Roni Horn, Eva Fábregas and Tino Sehgal

Roni Horn
April 1–September 10, 2023

Roni Horn’s diverse practice focuses on conceptually oriented photography, sculpture, drawing and books that defy any fixed classifications. Her intellectually rigorous and emotionally profound work reflects on the processes of becoming in relation to identity and location.

Since 1975, Horn has travelled extensively across Iceland’s remote landscapes—these solitary experiences in a geologically young landscape have long been important influences in her life and practice. Her works follow the mutability of water, weather and landscape, counteracting the possibility of fixed states and stability, existing in an androgynous realm. Although Horn´s work is not directly addressing identity politics or the climate emergency, it is evident that these urgent debates infused her quietly radical oeuvre.

This exhibition is carefully conceived by Horn in dialogue with Centro Botín’s exhibition rooms, architecture, light and visitors flow. It will be accompanied by a publication with newly commissioned texts by American author Carmen María Machado and Spanish curator, researcher and author Isabel de Naverán.

Curator: Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, Director of Exhibitions and the Collection, Centro Botín

Eva Fábregas: ENREDOS
May 20–October 15, 2023

ENREDOS, Spanish for entangelments, is a new series of programming at Centro Botín engaging artists who have been granted a Fundación Botín Art Grant, inviting them to respond to the foundation´s collection, building, site and audiences. Through ENREDOS, Centro Botín will provide new readings of the collection, experiment with the display and activate its exhibition spaces, while continuing to nurture the foundation´s ongoing relationships with the grantees and their networks. 

For the first edition, a recipient of the Fundación Botín Art Grant in 2010, Eva Fábregas, will select a number of works from Fundación Botín´s Collection that resonate with her practice and develop a series of immersive spaces for their display. The collection’s artworks will be presented in dialogue with Fábregas’ existing and newly commissioned drawings and large-scale inflatable sculptures, which allow for gentle activations by visitors through embodied exercises and collective experimentation. 

Curators: Eva Fábregas, artist & Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, Director of Exhibitions and the Collection, Centro Botín

Tino Sehgal / El Greco
October 7, 2023–February 11, 2024

Centro Botín will present an exhibition of Tino Sehgal´s practice in dialogue with El Greco’s seminal painting Adoration of the Shepherds  (1577–1579), originally realized for the Capilla de Santo Domingo del Antiguo, Toledo.

Sehgal’s works, which he calls “constructed situations“ are always enacted by people rather than consisting of material objects. The resulting situations are immaterial and fleeting, what truly matters is the viewer’s experience created by the artist. At the heart of Tino Sehgal / El Greco is the questioning of art’s relevance to society in terms of spiritual and religious values up until today. How does the divine ray of light in El Greco’s painting shape Sehgal’s development of a work that is not an object but a “situation“? How are El Greco’s depicted mannerisms transformed by a contemporary work of art?

Curator: Udo Kittelmann, Curator and member of the Fundación Botín’s Art Advisory Committee.

Itinerarios XXVIII
November 18, 2023–March 31, 2024

Itinerarios, Spanish for itineraries, is Centro Botín´s annual exhibition dedicated to the recipients of the Fundación Botín Art Grants. This cycle of exhibitions provides unique insights into the latest debates taking place in contemporary art. Since the Art Grants were launched in 1993, they have benefitted more than 200 international creative talents by supporting practitioners seeking to develop a research project in visual arts.

The 28th edition of Itinerarios will present the works of Luz Broto, Lucía C. Pino, Fernando García Dory, Henrique Pavão, Jorge Ribalta and the artist-duo Patricia Gómez y María Jesús González. The jury that selected the projects was composed of Sandra Guimarães, artistic director of the Bombas Gens, Valencia; Manuel Segade, director of Dos de Mayo Art Centre, Madrid and previous recipients of the award Maider López and Jorge Yeregui.