Past exhibitions
"la Caixa" Foundation organises exhibitions to show works from its Collection of Contemporary Art. We're working to make all our exhibitions available for you to view in the new future.
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GODS, MAGICIANS AND WISEMEN
26.04.2023 // 20.08.2023
CaixaForum Madrid
The exhibition Gods, Magicians and Wisemen brings together the work of ten artists from ”la Caixa” Foundation Contemporary Art Collection and pieces from their private collections, suggesting a formal and/or conceptual relation between them.
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GODS, MAGICIANS AND WISEMEN
24.11.2022 // 02.04.2023
CaixaForum Barcelona
The exhibition Gods, Magicians and Wisemen brings together the work of ten artists from ”la Caixa” Foundation Contemporary Art Collection and pieces from their private collections, suggesting a formal and/or conceptual relation between them.
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Digesting the world where it is
20.07.2022 // 30.10.2022
CaixaForum Barcelona
Curated by Alba Colomo, this exhibition is one of the winning projects of the Comisart 2020 Call and it intertwines a series of works that reflect interdependence and the tentacular relationships that sustain life.
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LOOK AT ME!
16.06.2022 // 25.09.2022
Naves de Gamazo, Santander – Fundación ENAIRE
Under the heading Look at Me!, the show examines the genre of portraiture in contemporary art through a selection of paintings, photographs, sculptures and videos from the ”la Caixa” Foundation Collection of Contemporary Art chosen to reveal the wide range of representational strategies that artists use to explore subjectivity and human identity in our own time.
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ESPAÑA OCULTA
27.04.2022 // 24.07.2022
Torreón de Lozoya de Segovia
España oculta (Hidden Spain) has become a classic in contemporary photography. When Cristina García Rodero started work on this project, two contrasting images of rural life in Spanish villages coexisted uneasily: the grotesque, macabre spectacle of deepest, darkest Spain alongside the idealised rural idyll untouched by the modern world.
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Rats! Rats! Rats!
10.03.2022 // 19.06.2022
CaixaForum Barcelona
In 1903 scientist Guglielmo Marconi set up the first public demonstration that Morse code messages could be sent wirelessly over long distances. Yet before the presentation could begin, the apparatus in the London lecture theatre began to tap out the message “Rats! Rats! Rats!”, followed by a string of taunts and personal insults.
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ESPAÑA OCULTA
28.10.2021 // 16.01.2022
Nau Gaudí Mataró
España oculta (Hidden Spain) has become a classic in contemporary photography. When Cristina García Rodero started work on this project, two contrasting images of rural life in Spanish villages coexisted uneasily: the grotesque, macabre spectacle of deepest, darkest Spain alongside the idealised rural idyll untouched by the modern world.
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The Next Mutation
21.10.2021 // 13.02.2022
CaixaForum Barcelona
Curated by Xavier Acarín Wieland and part of the Call for Curation program, the exhibition invites us to think of the world as a constant collaboration.
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Human, More Human
07.10.2021 // 23.01.2022
Fundación Barrié, A Coruña (Galicia)
Human beings have been one of the great subjects of art throughout the ages. Artists in all disciplines and styles have strived to explore humans’ multiple facets: their figure and body, their gestures and attitudes, their ideas and feelings, their dreams and passions, their strengths and vulnerabilities.
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Actividad_Cut-a-Rug-Turin
11.02.2021 // 25.07.2021
OGR Cult, OGR (Officine Grandi Riparazioni), Turin
American artist Jessica Stockholder explores the power of painting in an exhibition that brings together works from the collections of two major institutions: the "la Caixa" Foundation and the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT.
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So lazy: in praise of waste
27.11.2020 // 23.05.2021
CaixaForum Barcelona
Sooooo Lazy: In Praise of Waste takes its cue from Georges Bataille’s notion of consumption, whereby the economy is driven not by production and consumption but by wasteful spending.
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Poetics of emotions
20.10.2020 // 14.03.2021
CaixaForum Girona
Emotions are a fundamental part of our experience of life and shape many of our decisions and actions, both as individuals and in groups. -
Where We’re At. Where We Could Be
05.03.2020 // 01.11.2020
CaixaForum Barcelona
It is worth thinking of artworks and artistic practices as pointing towards previously nonexistent places, like fate lines guiding us towards territories we would never have reached had we not been shown the way.
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Look at Me!
31.01.2020 // 20.09.2020
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF ALICANTE (MACA)
The exhibition explores human representation, portrait and identity through works from our own age.
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”LA CAIXA” COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY ART SELECTED BY Verónica Gerber Bicecci
15.01.2020 // 09.08.2020
Whitechapel Gallery, London
The artist and writer Verónica Gerber Bicecci (b. 1981, Mexico) explores the effects of human and environmental catastrophe on landscape and language in a free display of photography, video and installation.
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Poetics of emotions
28.11.2019 // 30.08.2020
CaixaForum Sevilla
Emotions are a fundamental part of our experience of life and shape many of our decisions and actions, both as individuals and in groups.
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PAINTING. A PERMANENT CHALLENGE
23.10.2019 // 01.03.2020
CaixaForum Madrid
Painting occupies a prominent position in the ”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection.
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In Free Fall
09.10.2019 // 09.02.2020
CaixaForum Barcelona
We live in fast-moving times, when many of our society’s guiding values have fallen by the wayside.
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”LA CAIXA” COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY ART SELECTED BY TOM MCCARTHY
19.09.2019 // 5.01.2020
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Third in a series of four exhibitions presented at Whitechapel Gallery with works from ”la Caixa” Collection of Contemporary Art.
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Poetics of emotions
02.07.2019 // 27.10.2019
CaixaForum Zaragoza
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PAINTING. A PERMANENT CHALLENGE
27.06.2019 // 29.09.2019
CaixaForum Barcelona
Painting occupies a prominent position in the ”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection. This exhibition aspires to rediscover the medium through the works made by a group of artists who have experimented radically with pictorial images and have established their own definitions of painting — in short, artists who have assumed the challenge of revising painting, continuing to give it meaning.
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”LA CAIXA” COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY ART SELECTED BY Maria Fusco
08.05.2019 // 01.09.2019
Whitechapel Gallery, London
British writer Maria Fusco was invited to curate the second of a series of four exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery in London featuring works from the ”la Caixa” Collection of Contemporary Art selected by internationally acclaimed authors.
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Poetics of emotions
06.02.2019 // 19.05.2020
CaixaForum Barcelona
Emotions are a fundamental part of our experience of life and shape many of our decisions and actions, both as individuals and in groups. -
”LA CAIXA” COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY ART SELECTED BY Enrique Vila-Matas
16.01.2019 // 28.04.2019
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas kicks off a series of four exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery in London featuring works from the ”la Caixa” Collection of Contemporary Art selected by internationally acclaimed authors.
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Turbulence
19.07.2018 // 21.10.2018
CAIXAFORUM BARCELONA
Starting with the state of sudden unrest created by turbulence, this exhibition explores the role of contemporary art in the face of the conflicts and instabilities that characterise our globalised world.
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A Certain Darkness
19.06.2018 // 05.01.2019
CAIXAFORUM BARCELONA
One morning in August 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre without anyone noticing. The painting remained missing for two years. However, far from deterring visitors, this absence had the opposite effect: crowds flocked to the museum to see the empty space on the wall.
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LOOK AT ME! PORTRAITS AND OTHER FICTIONS IN THE ”LA CAIXA” COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY ART
10.05.2018 // 30.09.2018
MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO GAS NATURAL FENOSA (MAC)
After shows at CaixaForum Seville and the Pera Museum in Istanbul in 2017 and early 2018, the group exhibition Look at Me! Portraits and Other Fictions in the ”la Caixa” Collection of Contemporary Art is now on at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa (MAC) in A Coruña.
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THE SLEEP OF REASON
26.04.2018 // 13.08.2018
MUSEO DE ARTE MIGUEL URRUTIA (MAMU), BOGOTÁ (COLOMBIA)
The Sleep of Reason is an exhibition that brings together works of contemporary art from three major collections: the ”la Caixa” Collection of Contemporary Art, the Banco de la República Art Collection (Bogotá, Colombia) and the Museo de Antioquía Collection (Medellín, Colombia).
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Beneath the Arm: Between the Palm of the Hand and the Armpit
31.01.2018 // 20.05.2018
CAIXAFORUM BARCELONA
Around four years ago, artist Irene Grau told me that the dimensions of her Color Fields — the monochrome boards that she transported and photographed amidst nature — had two limitations: the length of the load of her van and the maximum width she was able to carry under her arm, between the palm of her hand and her armpit. Let’s imagine for a moment that the size of many of the landscapes created in a specific historical period was determined only by a limitation contained in the title of this project.
