The programming of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao for 2023 stands out for the exhibition on the Joan Miró’s Parisian stagea sample about the Picasso sculptures and the retrospectives of the Austrian Oskar Kokoschka and the German-Venezuelan Gego.
The first exhibition of the new season, starting on February 10, will be “Joan Miró. Absolute reality. Paris, 1920–1945”, a “fundamental” period in the painter’s career, the Bilbao museum has reported, which today has assembled its Board of Trustees.
In March the great retrospective of the Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka and a sample of the recent work of the British Lynette Yiadom-Boakye will arrive. At the end of June, the Guggenheim will premiere an exhibition dedicated to the Japanese creator Yayoi Kusama that will cover her life and her extensive artistic career in depth.
After the summer, “Picasso. Matter and Body” will be inaugurated on the sculptural production of the Malaga master, as part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of his death.
Then will come the audiovisual work of the London-based French artist Marine Hugonnier and a retrospective on the German-Venezuelan artist Gego that will trace the evolution of her “unique approach to abstraction.” The 2023 program is completed with the Bilbao museum collection exhibition for its 25th anniversary.
The Board of Trustees of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Foundation, chaired by Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu, has approved a budget for 2023, prepared on the forecast of an influx of 950,000 visitors, of 32,665,379 euros, 8.1% more to compensate the increase in the CPI.
Until today, December 12, the Guggenheim Bilbao has received 1,247,599 visitors, 55% more than expected and more than double the number accumulated to this date in 2021.
The exhibition on the automobile “Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture” has had more than 750,000 visits in five months and throughout the year the percentage of foreign visitors, which had fallen drastically during the pandemic, has recovered to 54 % of the total.
Source: Eitb
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