Exhibitions programme 2018

Exhibitions programme 2018

Date range: 
14/11/2017

The programme for 2018 includes two major exhibitions, international in their scope and size, which are the focal point of the museum’s programme next year. They imply collaboration with international museums and involve the display of themes and artists directly related to the museum’s collections, building bridges and establishing new interpretations with the major international artistic movements.

Together with the Fundació Gala Salvador Dalí, the museum is preparing the first major exhibition dedicated to Gala, a figure essential for understanding the Surrealist universe. Despite her notable popularity, Gala Dalí continues to be an enigma. The exhibition Gala Salvador Dalí: A Room of her Own in Púbol will present an exceptional series of works by Dalí, objects that belonged to Gala and a selection of works by other artists.

The second big show is dedicated to William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement and it explores this major European artistic movement, related to Modernisme, one of the mainstays of the museum’s collections. It is being organized jointly with the Fundació Juan March. This will be the first time that an exhibition on this subject will be mounted in this country. The collaboration of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the British museum has been essential.

One of the novelties for 2018 will be the start of a series of exhibitions focusing on the 1950s, 60s and 70s. The first, Art at the Gates of 1968: Pop and New Artistic Practices in Catalonia, will be a small-format exhibition, the result of the investigations that the museum has carried out in recent years to deal with Catalan art in this period in detail.

On a similar theme, once the new presentation of the Renaissance and Baroque rooms has been inaugurated, and while we await the future enlargement of the museum, two new rooms dedicated to post-war and avant-garde art will be opened, which prolong the historical period covered by the museum up to the 1960s. This proposal includes collaboration with the Museu Picasso in Barcelona in order to make room for this artist in the collection. The museum also intends to incorporate new layers of interpretation to the Modern Art collection, a task that will be continued in the medieval collections.

Finally, our exhibitions continue to travel. The show dedicated to Ramon Pichot will be seen in Lleida and Girona thanks to Obra Social “la Caixa” and the museum will take a small exhibition of works by Juli González to Brazil.

Programació d'exposicions 2018