Exhibitions
The MAMT reveals the Forvm universe
A selection of 120 works by great names in contemporary photography traces a journey through the artistic revolution that began in the 1950s and consolidates Tarragona as a new reference point in photography.
Author photography takes center stage at the Tarragona Provincial Museum of Modern Art (MAMT) with the exhibition Col·lecció Forvm. Shaking history, transforming photography , one of the most outstanding proposals of the museum's fiftieth anniversary celebration. The exhibition, open to the public from June 23, 2026 to January 10, 2027, presents for the first time a selection of photographs from the prestigious Col·lecció Forvm since its incorporation into the National Photography Collection of Catalonia.
Curated by Marta Dahó, the exhibition brings together 120 images by 63 artists from different geographical areas and generations. The tour offers a dialogue between works that explore the multiple dimensions of contemporary photography: from memory and document to the construction of identity, the representation of the landscape or the relationship with the other.
Among the authors present we find essential figures of Catalan, national and international photography, such as Agustí Centelles, Colita, Joan Fontcuberta, Eulàlia Valldosera, Oriol Maspons, Gabriel Cualladó, Ouka Leele, Xavier Ribas, Jorge Ribalta, Cindy Sherman, Larry Clark, Thomas Ruff and Yto Barrada. Their perspectives coexist in an exhibition proposal that avoids the traditional chronological order and aims to generate unexpected connections between eras, aesthetics and ways of understanding photographic language.
The history of the Forvm Collection is also the history of a decisive moment for photography in Catalonia. Launched in Tarragona by gallerists Chantal Grande and David Balsells in 1981, the Forvm Gallery became a key space for a generation of creators who claimed photography as an artistic discipline in its own right. In a context in which this language did not yet enjoy consolidated institutional recognition, initiatives such as this one contributed decisively to its cultural legitimation.
Currently, the collection consists of nearly 1,700 works by 310 authors, mainly produced from the second half of the 20th century to the present day. Its acquisition by the Generalitat of Catalonia and its permanent deposit at the MAMT represent a strategic step in the transformation of the museum, which reinforces its desire to become a reference center for the study, conservation and dissemination of photography.
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