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This year, when the Museo Picasso Málaga is celebrating its 20th anniversary and taking part in the international programme ‘Picasso Celebration. 1973–2023’, the works in its collection will be the starting point for the Easter holiday workshop, ‘A museum in the city’.

Designed for children aged 4 to 11, the workshop will be held in the mornings from Monday, April 3, to Wednesday, April 5. Enrolment is open today through the ticket offices and the MPM website.

The Museo Picasso Málaga is again collaborating with the Málaga Festival, now in its twenty-sixth year. Over the next few days, the Museo Picasso Málaga’s auditorium will host a programme featuring the screening of documentaries, tributes to filmmakers Carlos Saura and Agustí Villaronga, roundtables, and the award of the RTVA prize, making it one of the main venues during this week of Spanish film celebrations. Tickets for this programme of activities are now available from Teatro Cervantes, Cine Albéniz and at www.festivaldemalaga.com.

The Museo Picasso Málaga is again collaborating with MaF, Málaga de Festival, the run-up to the 26th Malaga Festival, by hosting five activities. Through the 130 activities that comprise its program, the MaF celebrates film-based culture while also reflecting on the society we live in. A large portion of this year’s edition is based on the theme ‘A world in liquidation’, which is designed as a reflection on the validity of essential values for human activity in the society of today’s world, and on its inhabitants’ emotional recuperation.

Between February 21 and March 4, the MPM auditorium will host a conversation between philosopher Diego Fusaro and the MPM’s artistic director, José Lebrero Stals; the experimental avant-garde cycle ‘Playing Picasso’ with ‘Solo Meditations’, a performance by violinist Luz Prado and DJ Kitty Soul; book presentations by their authors, such as Los brotes negros by Eloy Fernández Porta, and Incompletos. Una apuesta por el pensamiento elegante by José Carlos Ruiz; the programme at the MPM will end with the tenth edition of Versometraje, an activity that links image and word, this year with the special ‘Un mundo en liquidación’ (A world in liquidation).

The Museo Picasso Málaga has been present in Andalusia for 20 years, during which time it has grown as an international reference in the cultural transformation of Málaga. The Museo Picasso Málaga will celebrate its twentieth anniversary in 2023, coinciding with the events organised by “Celebration Picasso 1973-2023”, an international event organised for the 50th anniversary of the artist’s death. The Museo Picasso Málaga joins this celebration, which includes more than fifty exhibitions and events organised by cultural institutions around the world.

Museo Picasso Málaga is pleased to announce that the exhibition Picasso as seen by Otero will be extended until 8th January 2023. Originally scheduled to close on Tuesday 1st November, the exhibition has proved extremely popular among visitors, as it reveals aspects of the artist’s everyday life in the South of France.

The Future of our Collections is an international gathering in which we will be analysing the conservation of tangible cultural heritage, over one intense day in which expert guest speakers will include Arturo Colorado Castellary, professor and teacher at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Helen Frowe, director of the Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, Stockholm University, Stockholm, and lawyer Marta Suárez-Mansilla, who specialises in art law.

The Fundación General de la Universidad de Málaga (FGUMA) and Museo Picasso Málaga are once again joining forces to organize the international seminar “Picasso and the Applied Arts,” which will be held on 17th and 18th November in the MPM Auditorium.

After being removed from their customary place in Museo Picasso Málaga’s permanent collection, Pablo Picasso’s works Three Graces (1923) and Olga seated (1923) have now left for the “Picasso/Chanel” exhibition that will be opening to the public at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, in Madrid, on 11th October.

In turn, the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum will be temporarily lending two works by Picasso to the museum in Málaga: The Harvesters (1907) and Bullfight (1934), which will be on view at Museo Picasso Málaga as from early October.

From Wednesday 6th July, Museo Picasso Málaga will be presenting the exhibition Picasso as Seen by Otero, a selection of around fifty photographs from the Roberto Otero Photographic Archive that are part of the Museo Picasso Málaga Collection.

These photographs will be on display alongside previously unshown archive materials from the Roberto Otero Photographic Archive. They include the Argentine photographer’s editorial work and some of the notebooks in which he wrote down his conversations with Picasso.

From 22nd February until 26th June 2022, visitors to the Museo Picasso Málaga will have a unique opportunity to discover the links between Pablo Picasso and leading artists of the past. The MPM will be hosting this exhibition, jointly organized with Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, in which paintings by El Greco, Francisco Pacheco, Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, Francisco de Zurbarán, Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbretchs, Bernardo Lorente Germán and Diego Bejarano will be

Face to Face. Picasso and the Old Masters presents paintings from the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla’s remarkable collection of Spanish and other European Masters opposite nine important works by Picasso belonging to the Fundación Almine y Bernard Picasso (FABA). The exhibition at the MPM is distinguished from its previous appearance at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla by the inclusion of an exceptional additional painting by Picasso in the collection of the Museo de Málaga. The exhibition is curated by Michael FitzGerald.

Museo Picasso Málaga showed it is in good cultural health, after attracting a total of 254,133 visitors in 2021, a difficult year due to health regulations and mobility restrictions.

The MPM permanent collection, along with the temporary exhibitions Miquel Barceló. Metamorphosis and The Paris of Brassaï. Photographs of the City Picasso Loved, as well as the constant work to increase the quantity and quality of educational and cultural activities aimed at a diverse range of visitors, all led to a very satisfactory result, bearing in mind the ongoing global pandemic. Despite these adverse circumstances, the museum managed to produce projects and contents of a remarkably high standard.

Museo Picasso Málaga presents its exhibition programme for 2022. Until summer of next year, the Málaga museum’s exhibitions will feature Pablo Picasso’s links to the Old Masters, a Paula Rego retrospective, and the photographs of Brassaï.

Nine hundred citizens of Málaga from different age groups and social backgrounds – schoolchildren, university students, professional photographers, senior citizens and members of several NGOs – took part in creating a collective photographic mural that expresses the anonymous art seen on the walls of the city of Málaga. Each one of them chose a street or a place in the city to photograph, for very different personal reasons. Connected up with all the others, they provide a unique participative topographica

For the eleventh consecutive year, Museo Picasso Málaga and Fundación “la Caixa” are jointly organizing the Seminar on Art and Social Participation, which is aimed at professionals in the cultural and social sectors. Living with my Other Self. The Challenges of Social Media will be held on the afternoon of Thursday 16th December and will look at the new forms of participation in digital culture, and in social media specifically.

The exhibition The Paris of Brassaï. Photographs of the City Picasso Loved, presented by Museo Picasso Málaga, shows the work of one of the most famous European photographers of the first half of the 20th century.

With his work, Brassaï helped to create the universal public image of Paris, the Eternal City. It is displayed here alongside works by Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Lucien Clergue, Fernand Léger, Dora Maar and Henri Michaux, and with period piece films, posters, sheet music and a large quantity of documentary material.

Brassaï’s photographs invite the viewer to wander through Paris, with its river Seine, Notre Dame, its brothels and its markets. His conjured up a superb depiction of society in his many shots of the intellectual, literary, and artistic scene of 1930s and 1940s Paris, ranging from Sartre to Beckett.

This exhibition has been organized with sponsorship from Fundación Unicaja and the special collaboration of Estate Brassaï succession, Paris; Institut Français, Seville, and Musée national Picasso-Paris. It sheds light on the professional relationship and friendship between Brassaï and Picasso, who considered Brassaï to be the best photographer of his work.

Organized by Museo Picasso Málaga,the Centro Andaluz de Fotografía (CAF) is presenting Picasso as Seen by Otero (29th September – 12th December 2021), an exhibition of over 60 photographs from the Roberto Otero Photographic Archive, which is part of the Málaga museum’s permanent collection.

In showcasing the Roberto Otero Photographic Archive, Museo Picasso Málaga highlights the importance of the photographic archive as a tool for discovering more about an artist, their circumstances, and their milieu.

Registration is now open at Museo Picasso Málaga for the international seminar “Guernica. The Survival of a Myth”, organized in collaboration with Fundación General de la Universidad de Málaga (FGUMA) and which will be held on 18th and 19th November.

Experts from around the world will discuss Guernica’s position in contemporary popular culture, its importance in debates about the ethics of representation, and the tension in the image’s legacy regarding the artistic balance between the vernacular and the global.

The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Museo Picasso Málaga (MPM), where it will also be seen in 2022. The directors of the two museums, Valme Muñoz and José Lebrero, both attended the presentation.

This morning at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, the Councillor for Culture and Heritage, Patricia del Pozo, presented an exhibition where, as from the 7th October, works by the Málaga-born genius will be shown in a dialogue alongside works by El Greco, Zurbarán and other artists, in the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla collection.

Based on the exhibition Miquel Barceló. Metamorphosis, the Museo Picasso Málaga, in close collaboration with the Museo de Málaga, has organized “Despintura fònica” (Phonic Unpainting), a performance in which the artist creates an ephemeral artwork that slowly becomes volatile before the audience’s very eyes.

Skull, Leeks and a Pitcher is an oil painting from the collection of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco that Pablo Picasso painted in 1945. This canvas has been added to Museo Picasso Málaga’s exhibition Dialogues with Picasso. Collection 2020-2023, where it will remain until February 2022.

This Autumn, Museo Picasso Málaga will be presenting an exhibition that will display the work of one of the most famous photographers of the first half of the 20th century, whose work helped to create the universal public image of Paris, the Eternal City.

Brassaï’s photographs invite the observer to wander through Paris, with the Seine, Nôtre Dame, the brothels and the markets. He brilliantly captured the artistic and social scene in his many shots of the politically engaged Parisian intellectual circles of the 30s and 40s, from Sartre to Beckett.

Based on new research, this book’s approach to Picasso’s work is different from the traditional one, prioritizing a historical context that offers keys for its interpretation from a modern perspective, linking it to other intellectual traditions.

The eleven essays in this volume comprise an approach to the work of Pablo Picasso that is a far cry from the predominant focus of books on Picasso over the last few decades, which were primarily based on formal, semiological and biographical aspects.

“Glass, Newspaper and Dice” is a relief painting that belongs to the permanent collection of the Musée national Picasso-Paris and which Pablo Picasso produced in 1914. That same year, Picasso created a small sculpture, “Glass of Absinthe”, that is part of the Museo Picasso Málaga permanent collection 2020-2023 and which, in turn, is currently on loan to the Paris museum for their “Picasso-Rodin” exhibition.

The new online project currently being presented by Museo Picasso Málaga provides a structured view of the unique artistic career of Meret Oppenheim, along with access for the first time in Spanish to essays by experts on the artist’s work.

Commentary on the artworks, photographs of the artist, audio material, videos and essays go over Meret Oppenheim’s early years, her relationship with Surrealism, her crises, friends and her deserved international recognition. Meret Oppenheim. Reflection of an Era is the product of the work carried out by Museo Picasso Málaga for the exhibition that had to be cancelled last autumn due to the health crisis.

Museo Picasso Málaga presents Miquel Barceló. Metamorphosis, an exhibition that takes its name from Franz Kafka’s famous story, published in 1915. The show comprises almost 100 works made between 2014 and 2020, which can be seen from 25th January 2021.

Barceló returns to Malaga after more than a decade, with an exclusive selection of works made over the past few years: 30 ceramics, 13 paintings, 42 watercolours, 6 travel logs and a small sculpture, along with an installation comprising 7 large bronzes that will be set up in the central courtyard of the museum.

Mutation, mobility and transition are just some the characteristics of the Majorcan artist’s work, and his creative world corroborates his permanent metamorphosis since the beginning of his career. The passage of time and material alchemy are prominent elements in the theme of the exhibition.

As from March 2020, as a result of the world health crisis, we saw the greatest worldwide closure of museums since the Second World War. The almost total lack of international travel, along with the successive restrictions on public gatherings, severely affected three interlinked sectors: culture, tourism and education.-

Museo Picasso Málaga’s new app for iOS and Android is now available. It provides a safer and more personalized experience for visitors, and more fully developed digital content.

The free app will help visitors discover MPMs most iconic artworks and its exhibitions, with audio content and images that explain the details and secrets of the works. It also includes a tour of Picasso’s Málaga, information on cultural activities and accessibility, and the option to buy tickets online.

The works are the plaster casts Woman with Leaves (1934), The Cat (1941) and Crouching Cat [1941-1943], which are currently part of the MPM permanent collection. The survey is taking place this week in the Málaga museum’s conservation area.

As part of the Dialogues with Picasso research programme, Museo Picasso Málaga and the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz Picasso (FABA), have begun a conservation survey on three sculptures by Picasso.

Museo Picasso Málaga has adapted one of the exhibition rooms in the Palacio de Buenavista to house 19 of the ceramics that form part of Dialogues with Picasso. Collection 2020-2023. As from today, Room 12 will be offering visitors the chance to admire nineteen ceramics and three paintings produced by Pablo Picasso between 1931 and 1962.

MPM has also just published its second volume on the permanent collection, also entitled Dialogues with Picasso. Collection 2020-2023. The edition contains texts by eleven experts and over 400 full-colour illustrations.

Until next June, Museo Picasso Málaga will be exhibiting Cherry, a 1998 work by Californian artist James Turrell, thanks to our collaboration with Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso (FABA) and Galería Almine Rech.

Part of one of Turrell’s Space Division Constructions series, the work, which will be on display in one of MPM’s ground-floor exhibition rooms, immerses the viewer in a space where light is an “atmosphere” that generates sensory experiences.

When visiting Museo Picasso Málaga’s recently inaugurated new installation of the permanent collection, many people may pause when they find themselves face-to-face with the Demoiselles d’Avignon.

On closer inspection they will see, first, that it is not a canvas but a tapestry. Then, intrigued, they will read the label to discover it was made by, not by Picasso. So, what is the story hidden behind these colourful woven wool threads that, just for a moment, led us to believe we were in MoMA in New York? What are these other young ladies from Avignon doing in Museo Picasso Málaga?

Museo Picasso Málaga will be presenting the exhibition Picasso seen by Otero, which throughout the summer will show photographs from the Roberto Otero Archive, alongside a selection of books illustrated by Pablo Picasso. Both the photographs and the illustrated books are part of the Museo Picasso Málaga collection.

The exhibition, which looks at the lesser-known side of Málaga’s universal artist, brings together a wealth of bibliographic material, along with original ceramics by Picasso and other documents that link his art to that of Japan.

Museo Picasso Málaga’s priority objective is to promote the diverse and universal work of Picasso. For this reason, today, Monday 1st June, the digital presentation of “Dialogues with Picasso. Collection 2020-2023” goes out to the international cultural and social community that has been created around the institution. This new museographic layout of the collection is the result of the joint endeavours of Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso (FABA) and MPM’s own artistic team.

This is the sixth transformation of the exhibition rooms of the Palacio de Buenavista since the museum first opened in 2003. There are currently 120 works on display, with highlights such as the cubist sculpture Glass of Absinthe (1914), or the return of the painting Susanna and the Elders (1955), and even a tapestry based on the Demoiselles d’Avignon. Digital and educational material are also particularly important features. This is all thanks to the negotiations that took place to ratify the agreement between the Consejería de Cultura y Patrimonio de la Junta de Andalucía and FABA, which has been renewed for three more years, during which time a total of 162 works by Picasso will be added to the 233 works MPM holds in its own collection.

The new layout of the permanent collection is the result of the combined efforts of the professional staff of Museo Picasso Málaga and FABA, and the collaboration of guest associate curator Pepe Karmel, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of New York.

Today, Tuesday 26th May, Museo Picasso Málaga reopened its doors to the public, after more than two months since the start of the lockdown caused by the health crisis, which affected the whole of Spain. The museum now provides a comfortable and safe environment for its visitors, in compliance with Spanish health regulations.

Málaga resident Pilar Goya was the first person to cross the MPM threshold. She was greeted by the artistic director, José Lebrero Stals and the museum staff, who expressed their joy at the return of visitors, the museum’s raison d’être.

There was a large media presence on this first day, which was a particularly emotional one, due to the symbolic nature of this return to cultural activity in a city known as the City of Museums.

Museo Picasso Málaga will reopen to the public on Tuesday 26th May, providing a comfortable and safe environment for its visitors in compliance with Spanish health regulations. Until 31st May, visitors will be able to see the exhibition Genealogies of Art or the History of Art as Visual Art, free of charge. As from Monday 1st June, Dialogues with Picasso. Collection 2020-2023 will be open to the public, with 120 works by the Malaga-born artist.

Museo Picasso Málaga will reopen to the public on Tuesday 26th May, providing a comfortable and safe environment for its visitors in compliance with Spanish health regulations. Until 31st May, visitors will be able to see the exhibition Genealogies of Art or the History of Art as Visual Art, free of charge. As from Monday 1st June, Dialogues with Picasso. Collection 2020-2023 will be open to the public, with 120 works by the Malaga-born artist.

The Museo Picasso Málaga will be closed to the public until further notice in accordance with the instructions issued by the Junta de Andalucía on the control of the spread of Coronavirus (Covid-19).

Alrededor de 250 autores y artistas relacionados con el pensamiento visual están reunidos en esta muestra que presenta desde árboles genealógicos del siglo XVII hasta diagramas virtuales de internet, ofreciendo al visitante una amplia selección iconográfica que complementa el discurso tradicional de la historia del arte.

Museo Picasso Málaga will be offering throughout May an exhibition that looks at Pablo Picasso’s legendary painting ‘Harlequin’ (1917), exceptionally on loan from Museu Picasso Barcelona for the occasion.

The Calder-Picasso exhibition was seen by 96,024 people. It was the first time a museum had explored the creative links between two of the most innovative masters of 20th century art: American artist Alexander Calder (1898-1976) and Málaga-born Pablo Picasso (1881-1973).

With a total of 703,807 visitors in 2019, Museo Picasso Málaga remains the most visited museum in southern Spain, and in Andalusia in particular. This progress reveals its constant growth trend while consolidating its recognition and prestige both in Spain and abroad.

The year 2020 is set to be a very busy one for the museum, with three new exhibitions coming up: Genealogies of Art, or the history of art as visual art; Miquel Barceló. Metamorphosis, and Meret Oppenheim. Reflection of an era.

Genealogies of Art, Miquel Barceló, and Meret Oppenheim

“Picasso, the writer” looks at a lesser-known side of the Spanish artist’s genius. Málaga-born Picasso - the artist who did so much to change the course of history of Western painting during the 20th century - was also a poet.

Constantin Brancusi, Paul Cézanne, Robert Delaunay, Alberto Giacometti, Juan Gris, Vasily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, The Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Franz Marc, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian, Georges Braque, Paul Klee or Henry Moore are some of the artists present in this exhibition that will be on display at Museo Picasso Málaga next February 2020.

To rethink the museum as an element that forms collective identity, to analyse its role in Europe today and to examine how it is woven into the fabric of contemporary society, leads us to the formulation of many questions which need to be discussed transversally, and which can serve as the starting point for generating critical and constructive debate.

Based on this need for dialogue, on 25th and 26th September, Museo Picasso Málaga will be hosting the international seminar European Museums, mutations and migrations, the aim of which is to analyse the role of European museums at a time of profound mutations, with significant migrations not only of large flows of human beings, but also cultural values and economic principles.

This seminar is based on an initiative of the French Embassy in Spain and is the result of collaboration between the Institut Français Espagne, Centre Pompidou Málaga and Museo Picasso Málaga.

Calder-Picasso will be the first exhibition in Spain to examine the creative resonances between two of the most seminal figures of 20th-century art: American artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976) and Málaga-born Pablo Picasso (1881–1973).

Comprised of more than 100 works of art, the show focuses on a key connection between Calder and Picasso found specifically in their exploration of the void, or the absence of space, which both artists defined from the figure through to abstraction.

The exhibition is jointly curated by Alexander S. C. Rower, President, Calder Foundation, New York; Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, Co-President, FABA; Claire Garnier and Emilia Philippot, Musée national Picasso-Paris; and José Lebrero Stals, Museo Picasso Málaga. It is organized in partnership with the Calder Foundation, New York, and Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso (FABA) and co-produced by Museo Picasso Málaga and Musée national Picasso-Paris. It is sponsored by Fundación Unicaja and in collaboration with Erco.

This is the first time that Janet Kraynak’s Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman’s Words. Writings and Interviews> has been translated. The collection was published in 2005 by MIT Press, and is essential reading in order to understand how the artist.

The artistic director of Museo Picasso Málaga, José Lebrero Stals, who is also the curator of the Bruce Nauman. Rooms, Bodies, Words exhibition, will be presenting the book along with another publication, the catalogue of this major exhibition, the first in Spain for 25 years. Excerpts from the artist’s videos will also be screened and discussed during the presentation.

There is very little bibliography on Bruce Nauman available in Spanish, and the presentation is an important publishing event for those studying his work in Spanish, as he is one of the five most influential artists in the contemporary art world.

Twelve shows by Ana Crismán Arpa Jonda, Hermanas Bautista, Carrasco Family Project, La Fabi, Israel Fernández and Diego del Morao, José del Tomate and his group, Lela Soto, La Negra y el Panky, Pedro Ojesto & Flamenco Jazz Company, Pepe Luis Carmona Habichuela, Rafael Riqueni and Rancapino Chico, will bring the duende to the Museo Picasso Málaga Auditorium on 27th, 28th and 29th June, for the FlamencoEñe 4th Flamenco Showcase for International Programmers.

As from the 26th June, the Instituto Cervantes in Beijing, in collaboration with Museo Picasso de Málaga, will be hosting a documentary exhibition that looks at the least known aspect of Pablo Ruiz Picasso’s brilliance. The Málaga-born genius, who did so much to change the course of history of Western painting during the twentieth century, was also a poet.

Museo Picasso Málaga presents Bruce Nauman. Rooms, Bodies, Words, an exhibition on an artist whose innovative work centers on his understanding of art as an activity or process, rather than as the production of objects. This is his first major exhibition in Spain for 25 years.

With abundant references to music, dance, literature and philosophy, Bruce Nauman’s work generates in viewers the kind of responses that are associated with provocation, conflict, tension, disorientation, and anxiety, via a relentless repetition of language and form.

Bruce Nauman. Rooms, Bodies, Words, brings together almost one hundred works that highlight the range of mediums with which this U.S. artist works: from architectural installations, sculptures and neons, to videos, drawings, silk-screening and photography, amongst others.

Fundación Museo Picasso Málaga. Legado Paul, Christine y Bernard-Ruiz Picasso has held its first Board of Trustees meeting of 2019, with an agenda that included, amongst other points, the presentation and approval of the annual accounts for the year 2018.

A total of 85.219 people visited Museo Picasso Málaga to see the Olga Picasso exhibition, which showcased Picasso’s first wife, Olga Khokhlova and her story, and put into perspective the creation of some of Picasso’s greatest works. After being shown at Museo Picasso Málaga, Olga Picasso will travel to Madrid to be seen at CaixaForum Madrid as from 19th June.

Museo Picasso Málaga is now preparing the opening on 17th June of its new exhibition, Bruce Nauman. Rooms, bodies, words. This is the first large-scale exhibition in Spain of Bruce Nauman’s work in 25 years.

From 26th February to 2nd June 2019, Museo Picasso Málaga will present Picasso’s first wife Olga Khokhlova and her story, in the first show of its 2019 exhibition calendar: “Olga Picasso”.

Museo Picasso Málaga has reconfirmed its trend of consistent growth despite widespread statistical swings, with a total of 674,512 visitors during 2018, once again consolidating its prestige and reputation both in Spain and internationally, along with its position as Andalusia’s most-visited museum, with an increase in visitor numbers of more than 6% over last year.-

Museo Picasso Málaga has scheduled three first-time exhibitions for 2019 that examine the work of three key artists: Pablo Picasso, Bruce Nauman and Alexander Calder. The result of lengthy research in the archives of Picasso’s first wife, the exhibition Olga Picasso comes to Málaga this winter, running until spring 2019. Over the summer, MPM will be showing work from European collections by unclassifiable artist Bruce Nauman. Finally, in the autumn, Calder-Picasso will examine these two artists’ exploratio

Museo Picasso Málaga’s exhibition Picasso’s South. Andalusian References takes a look at the history of Spanish art by displaying works by Picasso alongside valuable archaeological artefacts and paintings by great masters such as Zurbarán, Velázquez, Murillo, Goya, María Blanchard and Juan Gris, amongst others. This ambitious show moves from Iberian art through Classical Antiquity, and ends with the modern art of Picasso’s own contemporaries.

The aim of this year’s edition, ‘Picasso and History’, is to explore new ways of understanding the artist’s work, based on research into its historical context and the repercussions of his work in that context.

Museo Picasso Málaga is pleased to present its shows for 2019. Next year, the gallery will host the exhibitions ‘Olga Picasso’, ‘Bruce Nauman. Retrospective’, and ‘Calder-Picasso’. Each of the scheduled exhibitions will have its own programme of cultural activities, enabling visitors to discover their principal artistic and historic features.

Museo Picasso Málaga is once again organizing a Summer Cinema cycle with four evenings for visitors to explore Andy Warhol’s world at the ‘Warhol. Mechanical Art exhibition’, followed by screenings of films featuring some of Pop art’s most famous stars. The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Barbarella, The Party and Yellow Submarine will be screened on each of the four evenings, which are scheduled from June to September.

Museo Picasso Málaga presents the complex artistic production of Andy Warhol (1928-1987), with a special focus on the transmutations that his legacy underwent during his career, and the repetitive, schematizing and contrived nature of his visual work for more than three decades of feverish creative activity.

Organized by the SGAE Foundation and Museo Picasso Málaga, the aim is to promote the internationalization of flamenco.

The world of Federico Fellini arrives at Museo Picasso Málaga with an exhibition that shows drawings, films, photographs and other documents belonging to the Italian director and which, alongside paintings, sculptures and drawings by Pablo Picasso, will highlight the sensibilities and obsessions that were shared by these two 20th-century icons.

A total of 66,653 people visited Museo Picasso Málaga to see ‘We Are Completely Free. Women Artists and Surrealism’, which showed the work of eighteen women artists whose work stood out on the Surrealist landscape.

In 2017, the Museo Picasso Málaga was once again Andalusia’s most-visited museum, consolidating its excellent position as one of Spain’s top museums.

Visitor numbers in 2017 reached 635,891, approximately equal to the number of inhabitants of the city of Málaga. A highlight of the museum is its commitment to the local population, which continued to respond very positively to the gallery’s cultural and educational offerings, in which 33,295 people of all ages took part.

In addition to the excellent response of visitors from abroad, in Spain, Andalusia, and Málaga itself, there was the resounding success of the exhibition Warhol. Mechanical Art, devised by the MPM art department in collaboration with the ‘La Caixa’ Foundation. Over 228,000 people visited the exhibition at Caixaforum Barcelona. After its run at Caixaforum Madrid, a larger version of the exhibition will be coming to Málaga in May.

The exhibitions And Fellini Dreamed of Picasso; Warhol. Mechanical Art, and Picasso and Andalusia make up the museum’s programme for 2018.

In October, Museo Picasso Málaga will also host the 4th International Picasso Congress. Previous editions were held at the Picasso museums in Paris and Barcelona. Pablo Picasso will therefore be the main subject of the exhibitions and academic activities scheduled for 2018, a year in which MPM will be celebrating its fifteenth anniversary.

The collaboration between Museo Picasso Málaga and Dickinson College will enable a group of US students taking part in a Spanish language and culture immersion programme in Málaga, to discover more about Picasso’s influence on subjects such as architecture, politics, tourism, and music.

On 27th October 2017 Museo Picasso Málaga will be celebrating the anniversary of its opening, fourteen years ago. A performance by flamenco guitarist Daniel Casares, a day of activities based on the exhibition We are Completely Free. Women Artists and Surrealism, and a painting competition are all on the agenda for next weekend.

Transgressive and controversial, the women artists in the Surrealist circle only gained complete freedom and protagonism as artists when they rebelled against the social and moral impositions of their time. Museo Picasso Málaga presents a new exhibition in Spain that provides a vast and international overview of the new creative horizons these artists opened up within the context of Surrealism.

From 10th October, 2017 until 28th January, 2018 We are Completely Free. Women Artists and Surrealism brings together 124 works by eighteen artists from different countries: Eileen Agar, Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Germaine Dulac, Leonor Fini, Valentine Hugo, Frida Kahlo, Dora Maar, Maruja Mallo, Lee Miller, Nadja, Meret Oppenheim, Kay Sage, Ángeles Santos, Dorothea Tanning, Toyen, Remedios Varo and Unica Zürn.

Once again, Museo Picasso Málaga has produced an exhibition that showcases art by the women in art history. It is only very recently that their work has begun to be viewed with the same attention and respect as that of their male Surrealist colleagues.

A total of 110,056 people visited Museo Picasso Málaga’s exhibition Bacon, Freud and the School of London, which showed the work of ten London-based painters who in the 1950s explored the appearance and fragility of the body, with London as their surrounding context.

From 26 April to 17 September 2017, Museo Picasso Málaga is presenting the work of leading painters who, since World War II and up to the present day, have worked in London, a city of artistic and personal encounters where they depicted the human figure, landscape and everyday reality through a distinctive and personal vision.

A total of 90 oils and works on paper represent the work of the painters Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, David Bomberg, William Coldstream, R. B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Paula Rego and Euan Uglow.

Based on a markedly personal pictorial approach to the depiction of the human condition in its intimate, everyday moments and encounters, their work emerged at a time when American art was enjoying a period of strength in contrast to a debilitated Europe in the process of reconstruction.

Elena Crippa, an expert on Modern British Art, has curated this exhibition, organised by Tate London with the collaboration of Museo Picasso Málaga and the sponsorship of CaixaBank. A remarkable selection of key works from the Tate will be shown together for the first time in this exhibition.

A total of 87,211 visitors came to Museo Picasso Málaga to see the exhibition 38 Picassos, which showed works belonging to the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso (FABA) that have been part of the MPM Collection’s expository discourse for several years.

Museo Picasso Málaga is setting out on a new path today, to present a fresh reading of the work of Pablo Picasso. From his beginnings to his late work, this selection takes us one step further in appreciating and understanding the Málaga-born artist’s important place in the history of art.

Pablo Picasso. New Collection shows a total of 120 artworks from MPM’s own holdings and those of the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso (FABA), which has loaned 166 works to the museum that will enhance the exhibition narrative over the next three years.

Picasso’s artworks will also benefit from improved lighting in the Palacio de Buenavista exhibition rooms, thanks to sponsorship from Fundación Endesa.

A total of 72,039 people visited the retrospective of Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García at Museo Picasso Malaga. The exhibition showed artworks ranging from his earliest works in late 19th-century Barcelona to his final works produced in Montevideo in the 1940s.

A total of 72,039 people visited the retrospective of Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García at Museo Picasso Malaga. The exhibition showed artworks ranging from his earliest works in late 19th-century Barcelona to his final works produced in Montevideo in the 1940s.

The Collection of Museo Picasso Málaga (MPM) will dazzle again from 13 March onwards thanks to a fresh selection of masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, displayed together under the title of PABLO PICASSO. NEW COLLECTION, which will take a strongly chronological approach centred on exploring in depth the most important aesthetic periods in Picasso’s oeuvre and on explaining the artist’s creative processes.

FABA (Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso) is strengthening its ties with the museum by means of a new agreement that will incorporate into the discourse of the Collection pieces that are key to understanding and appreciating Picasso’s work.

In addition, Fundación Sevillana Endesa will be contributing to the project through a partnership and sponsorship agreement that will lead to the improved illumination of Picasso’s works thanks to the latest lighting technology in the rooms of the Palacio de Buenavista.

Museo Picasso Málaga (MPM) was once again the most visited museum in Andalusia in 2016, receiving 558,033 visitors. This is the highest number of visitors over the course of a year since the museum opened in 2003 and represents an increase of 14% over the figure for 2015.

These excellent results are due to a number of factors, among them the increasing internationalisation of the museum’s programmes and the growing number of collaborative ventures with other cultural institutions and local creative agents, as well as the MPM’s improved financial capacity.

Museo Picasso Málaga will be refreshing its permanent collection exhibition rooms in 2017. A selection of 38 masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, the exhibition Joaquín Torres-García: an Arcadian Modern, and the archaeological site can still be visited throughout this period.

The exhibitions Bacon, Freud and the School of London, in collaboration with Tate, and We are Completely Free. Women Artists and Surrealism, make up the gallery’s exhibition programme for 2017.

On Monday 21st November, the Fundación Museo Picasso Málaga. Legado Paul, Christine y Bernard- Ruiz Picasso has convened the second meeting of its Board of Trustees for this financial year. The agenda includes the approval of the Plan of Action for 2017, which is expected to be a busy year for the museum.

A total of 169.000 people visited the exhibition Picasso. German Records, devised by Museo Picasso Málaga, which in April went on tour to the Kunsthalle Würth in Germany, where it opened with the title Picasso and Germany.

When these visitor numbers are added to those who saw the Picasso. German Records exhibition at MPM in Málaga, the result is a total of over 236,000 visitors.

A total of 139,387 visitors came to see the exhibition Mural. Jackson Pollock. Energy Made Visible at Museo Picasso Málaga, where the monumental canvas was on display for the very first time in Spain, before heading off for London.

From 21st April to 11th September, 2016, the exhibition Jackson Pollock’s Mural. Energy Made Visible brings together around this great work a total of 41 pieces by Pollock himself and by other artists such as Adolph Gottlieb, Lee Krasner, Roberto Matta, Robert Motherwell, David Reed, Antonio Saura, Charles Seliger, David Smith, Frederick Sommer, Juan Uslé and Andy Warhol.

In 1943, Jackson Pollock was commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim to create an artwork to decorate the hallway of her home. Confronted by a large blank canvas, the artist tackled the project by painting Mural, which is today considered to be one of the key works of his career. The painting will be on view in Spain for the first, and perhaps the last, time at Museo Picasso Málaga.

From 14th March to 11th September, 2016, the exhibition Eye Games. Collection takes a look at the depiction of the gaze in Picasso’s work. While obviously directly influenced by the gaze which the artist casts on the subjects in his works, this depiction also mirrors the successive changes in his style and techniques.

Thanks to the gazes present in the 43 works from the MPM’s Collection that make up this exhibition, we can appreciate how rich this theme is throughout Picasso’s body of work. Illustrated books from the MPM Library and a selection of photographs from the Roberto Otero Archive complete the exhibition, in which Museo Picasso Malaga shows us some of its lesser-known holdings.

The exhibition has sparked a lot of interest in the German art world, and for this reason the Kunsthalle Würth, in the town of Schwäbisch Hall, will host the exhibition from 6th April to 18th September, 2016. This is the first time that Museo Picasso Málaga will show one of its own major exhibitions in Germany. Picasso. German Records can still be seen at the Malaga museum until Sunday 21st February.La exposición ha despertado mucho interés en el mundo artístico germano, por lo que la Kunsthalle Würth en la ciudad de Schwäbisch Hall la acogerá desde el 6 de abril hasta el 18 de septiembre de este año. Por primera vez el Museo Picasso Málaga mostrará en Alemania una gran exhibición de producción propia. Picasso. Registros alemanes todavía puede visitarse en la pinacoteca malagueña hasta el próximo domingo 21 de febrero.

At the meeting of the Executive Board of Museo Picasso Málaga held this morning, the members considered the results for 2015 to be very positive. It was a year in which the museum received almost half a million visitors. Picasso, Pollock and Torres-García will be the three great names on the 2016 exhibition programme. This year, MPM expects once again to spark the interest of both local residents and other visitors to the museum.

A total of 489,610 people visited Museo Picasso Málaga in 2015. This is an increase of over 19% on the number who came to the museum last year to see the work of Pablo Picasso, visit the temporary exhibitions and take part in MPM’s cultural and educational activities. The exhibitions Louise Bourgeois. I Have Been to Hell and Back and Picasso. German Records, along with the new seven-day opening hours, the good year for tourism and improvements to the promotion of the gallery, all contributed towards this si

A total of 489,610 people visited Museo Picasso Málaga in 2015. This is an increase of over 19% on the number who came to the museum last year to see the work of Pablo Picasso, visit the temporary exhibitions and take part in MPM’s cultural and educational activities. The exhibitions Louise Bourgeois. I Have Been to Hell and Back and Picasso. German Records, along with the new seven-day opening hours, the good year for tourism and improvements to the promotion of the gallery, all contributed towards this significant increase in visitors.

Considered one of the great contemporary artworks, Jackson Pollock’s monumental Mural will be shown for the first time ever in Spain at the exhibition Energy made Visible, which Museo Picasso Málaga will be hosting over the spring and summer of 2016. In the autumn, and in collaboration with MoMa, the gallery will show a retrospective of one of the most complex artists of the Latin American Avant-garde, Joaquín Torres-García, whose work has fascinated generations of artists. To complete the programme for 20

From 19th October 2015 to 21st February 2016, this exhibition makes a round trip from Berlin to Paris and back, offering a revealing dialogue between seventeen classic German modern artists and three German Old Masters. Bringing their work together for the first time, the exhibition showcases 75 works by Pablo Picasso, and over 100 works by Max Beckmann, Heinrich Campendonk, Lucas Cranach the Younger, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Otto Dix, Max Ernst, Frans Francken, George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Hannah Höch, Was

The exhibition presents the results of examining a hitherto little-studied subject: what were the connections, divergences, reactions, antagonisms and affinities between the work of Pablo Picasso and German modern art? The exhibition’s narrative covers the period between 1905, when Die Brücke (The Bridge) movement was founded in Dresden, and 1955, when the documenta 1 international art exhibition first opened in Kassel.

A total of 71,989 people visited the largest Louise Bourgeois retrospective ever held in Spain. The exhibition at Museo Picasso Málaga showcased the complex and fascinating work of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.Un total de 71.989 personas han visitado en el Museo Picasso Málaga la mayor retrospectiva que sobre Louise Bourgeois se ha realizado en España, en una exposición que ha mostrado la compleja y fascinante obra de una de las artistas más influyentes del siglo XX.

From 10th June to 27th September 2015, Museo Picasso Málaga will be exhibiting the complex and fascinating work of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

It is the largest retrospective of Bourgeois’ work organized in Spain to date, with over 100 artworks spanning over seven decades, one third of which have never been shown before.

For the occasion, one of Louise Bourgeois’ most well-known sculptures, Spider (1996), has been installed in the courtyard of the Palacio de Buenavista, which houses the MPM collection.

From 2nd February until 17th May, 2015, MPM shows Movements and Sequences. It is a ‘cabinet exhibition’ comprising a group of 30 drawings and engravings produced by Pablo Picasso between 1906 and 1925, and which are held in Museo Picasso Málaga collection.

For this event, the selected works have been hung alongside others by artists who were contemporaries of Picasso, such as María Blanchard, Georges Braque, Federico García Lorca, André Derain, Joan Miró, Joaquín Peinado, José Moreno Villa and Jacques Villon, amongst others, as well as work by the photographer Paul Strand and the painter and filmmaker Hans Richter.

Museo Picasso Málaga will be refreshing its permanent collection exhibition rooms in 2017. A selection of 38 masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, the exhibition Joaquín Torres-García: an Arcadian Modern, and the archaeological site can still be visited throughout this period.

Louise Bourgeois and German Art, on the agenda for next year.

Two new looks at the work of Pablo Picasso and a retrospective of the complex and fascinating oeuvre of Louise Bourgeois are the focus of MPM’s exhibition programme for 2015.

For the last six years, Museo Picasso Málaga has celebrated the , which is observed on 3rd December, when the museum becomes a place to celebrate, think about and promote accessibility.

The Museo Picasso Málaga Auditorium will once again vibrate with the best jazz thanks to two essential concerts for lovers of this music: Ibrahim Electric, on Wednesday, November 26, and Steve Coleman & Five Elements on Friday, November 28, 2014.

The success of Picasso TV and the public’s interest in this theme have led MPM to extend the exhibition until 11th January, 2015.

To celebrate Museo Picasso Málaga’s 11th Anniversary, the 26th and 27th October will be devoted to dance at the museum, with a programme of activities that covers various facets of the art, such as contemporary dance, video-dance and flamenco.

For the fourth consecutive year, the Museo Picasso Málaga will remain open every day, from Monday to Sunday, during the months of July and August. The Museo Picasso has also launched new services intended to increase the quality and satisfaction of your visit: audio guides in various languages and a new bookstore.

The exhibition reveals unsuspected links between some of the work Picasso produced during the last few years of his life and the programmes being shown on French television at the time.

Picasso TV is centred around a number of engravings from Suite 347, and it also includes oil paintings, photographs and excerpts from television programmes, all set in the context of a period when entertainment, sport and news were being made popular by TV. Produced by Museo Picasso Málaga and Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso in M&uuml";"nster, in collaboration with the Fundación Bancaja in Valencia.

Museo Picasso Málaga presents ‘El Lissitzky.The Experience of Totality’, an exhibition that brings together work by one ofthe most influential and experimental artists of the Avant-garde, and whose last exhibition in Spain was held fourteen years ago.

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In a world that was changing, the career of this architect, painter, graphic designer, exhibition designer and photographer began with his early illustrations at the start of the 20th century. It passed through Avant-garde experimentation and ended with his work for the Soviet Union.

The aim of these sessions is to examine the relationship between cinema, history and museums, after screenings of films related to this theme.

The works from the studios of Fidias, Cézanne, Courbet, Degas, Gris, González, Ingres, Manet, Matisse, Renoir and Rodin which were housed for four months alongside the gallery’s own collection in the halls of the Palacio de Buenavista, were seen by 97,256 visitors.

For 2014, Museo Picasso Málaga has scheduled a study of its permanent collection, two temporary exhibitions, and cultural and educational activities that are aimed at fostering social participation.

On Sunday, 9th February, Museo Picasso Málaga closed the exhibition which was seen by a total of 47,185 visitors. The exhibition showed for the first time in Spain the unique work of Hilma af Klint, the Swedish artist who, at the start of the 20th century, embarked upon one of the most surprising journeys towards Abstract art. The show proved to be an eye-opener for a number of Spanish art histori

On January 22rd and 23rd, experts on Picasso and professional museologists will be taking part in “France-Picasso-Spain. The Artist and his Museums”, a series of talks that will be held in the Museo Picasso Málaga auditorium and the conference hall of the Fundación Picasso-Museo Casa Natal.

A total of 406,465 people visited the museum over the last twelve months. In its 10th Anniversary year, MPM is once again the most visited institution in Andalusia, not counting the Alhambra and Generalife complex and museums. The museum broke its own record for visitors coming to the various options on offer - the permanent collection, temporary exhibitions, cultural activities and educational pr

Visitors, families, young adults and children will all find activities that have been scheduled for them over the Christmas period around the exhibitions Eleven Invited Works and Hilma af Klint. Pioneer of Abstraction.

Five guest speakers with backgrounds in different fields of knowledge will be discussing in situ the theosophy, science, art and spirituality in the Swedish artist´s work. For the very first time, MPM is organizing a session of this nature in the very room where the artworks are on display.

The commemoration of MPM’s tenth anniversary turned into a big party to celebrate art and culture, with 10,909 people visiting the gallery over the weekend.

n the Permanent Collection on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Museo Picasso Málaga

Cézanne, Courbet, Degas, Gris, González, Ingres, Manet, Matisse, Renoir, Rodin and the workshop of Pheidias. To celebrate its 10th Anniversary, from 26th October 2013 to 23rd February 2014 Museo Picasso Málaga is bringing together a selection of the Great Masters of art. Over the next four months, their work will, exceptionally, become part of the discourse of the gallery&rsquo";“s permanent collection, to show the influences, affinities and proximities of Pablo Picasso&rsquo”;"s work alongside that of these great artists who, each in their own way, were linked with his career.

Museo Picasso Málaga has organized the exhibition in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, in Paris";" Musée National d&rsquo";“Art Moderne/Centre de création industrielle”;" Musée du Louvre";" Musée de l&rsquo";“Orangerie”;" Musée d&rsquo";“Orsay”;" Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris";" Musée des moulages de l&rsquo";“Université Lumi&egrave”;“re Lyon 2”;" Direction Générale des Patrimoines and the Service des Musées de France.

From 21st October, 2013 to 9th February, 2014, Museo Picasso Málaga presents for the first time in Spain the unique work of Hilma af Klint, the Swedish artist who at the start of the 20th century embarked upon one of the most surprising paths that led to Abstract art.

Hilma af Klint was ahead of her time, creating an enigmatic body of work that aimed to depict a reality beyond the visible. It still has the power to impress with its forms and consistency, and a wealth of symbolism that confronts viewers with the eternal great questions concerning the essence of being and the meaning of life.

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An initiative that offers visitors free access throughout a whole night and day packed with Art, Music, Theatre, Photography and History.

Sunday, October 27th 2013 marks the tenth anniversary of Museo Picasso Málaga’s inauguration. To celebrate, the museum will organise Open 24 hours, an initiative that offers visitors free access throughout a whole night and day packed with Art, Music, Theatre, Photography and History.

There was a great deal of interest in both shows among the museum’s public, who responded to the idea with a total of 103,384 visitors to the first exhibition and 75,876 to the second, making a grand total of 108,570 admissions, as the two shows coincided for several months.

It is the second of the exhibitions scheduled to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of Museo Picasso Málaga. From 24th June to 6 October the exhibition examines how important the people in Pablo Picasso’s closest circle were as sources of inspiration for his work.

MPM has been generously supported by all Picasso&rsquo";"s heirs in this gallery of 44 portraits. The display is complemented by a family album comprising 73 photographs, some of which have never before been shown.

Independent, rebellious and extreme, during his lifetime Dennis Hopper was recognized for his work as an actor and director of cult movies such as Easy Rider (1969), but his interests went beyond cinema into other realms of art, and he was especially prominent as a photographer.

Dennis Hopper. On the Road at Museo Picasso Málaga shows from 29th April to 29th September 2013 a total of 141 pictures from his photographic legacy. Most of them produced during the 1960s, several images have never before been printed. Together, they construct a narrative in black-and-white that unfolds at film shoots, on the road and in cities, places inhabited by celebrities and anonymous people, seen up close through the intuitive eyes of this legendary US film star.

The exhibition is Museo Picasso Málaga’s evocative look at Pablo Picasso’s earliest years, recreating for visitors the family environment, cultural atmosphere and urban surroundings of the city where he was born on 25th October, 1881.

From 25th February to 9th June 2013, the exhibition brings together a total of 53 works by Pablo Picasso that enable the visitor to discover the subjects the artist worked on at the beginning of his life and also to reflect upon the imprint left by Malaga and its people on the artist&rsquo";"s later works. Also on show are 35 works by other artists and 104 documents that put into context the situation of a city full of contrasts, on the threshold between two centuries.

When Museo Picasso Málaga closed this exhibition on Sunday 10th February, it had been visited by a total of 45,054 people. It examined the significance of this aesthetic category with works from different periods of western art over the last five hundred years, and was well received by visitors and critics alike.

When Museo Picasso Málaga closed this exhibition on Sunday 10th February, it had been visited by a total of 45,054 people. It examined the significance of this aesthetic category with works from different periods of western art over the last five hundred years, and was well received by visitors and critics alike.

The MPM Board of Trustees has approved the artistic programme for next year, with exhibitions and activities that will examine the more personal side of the artist.

José Lebrero Stals, the artistic director of Museo Picasso Málaga, has been appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture, in recognition of his contribution to the propagation of art and culture.

On 27th, 28th and 29th November the MPM Auditorium will be hosting the three sessions of this seminar that looks at engraving and printmaking and the evolution of the various techniques involved, and examines local practice of these arts here in Malaga. Experts from Spain and abroad will provide their views on the theoretical and practical aspects of printmaking, from conception to workshop produc

An acoustic concert, painting, visits, classical music, workshops… The Museo Picasso Málaga celebrates its ninth anniversary this Saturday, October 27, with A day at the Picasso, a day full of activities that strengthen the art gallery as a meeting place with art, of space for reflection and for the enjoyment of live music.

· Tomorrow, Saturday, October 27, 2012, marks the ninth anniversary of the opening of the Museo Picasso Málaga. To celebrate this important date, a program of activities is presented parallel to the recently inaugurated exhibition The grotesque factor that addresses the meaning of this aesthetic category at different times in the history of Western art through more than 270 works by more than 70 international artists gathered for the occasion, including Leonardo da Vinci, Francisco de Goya, James Ensor, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Otto Dix, Willem de Kooning and Francis Bacon.

What is the grotesque in art? At times it has been described as the exaggerated, on occasion compared to the deformed, and at others to the satirical or even the incongruous. Museo Picasso Málaga takes a close look at the subject in The Grotesque Factor, an exhibition that examines the meaning and evolution of this category of aesthetics at various points in Western art history.

&middot";" Leonardo da Vinci, Francisco de Goya, James Ensor, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Otto Dix, Willem de Kooning and Francis Bacon are just a few of the 74 international artists who created the more than 270 works brought together for the occasion. The works are technically and formally diverse and are seen on display together here for the first time. They all feature an element of the grotesque, which has been defined in this exhibition as an artist&rsquo";"s view of the world, a mindset that has been expressed in very different ways over the years.

&middot";" The exhibition, which will be on show from 22 October 2012 to 10 February 2013, is enhanced by film screenings, a book and a full programme of cultural and educational activities: seminars, children&rsquo";"s theatre, guided tours and special open days have all been scheduled over the next few months at Museo Picasso Málaga.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York has loaned Museo Picasso Málaga a canvas painted by Pablo Picasso in 1965: Lobster and Cat, from its Thannhauser Collection. Thannhauser was a benefactor who donated a major modern art collection to the museum in 1963, including over 30 works by Pablo Picasso.

The Second International Seminar on Art and Social Integration features the participation of a number of prominent international experts. They will be presenting specific projects and papers aimed at the in-depth examination of ideas on the role of culture and art as agents of social integration.

The Executive Board of Museo Picasso Málaga has approved the contract reappointing its current artistic director; likewise, the agreement which was taken by the Executive Board on July 11th of this year has been reported, eliminating the post of managing director.

These measures are in response to dictates of austerity and cost-effectiveness in management, as called for in the current times of world economic crisis: these are lines of action which will mark out how MPM must function.

Ramón Casas, Jules Chéret, Fortunato Depero, Cassandre, Gustav Klucis, Vladimir Lebedev, Man Ray, Vladimir Maiakovski, Henri Matisse, Alexander Rodchenko and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec are just some of the almost ninety artists whose work can be seen in Museo Picasso Málaga’s new exhibition, The European Poster, 1888-1938.

The 174 works to see from June 18. to September 16. that have been gathered together for this event provide a look at the most creative and important period in the history of the poster in Europe. It is a story that covers fifty years in which lay the very origins of advertising. The exhibition is curated by Carlos Pérez and José Lebrero Stals, artistic director of MPM, and the selected posters are from the holdings of some of the leading museums and private collections in Europe and the United States.

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Head of Musketeer (1968), from the Museo de Málaga, will be exhibited from 27 April until 19 October 2012 in Museo Picasso Málaga Collection.

Museo Picasso Málaga presents the world premiere of an exhibition of previously unshown work by Richard Prince, one of the most outstanding artists on the international contemporary art scene.

Concerts of classical and contemporary music, seminars on photography and engraving, theatre for children, educational workshops, guided tours, poetry readings, flamenco and jazz, are just some of the activities with which the MPM complements its art programme.

In addition to this, 9,980 people took part in its programme of cultural activities.

The Museo Picasso Málaga displays the printing press on which Pablo Picasso produced his innovative engravings, in collaboration with master printmakers Piero and Aldo Crommelynck.

This is the first Alberto Giacometti retrospective to be held in Spain in more than 20 years, and it will bring together 198 artworks in the Palacio de Buenavista. The 20 photographs and 166 of the other works are from the collections of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, in Paris, created by the artist’s widow.

The exhibitions that ran this summer at Museo Picasso Málaga aroused a great deal of public interest and were seen by a total of 84,865 visitors after their opening on 20th June

This is the first time that an exhaustive collection of portraits of Picasso has ever been presented. The pictures were taken by prominent photographers such as Man Ray, Brassaï, Irving Penn, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Richard Avedon, all key names in the history of photography.

On the occasion of the preparation of an exhibition with unpublished work next 2012.

International award-winning shows

The exhibition “Cartoons on the Front Line”, co-produced by the Museu Picasso Barcelona and the Museo Picasso Málaga, is designed to show the results of a comparative iconographic analysis of “Sueño y mentira de Franco” (Dream and Lie of Franco – 1937), two etchings with aquatint by Picasso, which are in the MPM collection.

Each of the two etchings comprising Sueño y mentira de Franco is divided into nine vignettes that reveal Picasso&rsquo";“s ethical and artistic commitment regarding the historical circumstances of Spain in 1937. Both the subject matter and the lines are from the same period as the themes he presents with Guernica, the mural he painted for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris World&rsquo”;"s Fair, also in 1937.

Cartoons on the Front Line brings together a selection of pieces by Picasso and other artists and illustrators, exhibiting works from the same period by artists such as John Heartfield, George Grosz, Josep Renau, Toño Salazar and Mauricio Amster, as well as etchings by Francisco de Goya. Almost 120 works reflect the concern and commitment of these artists with regard to the violence generated by armed conflict.

Cannes, 8 February 1956. The photojournalist David Douglas Duncan stops his car in front of Villa La Californie, residence of one of the most famous artists of all time: Pablo Picasso. In his hand is a ring especially made for Picasso, who appreciates the gesture and invites him into his home, his studio and his intense life.

With Stephanie Ansari and Tatyana Franck as its curators, Picasso at Work. Through the Lens of David Douglas Duncan brings together in the Museo Picasso Málaga 115 photographs selected from among the thousands that Duncan took of the artist and his milieu in those years.

The exhibition also presents 77 of Picasso&rsquo";"s works appearing in the photographs, thus opening up a dialogue with them and making it possible to go deeper into the extraordinary world of the artist. Notable here is the variety of techniques and styles they reveal and, also to be highlighted, is the presence of works that can be seen for the first time in the MPM, for example the impressive sculptures La mona y su cría (Baboon and Young, 1951) and Mujer con llave (Woman with Key, 1954-1957).

CHILDREN AT THE PICASSO

The exhibition that Museo Picasso Málaga devoted to the works by Martin Kippenberger that were inspired by Picasso was of great interest to the public. It received a total of 61,588 visitors between 22 February, when the exhibition opened, and Sunday 5th June, when it closed.

Controversial, multidisciplinary, occasionally irreverent and extremely prolific, Martin Kippenberger was greatly interested in Pablo Picasso, from his early days right up to the end of his life. This attraction resulted in works, and entire series, that were direct references to the Spanish artist.

Curated by Dr. Eva Meyer-Hermann, Kippenberger Meets Picasso brings together a selection of 55 artworks - large-format paintings, drawings and sculptures - alongside 48 books and 73 posters and invitation cards that were produced by the German artist over his career.

With this exhibition, the Museo Picasso Málaga is continuing the trend it began in 2010, which investigates the various forms of relationship between fundamental artists working from the second half of the 20th century onwards, and Pablo Picasso.

Kippenberger Meets Picasso

In 2010, the Museo Picasso Málaga recorded a total of 345,742 visitors to the Museum, along with almost 6,600 participants in its cultural activities. These visitor numbers show an increase of more than 6% over last year.

The Board of Trustees of the Fundación Museo Picasso Malaga. Legado Paul, Christine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso has appointed Ángeles González-Sinde, the Spanish Minister of Culture, Francisco de la Torre, Mayor and Chairman of Malaga City Council, and Salvador Pendón, Chairman of the Malaga Provincial Council, as Trustees of the foundation.

These works will be on display alongside oils, sculptures and pottery from MPM’s own collection, and which have been arranged by theme throughout the eleven rooms of the Palacio de Buenavista. The two portraits placed on deposit by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 2007 are also hung in these rooms, along with other works from private collections.

Toys of the Avant-garde at Museo Picasso Málaga will illustrate the way in which early 20th-century artists and writers became interested in familiarizing children with the shapes and ideas of modern art, and in projecting their own ideals for the future upon them.

Bill Viola: figurative works closed last Sunday after having been seen by a total of 60,259 visitors. The exhibition is the first in a series that examines the diverse kinds of relationship the Malaga-born artist had with some of the key artists working as from the second half of the 20th century.

From the day it opened, until it closed on Sunday 5th September, the Picasso. Horses exhibition was seen by a total of 84,590 visitors at Museo Picasso Málaga. The number was much higher than expected, and, along with the diverse nationalities of the visitors and their high degree of satisfaction following their visit, it highlights the important role of this art museum as referent for the work of

Museo Picasso Málaga has programmed a busy schedule of events for the next few months, offering many different ways for all kinds of public to enjoy the arts

The Museo Picasso Málaga provides a new look at the presence and meaning of these creatures in Picasso’s work, with over fifty artworks on display. Oil paintings, drawings and engravings, amongst other works, show the unique way the artist dealt with this subject and the various different forms in which he portrayed it.

Unanimously recognized as a pioneer of video art, Bill Viola will show his work this summer in the capital of Malaga.

Today, on 26th April 2010, Museo Picasso Málaga presents a new approach to the artworks by Pablo Picasso that belong to its permanent collection, highlighting the wide range of themes the artist tackled during his prolific artistic career.

&middot";" As from tomorrow, Tuesday 27th April, and again, with a second instalment, as from Tuesday 20th July, visitors will be able to discover the MPM collection&rsquo";“s new layout. Until October of this year, the public will be able to view all 233 works that make up the museum&rsquo”;"s entire art holdings following its recent expansion, in two separate instalments.

&middot";" A New Approach is the follow-up to the project for the expansion and consolidation of the MPM&rsquo";"s art holdings, after the creation of the Fundación Museo Picasso Málaga. Legado Paul, Christine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso. This process will culminate in October, when the collection will once again be shown alongside the works on free loan from the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso ( FABA).

&middot";" This presentation coincides with the publication of a guidebook which contains information and a number of brief essays on the MPM, as well as the full catalogue of the MPM permanent collection&rsquo";"s art holdings, and ten academic studies on its ten most representative artworks.

František Kupka took painting to its essential elements: the plane, line and dot. Over the course of his career he developed a highly distinctive and unique style that still defies any attempt to classify it due to its focus on science, philosophy and mysticism. In addition, Kupka’s work suggests new approaches to interpreting the birth and evolution of modern art. The exhibition to be held at the

Christine, Almine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso’s commitment to the Museo Picasso Málaga (MPM), combined with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Andalusia [Junta de Andalucía], signify an increase in the MPM Collection’s oeuvre from 155 to 233 of Picasso’s works in ownership.

The Museo Picasso Málaga recorded a total of 324,861 visitors in 2009, making a grand total of 2,114,448 visitors since it opened its doors in October 2003.

A daily average of 1,041 people visited the MPM to view the artworks in the Collection, see the various temporary exhibitions that were held in the museum, and to take part in the wide range of activities that took place throughout 2009.

TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS

The foundation charter of the “Museo Picasso Málaga Foundation. The Paul, Christine and Bernard Ruiz Picasso Legacy”, was signed on 13th December, 2009. It is the culmination the process that created the Museo Picasso Málaga, and the definitive merging of the artworks themselves with the museum infrastructure which houses them.

The retrospective that the Museo Picasso Málaga will be devoting to the artist, “Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Avant-garde Pathways”, is curated by Estrella de Diego. This is the first time that such a complete range of Taeuber-Arp’s work has been shown in Spain. The exhibition brings together over 130 works from various international museums, institutions and collections.

On 19 October, the MPM will be opening the first major retrospective in Spain on the life and work of artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Curated by Estrella de Diego, the exhibition will bring to Spain over 130 works by Taeuber-Arp, including paintings, drawings, collages, textiles, puppets, plans, photographs, sculptures and furniture.

The selection process for the new post of Artistic Director took the form of an international call for applications, to which 21 candidates replied. Guidance was provided by an international assessment committee of experts in the field of art.

MPM’s new exhibition, which will run until 30 August 2009, brings together some 40 works by Picasso, alongside prominent works by two of the Andalusian artist’s great contemporaries: Julio González and Henri Matisse.

On 1st March, the Museo Picasso Málaga closed its exhibition Beyond Painting, Max Ernst in the Würth Collection, which was seen by a total of 97,674 visitors. This figure means that a daily average of 708 people came to the Palacio de Buenavista to view this selection of 57 works produced by the overwhelming imagination of the German artist.

EXHIBITIONS

Next Friday 21 and Saturday 22 November the strength and energy of the Spellbound Dance Company will transform the MPM Auditorium into a stage for constantly evolving and mutating emotions, images, sounds and gestures.

Opened the Museo Picasso Málaga

Monday, 27 October 2008, is the fifth anniversary of the opening of the Museo Picasso Málaga. To celebrate, the MPM will open free of charge on Saturday 25th (the artist’s birthday), Sunday 26th and Monday 27th October. Three days in which to commemorate the creation of the art museum, to which both Malagueños and visitors to the city are invited.

The exhibition brings together fifty-seven works, comprising illustrated books, paintings, collages, sculptures, drawings and engravings. In collaboration with the Würth Collection, Künzelsau (Germany).

On Wednesday, 20 August, the MPM closed the exhibition after receiving a total of 62,184 visitors. This figure means a daily average of 1,110 people came to see close to one hundred photographs that provided visitors with a different view of the man behind the myth.

With the title “Moments and Gazes. Picasso as Seen by Otero”, the Museo Picasso Málaga presents a new selection of photographs by Roberto Otero, part of the Archivo MPM.

On 25 May, the Museo Picasso Málaga closed its exhibition On the Human Being. International Photography 1900-1950, seen by a total of 52,396 visitors.

The exhibition revolves around man’s fascination with capturing the essence of people, in order to recognize itself and make itself recognizable in the gaze of the other. To this end, the show brings together 111 images from leading figures of the first half of the 20th century.

Sunday 27th January saw the end of the Museo Picasso Málaga’s exhibition ‘Picasso. Object and Image’, which was attended by a total of 59,477 visitors. A daily average of 717 people came to view the selection of 60 artworks, comprising sculptures, drawings, graphic works and ceramics that were brought together specially for the occasion.

EXHIBITIONS

EXHIBITIONS

An average of 1,092 persons a day visited the MPM to see the works in its Permanent Collection or one of the different temporary exhibitions organized at the Museum, as well as to participate in the different educational activities held over the course of the past year

A selection of near sixty sculptures, drawings, graphic works and ceramics which reveal the connections between the different visual languages in which Picasso worked throughout his life. The exhibition will be on show at the Museo Picasso Málaga from 22 October 2007 to 27 January 2008.

Thursday 27 September - MPM Auditorium - 8pm

After receiving a total of 71.896 visits, the Museo Picasso Málaga closed the exhibition ‘Picasso. Small Figure’. It was the first in a new series of exhibitions to be presented with the title The Collection in Context. These exhibitions will aim to place selected works from the MPM Collection in their historical and artistic context.

With dancers from the Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris

The bronze sculpture Small Figure, created exactly one hundred years ago in 1907, is the subject of the first in a new series of exhibitions to be presented with the title “The Collection in Context”. These exhibitions will aim to locate selected works from the Collection of the Museo Picasso Málaga in their historical and artistic context.

At the request of the Museo Picasso Málaga, Elizabeth Cowling, Edinburgh University, has written an in-depth analysis of Picasso’s enigmatic series of paintings of 1932 entitled Reclining Woman on the Beach. Her revealing conclusions are set out in the latest book published by the MPM.

Due to public acclaim, the exhibition The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York can be visited until next 9 September. During the summer, visitors will have the opportunity to view the 50 works on show by some of 20th century greatest artists. The collection will return to New York after the closing.

Matisse, Balthus, Chagall, Dubuffet, Giacometti, Magritte and Miró are some of the icons of twentieth-century art whose works are featured in The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, an exhibition that will be on view at the Museo Picasso Málaga from 26 March to 24 June, 2007

The Museo Picasso Málaga received a total of 342,824 visitors last year to reach an overall figure of 1,115,818 admissions since the Museum first opened its doors in October 2003. An average of 1,099 people per day came to the MPM to view the works in the Collection, visit the temporary exhibitions held at the Museum and take part in the different educational and cultural activities organised.

For the first time in Malaga, the unbroken voices of the Escolanía de Montserrat boy´s choir will be heard in the Auditorium of the Museo Picasso Málaga. The Museum will offer a series of concerts in which more than 40 boys belonging to one of Europe´s oldest music schools will perform.

On November 23, 24 and 25, at 8:30 p.m., the Auditorium of the MPM shall become the stage for Voice and Piano for Picasso, a series of concerts given by the mezzosoprano Elena Gragera, accompanied by the pianist Antón Cardó.

The exhibition features a total of 46 paintings, 14 drawings and 6 sculptures that vividly evoke the powerful presence of women in Picasso’s artistic production. Coproduced with the Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales

This summer, the MPM will feature a selection from this important legacy, comprising more than 1,500 photographs

The 45 works comprised are all taken from the MPM Collection. They are made up, fundamentally, of graphic works, with the exception of an illustrated book and four erotic drawings, also from the MPM Collection, shown here for the first time.

The Picasso and the Mediterranean lecture series, taking place until May, is organised by the Museo Picasso Málaga and the Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales.

The Picassos from Antibes, an exhibition that opens to the public from 14 March to 11 June, marks the first occasion when most of the works by Picasso in the Musée Picasso, Antibes, have been brought together elsewhere.

The Museo Picasso Málaga is the recipient of the 2006 AIA Institute Honor Awards for Architecture, along ten other architectural projects. The selection process involved more than 400 buildings from all over the world. Last year, Gluckman Mayner Architects received as well a Design Award from the New York delegation of AIA for its work on the Museo Picasso Málaga.

New loans, exhibitions, conferences and educational activities according to the activities programmed in the art gallery for the year 2006.

The exhibition will be inaugurated on October 24 and will be open to the public from October 25 through February 5. It explores the relationship between Picasso´s ceramics and the Mediterranean pottery tradition.

The architectural firm Gluckman Mayner Architects receives a 2005 Design Award from the American Institute of Architects for its design of the Museo Picasso Málaga.

Picasso. Toros, on view at the Museo Picasso Málaga from April, 1st until July, 3rd was seen by 63.273 visitors, an average of 791 per day.

Coinciding with the exhibition Picasso. Toros, on view from April 1st until July 3rd, the Museo Picasso Málaga has organised a series of lectures to be held at the Museum Auditorium every Thursday in April and May at 7 p.m. Tomàs Llorens, Chief Curator of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, is scheduled to inaugurate the series with a lecture entitled “Picasso, Bullfights 1934-1935” on Thursday,

The choice of “Picasso. Toros” as the topic for a temporary exhibition was based on the enormous significance of this subject matter in the artist’s work. The exhibition, scheduled to run from April 1 to July 3, 2005, encompasses a selection of 61 works by Pablo Picasso, including paintings, drawings, sculptures and graphics from museums and private collections in Germany, France the US and Spa

From 15 March 2005 until the end of September, a selection of the Museum’s own holdings will be displayed in the temporary exhibitions space on the ground floor. On show for the first time at the MPM will be the linocut Portrait of “Jacqueline in a Ruff” and the three etchings on copperplate entitled “Apples”.

The Museo Picasso Málaga, presents, on its first anniversary, Picasso. Anthology (1895-1971), a selection of 132 works by Pablo Ruiz-Picasso that come from the collections of the Museu Picasso, Barcelona; Musée National Picasso, Paris; Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso and a private collection.

On Wednesday 27th October 2004, the Museo Picasso Málaga celebrates its first anniversary with the opening of the temporary exhibition “Picasso. Anthology (1895-1971)”

The Center for the Study and Promotion of the Work of Picasso was created in order to promote the study and research on Pablo Picasso’s works and its universal influence in modern and contemporary art, with an educational, academic, historiographic and scientific aim. The new Centre will contribute to enrich the MPM’s current offer, turning it into a live cultural centre where all types of visitor

FIRST TEMPORARY EXHIBITION AT THE MUSEO PICASSO MÁLAGA

Permanent Collection