Exhibitions
Antoni Tàpies: The world's imagination reaches its final days at the Tàpies Museum
An exhibition that combines works, documents and personal objects to explore the artist's creativity and influence, while future programming presents new exhibitions by Tàpies and contemporary artists.
The Tàpies Museum is hosting the exhibition Antoni Tàpies. The Imagination of the World until January 21, 2026, a unique opportunity to explore the creativity and thought of one of the most emblematic Catalan artists of the 20th century. Curated by Imma Prieto, director of the museum, and Pablo Allepuz, curator of the collection, the exhibition offers a new look at Tàpies' work, highlighting his ability to transform everyday materials into symbols loaded with meaning.
The exhibition combines works by Antoni Tàpies, objects from his personal collection and an extensive repertoire of period documents, creating a set that expands the genealogies of the Tapia universe towards less common references. Through this material, key debates of the moment about academia, primitivism, the body, the spectacle or the object, among others, are reviewed.
With the aim of problematizing the singular double of The Imagination of the World, the project unfolds as a living process: other historical and contemporary voices are gradually incorporated, turning the figure of Tàpies into the central node of a broader network of relationships between agents, discourses and practices. A network that invites us to continue imagining new ways of being in the world.
The exhibition takes its title from an essay published by the artist in 1999, where the ideas of interdisciplinarity and interculturality occupy a central place. From theoretical perspectives that seek to go beyond the history of art and the traditional biographical model, the show brings together a multiplicity of aesthetic objects from diverse origins with the aim of expanding the genealogies of Tapia's universe towards less common references, exploring not only texts and images, but also contexts and imaginaries. At the same time, it aims to problematize the debates of the time about academia, primitivism, the body, nature or spectacle, and to critically recover elements of the past that allow us, from the present, to continue imagining new ways of being in the world.
After the current exhibition, the Tàpies Museum will continue with its programming and the current exhibitions of Germaine Dulac, Elena del Rivero and André du Colombier, offering a diverse and interdisciplinary look at contemporary and modern art. On February 12, the new temporary exhibition Antoni Tàpies. The perpetual movement of the wall will be inaugurated, which will explore the relationship between matter, gesture and space in the artist's work. In addition, from March 19 to September 27, you can visit Àngel Jové. De intactu , a proposal that invites you to reflect on the materiality and transformation of objects and spaces in the contemporary context. These exhibitions continue to consolidate the Tàpies Museum as an active center of dialogue between past and present, where works and ideas connect with the public from multiple perspectives.
