2024-01-01 22:55:15
After celebrating the centenaries of Pablo Picasso and Joaquín Sorolla, 2024 will feature Antoni Tàpies and Eduardo Chillida as protagonists of various exhibitions with which museums throughout Spain will claim their figures on the 100th anniversary of their respective births. But they will not be the only ones. Social art, realism and other figures such as Zurbaran, Gabriele Münter y Suzanne Valadon They will lead the main exhibitions called to mark the artistic agendas of the next twelve months.
‘Maestras’, Thyssen’s “unmitigated corrective” to the disregard of women in the history of art
The Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum will be in charge of hosting the exhibition of the Catalan painter and sculptor, which will feature more than 250 works from centers and private collections around the world. Organized together with the Tàpies Foundation, it will open its doors next February. His paintings are part of the group of 437 titles that can be visited in the Madrid art gallery in 2024 and that appear on the list of those that the State has insured for nearly 136,000 euros.
The institution directed by Manuel Segade will host exhibitions by other names throughout the year such as Eva Lootz, Olga de Soto, City of Kilomb; as well as collective exhibitions Esperpento y In the air. The museum will have to do without the Palacio Cristal as its headquarters for at least three months, having had to close for urgent works due to possible landslides.
Chillida Leku (Hernani, Guipúzcoa) will be the epicenter of the exhibitions that will commemorate the centenary of the birth of Eduardo Chillidawhose work can be visited in several Spanish centers and also abroad, since it will travel to Santiago de Chile, San Diego (United States) and Künzelsau (Germany).
Social art, protagonist
The big bet of the National Prado Museum for 2024 is Arts and social transformations in Spain (1885-1910), an exhibition with which the gallery will promote social realism, a key genre in 19th century painting. There will be 300 works that will take over the entire Jerónimos building from May 21 to September 22, and that will allow us to understand the sensitivity, demands and complaints that were palpitating in Spanish society and that served as a means of expression for artists such as Dario de RegoyosIsidro Nonell, Antonio Filloll Granell and Pablo Picasso.
The events that occurred in the last years of the 19th century – such as the first workers’ demands and the loss of the overseas colonies – incorporated themes into art that, for the first time, affected all social classes. Issues such as healthcare deficiencies, gender inequality and abuse appear in many of the paintings, in which the naturalistic style triumphs.
The Prado’s other large-format temporary exhibition, scheduled for November, will be Shake hands. Sculpture and color in the Golden Age, which will bring together a hundred works, half of them paintings and the other half sculptures; that will illustrate the natural integration between the two, their triumph in the Hispanic world and the value of sculpture as a tool of persuasion. The museum will also dedicate exhibitions to German Sigmar Polke and his relationship with Goya, Pedro Pablo Rubens and Francisco de Zurbarán. Of the last one he will exhibit the Still life with lemons, oranges and a rose as a guest work, from the Norton Simon Museum in California.
At the end of the 19th and 20th centuries, the MAPFRE Foundation will continue to focus on its rooms in Madrid and Barcelona, with exhibitions for the socio-political commitment of Marc Chagalthe photographers Christer Strömholm, David Goldblatt, Comfort Kanaga, Louis Stettner y Paz Errázuriz. In the second half of the year there will be room for Paul Durand-Ruel and the last flashes of impressionism y 31 women; the exhibition that Peggy Guggenheim organized in 1943 with works made exclusively by female artists.
Henri Cartier-Bersson, Considered one of the fathers of modern photography, he will be the last protagonist of the Foundation in Barcelona. A man whose political commitment led him to fight for social rights and the most disadvantaged. His work provides a succession of images in which some of the most important events of the 20th century can be seen.
Another art gallery that also aims to inspire social changes through art is the MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. The project will inaugurate its season 108 days of Lydia Ourahmane (Algerian, 1992); which will be followed by monographic exhibitions dedicated to figures such as Jordi Colomer, Mari Chordà y Teresa Solar, the photographic project Archipelago. New images of the Barcelona neighborhoods; and the proposals Song for many movements. Collective creation scenarios y [contra] panorama.
The last two will reflect on the forms of collectivity, solidarity and infrastructural work that, historically and in the present, have generated aesthetic, political, cultural and social forms that have ended up creating an institution. The installation will complete the catalog Carmen of the American Wsu Tsang (Worcester, 1982) and the MACBA Collection. Prelude, Poetic intentionwhich will incorporate works by Antoni Tàpies, Mar Arza, Adrián Balseca and Katia Kameli, among others.
More space for more women artists
In the line of Teachers, with which the Thyssen Bornemisza National Museum responded to the disregard for women in the history of art; The art gallery will showcase the work of two artists: Isabel Quintanilla (February 27 – June 2) and Gabriele Münter (November 12 – February 9, 2025). With the exhibition on Quintanilla (1938-2017), the museum will dedicate for the first time a monographic exhibition to a Spanish artist, in this case to one of the fundamental figures of contemporary realism. The German painter Münter (1877-1962), for her part, was one of the founders of The Blue Horseman (Der Blaue Reiter), the legendary group of expressionist artists based in Munich.
In The off-center look. Art and colonialism in the Thyssen collections (June 25-October 20), the center will show “invisible” stories of racial domination, marronage, the struggle for civil rights, the employment of enslaved African labor, and the appropriation of American, Asian, and African lands and raw materials.
The National Museum of Art of Catalonia will review the figure of the painter, draftsman and engraver Suzanne Valadon (April 9 – September 1), which played a fundamental role in the Paris of the avant-garde from 1910 to 1930. Previously, in The lost mirror. Jews and converts in the Middle Ages (February 23-May 26), which could be seen in the Prado, will delve into the function of images in the relations between Jews and Christians in medieval Spain, between 1285 and 1492. The source of life from the workshop Van Eyck and the altarpieces he made Pedro Berruguete for Saint Thomas of Ávila are some of the works that will be exhibited. The art gallery will open a new space dedicated to Master of Capstany and will recover one of the exponents of Catalan modernism, Eveli Torrent.
After the exhibition Picasso-Miróthe Miró Foundation of Barcelona will offer Miró-Matisse: Beyond the images, which will explore the similarities and connections between both artists despite their generational differences and styles. The photographs that Bernard Plossu took in the picassian locations of Horta de Sant Joan, Gósol, Cadaqués and the county town itself. The art gallery dedicated to the cubist in Málaga will exhibit the work of Marius de Zayas (1880-1961), who was the first to bring Picasso’s creations to New York, in 1911. Starting in April, he will offer a monographic exhibition on the painter from Santander Maria Blanchard (1881-1932), Painter despite cubism.
The filmmaker Agnes Varda will be one of the figures claimed by the CCCB, Center de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, starting on July 17. It will previously premiere Suburbia. Building the American dream (March 19 – September 8), in which it will present its cultural history, exploring the various political implications of its consolidation, the ecological consequences of its dependence on fossil fuels and the gender and racial chiaroscuros that have marked its trajectory. 2024 will close it World Press Photo y Amazon. The ancestral future.
Pop art, abstract and tributes
He Pop Art will be one of the stars of 2024 at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, through the exhibition Symbols and objects (February 16-September 15), which will mix historical pieces and a selection of new ones by contemporary artists who explore the legacy of pop and use its forms to criticize and politicize issues such as the language of consumerism.
Another of the protagonists of the Bilbao art gallery will be the sculptors Giovanni Anselmo y June Crespothe painter Martha Jungwirth, the dutch duo Metaheven and his work chaos theory; and abstract art, through the works of the British Anthony McCall and the Swedish pioneer Hilma of Klint. In addition to Yoshitomo Nara, To whom he will dedicate an exhibition that will cover his entire career, from his first titles created in Japan in the eighties, in which recurring elements of his private history appear, such as the house and his first characteristic children’s figures.
The ‘la Caixa’ Foundation, which in 2026 will launch the ArtStudio CaixaForum, a space with which it will bring together and energize the 1,069 works by 445 artists that are part of the institution’s Art Collection; will exhibit at its different venues Art and nature, The science of Pixar y Dinosaurs of Patagoniaan immersion in the paleontological work that entails reading the secrets of the rocks.
The Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid will dedicate samples to the multidisciplinary artist Marina Núñez, Pablo Picasso through the rugs with which more than 250 artists paid tribute to him in 1972 and Rogelio López Cuenca. On the occasion of the ‘Ramón y Cajal Year’, PhotoESPAÑA will propose a contemporary reinterpretation of the visual legacy of the Nobel Prize in Medicine through the works of four invited artists.
popular y Photography in the middle They are the two exhibitions that will take over the beginning of the IVAM year in Valencia; while the Juan March Foundation in Madrid, which continues to house Before Americawill open in April The most beautiful small museum in the worldabout the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art that was created by Fernando Zóbel in the 15th century Hanging Houses in Cuenca in 1966. In it he granted a space of freedom independent of the political regime that reaffirmed an entire generation of painters and sculptors.
Beyond our borders
Outside of Spain, the National Gallery in London will celebrate its 200th anniversary with an exhibition on Vincent Van Gogh. In spring, the Musée d’Orsay will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first impressionist exhibition with Paris 1873. Inventing impressionism.
In addition, in Italy there will be exhibitions on Pablo Picasso in Milan and Joan Miró in Catania; in Belgium the traveling exhibition IMTime.newsNE will offer an immersion in surrealism and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will host a retrospective of the painter Frans Hals. The Metropolitan Museum of New York, for its part, will dedicate exhibitions to Cycladic art, Renaissance portraits, Indian painting and Harlem art. The Jumez of Mexico will present the work of the British Damien Hirst and the São Paulo Art Museum Francis Bacon.
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