This coming year the IVAM exhibitions focus on the core programmes developed by the IVAM in the last two years: the review of historical moments from the present; the approach to non-western modernities; the reconsideration of the popular and feminisms, as well as new perspectives on young art and new methodologies to open the museum to diverse audiences.
The IVAM exhibition program for 2023 offers 13 exhibitions dedicated to fundamental artists of the historical and contemporary international art scene such as Asger Jorn, Aref El Rayess and Otobong Nkanga; Additionally, it includes a rereading the popular in the IVAM collection which is curated by Pedro G. Romero. Moreover, it hosts an exhibition about La Nave’s group of designers, as well as an exhibition of the work made by women artists in Spain and Portugal in the period between the dictatorship and the beginning of democracy, among others.
Open Creation and its Enemies: Asger Jorn in situation
February 16–June 18, 2023
Curated by: Ellef Prestsaeter
Collaboration: Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark
The exhibition documents and emphasizes the considerable scope of Jorn’s artistic practice, delving into not only his painting but his graphic work, experimental publications and magazines, as well as his participation in the Situationist International or his historical research work carried out at the Scandinavian Institute for Comparative Vandalism.
La Nave 1984-1991
March 9–September 10, 2023
Curated by: Daniel Nebot and Nacho Lavernia
This group of designers became a benchmark for design in the 80s in Valencia, due to a particular way of understanding the discipline of graphic and industrial design, focusing on the communicative elements, apart from the functional ones.
Aref El Rayess: Works (1957–1978)
May 11–September 10, 2023
Curated by: Catherine David
Aref El Rayess is a fundamental figure in the Lebanese cultural panorama from the 1960s to the 1980s. In its paradoxes and singularity, its flashes and its blind alleys, the oeuvre of Aref El Rayess exemplifies an uncompromising modern artistic career that follows solely the “inner demand” of a concerned subject, more attentive and sympathetic to the political, social and cultural crises of his time than to the “isms” and expected sequences of the modern canon.
Trascity: Alberto Feijóo
May 18–October 22, 2023
Curated by: Nuria Enguita
Trascity is a project that reflects on the roles and spaces we occupy and on the objects we accumulate and collect, including images. This installation, designed specifically for the IVAM, adopts different perspectives in attempt to reformulate the uses of the exhibition space.
Juana Francés
May 25, 2023–January 14, 2024
IVAM Alcoi
Curated by: María Jesús Folch
This exhibition tries to dissect and analyse the different fragments of Juana Francés’s artistic career, not only through her own works, words and writings but also by studying and surveying her creative process.
Otobong Nkanga
July 13–November 5, 2023
Curated by: Nuria Enguita
Nkanga’s monographic exhibition will include drawings, installations, photographs, sculptures and performances through which the artist examines our social and topographical relationship with our everyday environment.
The popular: IVAM Collection
October 5, 2023–May 19, 2024
Curated by: Pedro G. Romero
In the light of the IVAM Collection, this exhibition proposes reconsidering the idea of the popular as a category in the field of contemporary art. This would involve rethinking the notion of the popular at the start of the 21st century, standing aside from binary terms like high and low, academic and subordinate or beautiful and sinister.
Llorenç Barber: Archive
November 16, 2023–April 7, 2024
Curated by: Lorenzo Sandoval
Llorenç Barber is one of the pioneers of Spanish sound art. The project proposes an exhibition in the form of an archive (presented spatially and online), a programme of performances and workshops, and a publication with a selection of his writings.
Josep Renau: Making Art Operative—Designing the Future
November 29, 2022–February 2023
Patio Herreriano Museum, Valladolid
Curated by: Nuria Enguita and Ramón Escrivà
The show focuses on Renau’s work with a political content, marked by his early militancy in the Spanish Communist Party. Until the end of his life, this induced him to pursue a concept of art at the service of the revolution and social change.
The power with which we leap together: Women artists in Spain and Portugal between dictatorship and democracy
November 30, 2023–April 14, 2024
Curated by: Patricia Mayayo and Giulia Lamoni
Co-production: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
This exhibition proposes a revaluation of the work of the Spanish and Portuguese women artists of the time treated, bearing in mind their specificities with regard to the Anglo-American model and underlining the many parallels to be found between them. It will also be an opportunity to investigate possible instances of meeting and exchange between the women artists of the two countries.
Throughout the year the programs Art and Context, Articulations, Confluències, Polyglotism, among other investigation and educational programmes, are available.
