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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Poetics of emotions

02.07.2019 // 27.10.2019

CaixaForum Zaragoza

Emotions are a fundamental part of our experience of life and shape many of our decisions and actions, both as individuals and in groups.
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.
”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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Look at Me! Portraits and other Fictions from the ”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection

07.12.2017 // 11.03.2018

PERA MUSEUM, ISTAMBUL

Look at Me! is the opening exhibition at the new CaixaForum Seville. The show features forty of the best-known works by great artists in the ”la Caixa” Collection of Contemporary Art.
H(a)unting Images: Anatomy of a Shot

06.10.2017 // 07.01.2018

CAIXAFORUM BARCELONA

The invention proudly announced by French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey in 1882 followed in the same line as other chronophotographic devices from the late 19th century. Designed to analyse the different phases of moving bodies, these devices expanded the possible ways of representing reality and extended the scope of sight beyond the range of the human eye.
Turbulence

08.09.2017 // 03.12.2017

Galeria do Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional, Lisboa

By assembling work by a wide range of artists from different fields, the ”la Caixa” Collection of Contemporary Art has fashioned a narrative that captures the abundance of poetic voices in contemporary art and offers a fresh look at the world around us.
Tony Oursler
L7-L5. Imponderable

27.05.2017 // 03.09.2017

CAIXAFORUM BARCELONA

This exhibition brings together two works, separated by thirty years, created by pioneer video artist Tony Oursler. Both works experiment with illusionistic visual effects and explore supernatural beliefs.
Conversation Piece

19.05.2017 // 17.09.2017

Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome

The classical architecture of the Galleria Nazionale welcomes this conversation between a select group of works from the "la Caixa" Contemporary Art Collection
Iconoclastic gestures,
heterodox images

05.04.2017 // 23.07.2017

CAIXAFORUM LLEIDA

Art as a provocation and agent for change, in the second show in the Comisart: New Perspectives on the ”la Caixa” Collection programme run by the ”la Caixa” Foundation to offer emerging curators the opportunity to mount an exhibition of their own.
Look at Me!
Portraits and other Fictions in the ”la Caixa” Collection of Contemporary Art

04.03.2017 // 04.06.2017

CAIXAFORUM SEVILLA

Look at Me! is the opening exhibition at the new CaixaForum Seville. The show features forty of the best-known works by great artists in the ”la Caixa” Collection of Contemporary Art.
Exercises for Sowing Lightning

09.02.2017 // 01.05.2017

CAIXAFORUM BARCELONA

This proposal by Nicolás Paris takes apart the traditional model of art exhibition and creates a laboratory conceived to encourage us to observe, question and enter into dialogue. The artist considers the exhibition as an intermediate point in a research process, and therefore sees it as a place in which to continue experimenting, creating and transforming ideas collectively.
Balsam and flight
Artistic creation in prison

26.10.2016 // 15.01.2017

CaixaForum Barcelona

By striking up a dialogue between works from ”la Caixa” Collection of Contemporary Art and pieces by inmates in Catalan prisons, Balsam and Flight explores the dilemmas posed by solitude, the imposition of rules and the desire for freedom.
ALT-ARCHITECTURE

29.06.2016 // 02.10.2016

CaixaForum Barcelona

Architecture and urbanism are viewed through the prism of art in the final show in the Comisart: New Perspectives on the "la Caixa" Collection cycle, which offers emerging curators the opportunity to mount an exhibition of their own.