Museo Carmen Thyssen

American People. American Documentary Photography (1930–1980)

In this selection of more than fifty images from the José Luis Soler Vila Collection, several decades of documentary photos, from 1930 to 1980, form a mosaic of faces and people who were spotted and caught on film in streets and every...

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 mai...

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 depiction...

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 wor...

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...

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, th...

Provocative Materials for Thought Contemporary Japanese Photography. José Luis Soler Vila Collection

Featuring an extensive selection of photographs from the José Luis Soler Vila Collection, which are displayed in the Sala Noble and Espacio ArteSonado, this exhibition brings together and summarises the main contributions made by phot...

Latent Modernity

Through more than sixty paintings, mostly from the Telefónica Collection, this exhibition tells the story of an episode in Spanish art that was largely shaped by the historical period to which it belongs. The hopes aroused by the sign...

Man Ray. Selected Photographs

For this exhibition devoted to the American Emmanuel Radnitzky (1890-1976) –better known as Man Ray– the Museum’s Sala Noble (Grand Hall) has turned into a sort of avant-garde cabinet of curiosities. Offering a survey...

Fiercely human. Portraits of Baroque Sanctity

Sanctity and its portrayal in art were two aspects that characterised Baroque culture in Spain. Following the Council of Trent (1545–63), the cult of saints as mediators and the definition of Catholicism as a decidedly visual rel...

José Gutiérrez Solana. Guest works

The encounter between these three works by José Gutiérrez Solana (1886–1945), made possible by the collaboration of the Banco Santander Collection, brings viewers face to face with strange and disturbing depictions of customs. ...

Rafael Canogar

The questioning of the two-dimensional limits of painting and its transformation into an “architectural” piece—two ideas that run through the vast artistic career of Rafael Canogar (b. Toledo, 1935)—serve as thi...

Memory of the Streets

In this exhibition three women photographers explore the streets of Barcelona in three consecutive periods of key importance in Spain’s recent history. Margaret Michaelis, who arrived from Berlin in 1933, came across the modern c...

Buenos Aires Fervour

Buenos Aires Fervour, whose title is taken from the first book of poems of another universal Argentine, Jorge Luis Borges, is a translation of Horacio Coppola’s love of the city into photographic language. Through a large group o...

Street Life. Lisette Model and Helen Levitt in New York

In this exhibition, photographers Lisette Model (1901-1983) and Helen Levitt (1913-2009) exchange glances on the streets of 1940s New York. Observing the inhabitants of the city through the lenses of their 35 mm cameras, each in their ...

Luis Feito. Painting Itself. From the Artist’s Collection (1956-1962)

Comprising nine works by the painter Luis Feito (1929-2021) produced between 1956 and 1962, this exhibition focuses on a particularly decisive period, both in his individual creative career and in the opening up of Spanish art to a new...

Belgian art. From Impressionism to Magritte. Musée d’Ixelles

Sponsored by: From realism to the modern landscape Through more than seventy works from the Musée d’Ixelles in Brussels, this exhibition provides a comprehensive and unique overview of the main trends in Belgian art fro...

Black is the Night. Solana, Cossío, Bores

This exhibition, which brings together for the first time the graphic work of three artists who played a key role in the drive to modernise Spanish art in the 1920s and the 1930s – José Gutiérrez Solana, Pancho Cossío and Fran...

Real(isms). New Figurative Trends in Spanish Art from 1918 to 1936

This exhibition takes an extensive look at a chronologically short but creatively intense period in which the first truly determined drive towards artistic renewal (and even the avant-garde) and a break with nineteenth-century art emer...

Juana Francés. Intimate retrospective (1957-1985)

This exhibition, organised in collaboration with the MACA, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, presents in Malaga the work of one of the most outstanding Spanish women artists of the second half of the twentieth century: Juana Fr...

Guest works. Joaquín Peinado

Engaging in dialogue with the paintings from the Carmen Thyssen collection on display in the second floor of the permanent collection, these five guest works from the Museo Unicaja Joaquín Peinado of the Fundación Unicaja Ronda show ...

Paul Strand. Pure Beauty. Photographs from the Fundación MAPFRE Collection

Beginnings in New York (1915−1930) This is the first exhibition to show the complete holdings of the photographs of Paul Strand (New York, 1890−Orgeval, France, 1976) acquired by Fundación MAPFRE between 2011 and 2015, th...

Sorolla in Jávea

Joaquín Sorolla (1863−1923) discovered Jávea in the autumn of 1896. The scenery of the place proved to be quite a revelation for the painter, then thirty-three. Sorolla was familiar with the landscapes of the beaches of his nat...

Painting Light. Catalan Masters from the Carmen Thyssen Collection

A keen collector of works full of colour and emotion which captivate viewers with their beauty, Baroness Carmen Thyssen seems to have been concerned with painting light when she assembled her extraordinary holdings of Catalan masters. ...

Piranesi. A Visionary’s Prints

The more than a thousand prints produced by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Venice, 1720−Rome, 1778) are the work of a passionate architect with a painter’s eye who only expressed his creativity in etched plates. A universal ma...

Avant-garde drawings [1910-1945]

An essential device in artistic training and painters’ and sculptors’ creative processes, in the twentieth century drawing came to be viewed as a form of artistic expression in its own right, independent of academic practic...

Masks. Metamorphosis of Modern Identity

This exhibition reflects on the mask as a means of transforming how the human figure is represented in modern art. Originally having a traditional festive use associated with the carnival and fancy dress, which continued to be predomin...

Toulouse-Lautrec and the circus

In 1899, during a short period of convalescence in a sanatorium in Neuilly, on the outskirts of Paris, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864−1901), the great portraitist of fin-de-siècle Parisian bohemia, produced a series of 39...

Arabian Fantasy. Orientalist Painting in Spain (1860–1900)

In collaboration with: European colonial expansion in northern Africa in the 1800s encouraged many...

Fortuny the printmaker

Following in the wake of other great painters and printmakers such as Rembrandt and Goya, Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (1838−1874), an unquestionable master of Spanish nineteenth-century painting, put his virtuosic skills to explorin...

Max Ernst: natural history

A key figure in the development of art in the 20th century, the German painter, sculptor and graphic artist Max Ernst (Brühl, 1891−Paris, 1976) set out to visualise a unique and fascinating dream world in his works. The Natu...

Perversity. Femmes Fatales in Modern Art (1880–1950)

From the eternal feminine to the new woman, this exhibition surveys more than half a century of images featuring women in a period – from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s – when their representation in art underwent a paradi...

Modern and seductive. Women in the ABC Collection (1900−1936)

During the first decades of the twentieth century, the illustrations in the weekly magazine Blanco y Negro and the daily newspaper ABC – two of the periodic publications with the largest circulation at the time – conveyed t...

The Fury of Colour. Francisco Iturrino (1864-1924)

In collaboration with: With this exhibition the Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga wishes to pay...

Henri Matisse. Jazz

Exhibition sponsored by: In the 1940s Henri Matisse’s failing health and difficulty pa...

Mediterranean. An Arcadia Reinvented. From Signac to Picasso

In collaboration with: Fundación Unicaja. The exhibition invites visitors to explore one o...

Gustave Doré, a traveller around Andalusia

(Imagen: Gustave Doré, The cathedral and port of Málaga, 1865. Colección UC de Arte Gráfico) The famous painter and illustrator Gustave Doré and the Hispanist Jean-Charles Davillier, both keen enthusiasts of Spain and things Span...

Juan Gris, María Blanchard and the Cubisms (1916-1927)

In collaboration with: This exhibition aims to encourage visitors to discover one of the mo...

Goya-Ensor. Winged Dreams

In collaboration with: Daniel Pastor Asociados. This enthralling intense dialogue between Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) and the Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949), two of the greatest universal masters of printmaking, begins with ...

The appearance of the real. Fifty years of realist art in Spain (1960–2010)

In collaboration with: Fundación Unicaja. Over the course of history, many artists have addressed the same challenge with different aims: to capture in their paintings the changing and fleeting appearance of reality – the outwa...

Japan. Prints and Art Objects

This exhibition consists wholly of works from the Museo de Bellas Artes of Bilbao. It shows a selection of pieces from the collection of traditional Japanese art that was assembled by the collector José Palacio (1875–1952) in hi...

The illusion of the American Frontier

Over the course of the nineteenth century, the conquest of the Wild West became more than a historical event in the founding of the United States of America, developing into a universal myth in which legend progressively replaced histo...

Sorolla. New York Sketches

The Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga is showing a rare set of gouaches and drawings made by Joaquín Sorolla in New York. These fascinating urban views and night scenes from the Museo Sorolla will allow visitors to discover a little-known ...

Reflections of Pop

Reflections of Pop surveys the reception of the international pop movement in Spain during the 1960s and 1970s through four of the individual artists and teams whose work illustrates the influence of this trend most clearly and continu...

Artists’ Posters. From Toulouse-Lautrec to Jeff Koons.

Within the new concept of modern art that was formulated at the end of the 19th century, the difference and hierarchy between the various artistic genres began to become less distinct. Graphic art consequently became the subject of eno...

Summer Days

The Summer Days exhibition takes its title from the work by Vicente Palmaroli in the Museum’s collection. Through a selection of Spanish and international painting, it surveys how, beginning in the mid-1800s, beaches and the sea ...

María Blanchard. Guest work

A renowned painter in an art scene barely open to women artists, María Blanchard (Santander, 1881 – Paris, 1932) was one of the foremost representatives of the early 20th-century avant-garde and one of the most important figures...

Casas-Rusiñol. Two modernist visions

Bourgeois, Bohemians, successful painters in Spain and Europe and foremost practitioners of Catalan modernism, Ramón Casas (1866–1932) and Santiago Rusiñol (1861–1931) are two of the great Spanish artists of the late 1800...

El Greco-Rusiñol

This small tribute the Museo Carmen Thyssen is paying to El Greco is linked to Rusiñol. It features one of the paintings that were acquired by Rusiñol, Saint Peter in Tears, along with a copy by Zuloaga, a faithful devotee of the Cre...

Darío de Regoyos. The Impressionist Adventure

Darío de Regoyos was acquainted at first hand with some of the new art movements of the late 19th century, allowing him to contribute his innovative approach to the stagnated Spanish art scene of the day. Entitled Darío de Regoyos. T...

The Collection grows. Recent acquisitions

Eighteen works of different styles and periods swell the Museo Carmen Thyssen Collection with themes as important as Orientalism, the portrait or the nude. This presentation reaffirms the character of the Permanent Collection and prove...

Courbet, Van Gogh, Monet, Léger. From naturalist Landscape to the Avant-gardes in the Carmen Thyssen Collection

This exhibition, organised in collaboration with Obra Social “la Caixa”, offers a survey of landscape painting from the triumph of naturalism to the mid-20th century through a selection of works from the Carmen Thyssen-Born...

Julio Romero de Torres. Between Myth and Tradition

The aim of the exhibition Julio Romero de Torres. Between Myth and Tradition, curated by Lourdes Moreno, is to present a survey of the work of one of the most popular Spanish painters and to reflect on his artistic career through the d...

Context exhibition: Faith and Fervour in the Carmen Thyssen Collection. Simone Martini, Van Dyck, Gauguin

The aim of the exhibition Faith and Fervour in the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection is to drawn attention to paintings on religious subjects in the Carmen Thyssen Collection. This lesser known aspect of the Collection is in fact re...

Anglada-Camarasa. Arabesque and seduction

The exhibition Anglada-Camarasa. Arabesque and seduction, curated by Silvia Pizarro and Lourdes Moreno, will focus on the depiction of women and the female form in the work of Anglada-Camarasa (Barcelona, 1871 – Port de Pollen&cc...

Paradises and Landscapes in the Carmen Thyssen Collection. From Brueghel to Gauguin

This exhibition, curated by Lourdes Moreno, will present a fascinating survey of landscape painting from the 17th to the mid-20th century through major works in the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. The exhibition will analyse the ...

Mercedes Lasarte in the Carmen Thyssen Collection

The exhibition Mercedes Lasarte in the Carmen Thyssen Collection brings together a group of works created by Mercedes Lasarte between 1970 and 2011 and which belong to the personal collection of Baroness Carmen Thyssen. The first retro...

The modern tradition in the Carmen Thyssen: Monet, Picasso, Matisse and Miró

The exhibition The modern tradition in the Carmen Thyssen. Monet, Picasso, Matisse, Miró presents a selection of contemporary works from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza. The course is structured around the Spanish art made â€...