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Wherever you are, we’re beside you

Wherever you are, we’re beside you

Our mission is to work to improve people’s lives. Caring, trying to ensure health and safety, filling the world with culture and knowledge. That is why these days, more than ever, we want to accompany you.

An opportunity for 26 promising projects

An opportunity for 26 promising projects

26 semi-finalist projects with exciting and inspiring proposals will participate in the third edition of our Social Innovation Awards. These initiatives, which propose effective solutions to social, economic and environmental challenges of our society, now have the opportunity shine.

Being a volunteer changes lives

Being a volunteer changes lives

What motivates Fundación MAPFRE’s volunteers? United by the same way of thinking and feeling, they are driven by a desire to improve the world around them and to transform the lives of the most disadvantaged in society. With our work, everyone wins.

Year 2020. Pure art.

Year 2020. Pure art.

Auguste Rodin, Alberto Giacometti, Leonora Carrington, Carlos Pérez Siquier, Lee Friedlander, Richard Learoyd, Paul Strand, Garry Winogrand and Bill Brandt are the main characters of our exhibition program.

This Christmas, come and enjoy art

This Christmas, come and enjoy art

At Fundación MAPFRE we want you to enjoy art this Christmas, to give yourself a special moment by visiting our exhibitions in Madrid or Barcelona. Surround yourself with photography and painting, share it with your family and loved ones, or dedicate it to yourself. Give yourself the time to discover.

We chat to Eamonn Doyle and Niall Sweeney

We chat to Eamonn Doyle and Niall Sweeney

The photographer Eamonn Doyle will reveal his more personal side in a conversation wtih Niall Sweeney. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to delve into the world of this Irish artist.

We bid farewell to Margarita Salas

We bid farewell to Margarita Salas

Dedicated, pioneering, educational, passionate, courageous. There are of course so many more adjectives to describe this leading biologist in the field of science. Margarita Salas has died this morning at the age of 80.

Learn about the Novatores Virtual Library

Learn about the Novatores Virtual Library

The Novatores Virtual Library, which provides open access to the bibliography of 42 philosophers and scientists who made science and philosophy popular again in Spain was unveiled on 30 October.

Together we are stronger

Together we are stronger

Once again this year, on the 7th European Day of Foundations and Donors, we want to make ourselves visible. For the first time ever, all the foundations in Europe will be on Twitter to tell us about themselves and how they contribute to the development of society.

Portraits of modernity

Portraits of modernity

Slowly, looking inside the subject as well as herself, Berenice Abbott photographed the most avant-garde figures of the time.

Richard Learoyd’s portraiture

Richard Learoyd’s portraiture

Richard Learoyd invites us to uncover the feelings of the people who inhabit his portraits, to extend our contemplation of his images to work out who they are and what thoughts they are hiding.

Love, liberty and pride

Love, liberty and pride

Vanesa Pérez-Sauquillo and Ignacio Vleming will be leading this event entitled The diverse loves of Berenice Abbott: photography, literature and New York which will delve into the world of Berenice Abbott, an indispensable commentator of a time in which diverse ways of loving emerged.

An unstoppable wave of solidarity

An unstoppable wave of solidarity

In an increasingly socially aware and engaged society, our Social Outreach Awards seek to reward people and initiatives who stand out for their social involvement and for their generosity and solidarity. The winners of this edition collected their awards in a ceremony presided over by Her Majesty Queen Sofia.

We open the doors to Richard Learoyd’s camera obscura

We open the doors to Richard Learoyd’s camera obscura

On the occasion of the opening of Richard Learoyd’s exhibition, we have organized a meeting with this artist, in conjunction with the ELISAVA school of design, where he will have the opportunity to talk to us about his understanding of photography and will reveal the secrets of his camera obscura.