BarcelonaLooking at the programming of the great museums, it seems that there is no pandemic: this year they are loaded. We explain some of the great exhibitions of 2022.
The Dean of Art Today
This year a new edition of the Documenta de Kassel is being held
The Documenta in Kassel is considered the most important contemporary art exhibition in the world and is also known as “the museum of a hundred days”. This year’s edition (from June 18 to September 25) will be more unique because the curators are for the first time a group, the Indonesians Ruangrupa, known for tackling problems such as colonialism and migration with languages as diverse as video art. literature and electronic music.
The impact of surrealism
La Tate expands the story and Magritte arrives in Barcelona
Surrealists will be the protagonists of some of the great exhibitions of the year. At the Tate Modern, Surrealism beyond borders (from February 24 to August 29), to rewrite the history of the movement beyond Paris. There will be art from 45 countries and from big cities like Buenos Aires, Cairo, Lisbon, Prague, Seoul and Tokyo. In Barcelona, the Magritte exhibition co-organized with the Thyssen Museum in Madrid will arrive at the CaixaForum (from February 24 to June 6). The Magritte Machine It delves into the artist’s perceptual games with some 65 paintings and a series of photographs and home movies.
The power of photography
The photographer of the moment, Carrie Mae Weems, at the Kbr and Colectania
From the center Kbr of the Mapfre Foundation they assure that the exhibition of the African American Carrie Mae Weems that they will do together with the Foto Colectania Foundation will be “the exhibition of the year”. Carrie Mae Weems has exhibited at MoMA and is known for addressing issues of race, sexuality, class, violence and family with both photographs and art installations. The other highlights of the center will be dedicated to Dean Lee Friedlander (February 17-May 15).
It is also worth highlighting two more exhibitions of the photographic season: the one that the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) will dedicate to the pioneer Mey Rahola, one of the recent discoveries in Catalonia, and that of Jorge Ribalta’s documentary photography in Mapfre in Madrid.
An extension with Plensa
The Ceret Museum of Modern Art grows with new rooms
The new rooms of the Ceret Museum of Modern Art They will open in March with Jaume Plensa as the guest of honor. From the museum they assure that their works “play with the place, draw an intimate geography and infinitely redefine the links with the space that surrounds them.”
Art returns to La Pedrera
They resume the agenda with Morandi after the pandemic stop
The temporary exhibitions will return to The stone after the ravages of the covid with a retrospective of Giorgio Morandi, the 20th century master of refined and essential still lifes (from February 4 to May 22). The exhibition, titled Morandi. Infinite resonance, includes more than a hundred drawings, paintings and engravings.
Inside the blue Picasso
The Barcelona artist’s museum exhibits scientific studies
The Picasso Museum Over the last decade it has been one of the epicenters of scientific searches in the works of the Malaga artist from the blue period that have been made all over the world. After hosting an international symposium in 2015, they will present the exhibition The blue period in the collection [estudio científico] (from April 5 to September 25), where aspects of a series of works such as materials, color layers and the reuse of fabrics will be examined.
The car as a work of art
Norman Foster will exhibit a part of his collection in Bilbao
The architect Norman Foster will be the curator and one of the lenders of the great exhibition that the Guggenheim in Bilbao will dedicate to the role of the car in the history of art and design throughout the 20th century, entitled Movement, cars, art, architecture. It will include 38 iconic and little-seen cars and some 300 works by established artists and architects. This exhibition will open the doors on April 8, after that of Masterpieces from Fauvism to Surrealism at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris (from February 11 to May 22).
Turner’s joke
Landscaping will star in a star show
The MNAC once again collaborates with a large international museum. After the Orsay Museum, it organizes a great exhibition of pioneering William Turner in Barcelona with the collaboration of the Tate, and in parallel it will do another exhibition of Catalan landscape painters from the 19th century.
A Catalan art intensive
Vila Casas will do exhibitions of Balcells, Viladot and Subirachs
This year’s program of the different museums of the Vila Casas Foundation is a multifaceted review of contemporary Catalan art: they will do exhibitions by Guillem Viladot (Espais Volart, from May 20 to October 2), Josep Maria Subirachs (Can Mario, from June 18 to November 27), Eugènia Balcells (Can Framis, from October 4 to January 22) and Oscar Tusquets (Espais Volart, from October 14 to January 15).
Cineastes in museums
Pedro Costa in La Virreina and Pere Portabella in El Bòlit
La Virreina will be the kit where the filmmakers’ exhibitions will have more weight, with two international exhibitions: one by the Portuguese Pedro Costa and the other about the writer Marguerite Duras. At Bòlit de Girona They will delve into a dean of Catalan cinema, Pere Portabella. Pere Portabella: Santos Action + Gosar Poder It consists of an exhibition on the relationship between the filmmaker and Carles Santos and an installation by Isaki Lacuesta that recreates the recital of the 50th anniversary of Price dels Poetes, of which Portabella made a clandestine film.
The art of narcotics
The Bòlit de Girona explores all the faces of ‘Narcohumanism’
It seems more than opportune in times of the opiate crisis in the United States and the desire to escape the pandemic this other group exhibition of the Bòlit, Narcohumanism (from March to May), with which “the cultural and countercultural resonances of drugs” will be put on the table.
Paul Klee in Miró’s house
The Barcelona artist’s museum exhibits scientific studies
The line of collaborations of the Joan Miró Foundation with other monographic museums will begin in October with an exhibition by Paul Klee. The common thread will be the observation of nature that agermanizes them.
Tosquelles revolutionary
The CCCB will receive the great sample of this legendary psychiatrist
The psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles (1912-1994) was a key figure for the Catalan and European culture of his time and at the same time he is a very unknown figure. The CCCB It will be the Catalan center that will host the great exhibition on his legacy (from April 7 to August 28). “It dignified the lives of those who did not count, abandoned in asylums and asylums, while denouncing the pathologies of normal men under the Europe of fascism”, can be read in the presentation.
Two great artists
Paula Rego at the Picasso in Malaga and Amèlia Riera at La Virreina
The Viceroy will satisfy a historical debt, dedicate a major exhibition to Amèlia Riera (Barcelona, 1928-2019), an unclassifiable artist within contemporary Catalan art and a pioneer in gender issues (from July to October). In Malaga, the Picasso Museum It will host the Tate Britain retrospective of the Portuguese Paula Rego, with portraits that sometimes also have a surreal touch (from April 26 to August 21).
The classic big names
The National Gallery will expose Rafael and the MNAC to Carracci
After the checkered great Roman exhibition, the National Gallery of London it will be surrendered to the genius of Raphael (from April 9 to July 31), with works from great museums such as the Louvre and the Hermitage; while the Prado and the MNAC (from July 1 to October 2) will bring together for the first time the paintings that one of the great Baroque painters, Anibale Carracci, made for the Herrera Chapel in Rome.
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