An installation by Eva Fàbregas in 'When Forms Come Alive', at the Hayward Gallery in London.Jo Underhill
When Forms Come Alive
Hayward Gallery.
London.
Until May 6
The season's exhibition in the London room, a small brutalist temple on the south bank of the Thames, is dedicated to 21 sculptors of recent decades who worked with impossible forms, from the hanging works of Ruth Asawa to the futurist totems of Marguerite Humeau.
In addition to two Spanish artists: Teresa Solar Abboud, who presents one of the mutant chrysalises that she brought to Venice, and Eva Fàbregas, recently honored in Berlin with her soft sculptures.
One of June Crespo's new works, in curved teardrop steel sheet, for her exhibition at the Guggenheim Bilbao.Ander Sagastiberri
June Crespo.
Vascular
Guggenheim Bilbao.
Until the 9th of June
The Navarrese sculptor, who could also be part of the previous exhibition, stars in an individual exhibition that describes her work as an encounter with herself and with others.
The tour reflects the growing freedom that Crespo demonstrates in his practice and establishes a dialogue with his neighbors in the museum: his raw metals converse with the arte povera of Giovanni Anselmo and with the spider of Louise Bourgeois.
The performance 'Imponderabilia', created by Abramovic and Ulay in 1977, performed again at the Stedelijk in Amsterdam.Fabian Landewee
Marina Abramović
Stedelijk Museum.
Amsterdam.
Until July 14th
Coming from the Royal Academy, the exhibition offers a new look at the performance pioneer, sometimes ridiculed for her overexposure in recent years.
The tour ranges from her exciting work alongside Ulay to interventions such as The House With The Ocean View, a house built inside the museum in which she lived for 12 days shortly after 9/11.
Her performances will be performed every day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
'Cookery Class' (1958), 'collage' by George Grosz.Estate of George Grosz, Princeton, NJ/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023
George Grosz.
A Piece of My World In a World Without Peace
Kleine Grosz Museum.
Berlin.
Until the 2nd of June
Opened in a former gas station south of Berlin, this small museum, as its name in German indicates, offers walks through the work of Grosz, whom the Nazis classified as a degenerate artist.
This exhibition reviews the collages and photomontages that he made when he went into exile in the United States based on advertising images, with which he ridiculed incipient consumerism with the same taste for social caricature that the portraits of him in Weimar Germany exuded.
An image from the series “Sundays, 1994-1997”, by Xavier Ribas, in Foto Colectania (Barcelona).XAVIER RIBAS / VEGAP
The course of events
Photo Colectania.
Barcelona.
Until the 2nd of June
From Ramón Masats to Laia Abril, the exhibition at the Barcelona center includes a selection of 160 photographs from a collection of more than 3,000, chosen by curator Carles Guerra.
The original arrangement of the works in the rooms allows new meanings to emerge that an isolated image could never have generated.
And also:
The nostalgic realism of Isabel Quintanilla makes history at the Thyssen.
The Madrid artist, a master in the detailed representation of everyday life, becomes the first Spaniard to whom the museum dedicates a monographic exhibition.
Chantal Akerman, in privacy.
An exhibition in Barcelona proposes a tour of the video installations of the filmmaker, who died in 2015, in which a dreamy and dramatic work is drawn, crossed by themes such as love or history.
Miquel Barceló and ceramics as an extreme form of painting.
The exhibition
We are all Greeks
brings together his forays into the discipline over the last 30 years at La Pedrera in Barcelona.
Rafael Canogar, a museum for the master of informalism.
Toledo inaugurates a permanent exhibition with works by the pioneer of abstraction and member of the El Paso Group, still active at 88 years old.
An image from the Precious Okoyomon exhibition at the Retiro in Madrid.INMA FLORES
Precious Okoyomon turns the most secret corner of the Retiro into a lush forest.
The Cat Mountain in the Madrid park reopens with a top-of-the-line project: a wild garden, somewhere between paradisiacal and unhealthy, where a lamb robot hides.
Antoni Tàpies in full: the Reina Sofía brings together 220 works from museums and private collections around the world in an exhibition curated by Manuel Borja-Villel, designed to celebrate the artist's centenary.
The artist's Foundation in Barcelona has also scheduled a year of tributes with exhibitions and events.
The first exhibition explores his relationship with Asian-rooted spirituality and brings his work into dialogue with that of unexpected artists.
A reference of
arte povera,
although he was a character who consciously avoided labels, Giovanni Anselmo focused his interest on the cyclical nature of natural phenomena, earthly energy and that of the cosmos, almost always using pre-existing materials.
The Guggenheim Bilbao dedicates an extraordinary retrospective to him.
'Leo Zimmerman, Paris, 1949', by Christer Strömholm, one of the photographs exhibited at the Mapfre Foundation in Madrid.CHRISTER STRÖMHOLM
The Swedish photographer who photographed the streets of Franco's Spain.
A retrospective of Christer Strömholm at the Mapfre Foundation in Madrid shows the documentary work of an author marked by the suicide of his father and the three wars in which he participated.
Shadows in the shadow theater: the art of Ulla von Brandenburg comes to Madrid.
The Velázquez Palace hosts the new installation by the German creator, a supporter of a proudly scenographic art.
Ana Mendieta never returned home.
An exhibition at the Musac in León observes the work of the late Cuban artist without biographical 'pathos' and reflects her insistent (and impossible) return to her origins.
Teresa Lanceta is everywhere.
The textile artist, winner of the 2023 National Fine Arts Prize, stars in two exhibitions: one in the Patio Herreriano in Valladolid and the other in the Museum of Modern Art in Céret, in France.
'Freedom' (1970), video installation by Yoko Ono now on display at the Tate Modern in London.
The most famous unknown artist in the world: the Tate Modern in London dedicates an estimable retrospective to the Japanese Yoko Ono, but it fails to fulfill the objective of redefining her work as a creator.
The Argentine Ana Gallardo, who has made feminist dissidence a way of life, opens a retrospective at the CA2M in Móstoles.
Systemic violence, menopause, old age and pride are part of a unique work.
Frans Hals: 27 shades of black and a big smile.
The anthology organized by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam recovers the Dutch Baroque painter whose loose brushwork seduced Impressionism.
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