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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ca’ Pesaro hosts one of the most authoritative and eclectic Spanish practitioners of contemporary art and architecture: Juan Navarro Baldeweg (Santander. España 1939). Architect, painter, sculptor, engraver, lecturer and essayist, Baldeweg has designed some of the most emblematic Spanish buildings of recent decades, among [...]
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 [...]
