The IVAM program for 2024 offers 14 exhibitions dedicated to fundamental artists of the historical and contemporary international art scene such as Simone Fattal, Francesca Woodman, Julia Margaret Cameron, Senga Nengudi, Maren Hassinger and Carolina Caycedo. Additionally, it includes valencian artists such as Ignacio Pinazo, Llorenç Barber, Gabriel Cualladó, Eusebio Sempere and Josep Renau.
In February 2024, the IVAM turns 35 years old. For this reason, the museum starts a series of exhibits that under the heading of Scenes from the IVAM Collection will show space-time combinations of our collections. Moreover, the IVAM hosts an exhibition about the plurality os uses and meanings of the iconic image of a Mangbetu woman, as well as an exhibition of the work made by women artists in Spain and Portugal in the period between the dictatorship and the beginning of democracy, among others.
Llorenç Barber: Archive of Listenings
February 8–June 16, 2024
Curators: Lorenzo Sandoval and Montserrat Palacios
Llorenç Barber is one of the pioneers of Spanish sound art. The project proposes an exhibition in the form of an archive (presented spatially and online), a programme of performances and workshops, and a publication with a selection of his writings.
IVAM Collection: Scene 1. Making Landscape
February 15–May 19, 2024
Curators: Nuria Enguita and Sonia Martínez
A scene is a moment in time, an articulation of different situations; a scene is constructed, transformed and disappears. This is how we understand the work with the IVAM collection, a work of construction, reconstruction and memory, with what is there and what is missing, in constant transformation.
Sempere in Paris (1949–1960)
March 14–June 9, 2024
In collaboration with: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante (MACA)
As part of the commemoration of 100 years after the birth of the Alicante artist Eusebio Sempere, the IVAM offers an exhibit about Eusebio Sempere limited to his time in Paris from early 1949 to January 1960.
Pinazo: Identities
April 25, 2024–February 16, 2025
Curator: Vicente Pla Vivas
The project proposes a new reading of the work of Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench.
IVAM Collection: Scene 2. Latency Periods
May 9–October 20, 2024
Curators: Nuria Enguita and Sonia Martínez
The second of the scenes from the IVAM Collection, is organized based on the work by Equipo Crónica El panfleto, which presents the relationship between art and reality and with the multiple paths that unveil artistic practices from the sixties in the 20th century.
The Power with which We Leap Together. Women Artists in Spain and Portugal between Dictatorship and Democracy
May 16–September 29, 2024
Curators: Patricia Mayayo and Giulia Lamoni
In collaboration with: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
This proposal aims to jointly explore the work of female artists in Spain and Portugal in the final years of the dictatorship and the beginnings of democracy. The historical evolution of both countries in those years has many points in common.
Confluències
June 11–November 3, 2024
Curators: Eva Bravo and Sonia Martínez
Focused on the dynamics of listening and respect for the environment, Confluències revolves around three axes: dialogue with the territory, the creation of specific artistic pieces, and various mediation actions, aimed at providing access to the tools and dynamics of contemporary art in places far from large urban centres.
Carolina Caycedo: Land of Friends
June 13–October 13, 2024
Curator: Catalina Lozano
In collaboration with: Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Process and participation are central elements in Carolina Caycedo’s art, which offers a collective dimension through installations, drawings, performances, photographs and videos. Her work contributes to the construction of an environmental memory as an essential space for the climate and social justice.
The Iconic Becoming of a Mangbetu Woman. From the Visual Image of the Materiality of the Image
July 4–December 8, 2024
Curators: Hasán G. López, Nicolás Sánchez Durá and Carine Peltier-Caroff
In collaboration with: Musée du quay Branly—Jacques Chirac, Paris
Taking as a starting point the conditions of production of the image of Uru’s profile by the Croisière Noire Citroen, as well as its previous visual references, the purpose of the exhibit is to show the plurality of uses, meanings and material incarnations of this image that has ended up becoming an icon of both colonial Africa and the genealogy of ethnographic Africanism.
Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In
July 11–October 20, 2024
Curator: Magda Keaney
In collaboration with: National Portrait Gallery, London
This exhibition will juxtapose the lives and work of two of the most important and influential practitioners in the history of photography.
Daring to Do More. Valencia before Normative Art (1947–1957)
October 24, 2024–March 23, 2025
Curators: Nacho París and Ramón Escrivá
The exhibit that the IVAM will create aims to trace and shed light on this unknown historical period from an interdisciplinary perspective and methodology.
Simone Fattal
November 7, 2024–May 4, 2025
Curators: Nuria Enguita and Rafael Barber
Julio González International Prize 2024
Fattal’s works are timeless, at the same time archaic and modern, and are an example of a reflection on humanity and its place in the world and in history. Her works, made with bronze, clay or stoneware predominantly, invoke literature, Sumerian tales, Arabic epics or Sufi poetry.
Cualladó: Archive
November 14, 2024–April 27, 2025
Curator: Sandra Moros
This exhibit aims to look at Cualladó’s universe starting at its origins, making visible his work as a photographer, but also as a collector, writer and editor.
Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger
November 21, 2024–May 18, 2025
Curator: Nuria Enguita and Lucía Aspesi
For the first time, the close friendship and collaboration between both artists will be worked on, which originated with the experiences of Studio Z in Los Angeles and continued for more than five decades since the 70s, through installations, texts, sculptures, performances and video projects.
