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 [...]
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 [...]
