MARCO Museum announces activities for the first half of 2025

In 2025, Marco visitors will be able to enjoy different artistic experiences that will provoke reflections

From a review of the most important modernist artists such as Gego and Lygia Clark, to works that rethink public participation, this is what visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art will be able to find during the first half of the year.

In 2025, Marco visitors will be able to enjoy different artistic experiences that will provoke reflections on current events, coexistence, play, among other ideas that artists share through their works.
For this period, MARCO strengthens its inter-institutional alliances at an international level, from the exhibition dedicated to Oscar Murillo, a Colombian based in England who was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize, also with Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, who for several decades has built up an important collection of Latin American art.

One of the alliances that can be seen reflected is with the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, where the review of the Catalan artist Jordi Colomer comes from.
Oscar Murillo. Spirits in the swamp

Based on participatory practices, the artist Oscar Murillo involves communities from different places in the world to express themselves on a common canvas, where not only their strokes coincide, but it is a moment of encounter that turns them into creators.

Part of the artist's idea is to demystify the figure of the artist as an exceptional individual, but that genius is present in any person.

This has been shown in the places where he has been invited, from China to Australia, and since last December, MARCO visitors began to participate in the collective mural that will be exhibited in this review of the career of the Colombian, one of the most successful and internationally recognized Latin American artists, at 38 years of age.

In a first stage, the public intervened with drawing on the canvas and in a second stage it will be with painting. With Berel's support, the brand created a series of colors with the artist especially for the mural, which are not found in its commercial catalog.

Some of his works will be installed alongside everyday objects, such as paintings placed on plastic chairs. In addition, the exhibition also includes two video installations: Human Resources (2017) and WRAPPED (2024).

Originally from Colombia, Murillo migrated with his family to England at the age of 11, and at that time he found a refuge in drawing, while learning a new language and adapting to the new context.

Currently, the artist approaches pictorial practice with a participatory component, and sometimes makes reference to the avant-garde, sometimes deconstructing post-impressionism.
Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection

Based on the collection of Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, one of the most important Latin American collectors on an international level, MARCO will present a selection of artists who have marked modern and contemporary art on the continent. Curated by Taiyana Pimentel, director of MARCO, and Sergio Fontanella, Director of Operations and Collections at CIFO, the selection of works seeks to give visibility to artists and reconstruct the history of art led by women.

Some of the artists whose work will be present are: Lygia Clark and Lygia Pape in dialogue with the work of Gego, also Marina Abramovic, Bárbara Kruger, Regina José Galindo and Chantal Akerman. The museography will be in charge of Germen Estudio (Giacomo Castagnola and Cristóbal García). Learn through play and art

With the aim of promoting learning through activities, MARCO continues its alliance with LEGO with the activity "Learn through play and art", aimed at public primary school students.

The activity will take place throughout the year, from January to December 2025, includes transportation and is intended to involve schools from all municipalities.

Also included is LEGO material, a teaching object that students will use to create their ideas through the "Unlock Playful Learning" methodology, developed by LEGO Education, whose objective is to unleash the creative and educational potential of students through interactive and dynamic approaches.
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