Less than a year after its announcement, the future CaixaForum in Malaga is taking shape at high speed and burning in stages to achieve its goal. It opens its doors in 2026.
This morning, Malaga City Council and la Caixa Foundation will present details of the project designed by . Catalan architect Felipe Pich-AguileraAt an event held in the Hall of Mirrors, President of the la Caixa Foundation, Isidro Faine; the Elisa Durán, deputy director general of this organizationAnd Mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre.
This cultural center will be located at the exit of the city, on the twin parcel of the Provincial Police Department, on a 8,200 gross land plot that has been zoned since the end of last year. Owned by Malaga City Council. The municipality took ownership of this land, which was owned by the mayor. It has been requested for decades, After the Andalusian Junta last December completed the transfer of the land envisaged in the urban planning agreement signed in the late eighties.
This land transfer, which took place 35 years after the agreement between the Board of Directors and the Malaga City Council, represented, as Francisco de la Torre stated, the necessary step for the definitive launch of this project. An important rivet in the city’s “longing” and cultural strategyby including in its offer a space with the capacity to hold up to six rotating exhibitions throughout the year, fueled by agreements with the world’s leading museums Prado, PompidouIt has its own headquarters in the capital Malaga. British Museum or Louvre.
CaixaForum will present art from a wide range of artistic and temporary movements. cinema, comics and audiovisual examples. It will be equipped with two exhibition halls as well as multi-purpose areas that will serve as entertainment and education, aiming to reduce the digital divide in the population.
CaixaForum Network
Malaga will thus join the CaixaForum network managed by la Caixa Foundation and Tenth Spanish city has this level of equipment. This network of cultural and interactive centers was acquired in 2023. 4.5 million visitors, Next to the CosmoCaixa Science Museum in Barcelona.
This cultural facility stands as well as the Catalan capital, where the first CaixaForum opened in 2002. Madrid, Valencia -Opened in 2022-, Zaragoza, Seville, Palma, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona It strengthens the bond it has maintained for 30 years with the la Caixa Foundation, where fifty exhibitions have been organized.