Malaga,
2026 will bring to the Picasso Málaga Museum exhibitions where links between Picasso’s legacy and the work of current artists or those who were contemporaries will once again be considered, with the aim of promoting research into alternative readings of art and providing the public with a multifaceted and perhaps unexpected vision of the validity of the Andalusian genius in recent creation.
On January 23, the first exhibition of the new year will open in that center: “Antígona”, dedicated to the conceptual author Elena Asins. On the tenth anniversary of his death, the rigor with which he explored mathematical, poetic and visual languages will be highlighted through two works: the installation itself Antigonewhich the Reina Sofía Museum will lend for the occasion as guest workin which the characters of that name, presented in Corten steel and intense black, refer to the heavy mourning for the death of someone who was going to be buried alive; and Hemonan audiovisual also linked to the daughter of Oedipus, her fight against authority and the tragedy of Sophocles.
In May, Joana Vasconcelos will arrive in Malaga, whose last major Spanish exhibition was held at the Palacio de Liria in Madrid. Her exhibition at the Picasso Museum will be titled “Transfiguration”, in reference to the Portuguese artist’s purpose of transforming and giving new meanings to certain sides of reality, and will feature her sculptures and monumental installations made with everyday materials, such as textiles, ceramics or tiles, linked to collective identities.
The highly anticipated autumn proposal of this center is planned: “Munch-Picasso. Influences and affinities”, the first exhibition that will try to highlight their common points; fundamentally, the desire to experiment and channel his obsessions into painting.
Under the curatorship of Paloma Alarcó, Head of the Modern Painting Conservation Area at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, it will be organized in collaboration with the Munchmuseet of Oslo and the Almine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Foundation and will bring together a hundred canvases, engravings and drawings.
And the last of the exhibitions that the Picasso Museum will host will mark the return of Miquel Barceló to this space. After passing through the Museum of Almería, from March to June “Reflejos. Picasso x Barceló” will arrive in Malaga, which will combine ceramics from both, focusing on their common view of tradition and classical art, in connection with the collections of the Museum of Cádiz.
On the other hand, the current presentation of the museum’s permanent collection, baptized as “Pablo Picasso: structures of invention. The unity of a work” has been extended: it will remain in the Buenavista Palace until 2028 instead of until 2027, as planned. Curated by Michael FitzGerald, professor of Art History at Trinity College in Hartford, it wants to underline the coherence of Picasso’s career beyond the evident aesthetic diversity of his paintings, sculptures, ceramics, drawings and graphic work.
