Exhibitions
IVAM rewrites its collection with a new permanent exhibition of more than 500 works
The exhibition 'The IVAM Collection to the Present' proposes an open and transversal reading of modern and contemporary art with 260 artists and four thematic itineraries.
The Valencian Museum of Modern Art (IVAM) presents The IVAM Collection to Date , a permanent exhibition that can be visited from June 17, 2026 to April 23, 2028. The project, led by director and curator Blanca de la Torre, has a large curatorial team formed by Marta Arroyo, Ramon Escrivà, M.ª Jesús Folch, Yolanda Franco, Teresa Millet, Sandra Moros and Josep Salvador, and was presented with a guided tour, together with the presence of the regional secretary of Culture, Marta Alonso Rodríguez.
The exhibition brings together more than 500 works by nearly 260 artists, including key names in the history of modern and contemporary art such as Joan Miró, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, Robert Frank, Walker Evans, Martha Rosler, Claes Oldenburg and María Blanchard, among many others. This breadth allows for the articulation of a story that connects Valencian, national and international art through the main currents of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Man Ray, The Marvelous.
More than a linear exhibition, the proposal proposes an open and multiple historiographical reading, which invites us to rethink the hegemonic narratives of art history. The exhibition discourse combines a central chronological axis with four transversal itineraries that allow us to explore themes such as color, ecologies, feminisms and conflicts, thus offering different gateways to the collection.
According to the curatorial approach, the IVAM collection —formed over different institutional stages— reflects both internal coherences and imbalances derived from the dominant European historiography, especially in terms of gender, race and inclusion. These absences, far from being considered shortcomings, are conceived as a constitutive part of a “living heritage”, understood as an ecosystem in constant revision, open to new interpretations and readings.
Cindy Sherman, Untitled, 1979.
In this sense, the exhibition claims the collection as an unfinished story in transformation, the result of the interaction between artists, critics, curators, gallery owners and institutions. An exhibition model that advocates for the plurality of narratives and that dialogues with other recent experiences of reformulating permanent collections in museums such as the MNCARS, highlighting the complexity of updating the museum story in leading institutions.
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