Exhibitions
From Kara Walker to Cristina García Rodero: IVAM's powerful programming
Valencian art, new interpretations of its collection, and powerful exhibitions will be the focal points of the IVAM's programming in the second half of 2025. The Institut Valencià d'Art Modern has detailed the exhibition focuses, combining emerging artists with international figures, always with a significant focus on local art.
Blanca de la Torre, director of the Valencian museum, along with Pilar Tébar, regional secretary of culture, highlighted the hybrid and open nature of the upcoming exhibitions at the IVAM. The major exhibition will be dedicated to Kara Walker, one of the most prominent and important artists of her generation, who always addresses themes such as slavery, sex, and social injustice in an exceptional way.
Kara Walker. The Emancipation Approximation Scene #18, 2000. MACA. Michael Jenkins and Javier Romero Collection.
After being exhibited in Alicante, Walker's work lands in Valencia, linked to the exhibition Inhabiting the Shadows , a collective where black and white acts as a poetic vehicle in the form of a reflection on memory, silences, the specters that inhabit the everyday and the political with works by Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, Joseph Beuys, Miquel Navarro or Eulalia Valldosera, among many others.
In chronological order, IVAM opens Escena II. Latencies on July 3rd, a look at the museum's processual, sensitive, and open collection, bringing together pieces by Claude Cahun, Pepe Espaliu, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, and Richard Serra. The big name at the end of 2025 will be Cristina García Rodero with the exhibition España oculta (Hidden Spain), a project that captures the country's festivals, ceremonies, rites, traditions, and ways of life over a 15-year period, specifically from 1973 to 1989.
Cristina García Rodero. The confession. Saavedra, Begonte, 1980. © Cristina García Rodero
The closing piece is Andrea Canepa and Between the Deep and the Distant for Gallery 6. It focuses on the particularity of the two floors connected by a staircase, to construct a narrative that unfolds in two installations, one on each floor, linked through an intervention in the staircase.
Valencian art is an essential part of the IVAM's programming with Art i Context , a program that highlights new voices linked to the Valencian context. This second edition features works by Sandra Mar, Juan de Dios Morenilla, Pablo Bolumar, Bella Báguena, Marco Henri, and Gema Quiles.
