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Emergencies
1 April - 21 August 2005
As a reflection of present-day reality, contemporary art seeks to place emphasis on the surrounding reality. Therefore, a museum presently needs to create a political and social commitment through different projects that generate a collective consciousness which, although utopian, reflects on our present.
Dora García: Vibrations
September 10 - December 6, 2005
The project of Dora García for the MUSAC consists of a review of the work of this artist from Castilla y León through sound and music. From several years back, the artist has incorporated sound as a fundamental part of her works. This exhibit will present pieces of this artist from the MUSAC Collection.
Shirin Neshat. The Last Word
September 10 - December 6, 2005
Shirin Neshat. The Last Word provides a review of the extraordinary career of this Iranian artist from the work undertaken during the last ten years.
Sujeto
September 10 - December 6, 2005
SUJETO (SUBJECT) stems from the idea of becoming a survey compilation of portraits on neutral background. A selection of all those compositions that intend to characterize the human being from his desolate individuality, marking it within the framework of a certain intemporality.
Enrique Marty. Flaschengeist. The German's Cottage
December 17, 2005 & April 16, 2006
Enrique Marty (Salamanca, Spain, 1969) will build a huge scenography of olden carnival settings in MUSAC for this specific project.[...]
Pröblemäs büenös. 4 obras de Pipilotti Rist y amigäs
December 17, 2005 & April 16, 2006
Pipilotti Rist, one of the artists who have marked artistic practice in the 90´s with greater force, presents a selection of her latest productions, as well as a disc that gathers the best of her music, ever present in her pieces. [...]
Fusion: Aspects of Asian Culture in the MUSAC Collection
December 17, 2005 & April 16, 2006
Among the five exhibitions that close the 2005 program of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León is the collective show, FUSION: Aspects of AsianCulture in the MUSAC Colection.[...]
Trial Balloons
Exhibition Title: Trial Balloons / Globos Sonda
Curators: Yuko Hasegawa, Agustín Pérez Rubio y Octavio Zaya
Assistant Curator: Tania Pardo
General Coordination: Marta Gerveno
Production: MUSAC
Venue: MUSAC, all the exhibition spaces
Dates: May 6 & September 10, 2006
Felicidad Moreno
September 23rd - December 31st , 2006
With the title hipnÓptico (hypnOptic), a play on words that brings to mind such concepts as hypnosis, optics and sound, Felicidad Moreno has created a specific installation for the MUSAC, made up of some 14 large-size digital prints as well as light and laser projections. Here she thoroughly examines her pictorial language, taking it to its utmost expressive possibilities. In the words of Rafael Doctor, MUSAC Director, - The artist merely seeks to exist and to commit herself through what her creative instinct unceasingly builds. Felicidad Moreno´s work is a life song sung through the energy of forms and the reflection on light as an expanded element (…)â€?.[+]
Daniel Verbis
September 23rd - December 31st , 2006
Curated by the university professor and critic Javier Hernando, this exhibition takes us to the complex creative universe of León native artist Daniel Verbis. It focuses on several aspects of his work, such as the deconstruction of pictorial language, experimentation with extra-pictorial materials, and his questioning of the pictorial support. Now a large-scale installation occupying two consecutive halls of the MUSAC, with a winding, longitudinal route that encourages spectators to become immersed in an atmosphere charged with stimuli, will enable them to view wall drawings, sculptures, light boxes, pictures and photographs.[+]
Julie Mehretu
September 23rd, 2006 - January 7th, 2007
MUSAC is holding the first solo exhibition in a European institution by Julie Mehretu, born in 1970 in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa (Africa) and currently living in the U.S. Under the title Black City, the show consists of more than twenty canvases of varying dimensions, almost half of which were produced recently. Afterwards, it will be travelling to the Kunstverein Hannover in Germany (February-April 2007) and the Lousiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark (May-August 2007). Through a superposition of layers of drawing and painting that depict and juxtapose lapses of her biography as well as political and social tensions caused by architecture and urban planning at the service of power, Dark City is an overview of Mehretu´s latest works, from 2003 to the present.[+]
Muntean / Rosenblum
September 23rd, 2006 - January 7th, 2007
On the 23rd of September, the MUSAC, Contemporary Art Museum of Castille and Leon, will inaugurate a retrospective show of the work by the artistic couple consisting of Markus Muntean (Graz, Austria, 1962) and Adi Rosenblum (Haifa, Israel, 1962), thus giving rise to what will be their first solo show in Spain. [+]
Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA
January 20 - May 1, 2007
MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León is pleased to present for the first time in Spain, a major exhibition that traces the artistic trajectory of the Japanese team of architects, SANAA formed by Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa. [+]
Candice Breitz
January 20th, 2006 - May 6th, 2007
The MUSAC presents a monographic exhibition of the work of Candice Breitz. This survey of recent works made since 2000 will focus strongly on the artist´s multi-channel video installations. Breitz´s work addresses the complex relationship between culture and consumption, probing and dissecting the rocky chasms between reality and fiction, experience and language, identity and its representations. [+]
Fernando Sánchez Castillo
January 20th to May 6th, 2007
Under the title Abajo la inteligencia (Down with Intelligence), Fernando Sánchez Castillo presents a complex reflection on 20th-century Spanish history, through a selection of sculptural, pictorial and audiovisual works. Hosted by the MUSAC, the show offers insight into three aspects linking the central ideas behind this artist´s work. [+]
Pierre Huyghe
May 19th - September 2nd, 2007
Pierre Huyghe, one of the artists who have most profoundly influenced creative practice in the past decade, presents his first solo show in Spain at MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. [+]
Ángel Marcos
May 19th - September 2nd, 2007
MUSAC presents Ángel Marcos´ latest photo project, captured during a trip to China in January 2007. This recent production ties in with two of the artist´s most outstanding series: Around the Dream (New York, 2001) and In Cuba (Havana, 2004-06), and it closes a trilogy in which the artist establishes a conversation with the city through advertising and propaganda, in an attempt to project his personal vision of the links between the powers that be, and the realities and desires of the people who inhabit them. [+]
Nestor Sanmiguel Diest
May 19th - September 2nd, 2007
MUSAC hosts a solo exhibition by artist Néstor Sanmiguel Diest (Zaragoza, 1949). This comprehensive review of his recent work brings together a number of large paintings structured in modules configuring large surfaces of colour and text. [+]
Existencias
21 September 2007 - 6 January 2008
On 21 September MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, presented Existencias, its third major project drawn from the MUSAC Collection after Emergencias, the museum´s opening exhibition that began on 1 April, 2005 and Fusion, Aspects of Asian Culture in the MUSAC Collection, that took place between December, 2005 and April, 2006. The show will take over the museum´s entire exhibition space (5 halls, Laboratorio 987 and the Showcase Project: over 4,000 sq m in total), introducing the work of over 200 Spanish and international artists held in the MUSAC Collection.
Cerith Wyn Evans
January 26th – May 4th, 2008
MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, presents …visibleinvisible, the first solo exhibition in Spain of British artist Cerith Wyn Evans. Both this show, whi ch is curated by Octavio Zaya, and the monographic book that will be published for the occasion overview the sophis ticated work of this key figure in the European art scene.
Dave Muller
January 26th – May 4th, 2008
On 26 January MUSAC is to open the first major solo exhibition at a European institution by Californian artist Dave Muller. Artist, curator, cultural agitator, dj and record collector, Muller is highly acclaimed on the American scene, particularly for his projects at the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Whitney Biennial or SFMOMA. For I Like Your Music I Love Your Music the artist brings to the Castilla y León Museum of Contemporary Art a selection of recent work around his key theme: the cultural value of music and its social reciprocal relevance, both as an individual and collective portrait. Records, represented here in drawings of their spines, covers or in sound files, etc. provide the point of entry to the artist’s personal history and recollections, but also to the viewer’s, pointing the way to the construction of cultural identity through music. Muller sees music as a network of exchanges and aesthetic, social and personal relationships.
Blanca Li
January 26th – May 4th, 2008
MUSAC is to host choreographer and dancer Blanca Li’s first exhibition in a specialised modern art context. Under the title I’ll show you how to dance, Blanca Li unfurls the many aspects of her multidimensional work as choreographer, dancer, performer and filmmaker.
HBOX project
January 26th – May 4th, 2008
MUSAC presents H BOX, a nomad screening space designed by artist and architect Didier Faustino under Benjamin Weil’s art direction and supported by Hermès, which will display eight new video creations by international young artists: Alice Anderson (United Kingdom), Yael Bartana (Israel), Sebastián Díaz-Morales (Argentina), Dora García (Spain), Judit Kúrtag (Hungary), Valérie Mréjen (France), Shahryar Nashat (Switzerland) and Su-Mei Tse (Luxembourg).
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
May 17th- September 7th, 2008
MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, presents NOCTURAMA*, the first one-person project in Spain by the acclaimed French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Through both the spatial intervention in the halls of Leon’s museum and the publication titled NOCTURAMA*, the creator will unfold myriad paths to help visitors position themselves within the contemplation and perception of a sophisticated work, full of references and essential in the international art scene.
Ana Laura Aláez
May 17th- September 7th, 2008
Opening on 17 May, MUSAC is to host Pabellón de Escultura, an exhibition project where artist Ana Laura Aláez returns to sculpture: the artistic medium of her origins and the one in which she has produced the bulk of her work. Loyal perpetuator of the Basque tradition, Aláez bravely explores her own past with a project that reflects upon the formal essence as a pure artistic manifesto, where sculpture and architecture meet in a spatial vacuum. Pabellón de Escultura is a project that reclaims the very act of artistic creation: a political stance that confronts the artist’s world with the audience and the artistic environment.
Carmela García
May 17th- September 7th, 2008
On 17 May MUSAC is to unveil Constelación (Constellation), Carmela García’s most recent project, where she continues her ongoing exploration of gender and identity, moving from her traditional medium of photography into video, drawing, installation and workshops. Produced specifically for the exhibition venue at MUSAC, Constelación addresses the relationships between a group of women who shared a specific place and time: Paris as a city, the rive gauche as a specific location, the years between the wars (the 1920s and 30s) as a timeframe. Working within these parameters, the artist documents and reconstructs the presence of a group of female identities who, through their cultural, artistic and social activities –and indeed their very lifestyle– shaped the debate on the modern woman, defying convention and the dominant hierarchies surrounding the roles of male and female, and modifying socio-cultural references and behaviours in a way that remains entirely relevant today.
Hedi Slimane
May 17th - September 7th, 2008
MUSAC presents on May 17 the project that the artist Hedi Slimane has produced ex professo for the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. Through a publication and an installation created expressly for this occasion, Slimane continues his personal exploration of youth aesthetics in relation to music as a factor of construction and transformation of identity.
Salvador Cidrás
27 September 2008 - 11 January 2009
The Castilla y León Museum of Contemporary Art is to host 24 horas 10 minutos [24 hours 10 minutes], a large site-specific installation of new works conceived and executed by artist Salvador Cidrás and produced by MUSAC. In 24 horas 10 minutos, Cidrás inquires into youth as a value, placing special emphasis on the world of adolescent males and the symbolic relationships they develop in their everyday environments. The artist reshapes the exhibition space, adapting urban items and practices in order to reconstruct teenage stereotypes and explore the narratives that interfere in the construction of their identity. Cidrás’ ad hoc project for MUSAC will come hand in hand with a book compiling his drawings and templates for the mural installation.
Terence Koh
27 September 2008 – 11 January 2009
On September 27 MUSAC is to unveil Love for eternity, a foray into the unique creative universe of Chinese-Canadian artist Terence Koh (Beijing, China, 1980), where cultures and identities blend with influences from post-minimalism and 1970s body art to create a personal cosmos governed by decadence and deliberate excess, providing the onlooker moments of fragile beauty. This is Koh’s first solo exhibition in Spain, having shown previously in Europe at the Wiener Secession, Kunsthalle Zurich or Frankfurt Schirn Museum; and after his major individual exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York. Love for eternity will allow the public to revisit the artist’s creative career from his early works signed under the alias Asian Punk Boy, to the present, with an ad hoc installation created for MUSAC and two performances on the opening night.
Paul Pfeiffer
September 28, 2008 – January 11, 2009
MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, presents Paul Pfeiffer. Monologue, the acclaimed American artist’s first one-person exhibition held in Spain. Through this show, and the monographic publication that accompanies it, MUSAC re-examines the complex and sophisticated work of a creator who represents an essential referent in the international art scene of the past decade.
Retorno a Hansala
27 September 2008 – 11 January 2009
MUSAC, the Castilla y León Museum of Contemporary Art, is to present Retorno a Hansala, a take on the creative process behind director Chus Gutiérrez’s most recent film, from the perspective of artists Alfredo Cáliz, Rogelio López Cuenca and Montserrat Soto. The project is to include a piece by Gutiérrez herself - El retorno 1 (2004) - a video installation held by the MUSAC Collection that provided the point of departure for what is now a feature film.
Elmgreen & Dragset
31 January – 21 June 2009
Celebrated Scandinavian artists Elmgreen & Dragset are to open their latest exhibition on 31 January 2009 at MUSAC. In an extensive site-specific project made up of twelve striking large-format installations, six of which they have developed specifically for MUSAC, the artist pair shall take over a total floor space in excess of 2,500 m2, making their forthcoming show a milestone in their career, if only in terms of its sheer size. Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, working with their curator, have developed a project that tackles the fine line between the personal and the collective, exploring the problems we face when our voracious public sphere encroaches on the private. Trying to remember… plunges viewers into a domestic environment, where they are confronted with the idea of community and with the ambivalence between nostalgia and desire.
Marina Nuñez
31 January – 21 June 2009
On 31 January 2009, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC) is to unveil an exhibition by the title of FIN (END), showing the work of Marina Nuñez (Palencia, 1966). This site-specific project including over 20 videos and a large visual installation approaches post-humanisation, taken as the process whereby we transcend certain features of our humanity that have become obsolete. Resorting to an aesthetic that echoes the episodes by John Bosch, Núñez plunges the viewer into a world of desolation haunted by eerie ghosts, micro-organisms and lifeless seas – hellish scenes that project us into a post-human future; i.e., what will be left once it’s all over. The show reflects upon the death of what is human and the idea of the body’s transformation and collapse.
Kirstine Roepstorff
31 January – 21 June 2009
MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, is to host the first major exhibition in Spain for Danish artist Kirstine Roepstorff. Under the title The Inner Sound that Kills the Outer, the show brings together over 50 works produced between 2005 and 2008 in a range of formats (collage, painting, sculpture and mixed media), in an attempt to provide an overview of the artist’s prolific production. Roepstorff explores a range of techniques, but finds a common root in the use of collage as the starting point of her creative process. Alongside her more widely acclaimed works, MUSAC presents the artist’s most recent production, including the installation Quiet Theatre (2008), produced in collaboration with Copenhagen’s U-TURN Quadrienial for Contemporary Art. The piece brings a new approach to collage techniques, placing them within a theatrical and performative context.
Ugo Rondinone
July 11, 2009 – January 10, 2010
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León presents Swiss-born artist Ugo Rondinone’s solo debut in Spain. The Night of Lead, curated by Agustín Pérez Rubio, Acting Director of MUSAC, spearheads the calendar of events for 2009. The show will cover 2500 m2, half of the space normally allotted to temporary exhibitions. Ugo Rondinone employs a wide range of registers, accumulated during his last 20 years’ working experience. The result is a complex and melancholic artistic experience, a dreamscape that reflects on Rondinone’s fascination with rituals, dreams, poetry and the everyday of the human condition.
Jorge Galindo
July 11, 2009 – January 10, 2010
MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León presents an exhibition of new works by the artist from Madrid Jorge Galindo (1965). By means of a grand studio, the huge exhibition halls of the museum will appear completely covered with a great part of the works that the author has undertaken during the last few years and in which the fury of the creative work is made evident through an installation that would want to reproduce the artist’s studio as faithfully as possible.
Kyong Park
July 11, 2009 – January 10, 2010
MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, presents Kyong Park. The New Silk Roads, the first show featuring the ongoing ambitious urban research project of the urbanist, theorist and activist Kyong Park, carried out through different journeys along the intricate route between Istanbul and Tokyo. With this exhibition, and the monographic publication accompanying it, MUSAC showcases and examines the complex conditions and relations shaping the cultural, social and political territories throughout the Asian continent, Eurasia and the Middle East that this activist of Korean origin describes as The New Silk Roads.
PRIMER PROFORMA 2010
30 January – 6 June, 2010
MUSAC, Txomin Badiola (Bilbao, 1957), Jon Mikel Euba (Bilbao, 1967) and Sergio Prego (San Sebastian, 1969) present the project PRIMER PROFORMA 2010 2010 BADIOLA EUBA PREGO 30 exercises 40 days 8 hours a day as part of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León’s fifth anniversary exhibition schedule. Between January and June 2010, MUSAC’s more than 4,000 m2 of exhibition space will host a new approach to creating artistic projects that goes beyond conventional notions of exhibiting and pedagogy implemented to date by the Museum and the artists themselves. Badiola, Euba and Prego take on the challenge of a project that will ultimately achieve something more than the sum of their three individual contributions by actively sharing the creative process. The result of this challenge is PRIMER PROFORMA 2010 BADIOLA EUBA PREGO 30 exercises 40 days 8 hours a day.
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