Going to galleries or museums is a very personal thing. Everyone has their own tastes and not all exhibitions are equally liked. That’s why we bring you a compilation of the best exhibitions in Valencia so that whatever you like, you can find one to go to.
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The dreamscape. The dreamlike journey of a Valencian painter
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Antonio Muñoz Degraín was a Valencian painter specialized in landscape painting. His works fit into what is known as symbolism, an artistic current of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that highlights everything fantastic and dreamlike.
This exhibition, titled “The Dreamscape” covers more than 50 of the author’s works that deal with these themes. Don’t expect to find realistic paintings that look like photographs, but rather the paintings will evoke your own childhood dreams and landscapes. This exhibition is ideal for those who want to discover new painters and are looking for something different, classic and modern at the same time.
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📆Dates: from July 4 to October 13.
📍Location: Museu de les Belles Arts de València. Joanes and Ribalta halls of temporary exhibitions.
Ripollés al desnudo. Unpublished works by the colorful painter.
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Juan García Ripollés, or Ripo, is known for his paintings and his original and colorful sculptures with a surrealist touch. The artist has exhibited in galleries around the world and now this exhibition wants to unveil some of his unpublished works.
In “Ripollés al desnudo” you will see from a vertical garden with different objects and photographs of the artist, to paintings, sculptures and a short film made by Luis Berlanda. This exhibition is perfect to visit with the family or for those looking for something modern and new and that goes beyond the typical margins of what the word exhibition means.
💸Price: from 7€.
📆Dates: until September 29th.
📍Location: Ateneo Mercantil de Valencia
The power with which we jump together. Painting between dictatorship and democracy.
This exhibition explores the work of different women artists who painted in Spain and Portugal in the final years of the dictatorship and the beginnings of democracy. Although not all of their works had the issue of women as a theme, it is clear in many of them the feminist intention at the time.
This exhibition aims to reevaluate his work and to observe in more detail the specificities of his works, since he was forgotten at the time. The styles of these artists are diverse and range from pop-up to critical realism, through abstraction and neo-Dadaism.
💸Price: from 2,50€.
📆Dates: until September 29th.
📍Location: Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, IVAM
The Eye of the Whale. Between science and art.
Who said art and science can’t go hand in hand? This photographic exhibition is one of the results obtained in a research on whales that have allowed to understand why they have low vision, do not distinguish colors or how retinal cells work and what role they play in their survival.
The images obtained are a true work of art, which surround the large whale that hangs from the ceiling of the main hall of the museum. With this exhibition we will be able to look through their eyes, understand their way of life while enjoying a cultural experience.
💸Price: from 3,50€.
📆Dates: from September 27 to January 26, 2025
📍Location: National Museum of Natural Sciences.
Picasso and the model. The most intimate face of Picasso.
What or who is the artist inspired by? In the case of Picasso it was Jacqueline Roque. This exhibition wants to show a more intimate vision of the great Spanish painter. That is why we will be able to see graphic material, drawings and illustrated books of the years in which Picasso and Jacqueline lived together.
The exhibition brings together more than 300 works, including previously unpublished photographs from Edward Quinn’s archive, showing us the Picasso who is closer to us and less the great artist who seems distant and superhuman.
💸Price: from 4€.
📆Dates: from September 20 to March 2, 2025
📍Location: Bancaja Foundation.
XIX. The century of the portrait. Collections of the Prado Museum.
No need to go to Madrid to appreciate some of the works of the Prado Museum, and is that until October 20 we can see the collection “XIX. The century of the portrait” at the Caixaforum in Valencia.
The exhibition covers the portrait genre that was so famous in the nineteenth century and we can see it from different formats, not only from the classic painting, but also sculptures, medals, watercolors, photographs and lithographs.
💸Price: from 4€.
📆Dates: until October 20th.
📍Location: Caixaforum
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