The Director General of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Juan Ignacio Vidarte, and the Museum’s curatorial team formed by Lekha Hileman Waitoller, Geaninne Gutiérrez- Guimarães, Marta Blàvia and Manuel Cirauqui have revealed the keys to the eleven exhibitions that visitors will be able to enjoy in 2025.
The 2025 artistic programming will be starting in mid-February with Tarsila do Amaral. Painting Modern Brazil, a retrospective analyzing her fertile output from the 1920s to the 1960s. February will also see the opening of Masterpieces on Paper from Budapest, a selection covering seven centuries of prints and drawings from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in the Hungarian capital. Spring will mark the start of in situ, a new cycle presenting ambitious projects by contemporary artists created specifically for the Museum’s spaces, activating the architecture or standing in harmony with the distinctive features of the building’s iconic galleries. The inaugural show will present Refik Anadol, an internationally recognized video artist and a pioneer of artificial intelligence aesthetics, with Euskaltel as a collaborator; the cycle will continue with Mark Leckey in the late fall, whose exhibition will address the multiple sources incorporated within his production, such as sound, sculpture, and performance.
In April, Helen Frankenthaler: Painting Without Rules, sponsored by Fundación BBVA, will explore the artist’s revolutionary approach to painting through approximately thirty works produced between 1953 and 2002, situated in dialogue with paintings and sculptures created by other artists of the same era. In June, Barbara Kruger, sponsored by Occident will focus on the US artist’s recent output, highlighting her engagement and expertise in working in different architectural contexts through site-specific installations that plunge visitors into environments filled with texts. In fall, the Museum will unveil the abstract forms and optical illusions of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, while December will see the presentation of Arts of the Earth, sponsored by Iberdrola, an exhibition forming part of the Museum’s commitment to environmental sustainability, inviting a re-reading of environmentally focused art from recent decades. The Film & Video gallery will feature a subjective journey through the video and performance output of Vito Acconci within a staging designed by Basque artist Sergio Prego; followed by Sky Hopinka’s Fainting Spells, in which the artist explores the creative connection with living indigenous cultures.
Finally, on the third floor the public will be able to enjoy the exhibition Works from the Collection of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, sponsored by BBK, which in the fall of 2025 will host a selection of works from the Rodenstock Collection on long-term loan.
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