SEP.19.2024 – JAN.05.2025, MAD

Paul Durand-Ruel

And the Twilight of Impressionism

This exhibition has a twofold objective. Firstly, it aims to raise awareness of the extraordinary art dealer and patron Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922), who championed and promoted the most innovative and original art of his time, initially from his Parisian gallery and later from branches in New York, London, and Brussels. Secondly, it seeks to contextualize and highlight the work of five artists from the last generation of the Impressionist movement whom he openly supported (André, D’Espagnat, Loiseau, Maufra, and Moret), giving them the recognition they deserve in the history of art.

SEP.19.2024 – JAN.05.2025, MAD

31 Women

An Exhibition by Peggy Guggenheim

31 Women: An Exhibition by Peggy Guggenheim brings together the work of the thirty-one artists who participated in the 1943 exhibition ‘Exhibition by 31 Women’, organized by Peggy Guggenheim at her New York gallery, ‘Art of This Century’. Many of these artists were associated with the Surrealist movement and Abstraction, encompassing both established figures and emerging talents in the art scene.

The exhibition underscores Guggenheim’s role as a patron and addresses the context in which the women artists she worked with at her New York gallery developed their work, as well as the collaborative networks they established among themselves.

SEP.19.2024 – JAN.05.2025, MAD

Weegee

Autopsy of the Spectacle

Arthur H. Fellig, known as Weegee (1899-1968), quickly gained international acclaim for his photographs of the underworld and the marginal environments of New York nightlife in the 1930s and 1940s. However, his work related to his stay in Hollywood (1947-1951), which focused on the Californian upper class and the social life of major film stars, has not generally received the same recognition. This exhibition aims to resolve this disparity by highlighting the importance and relevance of this second period in the way it expresses a critique of the ‘society of the spectacle’, as well as its continuity with the best-known part of Weegee’s oeuvre.

JUN.06.2024 – SEP.15.2024, BCN

Louis Stettner

The variety of the subjects he explores, and the permanent social component of his images are the main features of the work of the American Louis Stettner (1922-2016), a long and highly interesting career that has not so far received the recognition it deserves.

With a life that straddled New York and Paris, Stettner remained rooted in two worlds at a time when most photographers related to only one of them. In this sense, his work is reminiscent of both the aesthetics of New York street photography and the poetic gaze of traditional French urban photography, always against the backdrop of his social concern and his determination to reflect the dignity of the human being.

JUN.06.2024 – SEP.15.2024, BCN

Paz Errázuriz

In 2018, and after presenting the first retrospective of the artist in Spain, Fundación MAPFRE brought to its collection 173 works by Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz (Santiago de Chile, 1944), author of an extensive, committed, and recognized work around the social and political reality of her country with an aesthetic that, far from classic photojournalism, involves a profound gaze on the human condition.

As part of the annual appointment of the KBr’s program with our Collections, this exhibition presents a careful selection of that collection, in a presentation that provides an overview of his work from the seventies to the present and includes some of his best-known series, such as La Manzana de Adán (Adam’s Apple) or El infarto del alma (Heart attack of the soul).