The show features the work of seven MPA Gallery artists who currently live and work in New York City: Dennis Adams, Victoria Civera, Santiago Giralda, Carlos Irijalba, Muntadas, Tony Oursler and Juan Uslé. Some of the featured artists have lived in New York since [...]
Who would be interested in an empty parking lot? is part of a series of exhibitions that deepen Ian Waelder’s interest for skateboard and youth culture and their forms of reproducibility through film, photography or sound – a matter that has deeply influenced his [...]
The Examinations Centre is a place of memory for most of the Maltese. This exhibition, made up of commissioned and existing works by Maltese and international artists deals with the sea as a place of memory, romanticism, global trade of goods as well as mobility, [...]
Isabel Muñoz, National Photography Award 2016, presents in Tabacalera a selection of 97 photographs and six video installations about the photo works more representatives of her actual production. The Anthropology of Feelings is the title of the exhibition curated by Audrey Hoareau and François [...]
Hauser & Wirth is pleased to present its inaugural exhibition of works by Eduardo Chillida (1924 – 2002), Spain’s foremost sculptor of the twentieth century. Widely recognized for monumental iron and steel public sculptures displayed across the globe, Chillida is also celebrated for a wholly distinctive [...]
The Sheltering Pixel by artist, Javier Hirschfeld Moreno (b. 1979 Malaga, Spain) is a refreshing iconoclastic photographic project in which the artist proposes to “make people aware of the double-standards in image and representation”. Hirschfeld disrupts the natural order of image production by making [...]
Even today, church and art have more in common than it may seem at first glance: both help shape society, create social identity and provoke discussions of the same. The exhibition seeks out possible connections between temporal and secular zones, it explores forms of [...]
Is My Body Public is a new art work and fashion collection created by Alicia Framis (b. Barcelona 1967) For this work Framis has designed a new collection of dresses in which she explores the borders of that which is private and that which [...]
Lita Cabellut (Sariñena, Spain, 1961) is an artist whose work goes beyond the limits of conventional painting. A free, determined creator with a strong, passionate character, Cabellut advocates painting that is not restricted by the norms governing the art market. For her, art must [...]
Featuring a body of works that comprises both large- and small-scale paintings, drawings, and sculptures, PichiAvo's first exhibition at Underdogs Gallery presents a scenographic setting that materialises the artists' original dialectic approach based on a dialoguing combination between different elements that results in an [...]
Spanish artist Eugenio Merino presents an immersive installation criticizing mass tourism and the cultural industry of the city-brand. Here Died Warhol is an installation by Eugenio Merino featuring a life-size hyperrealistic sculpture of Andy Warhol accompanied by a black granite gravestone. A functioning souvenir shop [...]
María Luisa Fernández’s works are characterized be the use of disparate artistic languages, ranging from post-conceptual and minimalism to elements coming from the intersections between constructivism and the tradition of the Basque sculpture, training ground of the artist. The use of “doublé entendres” and [...]
The paintings of Secundino Hernández play with surface and depth. The artist is currently enjoying spectacular international attention and works with washing, scratching, and layering paint. Secundino Hernández (b. 1975, Madrid) is a painter who revels in tensions between making and unmaking, construction and [...]
For several years now Anaut has had a passion for Baroque Chamber music, notably string instruments, and such composers as Haendel, Telemann or Corelli, and he has used this as his source of inspiration for his abstract painting. The works presented here in the [...]
This solo exhibition of Domènec (Mataró, 1962) offers a retrospective of his work from the late 1990s to the present, including some new projects. Using certain emblematic buildings or monuments of modernity as referents, Domènec analyses the proposals of the modern movement and its legacy [...]
The exhibition features Giralda’s most recent work, with paintings that are presented to the public for the first time and are the product of a practice that he put in place upon his arrival to New York: “I give a lot of importance to [...]
What links did Picasso maintain with non-Western arts? This question, frequently addressed, was however avoided by the artist himself for a long time. This exhibition aims to decipher a relationship born of admiration, respect and fear. “Negro art? Don’t know it.” It was with [...]
This group exhibition, based poetically on a botanical phenomenon, brought together artistic practices that promoted or gave visibility to new possible scenarios for living together in the world. It was the result of the prize for young curators organised jointly by MARCO Vigo, FRAC [...]
Juan Muñoz (1953–2001) counts among the artists who, in the 1980s, responded to minimalism and other abstract tendencies in art by bringing figurative sculpture back into play. Muñoz is a storyteller who uses drawing and space to stage his figures and objects. It is [...]
This exhibition forms part of the events relating to “Picasso- Mediterranée” one of the most important initiatives organized around the figure of Picasso, in which over fifty institutions from all over Europe are involved. The idea behind it is to highlight the relationship that [...]
How is life after suicide? This is a documentary project, which gathers the experiences of people in Kenya who have tried to commit suicide or who have lost a loved one to suicide. Using photography I collect their testimonies throughout the country, on the [...]
The series Wild Laocoön (from a poem by Federico García Lorca), made up of over 200 photographs, constitutes a photographic documentation project of key places in Flamenco culture, featuring the historical, economic, social, administrative and political structure of the institutional/popular culture of Flamenco in [...]
The starting point of the project 12 Concrete Songs is a monument erected in the Weimar cemetery to honour the workers who lost their lives during the protests triggered by the Kapp Putsch in 1920. It was built by Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, later [...]
Uslé’s practice reflects on the possibilities of painting. His works possess an intriguing intensity borne from plays of colour and the nuances of pattern and gesture. The canvases in this exhibition, which range from the intimate to the very large, have evolved slowly over [...]
Alberto García-Alix was born on 1956, in León, Spain. When he was eleven years he moved with his family to live in Madrid, where he currently resides. His first negatives date back to 1976. At the beginning of the eighties he made his first [...]
The Spanish artist Amparo Sard, born 1973, was recently nominated in the Netherlands by LXRY as one of the 25 most important contemporary artists in the world. In 2015, she was awarded the “Medaglia d’oro dell Governo della Republica d ‘Italia” in Rome and [...]
The exhibition Dora García. Second Time Around centres on the artist Dora García (Valladolid, 1965), embarking on an open journey around a broad array of her works in diverse formats and mediums — film, performance, texts, drawings — and punctuating some of the constants running through her [...]
From the 1950s, Spanish artist Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002) contributed to the renewal of the kind of sculpture that challenged the constraints of materials. Associating ironwork with modern sculpture, encompassing the surrounding space, he has thus contributed to a redefinition of sculpture, along with DavidSmith [...]
”Space and its reflection” presents recent artworks of the sculptor Carlos Albert (*1978, Madrid) again. His sculptures made of corten-steel or forged iron show dynamic compositions containing linear as well as space embracing rhythms. Emanating from the pure Spanish tradition Carlos Albert shows us [...]
María Lino (Painting), Maria Lago (Sculpture) and Franciso Uceda(Photography) continue to defy stereotype and set out to confront one of the most relevant topics today: the rights of immigrants and displaced persons. In the process, they give voice to the voiceless through a series of self-portraits (Maria Lino), [...]
Two painters, two complimentary styles, yet two very different lenses onto the world around us. In Specially Normal, Kristin Hjellegjerde will present new works by Norwegian Audun Alvestad and Spanish Cristina BanBan. While their painterly portraits of people may at first glance appear similar in their depiction of [...]
Geopolitical tensions as well as unsettling ecological, social, and economic developments are challenging the current world order. Faced with such growing uncertainty, trust in the pillars of our society is continually waning. Although it is certainly not the first time in history that the [...]
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, [...]
"When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich."Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Based in Madrid, DEMOCRACIA collaborate on large-scale interventions, politicising spaces and situations through the apparatus of propaganda. Filmed between Dublin, Houston and London, ORDER moves between out-of-town shopping malls, open-carry demonstrations and lavish [...]
Throwing material on the canvas and observing what is happening, was the form of creation used by British artist Francis Bacon. For him, art rises from the productive tensions established between shapes and colors in a fortuitous way. For the Spanish sculptor Jorge Oteiza, [...]
Solo exhibition of Catalan artist Berta Sesé, born in Barcelona and based in Paris since 2002, where she worked as a fashion designer for twelve years. Berta Sesé decides to devote herself exclusively to Art since 2014. The artist’s work alternates between painting and [...]
Marres presents Dreaming Awake, a tropical rainforest peeled back in layers. The exhibition is about the experience of touch caused by strong outside forces. The Amazon wilderness, moist, damp, sticky, deafening, breathtaking, is the most invasive form in which a landscape forces itself upon us. [...]
In the influence of Surrealism, the photographer becomes a sculptor, on a line stretched between the real and the imaginary. By transforming objects, often utilitarian, playing with collage, juxtaposition, reflections, he then brings chaos in everyday life and seems to allow silent things to [...]
This exhibition, drawn entirely from the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, offers a fresh assessment of the late period in Miró’s work. The exhibition brings together over 50 paintings, drawings and sculptures made in the period between 1963 [...]
One of the characteristics of today’s global, hyper-communicated and hyper- populated world is that it has lost its human scale. Everything is grandiose, vertiginous and immeasurable. Cities bursting at the seams, thousands of millions of displacements per year, thousands of millions of pieces of [...]
Xavier Puigmartí (b. Barcelona 1952) returns to Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art to display his new collection of artworks.This time the major theme of the exhibition is landscapes, especially those of Lake Qarun in Fayoum, where the artist has been working in his own [...]
Spanish video artist Antoni Muntadas is one of twelve international artists whose work will be shown in an exploration of monitor-based sculpture. Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995 shines a spotlight on a historical moment and a body of work in the history of media art [...]
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 [...]
Arete Venue and Gallery is proud to present The Art of Protest, an exhibition curated by Elizabeth Cooper that joins NYC artists together in a show of video, drawing, collage, photography, sculpture and protest signs. The Art of Protest investigates the different ways in [...]
What is a literary rebellion? Can literature change the world? To read and write is a slow pursuit, and often a solitary one. Still reading and writing are often seen as something threatening. Texts have been censored and banned, authors have been threatened, persecuted [...]
P420 is pleased to announce the exhibition foreign bodies, a double solo show by the artists John Coplans (London 1920 - New York 2003) and June Crespo (Pamplona, 1982) curated by João Laia. Coplans and Crespo, respectively through photography and sculpture, have conducted research with a [...]
Under the exhibition title "La Fin de Babylone. Mich wundert, dass ich so fröhlich bin!” the curator Chus Martínez invites you to listen to the stories that the park has to tell. The focus is on eight new works by artists Andrea Büttner, Claudia [...]
Peryton is a new exhibition space in central Copenhagen and the home to Oberon, an international contemporary art journal. It was conceived as a way to develop the themes and content of the journal within an exhibition program, and as a way to locate [...]
Santiago’s self-portraits are especially expressive. They are based on a photo series in which he is seen in a snowy landscape with his face covered in white cream. These paintings examine the primal origins of human nature. They depict the animal in the human. [...]
Hernández is known for his expressive paintings, deriving from the premise of figurative expression and abstract expressionism. The youthful energy of Secundino Hernández’s paintings has captured worldwide attention. Somewhere between figuration and abstraction, Hernández’s works are powerful in its insistence to lead the gaze across [...]
Each of Hugo Fontela’s recent seascapes portrays an island at the center of its composition. These present and mysterious rock formations inhabit a space that is difficult to define. Whether agitated or tranquil, the surrounding sea, like the island itself, is entirely imaginary. In [...]
Xavier Miserachs (Barcelona, 1937-1998) was the youngest member of a collective which in the late 1950s revived the creativity and innovation of applied photography, all trace of which had been lost after the Spanish Civil War. He brought about a break with the past in [...]
Joan Ponç (Barcelona, 1928 – Sant Pau, 1984) was a visionary and mercurial insular artist who played an important part in the history of art of the post-war years in Catalonia and Spain. He set in motion the artistic renewal of the avant-garde after the Civil [...]
Elena Asins and Esther Ferrer belong to that landscape of transgression of the artistic behaviors that crystallized in Spain from the second half of the sixties until the end of the seventies. An anxious time of liberties in which the practice of art was [...]
The world’s most iconic street artists present their provocative works together for the first time in Southeast Asia. From its beginnings in prehistoric cave painting and inscriptions on the walls of Pompeii, to Chinese dazibao and beyond, graffiti – from the Italian verb ‘to scratch’ – [...]
With „RUBEDO“, Matías Krahn presents the last series of his alchemistic journey into his self-knowledge as an artist, which bonds and unite the preceding ones. After “Nigredo” and “Albedo” Krahn’s unadulterated image-language and stylistic handwriting reaches yet again a higher level of harmonic stability: [...]
This major exhibition explores Pablo Picasso’s life-long fascination with African and Oceanic art, as well as works from the Americas, uniting his paintings and sculpture with art that fueled his own creative exploration. In addition to paintings, sculpture, and drawings by Picasso, the exhibition [...]
The exhibition Spectacle / Power / Mass Media presents works from the 1990’s to the 2010’s, most of them never shown before in Portugal. Muntadas’ multidisciplinary practice explores and analyses the social, political and anthropological phenomena of our world, in order to reveal the [...]
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 [...]
The exhibition ‘Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis’ is based on the collection of 85 works by Miró, owned by the Portuguese State. This important exhibition is curated by Robert Lubar Messeri, a leading world expert in Miró's work. The exhibition covers a six-decade period [...]
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, considered the father of modern neuroscience, was also an exceptional artist. He drew the brain in a way that provided a clarity exceeding that achieved by photographs. Combining scientific and artistic skills to produce drawings with extraordinary scientific and aesthetic [...]
Under the title Welcome to the Jungle, the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf will bring together a selection of international works that critically, reflectively, and often humorously, yet without moralistic finger-pointing, refer to those conditions and paradoxes in which we become entangled while attempting to do the [...]
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 [...]
'Tierra Santa' is a documentary project on cultural rites of passage but it is also (and perhaps more relevant) an introspective look at his own roots and memory. The Spanish photographer Guille Ibáñez explores the theatre of religion and the way in which people [...]
This exhibition aims to explore the connections between art, education and everyday life through the artistic practice. This would take us through a parcours where research and production processes, together with different approaches to the understanding of pedagogy and knowledge transmission –very much connected [...]
What are the social, environmental, and political consequences of our urban lifestyles? This year, Sex and the City, New York City’s most influential archisocial manifesto, turns twenty. The series, an often prescient telling of the cultural trends that have played out in the two decades [...]
Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002) is one of the major sculptors of the post-war international art movement. His monumental public works can be found throughout Spain, Europe and the Americas. Memory, Mind, Matter: The Sculpture of Eduardo Chillida presents 66 works of sculpture, drawing, collage, gravitations, graphic works, [...]
“I have always asked myself, what it is that I see in the artworks by Concha Argüeso. There is something that is not really visible –not in a way that is clearly recognizable. Sometimes it is the silhouette of a body, or just a [...]
Together with Constantin Brancusi and Pablo Picasso, the Spanish artist Julio González (1876 – 1942) is considered one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. This retrospective of over 100 works, most of which are being exhibited in the Netherlands for the [...]
The exhibition includes the series of drawings entitled Sèrie Teresa (Teresa’s Series, 1966), together with the series of lithographs, litho-collages and collages Cartes per a la Teresa (Letters to Teresa, 1974), pays tribute to their relationship by celebrating a private language accessible only to [...]
Marta Soul´s exhibition, Ama y Bebe (Love and Drink), is a series of theatrical photographs, films and live performance where the camera investigates the hidden world of the individuals’ private relationships. Marta Soul is the winner of The Potential Prize, an annual arts award [...]
Marcos Moreno has been a photojournalist since 2004. He collaborates as a correspondent for several photography agencies such as Agence France Presse (AFP), Getty Images and Associated Press (AP), among others. He has also collaborated with Europa Press, La Vanguardia, El País, Libération and [...]
Interview Room 11 celebrates its 6th edition of the Hidden Edinburgh event in 2017, which once again highlights the work of Spanish artists in the Scottish capital. In the project, each one engages in a dialogue with Edinburgh, but not with the Edinburgh we [...]
The Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Vilnius is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by Spanish artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané in the Baltic States. The exhibition Phantom comprises two works in the form of an interconnected installation, presented in the CAC’s South Hall. The work [...]
Attempting to go through any work by Nano 4814 (Vigo, 1978) involves delving into a hole-like shape––a space appearing laconically before us and dragging us toward the joys of synesthesia, where we know full well that one or another of our senses may undergo [...]
Conceived in situ, Surface is Patricia Dauder’s poetic elaboration of an image as a complex architecture, composed of layers of memory and meaning. The installation builds up a dialogue amongst several elements, carefully distributed in a space, which are commonly dark, flat, and that share a [...]
The exhibition will be one of the most significant shows the gallery has ever staged. It will take visitors on a month-by-month journey through 1932, a time so pivotal in Picasso’s life and work that it has been called his ‘year of wonders’. More [...]
In Xavier Toubes’ PushMoon4, the deft handling of material and skillful glaze technique is created by the palms but executed at the back of the mind. The “fluttering inventions” mingle experience with emotions, touching on the real, aware of the historical moment but un-consumed by [...]
Luna13 Galeria in collaboration with Spanish House London will present the exhibition “A Collage of drawings” that shows a fantastic collection of Uriel Segui’s drawings. Uriel Segui is a Doctor in Architecture, University Professor, artist, tireless creator and above all a person with a [...]
Times Square. Spring Break Art Show 2018. 6 – 12 march, 2018. Spanish filmmaker Laia Cabrera and animator / videomapper Isabelle Duverger co-create an interactive immersive installation for Spring Break Art Show 2018.Through immersive interactive projection mapping, video art, illustration and animation, Laia Cabrera [...]
MILWAUKEE. Jaime Hayon: Technicolor. The Bradley Family Gallery. Milwaukee Art Museum until 25 march 2018. Jaime Hayon: Technicolor brightens up wintertime in Milwaukee with a colorful splash of fun and fantasy. The energetic exhibition features work from two decades of the Spanish artist-designer’s career, [...]
Mauro Vallejo and Monica Restrepo. Locating Outside the Sign. SCAN Project Room. 3 – 14 april, 2018. This exhibition project curated by Rafael Barber, with the participation of the artists Mauro Vallejo and Mónica Restrepo, is the result of a research project carried out [...]
TEGUCIGALPA. From doodles to pixels. Over a hundred years of Spanish Animation. Centro Cultural de España. 1 – 30 march, 2018. The works selected by curator Carolina López and include films by directors such as Segundo de Chomón, Josep Escobar, Francisco Macián, José Luis Moro, [...]
Quintina Valero. Life after Chernobyl. GX Gallery 22 february – 6 march, 2018 Quintina Valero (b. 1970, Germany) is an award-winning documentary and press photographer. Her documentary work focuses on human rights and humanitarian crisis with an emphasis on migration, working often with local NGOs [...]
MADRID. Ignacio Uriarte “Tipología de dibujo escultórico” Galería Nogueras Blanchard 21 enero – 18 marzo, 2017 En esta nueva exposición Ignacio Uriarte acentúa el carácter más poético de su trabajo a través de la exploración de distintos gestos comunes, como la aleatoriedad de doblar hojas, [...]
Carlos Irijalba / Jon Cazenave “Simultaneous Eidos” Guangzhou Image Triennial 2017 Guangdong Museum of Art , Er-sha Lsland ,Guangzhou , China. 15 december 2017- 8 march 2018 The predecessor of Simultaneous Eidos -- Guangzhou Image Triennial was Guangzhou International Photography Biennial Exhibition hosted by [...]
Alicia Framis “Stedelijk Statements: Century 22” Stedelijk Museum Stedelijk Museum. Museumplein 10 . 1071 DJ Amsterdam 01/01/2018 - 01/01/2018 Stedelijk Statements: Alicia Framis, Century 22is the first edition of Stedelijk Statements, a program series in which a scholar, artist, critic, or cultural entrepreneur composes an evening [...]
Dali Moco Museum Museumplein Amsterdam Honthorststraat 20 1071 DE Amsterdam 01/10/2017 - 31/10/2017 A short time before the birth of Salvador Dalí on 11th May 1904, his brother – who was also called Salvador – died. Dalí grew up in the small town of [...]
Group Exhibition Le Cartel de la Friche, 41 rue Jobin - 13003 Marseille This is a group exhibition in which AC/E is supporting the participation of Spaniard Adrià Julià along with artists Bas Jan Ader, Meris Angioletti, Ali Cherri, André Cadere, Mathis Collins, Alighiero [...]
It smells like dust and wood. We get into the limbo of memory. An endless number of carefully carved objects tell us that there was once a time when clocks could take their time. There are mirrors of all sizes. Contained inside the glass is a heavy, sparkling history that [...]
