Xavier Rodés has chosen to express his painting skills and judgement in a realist style, yet in a personal manner. His art-work is always evocative, showing great ability in portraying light, which he shades accordingly to describe a close up in a still life [...]
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art together with the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), with the support of the Embassy of Spain, presents a solo exhibition of the Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa, the first to be held in Russia. The Catalonian artist gained fame thanks to his figurative installations and sculptures integrated in urban [...]
As it is typical of Calleja's approach to presenting his work, the exhibition is conceived as one large installation, with artworks being in dialogue with each other and space. Colorful interventions and scripture on the walls expand the viewer's experience of the works, allowing them [...]
Raúl Díaz Reyes (Madrid 1977) His work breaks the frontiers between disciplines, taking us into a decisive contemporaneity, in which all languages drift away from the standard and invite us to knock into shape a panoramic look of our surroundings. The union that is [...]
The moon landing on 20 July 1969 was one of the events of the century. Fifty years after man first set foot on the surface of the moon, Fotostiftung Schweiz looks at the photographic representation of this celestial body, which has always inspired people's [...]
Carlos Sagrera (b. Madrid 1987.) Lives and works in Leipzig, Germany. Graduated for his Fine Arts study in 2011. The main subject in the work of this young Spanish painter are interiors; different spaces of a home in which time seems to have stood still. The [...]
The actions of The Runner –running, jumping, pivoting and overcoming obstacles– reflects the insatiable quest of the human’s spirit to energetically go forward, and illuminates the looming sense of uncertainty that our digital future holds. As such, it is a metaphor for the blend of today’s [...]
As part of the series of art exhibitions "Divine Dialogues", the Museum of Cycladic Art organizes this year a major exhibition titled "Picasso and Antiquity. Line and clay". It is a rare exhibition about Picasso’s ceramics and drawings inspired from antiquity and in conversation with [...]
This exhibition will gather a series of works that analyse the dystopian aspects and consequences of the architectural currents that progressed through Europe starting in the 1950s. In a difficult post-war context and with the ideas from the modern movement stagnated after achieving an [...]
This exhibition is a part of Expanding The Horizon, the programme dedicated to the development of international partnerships between the museum, other cultural institutions and private collections. On this occasion MAXXI is hosting a number of works from the collection of the Institut Valencià [...]
As artists, Zóbel and Chillida began to develop in a sort of isolation and in a problematic context. In the early 1950s Chillida conceived his first sculptures in plaster and stone, which would later result in works like Lurra 16 (Earth 16) (1978), Lurra G-326 [...]
The exhibition, which offers a comprehensive overview of the first three decades of Picasso’s career, includes 103 works drawn entirely from the collection of the Musée national Picasso-Paris, which trace Picasso’s development from childhood to middle age. Curated by Emilia Philippot, Head of Collections, Musée national Picasso-Paris, the exhibition [...]
The work of Spanish sculptor Enrique Asensi combines two classic materials, steel and stone. Variously coloured granite, dolomite, limestone and alabaster contrasts well with corten steel. Asensi demonstrates the relationship between the flatness of the steel with reliefs hewn into the stone. Moreover, as [...]
The exhibition "Joan Miró. Beyond painting." curated by Rosa Maria Malet, former director of the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, gives visitors the opportunity to discover an essential aspect of the artist: his exceptional graphic work. The exhibition is centred on the working process of [...]
Javier Calleja produces works that bring surprise and humor to viewers by incorporating subtle twists and interventions to various events within everyday life. Expressing a fondness for the works of Rene Magritte, Calleja attempts to reference and reinterpret the techniques of the surrealist master [...]
I met José Manuel Ciria nearly fourteen years ago. I first exhibited him in the Spring of 2007 and this exhibition marks our fourth collaboration at the gallery. Ciria is one of Spain’s pre-eminent non-objective painters. He has exhibited extensively in both public and [...]
The exhibition is devoted to one of the greatest protagonists of the international contemporary art. Miquel Barceló, versatile artist able to join different art languages, is mainly well known to the public for his gestural pictorial research. During the 1990s, he started to approach [...]
The exhibited works result from decades of applied photographic research and visits to the United States to observe, first-hand, original works by photography pioneers. Selected portraits and landscapes use wet collodion, an early form of photographic emulsion. A glass plate or sensitized metal is [...]
Through diverse mediums such as design, furniture, sculpture, sketches, and large-scale installations, the exhibition explores the artist’s unique and intriguing perspective of the world. Throughout the seven sections in this exhibition, fantasies embedded in ordinary objects are unveiled and the design objects themselves come [...]
Visual artist, theoretician and activist, Daniel G. Andújar (Almoradí, Alicante, 1966) lives in Barcelona. He questions the media and the strategies used by the new means of communication by highlighting the desire for control under appearances of transparency and the failures of democratic access [...]
Jaume Plensa, (Barcelona, 1955) is a world-renowned sculptor best known for his constructions in the public space resembling the heads of women that are multiple meters tall. With their eyes closed, they have an almost meditative expression. Plensa's much-acclaimed exhibition at the Basilica di [...]
With The Incised Shadow, the Fundación ENAIRE presents the most recent and one of the most ambitious projects by Javier Vallhonrat, winner of the 1st Fundación ENAIRE Trajectory Award. This exhibition is the result of over 10 years of fieldwork at the Maladeta Glacier in the [...]
After her first solo exhibition Seal Sounds Under the Floor in 2013, Alicia Kopf will present at the gallery her new project, Speculative intimacy. Her investigations have the particularity to generate materials in the field of visual arts and litterature in parallel to each other. The new [...]
The Gallery 100 Kubik shows works by Jorge Villalba (*1975, Alicante), who is represented in many public and private collections in Germany. His hyperrealistic paintings revive figures from mythology, fairy tales and Christian faith and bring them into a contemporary context. Villalba thus builds [...]
Spanish photographer Alberto Feijoo has been selected among the 8 UK based artist to take part in The Photographers’ Gallery New Talent Annual Exhibition and Programme. American artist Jim Goldberg and the curatorial team at The Photographers’ Gallery selected the work of Feijoo from [...]
