This 2023 will of course be a commemorative year where exhibition programming will take place: 50th anniversary of Paul’s death Picasso, 40 of Joan Miró, the centennial Joaquín Sorolla and the hundred of his birth Antoni Tapies (It’s in December, and her foundation hasn’t released details yet.) Plus names like Tina Modotti, Plensa, and Anglada Camarasa, and themes like spies in movies or the Marquis de Sade. We have compiled 10 exhibitions not to be missed for you.
Picasso and the year of Miró
‘Miró-Picasso’ will be one of the stars of the Picasso Year, which coincides with the Barcelona’s 40th death. From October 19, the exhibition will be simultaneously At Fundació Miró and Museu Picasso will explore the friendship, coincidences and differences of the two artists, the legacy they left in the city of Barcelona (like their museums) and how they influenced each other with a unique perspective.
They are also expected to celebrate the anniversary of the Malaga artist. Reina Sofia Museum From Madrid, in November, ‘Picasso 1906. The great transformation’; sculpture exhibition ‘Picasso. Matter and body’ in May Picasso of Malaga and then Bilbao Guggenheim; and ‘The Will of Picasso’, Design Museum, About the ceramics that inspired him in June. The Brooklyn Museum in New York will make a controversial appearance in June: ‘Picasso and feminism’.
I look will play a leading role. Guggenheim with ‘absolute reality. Paris, 1920-1945’ (February).
Movie spies and 19th century portraits on CaixaForum
While you can still see the big comics exhibition or the big show on Ancient Egyptian mummies in Barcelona right now, the CaixaForum will bring in ‘Top Secret’ in the fall, where James Bond will be shoulder to shoulder with Mata Hari and Edward Snowden with actress Carrie Mathison. ‘Homeland’ series. A tour of the relationship between cinema and espionage, the relationship between fictional characters and real spies, ‘tools’, movie props and the technology of real spies.
The headquarters at the old Casaramona factory also scheduled an unusual trip (February 15). 19th century portrait in Spain, a symbol of power and at the same time a social phenomenon, at a time when social changes made it possible for the bourgeois class to agree to take their portrait. With wonderful works by Goya, Vicente López, Madrazo, Sorolla or Ignacio Zuloaga from the Museo del Prado.
From Anglada Camarasa to Borrassà’s Gothic style in MNAC
Scheduled for 2022 but delayed, this 2023 Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) will host two exhibitions that focus. new achievements. First, thanks to the generous donation of painter Hermen’s family. Anglada Camarasa (1871-1959) was the most international Catalan artist in the years before and after the First World War, along with Marià Fortuny (February 2).
The other (23 February) will show the latest additions to Gothic art: ‘The Profession of St. Peter the Martyr’ and the ‘Decapitation of the relatives of St. Hippolytus’ panels originally belonging to the Barcelona Cathedral, the workshop of one of the greatest painters of the time, Lluis Borrassa (1360 -1424), the exhibition will touch upon his work and his figure in late medieval painting.
Ilse Bing and Tina Modotti, photography with the name of a woman in Kbr
February 15 Kbr of the Mapfre Foundation will open the first retrospective in Spain of the unclassifiable and innovative German photographer Ilse Bing (1899-1998), influenced by the Bauhaus. She will gather 190 photographs and documentary material from her hometown of Frankfurt to her exile in the USA, from Paris, where she worked for major magazines, and from the concentration camp in the Pyrenees, where she was with her Jewish husband, the pianist. Konrad Wolff. There will be a dual exhibition in June: one of 200 photographs of Italians. Tina Modotti who helped the Republic in the period (1896 – 1942) Civil war The Spaniard coordinates a hospital in Madrid, works as a nurse, and takes war children out of the country. His career has been marked by a desire to awaken consciences, denounce injustice and defend the dispossessed. The other exhibition will justify the little-known Jules Ainaud and explore Catalonia, which he photographed for a year between 1871 and 1872.
The Year of Sorolla
The Valencian painter’s centennial began already last December. New venue in Barcelona with ‘Hunting impressions’ displaying oil miniatures Palau Martorell; and in Madrid, with a selection of his portraits Prado Museumand ‘Origins’ Sorolla Museumexposure
Nancy Holt at MACBA
Among the storms that MACBA will deploy, Nancy Holt. ‘in out’ (June 29), the most ambitious presentation of the versatile artist of the New York scene, key figures of the Land Art and conceptual movements. The exhibition will justify Holt’s (1938-2014) work, which is far less well known than its male counterparts and includes film, video, photography, poetry, sculpture, sound and drawings made between 1966 and 1992. as the magnificent fun sculpture ‘Ventilation System’ that will cover the various floors. The new Macba directed by Elvira Dyangani Ose also premiered. new presentation of the permanent collection, ‘Poetic Intention’, creating a new story thanks to the dialogue of the works obtained in recent years with the pieces from the museum collections;
From Sade to Artificial Intelligence at CCCB
When the CCCB closes in May the unmissable ‘Graphic Constellation’ that justifies nine avant-garde comic writers, it will be replaced by the star of the new season, an exhibit that will examine the figure of the Marquis. SimpleFor some it can be controversial, revolutionary and liberating and for others harmful, corrupting and causing shock and horror. Transgressive philosophy writer sentenced to torture, censorship and 27 years in prison. We’ll have to wait until October ‘Artificial intelligence’It will address the disturbing and liberating potentials of technology and ask itself where man ends and artificial intelligence begins.
The eye of Marcelo Brodsky in Foto Colectania
The consequences of the Argentine dictatorship were captured in May 1968, with the goal of fighting ‘apartheid’ in South Africa or Black Lives Matter in the US, and exile to Barcelona in the 1970s, fleeing his country’s military dictatorship. Argentine photographer Marcelo Brodsky. From February 2 to May, Foto Colectania will tour all of its best known series.
John Berger and Miralda in La Virreina
In May, La Virreina will open ‘Permanent Red’, which will explore the ideological implications of the work of versatile Britons. john berger (1926 – 2017) has written extensively on poetry, dramaturgy, novels, essays, film and television scripts. And in JuneMiralda. Fashion and Photography (1962-1978)’ will focus on the artist’s face as a photographer in the fashion world of the 60s and 70s, with a wealth of unpublished material. Both shows are curated by the center’s director, Valentín Roma.
Plensa and Antonio López in La Pedrera
It will land on La Pedrera Jaume on March 31 plensa With ‘The Poetry of Silence’, where Barcelona’s most international sculptor will focus on his relationship with poetic language and literature. In September, the modernist center will host a tour of the famous painter and sculptor’s career spanning over 70 years. Anthony Lopez.
-Lucien Freud: Museum thyssen Madrid will celebrate the centennial of the violating and agitating British artist. 14th February.
-Oskar Kokoschka: Austrian expressionist, whose work the Nazis described as corrupt, will shine in March Bilbao Guggenheim.
-Johannes Vermeer: Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will host the artist’s biggest exhibition, ‘Young Woman with a Bible’, on February 10.
-Manet and Degas: In march Orsay Museum in Paris It will bring together these two geniuses of the 19th century.
– Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian: In April, Tate Modern in London.