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The project Appunti per un’Orestíade africana, una democracia en fatiga II (Notes for an African Oresteia, a democracy in fatigue II) by Spanish photographer Gloria Oyarzábal has won the third edition of the KBr Photo Award.

Looking at a photograph is also looking at life: attentively, slowly, with wonder. Come to our exhibition halls in Madrid and Barcelona and find out for yourself. What’s more, admission is free from November 3 to 9!

We are extending the deadline for submitting projects to the 3rd edition of the KBr Photo Award until September 8.

Discover the history of modern art, its key movements, differences with contemporary art and its impact on the history of art.

Come and learn about Peggy Guggenheim’s role as a patron and discover the work of the 31 female artists she brought together in an exhibition in 1943. From September 19 to January 5, 2025.

Discover Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, their characteristics, the key painters and their most famous works. Learn about the history of art here.

Discover what art is as well as its role in society. Find out about its history, the different artistic disciplines, its benefits and the role of artists today. Explore this world!

Exploring, revealing, provoking feelings, exciting. Our catalogs capture the soul of our exhibitions and the essence of each artist. Carrie Mae Weems is no exception. The New York Times has named the catalog for the major retrospective of her work as one of the best photography books of 2022.

The flamenco artist Paco Hidalgo is confronted with the characters that live in the images by Paolo Gasparini and Carlos Pérez Siquier, and who become the witnesses of his choreography, of which they are unwitting performers.

The Image Cities project by photographer Anastasia Samoylova is a visual study of the ever-closer integration of the photographic image and the urban environment. This work, for its quality and originality, is the winner of the first KBr Photo Award.

Madrid throws open the door to art and art collecting with ARCO 2021, an edition that this year is being held exceptionally between July 7 and 11. Some 130 galleries from 26 countries are coming to swell the city’s cultural offer. To mark the occasion and show our support for the week in which Contemporary Art is the main protagonist, Fundación MAPFRE is extending its exhibition opening hours until 10pm on Friday, July 9.

For more than five decades, Claudia Andujar has dedicated her life and her work to documenting and protecting the Yanomami people, one of the largest and most endangered indigenous communities in Brazil. The catalog we published on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition in Barcelona between February 26 and May 23, 2021, was shortlisted for the Best Historical Book award at the Rencontres d’Arlés photography festival in France.

As part of our ‘Digital Art’ project and to celebrate Music Day, we are offering a unique proposition that combines Bill Brandt’s photography with a song composed by electronic band Delaporte especially for the occasion.

Art leaves no-one indifferent; it helps us to rebuild, to escape, to rest, to enjoy, to step outside our reality before returning to it. On Museum Day we invite you to get in touch with your feelings.

Everything – past, present and future – can be found in books. Choose a book, open it, start reading, relive old feelings, and experience new emotions. We invite you to join us in the magic of reading, of opening up your imagination, of creating a reality! Happy World Book Day!

Jawlensky’s paintings also fascinate children. His vivid colors attract children’s eyes and the characters that inhabit his paintings provoke their curiosity. Encourage your kids and participate together in the Instagram contest #PintaJawlensky by interpreting and recreating the works of the Russian painter!

The exhibition Alma Charra, which has been inaugurated in Santo Domingo de la Cruz, Salamanca and can be visited until November 2021, brings us closer to the creative universe of the artist from Salamanca, Venancio Blanco.