2025 is coming with a lot of art

ARCO will have the Amazon as its central project, Barcelona will exhibit works by Rubens and Zurbarán
Museums, foundations, fairs and galleries from all over Spain will trace a journey through the history of art in 2025, from Zurbarán to Rubens, passing through the latest contemporary developments at ARCO dedicated to the Amazon, and in a year that pays special attention to women and celebrates important anniversaries at the Fundació Miró, the MACBA and Tabakalera.

Madrid is preparing to host its long-awaited international contemporary art fair ARCO from March 5 to 9, which will celebrate its 44th edition with the Amazon as its central project and will feature more than 200 galleries, as well as two curated sections of new galleries and Latin American art.

Between March and June, the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum will bring back a classic face of literature with the exhibition ‘Proust and the Arts’, which will portray the importance that art had in the work of one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, Marcel Proust.

Regarding great female artists, the Reina Sofía Museum highlights ‘Huguette Caland. A life in a few lines’, which from February 19 will show the first major retrospective in Europe of the Lebanese artist, whose life and work represented a constant challenge to the aesthetic, social and sexual conventions of her time.

Likewise, from May 21, the Reina Sofía will be able to visit the exhibition ‘Retrospective of Marisa González’, which explores the work of the Bilbao artist, winner of the Velázquez Prize in 2023, at the intersections between artistic creation and communication and image reproduction technologies.

Barcelona awaits the arrival of the exhibition ‘Painting the sky. 50 years of stories from the Fundació Miró’, which will officially open the commemoration of the half-century since the opening of the museum on the Monjuïc mountain on June 10.

Among the Barcelona galleries, classic names such as Zurbarán and Rubens stand out in 2025. The National Museum of Contemporary Art will open ‘Zurbarán (super)natural’ in March, where the three versions of ‘The Vision of Saint Francis by Pope Nicholas V’, Francisco de Zurbarán’s masterpiece, will be on display.

On the other hand, Caixaforum will exhibit between May and September in the exhibition ‘Rubens and the artists of the Flemish Baroque’ works and objects from the lesser-known collections of the Prado Museum, which show the unparalleled creativity of Pedro Pablo Rubens, his influence and the aesthetic renewal that he promoted in dialogue with works by artists such as Van Dyck, Jordaens or Brueghel.

The Museo Tàpies will open in February ‘Antoni Tàpies. The Imagination of the World’, a project that delves into the creation of the Barcelona-born artist’s imagination, which began to take shape when, being ill at a very young age, he read and listened to music in his bed like never before, a legacy that never left him and that took shape in his creations.

The artistic spotlight also looks towards the Museo Picasso in Malaga, where two exhibitions stand out in the exhibition programme for 2025. The first of these, ‘Picasso: The Royan Notebooks’, which will open on 31 January, brings together the eight notebooks of pencil and ink drawings that the Malaga-born artist made between September 1939 and August 1940 in this French city.

The other exhibition, which will put the finishing touch to the museum’s exhibitions, will be, from 14 November, ‘Picasso. Memory and Desire', which aims to reflect on the system of images and their relationship with the development of the modern subject in the work of the artist from Malaga and his contemporaries.

The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao will offer, for its part, an all-female programme with four exhibitions of women artists: the Brazilian modernist painter Tarsila do Amaral, the American abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler, the American artist Barbara Kruger and the illusionist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva.

In San Sebastian, the double exhibition of Tabakalera and the Kursaal by Maider López stands out from October, with a retrospective of the work done by the artist in the last ten years, taking advantage of the tenth anniversary of Tabakalera as a centre for artistic creation.
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