artworks show their artists’ [...]
Chus Burés introduces CHUS X CHUS, a New-York-based brand that acts as an incubator of creativity and serves up fresh takes on classic pieces. The exhibition includes his latest designs and Burés’s own designs developed over the decades. His strong creative personality derives initially from time [...]
The 2018 Twisted Oyster Film and Time-based Art Festival places its focus on the environment and the impact of climate change on the planet. The festival is a platform to drive awareness with an impactful exhibition that brings forward works that speak to this [...]
The exhibition Women & Women, curated by Blanca Berlin, its purpose was to familiarise audiences with the work of Spanish artists at their height of creativity. The photographs featured in the exhibition portray the essence of the female body and express the changes that have occurred on the [...]
Ira Lombardía (Asturias 1977) is an artist and researcher and works in different media such as photography, video, graphic design or sculpture. With her work she questions discourses, dynamics and rhetorics that have been assumed in the realm of contemporary art, image and philosophy. [...]
The show aims to create a dialogue between the two artists, confronting their personal approaches to the bi-dimensional surface as a space in which display their aesthetic and procedural imaginary. In the body of works “Profili” Gianni Pellegrini defines light out of the contrast [...]
In 1957, Spanish art experienced a pivotal shift in its visual framework. In the wake of this change, Equipo 57 was formed in Paris, and was one of the first and most important groups to come out of this renewal. The founders include: Juan [...]
This project questions two certainties that have framed the interpretations of art, knowledge and images: sharpness versus opacity, transparency versus secrecy, light versus blackout. The latticework offers all its disruptive power here: it is a space ready to look at, but at the same [...]
The gardens of the palace in Hellbrunn are rich in history and have been used for many purposes – as a recreational facility, a place to meet, a sports venue, and somewhere to simply spend an enjoyable time. So now they are being used [...]
Esteban Vicente was born in Turégano, Spain in 1903. His father served in the Civil Guard and was an amateur painter who took the young Vicente with him on visits to the Prado Museum. In 1918, Vicente entered military school, but left after three [...]
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 [...]
The exhibition is the result of a residency of Santiago Ydañez. During his stay in Palermo, the artist set himself the goal of “to feed himself off of the living imagination of the city,” where the natural pre-cultural world coexists in harmony with the [...]
“I have been thinking about this concept of ‘Bare’ for some time, considering what is open to view, what is exposed, what the future holds.... I feel like we are walking into an unknown. The works in this show are all united through their [...]
The History of America has been and will be forever linked to the History of Africa. The African drive in Latin America is visible and strongly alive across the whole continent. Historically many processes tried to silence its voice, dilute its soul and whiten [...]
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 [...]
Love Drone, is a selection of artworks expressly developed by the artist during 2018 for Dimora Artica gallery. In this show, Mit Borrás deals through installations and videos with themes such as technology, progress and the intervention of the human being on nature. Born [...]
The Portrait Show is a group exhibition exploring portraiture from traditional to non-traditional approaches in a range of media including photography, painting, sculpture, and works on paper. This exhibition will include works by Robert Arneson, John Bankston, Dawoud Bey, Jonathan Calm, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Rupert [...]
Works by renowned contemporary artists paying tribute to soccer have been brought together in the Ball in Art exhibition. The exhibition at Zariadie park, near the Kremlin, brings together more than 60 works from 20 different artists, including pioneering Spanish video artist Antoni Muntadas. [...]
Aleix Plademunt (*1980, ES), Juan Diego Valera (*1976, AR) and Roger Guaus (*1972, ES) founded in 2012 the independent publishing house Ca l’Isidret Edicions, after meeting and subsequently pursuing a collective project in Argentina in 2010. As well as being a platform for disseminating the [...]
Imprimatur speaks of the construction of our cultural heritage, about books, about pictorial imagery, and about the knowledge and vicissitudes of their transmission. The exhibition is articulated around two video projections: a conversation between Francisco de Goya and the businessman Martín Zapater, and the trial [...]
A tender and slightly surreal portrait of an artist’s mother appearing to drink tea has won one of the UK’s most prestigious art prizes. Miriam Escofet, a London-based artist, was named winner of the 2018 BP portrait award for a painting praised by judges for its [...]
In Jordi Alcaraz: defying boundaries, the artist furthers his explorations and near-obsessive ruminations on the limits of interior/exterior concepts, reality and evocation, presence versus absence, volume and void –the rational and the poetic. Even boundaries created by frames enclosing his paintings and drawings are altered [...]
For his first Italian solo show, Sebas Velasco has chosen to accompany us on a journey through the countries of former Yugoslavia, made up of images, suggestions, reminiscences and memories. “When I was a child, I always chose Yugoslavia as my videogames team, maybe [...]
The 1980s and 1990s were peak moments for graphic design. After the death of Franco, with Spain’s full integration into Europe and the establishment of democracy, designers had the opportunity to participate in a process of creating and transforming the image of public institutions, [...]
Las Mitocondria (Alicia Herrero and María Ángeles Vila Tortosa) carries out a research between Visual Arts and Contemporary Dance, focused mainly on the theme of women, their social role and their part within the family environment . In this personal exhibition, the duo presents [...]
Is the first institutional solo exhibition of work by artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (b. 1977, Barcelona) in the United States. Based in Rio de Janeiro since 2004, Steegmann Mangrané is considered to be at the forefront of a generation of artists currently emerging from [...]
Moisés Yagües (*1972, Murcia) tells stories of borders and migration in his exhibition "on the other side". It is a graphic series in black and white combined with collages. The background to the idea is the sad but unavoidable reality of the refugee situation, [...]
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 [...]
Joan Fontcuberta, noted artist, curator and historian presents a new and surprising history of photography, featuring previously unknown works that expand our understanding of photography’s past and present. Photographs by Picasso, Dalí and Miró are featured alongside important commissions of Albert Renger-Patzsch, Man Ray, [...]
A Different Gaze organized in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso of Paris – home to the most complete collection of the artist’s works – and curated by Carmen Giménez, one of the world’s leading authorities on the artist. Through an unprecedented dialogue between [...]
Uriarte’s drawing practice is rooted in a mundane reality, based on small gestures that happen without artistic intention during office hours, for instance scribbling or drawing straight lines are examples of these gestures. He began his drawing practice in 2005, mostly by making monochromes, [...]
How many horizons are there? Imagine the surface of all the seas, oceans, rivers, and lakes of this world as a single horizon. The water line marks the boundary between everything that is above and all that lives below. In addition, water compels us [...]
Internationally renowned artists have been invited to present new or existing work at the interface between architecture, sculpture, installation and performance, based on the body of ideas that underpins baroque landscape architecture. This includes motifs such as the grotto, the maze, the tableau vivant, [...]
When the borders are underscored the time has come to ask what is it that is so valuable that it allows no mixture. Amongst the multiple and tendentious definitions of nation, country or homeland, we seem to juggle with notions that go beyond the [...]
The city of Antwerp celebrates the Baroque period and Rubens. Rubens as a source of inspiration. Politically and geographically the armed conflict between catholic and protestant religion dominated this time frame. In Antwerp, specifically, the Spanish occupied the city, the port, the area. In [...]
The works selected by curator Carolina López and include films by directors such as Segundo de Chomón, Josep Escobar, Francisco Macián, José Luis Moro, Jordi Amorós, Tomàs Bases, Raúl García, Juan Pablo Etcheverry, Isabel Herguera, Javier Mariscal, Anna Solanas, Marc Riba, Alberto Vázquez, Pedro Rivero, [...]
Can art be compared to love? “Love is to give something you do not have ... to someone who does not want it," said the French philosopher Jacques Lacan. If that is the case, can we then see similarities between artistic practice and love? [...]
This group exhibition examines contemporary attitudes toward the environment in a post-digital context. The focus is on the capacity of constructed natures to produce admixtures of the natural and the synthetic. The projects consider the changing character of the environment in the context of [...]
Jaume Plensa, one of the world’s most famous artists, will be exhibiting his work at Djurgården this summer. Sculptures with the total weight of approximately 30 tonnes will be brought from Plensa’s studio in Barcelona to Djurgården. Apart from three 7 meter high cast [...]
This exhibition gathers an exceptional group of large-scale works, from different periods, that exemplify his commitment to the complementary notions of fullness and emptiness, interior and exterior space, and gravity and balance. Highlights of the exhibition include Arco de la Libertad (1993) and Homenaie a Calder (1979). Chillida [...]
Where We Belong is a body of work exploring themes of belonging, femininity and escapism through a portrayal of Jane Austen devotees. The “Jane Austen Pineapple Appreciation Society” is a group of people who share a strong passion for the 19th century English author. [...]
Santiago Sierra’s work Political Prisoners in Contemporary Spain features 24 black and white photos of 74 political prisoners from different causes, with their faces pixellated. “The fact of having to visit penal institutions is in itself an indicator of the failure and powerlessness of society to [...]
“8th Under the Subway Video Art Night” is an event devoted exclusively to video art taking place simultaneously in Valencia (Spain), Kemzeke (Belgium), La Havana (Cuba), Sao Paulo (Brazil) and New York, and will feature the work of 4 Spanish artists. Since 2011, Under the [...]
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, [...]
“Heavy Metal,” the fifth installment in NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series, showcases contemporary artists working in metal, and includes works by Spanish sculptor Blanca Muñoz. Featured artists in Heavy Metal investigate the physical properties and expressive possibilities of metalwork through a wide variety [...]
Manolo Valdes is a rare breed of artists who has mastered multiple artistic disciplines in this career. Born in Valencia, Spain, Valdes works in paint, sculpture and mixed media and describes his works as having a life beyond the themes and boundaries of an [...]
With “Guernica Syndrome” Fernando Sánchez Castillo explores an extremely charged relic of recent Spanish history that places the focus on events that have been forgotten or have not been dealt with. Franco’s yacht Azor was a symbol of power, and he held important political discussions on [...]
Dora García’s new work Red Love is inspired by the Russian author, feminist, activist, political refugee and diplomat Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952) who propagated for radically transformed relationships between women and men. Free love and camaraderie were at the core of her thinking, as expressed [...]
“One time is no time” speaks to the importance of sustained work and its development over time; to an insistence on repeating processes which produce results with minimal yet significant differences. It’s all about a way of addressing everyday work as a kind of [...]
Miro is the artist, sculptor, ceramist whose works are presented in the best museums around the world. Miro drew inspiration from everyday life – it became the same as the unknown- before-world in his works, where a poetry and a dream dominated. Joan Miro [...]
José Carlos Naranjo describes his way of working as a tension between the pursuit of an image/idea and a simultaneous desire to deny, block or subvert the emerging image. He thinks of this process as like a rizoma (rhizome) – an underground stem system of lateral [...]
Basilea invites us to reflect on a city’s possibilities through a series of immersive projects connecting the City of Basel, its residents and the 95,000+ fairgoers anticipated to attend Art Basel. Conceived by artists Lara Almarcegui, Isabel Lewis and architecture studio Recetas Urbanas led by [...]
To complement The Playground Project, the Bundeskunsthalle is opening the roof garden and the museum square to Outdoor, an exhibition on the subject of ‘Play’. It provides the contemporary artists Nevin Aladağ, Kristina Buch, Ólafur Elíasson, Jeppe Hein, Carsten Höller, Christian Jankowski, Llobet & [...]
The exhibition presents the work carried out by Daniel G. Andújar (Almoradí, Alicante.1966) on the occasion of his participation in documenta14 in 2017. The project is structured as a visual protest against violence and an update of the current representation of conflict, showing how [...]
Jorge Mañes Rubio considers from an ethnographic point of view themes of vanishing civilization and shamanism, forgotten places and stories of the past, all of which are given a new meaning through his work. His experiments transcend the boundaries of art, in conjunction with offering alternative perspectives on politics, society [...]
Tere Recarens was born in 1967 in Arbùcies, Girona. Her woks have to do with moving, the turmoil it sometimes infers. Most of them are answers to precise contexts: Tere Recarens, by choice or necessity, can be brought to react to a situation, she [...]
Berena Álvarez Fernández’s showing of Infirmes introduces us to a classic art topic, especially in photography: the identity. Marcel Duchamp had already marked a precedent when he was photographed by Man Ray as a dame named Rose Selavy. Today, questioning identity and challenging the imposed [...]
‘A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes’. Mark Twain, 1919 The exhibition draws on the phenomenon of fake news which is now seen as one of the greatest threats to democracy, free debate and progress. [...]
As one of the most important representatives of Spanish contemporary art, Barceló is known for his pastose, relief-like mixed media and expressive ceramics, which also show influences from Catalan tradition and from his travels to West Africa. The artist’s native Mallorca, and in particular [...]
To decompress from the stress of covering human conflict, Cervera photographs surfing. He looks for that transcendental moment when you are so involved in what you are doing, that nothing else matters. That is the flow. Guillermo Cervera (Madrid, 1968) is a freelance Spanish photojournalist [...]
The title Contemporary Chaos will seem well suited to the visual experience that meets the visitor, for this exhibition embraces a huge variety of expressions and media: painting, photography, video, performance, and site-specific installations created for this occasion. As a whole, the exhibits reflect [...]
From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present looks at the transformation in our view of From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present looks at the transformation in our view of the arts of Africathe arts of Africa, Oceania [...]
Spanish architect Miguel Quismondo has been awarded the Honor in Architecture for the project Magazzino Italian Art on view at the Center for Architecture. The 2018 AIANY Design Awards exhibition features winning projects in the categories of Best in Competition, Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and [...]
“Nothing, absolutely nothing makes sense, if we don’t admit that people are not islands, independent of each other; every person is a piece of the continent, a part of the whole.” (Thomas Merton, 1955). In “We are not islands”,Ordóñez shows us more than twenty poetic landscapesclose [...]
The project, which will represent Catalonia in the Biennale Architettura 2018 as Collateral Event and which is curated by journalist Pati Nunez and architect Estel Ortega along with RCR Arquitectes, reveals an unknown side of Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta: their most intimate universe. [...]
The portraits of Pierre Gonnord celebrate the strength of the human condition that invite you to feel connected to it through the image of the faces of Asturian miners. Pierre Gonnord (Cholet, France, 1963) lives in Madrid since 1988. Shelf-taugh photographer, at the end of [...]
Rubén Salgado Escudero is a photographer / videographer born in Madrid, Spain. He lived in the United States throughout his teenage years, and graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design. He subsequently moved to Berlin, Germany, where he worked as a 3D character [...]
Fundació Suñol presents the exhibition ACTE 39: Antoni Abad. measure X measure. 1992’2015, a project specifically set for Nivell Zero, which includes Antoni Abad’s work from the 90’s up until 2010. All these works are directly related to his own research about the idea of measurement [...]
'becoming' is the name given to the exhibition proposal for 2018. Located among learning environments of Architecture and continuing with the appropriate and temporary character of the previous Spanish pavilion Unfinished, becoming shows Spanish architecture via the works of a superb set of home-grown [...]
On May 4, 1968, one day after students in Paris had occupied the University of Sorbonne and announced the so–called May 68, the exhibition 50 Years of the Bauhaus was opened at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart. The opening was accompanied by protests against the planned [...]
Internationally recognized from the start of his career, Blasco made NYC his hometown and inspiration. The works in the show have a strong sense of places where nothing is certain, except for permanent uncertainty. They provide an immersive experience of constructed escapisms referencing different areas of [...]
"Unspoken We" is an all-encompassing event that includes an exhibition and a number of parallel activities by international artists and theorists. With a focus on language, performativity and literature, the project explores the potentiality of the individual within a collaborative framework through notions of [...]
The works selected by curator Carolina López and include films by directors such as Segundo de Chomón, Josep Escobar, Francisco Macián, José Luis Moro, Jordi Amorós, Tomàs Bases, Raúl García, Juan Pablo Etcheverry, Isabel Herguera, Javier Mariscal, Anna Solanas, Marc Riba, Alberto Vázquez, Pedro Rivero, [...]
The Museo Reina Sofía presents a retrospective on Eusebio Sempere (Onil, Alicante, 1923–1985), one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century Spanish art who shared the platforms and ideas of Kinetic Art and whose work was set apart through its light- and colour-based poetics. “It’s [...]
Desde la década de 1950, el artista español Eduardo Chillida (San Sebastián 1924-2002) contribuyó a la renovación de la escultura desafiando las limitaciones de los materiales. Al asociar la herrería con la escultura moderna, que abarca el espacio circundante, ha contribuido a la redefinición [...]
“Noises in the Blood” is inspired by contemporary Jamaican dancehall ritual. Made in collaboration with a group of British Jamaican women in Birmingham, Lúa Ribeira recreated scenes from dancehall culture at the participants’ homes. By embracing the impossibility of fully understanding this cultural expression [...]
Under “natural” circumstances, the average woman would get pregnant about 15 times in her life, resulting in ten births. Seven of those babies would survive childhood. For centuries, people have searched for ways to delay or terminate pregnancy. Today, safe and efficient means of [...]
Esther Ferrer’s Fête Maison is an audio work recorded in 1998 in her home in Paris while cleaning, cooking, speaking on the phone and taking care of daily life. The sounds are familiar and unaffected, made with the most rudimentary means. This exhibition presents Ferrer’s piece [...]
A Sense of Wonder is an exhibition that brings together the latest projects by artist Carles Congost (Olot, Girona 1970). It includes videos that can be interpreted individually but which maintain many thematic connections that are common in his artistic practice (music, the world [...]
Sara Ramo (Madrid. Spain. 1975) explores notions of order and disorder by recording banal actions, that become surreal interventions in intimate, domestic settings. Strongly informed by performance art, Ramo sometimes appears in her own works. Using film, installations and photography, she is inspired by [...]
For this project the artist has recruited the help of a neural network – a type of machine learning algorithm – to explore the legacy of El Laboratorio de Formas; a proto-think tank established in the early sixties by a pioneering group of Galician [...]
The exhibiting photographers: Felipe Scheffel, Nuria Espuis, Jose Luis Barcia, Julia Eme, David Izkierdo, Nacho Rivera e Irene Herrero offer us their particular vision of different cities. Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Granada or London are all represented in this show. The photographs represent buildings, significant [...]
All matter is full of meaning and its place in the world is what gives it meaning. Chema Madoz works with the meaning of things as if it actually takes physical form. He uses objects and their graphic representation as if they were words [...]
Desde la década de 1950, el artista español Eduardo Chillida (San Sebastián 1924-2002) contribuyó a la renovación de la escultura desafiando las limitaciones de los materiales. Al asociar la herrería con la escultura moderna, que abarca el espacio circundante, ha contribuido a la redefinición [...]
Santiago Ramón y Cajal made transformative discoveries of the anatomy of the brain and nervous system, work that led to his receiving a Nobel Prize in 1906. This founder of modern neuroscience was also an exceptional artist. His drawings of the brain were not [...]
Irene Grau is a Spanish conceptual artist who challenges the boundaries of contemporary painting, the perception of color, and the limits of space. Taking the act of painting beyond the studio and off the canvas, she enters into the landscape to discover moments when [...]
