The 7 highlights for April have arrived that will allow you to explore the work of different artists and explore selections of works that will not leave you indifferent.
Now that spring is coming and temperatures are getting warmer, what better than visiting cultural proposals and exhibitions. If you want ideas here as we did the previous months we bring you some, from artists like Klimt, Louise Bourgeoise or Sophie Taeuber-Arp, others consisting of a selection of works such as ‘Bilbao through art‘, the ‘women of the Werkstätte’ or the inaugural exhibition of the Helga de Alvarde Museum.
1- Let yourself be caught by Klimt
The first of the 7 highlights in April is the third large-format immersive production presented by Ideal, dedicated to the work of Klimt. This experience allows visitors to immerse themselves in the artistic production of the author of the ‘Kiss’. For them they have large projections, with more than 1000 square meters of screen, virtual reality glasses, exhibition spaces and interactive tools.
Ideal brings us Klint’s work in a unique experience
It is a very good opportunity to learn more about Gustav Klimt, the creator of great much-appreciated works and whose aesthetics have profoundly influenced the world of fashion and design. In addition, his unmistakable works allow us to understand the step of painting towards modernity.
When: as of 16/04/2021
Where: Ideal Centre d’Arts Digitals (Carrer del Dr. Trueta, 196, 08005 Barcelona)
Hours: Wednesday to Monday from 11:00 am to 7:30 pm.
Tickets: buy them here
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2- Learn more about Sophie Taeuber-Arp, pioneer of abstraction
Sophie Taeuber-Arp was a pioneer of abstraction. This Swiss artist with her interdisciplinary creations dismantled the conception of art held at the beginning of the 20th century. In Sophie Taeuber-Arp, living abstraction you can enjoy her works based on forms of abstraction that integrate virtually all domains of life by expert craftsmanship.
Photography by Sophia Taeuber-Arp and colorful stained glass for Andé Horn’s home.
Taeuber-Arp used as a canvas for his art a great number of materials and objects, from textile pieces such as pillows and tablecloths, a puppet theater, costumes, murals, furniture, architecture, graphic designs, paintings, drawings, sculptures and reliefs.
Balance (1934) and “Farbige Staffelung” (Color Graduation) (1939)
When: from 20/03/2021 to 20/06/2021
Where: Kunst Museum Basel (St. Alban-Graben 16, 4051, Basel, Switzerland).
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, Wednesday until 8:00 pm.
Tickets: here
3- The Helga de Alvear Museum of Contemporary Art welcomes you
The Helga de Alvar Museum of Contemporary Art starts engines and with them presents its collection through its inaugural exhibition. In it you can enjoy works by artists from 26 different countries, with special weight of Spanish artists. It includes works by Olafur Eliasson, Kandinsky, Louise Burgeois, Helena Almeida and Ai Wei Wei..
Artwork “Faux Rocks” by Katharina Grosse
The tour begins with Goya, who is proposed as the first contemporary artist, but most of the works on display are from the last 20 years. Many of them will be the first time they will be exhibited such as Faux Rocks by Katharina Grosse or Power Tools by Thomas Hirschhorn.
Work “Powertools” by Thomas Hirschhorn
When is it due? From February 26th
Where: Helga de Alvear Museum of Contemporary Art (Calle Pizarro, 8, 10003 Cáceres).
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm, Sundays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Tickets: here
4 – Travel through modern Moroccan art
The exhibition Moroccan Trilogy traces Moroccan modern art, from before its declaration of independence in 1956 until today. All these years have been divided into three distinct stages. The first of them corresponds to the years prior to 1956 until 1969, in a time marked by its convulsion.
Composition by Jilali Gharbaoui
The second one covers the period from 1970 to 1999, when King Hassan II passed away. It is also characterized as one of the most violent times in the country’s modern history. In addition. there is the exile of several dissident artists and various forms of alternative culture emerge. The last stage that is presented goes from 2000 to 2020, the artists who have developed their work during this time have broken with the past at the level of technique, symbolism, etc.
“Markib-Zahra” by Younes Rahmoun
When: from 31/03/2021 to 27/09/2021.
Where: Museo Reina Sofía (Sabatini Building) (Calle de Santa Isabel, 52, 28012 Madrid).
Hours: Wednesday to Monday from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm, Sunday until 2:30 pm.
Tickets: more information about tickets here
5-Women, the great forgotten ones of the Wiener Werkstätte
It is the turn of the fifth of the 7 April highlights that can be visited at the MAK Vienna is shown Women artists of the Wiener Werkstättean interesting work that highlights the female presence in the Wiener Werkstätte, a group of visual artists, architects and designers who settled in Vienna from 1903 to 1932. Precisely the women who were part of it never got much attention, and not because of their scarce presence, since about 180 are counted.
Draft of a World War poster by Vally Wieselthier and fashion design from the Mode Wien portfolio by Lotte Calm
Artists such as Gudrun Baudisch, Vally Wieselthier or Mathilde Flögl, among many others, were an essential part of the development of the arts and crafts of the Austrian capital. Specifically, thanks to their contributions, graphic, textile, fashion design, etc., was innovated.
Postcard of the Wiener Werkstätte by Susi Singer and design of a poster for the Wiener Werkstätte by Maria Likarz
When: from 04/21/2021 to 10/03/2021.
Where: MAK (Museum of Applied Arts) (Stubenring 5, 1010, Vienna).
Hours: Will remain closed until further notice.
Tickets: here
6-Bilbao through art
The Guggenheim hosts the exhibition Bilbao and Painting, so this international museum also remembers where it is located and its heritage. This exhibition focuses on the Bilbao at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. This city was one of the most prosperous in Spain for its high industrial activity.
Suletine dances, by José María de Ucelay
This exhibition aims to offer a perspective of artists from the Basque Country who incorporated into their work the modernist ideas of Impressionism and later of the avant-garde. These works show various moments in the history of the city.
The harvest of Adolfo Guiard
When:from 01/29/2021 to 08/29/2021.
Where: Guggenheim Bilbao (Abandoibarra Etorb., 2, 48009 Bilbao)
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm.
Tickets: Here you can check their price and purchase them
7- Explore the legacy of Louise Bourgeoise
We end the 7 highlights of April with this beautiful museum in Porto, the Fundaçao Serralves, which houses the great exhibition Louise Bourgeois, unleashes a torment. It is a long journey through Bourgeois’s artistic career, ranging from the late forties to 2010. It is an exhibition that has been widely visited and reviewed on a large number of occasions in many museums around the world.
The work of New Yorker Louise Bourgeois focuses on themes linked to traumatic experiences of her childhood: family, sexuality, the body, death or the unconscious. One of Bourgeois’ best-known works in our territory is ‘Mom‘, the large spider located at the exit of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
When: 04/12/2020 to 20/06/2021
Where: Fundaçao Serralves Oporto (R. Dom João de Castro 210, 4150-417).
Hours: Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and weekends from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm.
Tickets: more information here
Image credits: Ideal; Helga de Alvar Museum of Contemporary Art; Stiftung Arp e.V, Musée d’art moderne et contemporian de Strasbourg, Kunstmuseum Basel Schekungg Hans Arp, photo by Martin P. Bühler, Kunstmuseum Bern Schekung Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach; Museo Reina Sofia; MAK, Guggenheim Bilbao, Fundaçao Serralves.
We hope these 7 April highlights have given you ideas. And also, you can enjoy the spring and with it, visit museums and bet on culture in these difficult times.
