Malaga city will have in 2026 a CaixaForum, a cultural center run by the La Caixa Foundation, which will have two exhibition halls and multipurpose rooms, dedicated to the different branches of plastic arts, culture, scientific dissemination and the humanities, as well as with an important technological side.
The mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre, and the president of the La Caixa Foundation, Isidro Fainéhave signed an agreement this Thursday of collaboration whereby both parties undertake to facilitate the construction of this new facility, which will place Malaga in a network of top-level cultural entities at a national level, among which are cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Zaragoza or Seville.
In fact, De la Torre has considered that this agreement supposes a “step forward” in the cultural strategy of the city as well as the response to the “longing” to enter that league of big cities with a cultural, educational and informative commitment such as the one offered by these spaces.
“We put ourselves on an equal footing with Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Zaragoza, Seville… with which there is no longer a situation of inequality. Those programs that they do, that they have been doing in Malaga, with temporary exhibitions in tents and that are a source of pride for the city that hosts them, will be enhanced by that synergy that between all the CaixaForum it is done”, the councilor from Malaga applauded.
This new equipment will be located in the twin solar to the Provincial Police Station of Malaga, in the Plaza de Manuel Azaña, practically at the exit of Málaga from the Avenida de Andalucía. It is a plot of 8,200 gross square meters, 5,500 net taking into account the space reserved for green areas or roads, which currently has use of public parking.
The “most unique” center
The construction of the building will be borne by the La Caixa Foundation, which has already announced that it will be a “singular” CaixaForum, the “most innovative”, as stressed by the Deputy General Director of the La Caixa Foundation, Elisa Durán.
“It is a unique model that aims to about the diffusion of culture to all citizens, with quality and rigor to achieve bring the most specialized public but also familiesto schoolchildren and to all those people for whom it is a barrier to approach a cultural institution”, he explained, while specifying that the city has the necessary volume of population to join the CaixaForum network.
Its facilities will offer six exhibitions that will rotate throughout the year and that will be nourished by the agreements that the La Caixa Foundation maintains with national and international institutions such as the museum of Louvre, the British Museum, the Pompidou or the Prado. Thus, residents of Malaga and visitors will be able to enjoy art samples from the most ancient times to the most contemporary currents, as well as film, comic and audiovisual samples.
Beyond the exhibition rooms, another of the peculiarities of this center will be its multipurpose rooms, which will function as an educational space with a wide range of themes, although with one main objective: narrow the digital divide.
“It will be a very important educational space, to bring these new technologies closer and narrow the gap that exists between the most vulnerable groups”, Elisa Durán continued, while highlighting the location chosen for the future equipment. “The experience of all these years will allow us to have the most innovative CaixaForum, highly visible, with that gateway to the city, which is going to be that beacon that shows what the city of Malaga is, that cultural engine that is an example and a benchmark throughout Spain”.
The deputy director general of the La Caixa Foundation has stressed that “everyone raves about what the city stands for in innovation, in culture, in science, in entrepreneurship” within the Board of Trustees of this entity, which has approved the proposal to bring a CaixaForum to Malaga this Thursday. “It’s exciting, it’s a great day for us.”