Exhibitions
Artists' Perspectives at the Pompidou in Malaga
To Open Eyes is an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Málaga that proposes an exercise in shifting the gaze: it invites the public to question their own ways of seeing and, in doing so, to renew their relationship with art, society, and the world. Far from a chronological or narrative organization, the exhibition is articulated through visual, formal, and thematic resonances that bring works from different media, eras, and creative contexts into dialogue. In this way, the exhibition reveals unexpected connections and highlights the richness and diversity of the collections of the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris.
The exhibition, curated by Valentina Moimas and Anne-Charlotte Michaut, is a journey through modern and contemporary art that will be on view until January 31. The exhibition does not aim to offer a closed or exhaustive interpretation, but rather to open a broad panorama that allows the visitor to approach the major movements and ruptures that have marked the history of art in the 20th and 21st centuries. From emblematic pieces to recent creations, the exhibition unfolds a dialogue that links past and present, revealing how artistic practices continue to transform in step with contemporary challenges.
Friederike Pezold, Mundwerk, from the Schamwerk series. 1974. Gelatin silver print, 31 × 22.3 cm © Center Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Georges Meguerditchian/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn.
The works assembled in the exhibition invite us to reflect on universal and ever-present issues: our relationship with history and spirituality, the place of the body in both art and society, and the way utopias have contributed—and continue to contribute—to shaping our collective imaginations. The exhibition is conceived, rather than as a linear itinerary, as a constellation of formal, thematic, and visual affinities that allows us to discover unexpected connections between works from different contexts, eras, and media.
In this way, To Open Eyes not only displays the richness and diversity of the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, but also offers visitors the opportunity to decentralize their gaze and open themselves to new ways of seeing, thinking, and experiencing art and the world.
Bodies and icons, signs and colors, spiritualities and syncretisms. Also gestures, traces, spaces, revelations, fictions, and projections. All these elements are intertwined in the exhibition through works by fundamental 20th-century artists who shaped the way we understand art and its transformative power.
Each piece, in dialogue with the others, becomes an open sign: a body that speaks, a color that vibrates, a gesture that remains as a trace, a fiction that reveals reality. The exhibition invites us to consider art not only as a testimony of its time, but as an act of ongoing creation, capable of linking memory with imagination and projecting new ways of seeing and inhabiting the world.
