Teresa Lanceta, an Alicante-based Catalan artist, is the focal point of this season at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM). The project Weaving as Open Source is presented in collaboration with Macba, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, and is currently on view.
The exhibition, curated by Nuria Enguita and Laura Vallest, traces Lanceta’s long arc as a pioneering textile artist in Spain, spanning from the 1970s to today. It assembles a rich range of works — tapestries, canvases, paintings, drawings, writings, and videos — offering what is described as the most intimate contact to her practice to date.
Beyond the solo body of work, the show highlights Lanceta’s interest in collaborative formats, underscoring dialogues with a network of collaborators. The project connects with Alicante artists Olga Diego, Pedro G. Romero, and Xabier Salaberria; Leire Vergara, a police station artist; the La Trinxera collective; film producer Virginia García del Pino; and the thinker and artist Nicholas Maleve. The collaboration extends to museum educators, students, and teachers at IES Miquel Tarradell in the Raval, reflecting a sustained, shared inquiry into weaving as a social and cultural practice.
Two main axes structure the exhibition, which gathers nearly two hundred pieces that map different phases of Lanceta’s career. The show also reflects on her early encounters with Moroccan textile traditions in the Middle Atlas and her long residence in the Raval neighborhood of Barcelona between 1969 and 1985, a time that deeply shaped her approach to weaving and material culture.
Postwar and Julio González
IVAM is also shaping an expansive fall program dedicated to postwar European art, along with a renewed presentation of Julio González’s work. The calendar includes Inside a House. Genealogy of Housework and Care, a selection anchored in the IVAM collection that foregrounds women’s lived experiences in domestic spaces, and features Alba Herrero and Ana Penyas, whose work has earned national recognition.
The autumn program opens on September 29 with Far from the Void. Zero and Postwar Art in Europe, a survey of European currents from 1957 to 1966. The exhibition places emphasis on the ZERO group — Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Gunther Uecker — and on the Spanish Equipo 57, illustrating how these collectives tied magazines, publications, and one-night-only openings to broader artistic movements. With more than 170 works, the show illuminates the pivotal role these groups played between the historical avant-garde and later relational art.
Juan José Lahuerta, an art and architecture historian and critic, will assess Julio González’s works within the IVAM collection. Through a careful review of the archive, Lahuerta will reframe aspects of this major artist’s life and practice, challenging enduring myths from the mid-twentieth century.
The 2022 exhibition calendar concludes with Inside a House. Genealogy of Housework and Care, opening on November 10. This project draws on archival materials and the life experiences of women across ages and origins, including domestic workers and employers, to map the temporal, spatial, and social shifts connected to care work. The program also features Ana Penyas’ works All Under the Sun and In Transition, both drawn from the IVAM collection. “