Under the helm of museum director Blanca de la Torre, the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM) introduces a new phase this autumn with two new exhibitions highlighting international artists. With this change in direction, the museum aims to recover its founding mandate as a driving engine for art and culture with the organization of additional activities across other disciplines: film, with the launch of the IVAM film club; music, with concerts by Maestro Espada, Gala i Ovidio, and Versonautas, along with exhibition walkthroughs with the soprano Quiteria Muñoz; and Museo Anfibio, an initiative cutting across contemporary art, traditional forms of knowledge, and environmental action.
The first show of the season, Kara Walker. Burning Village, opens September 25 and brings together 44 of the artist’s works, including some of her most celebrated prints. The exhibition serves as a point of departure for Inhabiting the Shadows, a group show addressing issues related to individual and collective memory through works by Louise Bourgeois, Carmen Calvo, Cindy Sherman, Douglas Gordon, Joseph Beuys, Lucebert, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and more.
Later this fall, IVAM will present Hidden Spain by Cristina García Rodero, a project in which the photographer documented festivals, ceremonies, rites, and traditions in villages across Spain from 1973 to 1989.
The museum will continue paying special attention to its local and regional context, lending visibility to new voices in Valencian art. IVAM’s Gallery 4 will host Valencia before “Normative Art,” an exhibition revisiting this historical period between 1947 and 1960. The annual programme is rounded off with “Between Depth and Distance,” a site-specific project for the museum by Andrea Canepa.
A year of a museum in the making and a year heralding many futures to come.
To learn more, visit ivam.es.
