The Basque Government has asked to bring the 'Guernica' to the Guggenheim for nine months
According to Vice-President and Cultural Adviser Ibone Bengoetxea, this gesture would have "great symbolic value" on the part of the Spanish Government, as it would take place on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the bombing of the Basque Government and Gernika.
The Basque Government has asked the Spanish Government to temporarily transfer Pablo Picasso's "Gernika" on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the first Basque Government and the bombing of Gernika.
The first Vice-President and Counsellor for Culture and Linguistic Policy, Ibone Bengoetxea, has made this request to the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, at a meeting held in Madrid, stressing that it would have "a profound historical, symbolic and emotional significance for the Basque Country" and would be a gesture of "dignity and reparation".
At the request of the Government, the work would remain for nine months at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao between 1 October 2026 and 30 June 2027. The Executive believes that this gesture "would have great symbolic value, the context of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the first Basque Government and the bombing of Gernika".
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