Temporary Exhibition
Current
From February 04 to June 01, 2025
Zurbarán. Saints
During the Baroque period in Spain the Catholic reaction to the Protestant Reformation gave rise to an art based on realistic and highly dramatic images whose purpose was to inspire devotion through highly emotionally charged depictions of saintliness. This context, in what was known as the Spanish Golden Age (the 17th century), saw the emergence o...
Current
From April 01 to September 14, 2025
Pintura liberada
Some thirty works by more than twenty artists make up this diverse and colourful mosaic of the figurative painting that became a symbol of the new modernity ushered in by Spain’s transition to democracy in the 1980s. For the main players in this productive period for Spanish contemporary art, it was a decade that vindicated painting: its val...
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Sorolla in Andalusia
Joaquín Sorolla, an indefatigable painter and tireless traveller with a curious and cosmopolitan nature and an enquiring mind, shaped a particular lifestyle marked by constant wanderings. Over the years he continually explored the world within his reach. And painting was always the main reason for ...
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Naked. Normative and Rebellious Nudes in Spanish Art (1870-1970)
The almost ninety works in this exhibition tell a story unbounded by norms, offering a subjective survey designed to stimulate both the mind and the senses of viewers as they explore more than a century of very diverse nudes in Spanish art. In a country with no historical tradition in a genre that w...
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Imogen Cunningham. Essences
The American photographer Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) was born in Portland, Oregon, into a humble farming family. Her father Isaac Cunningham, a freethinker and voracious reader, instilled a love of art and nature in Imogen, the eldest of six siblings. In the early 1900s Cunningham studied ...