Guggenheim holds retrospective exhibitions by Philippe Parreno and Carmen Herrera in 2027
The Board of the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum Foundation met last night at the museum, where next year's artistic programming was unveiled. On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, work is also under way on a new presentation of its own collection.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will hold a monographic exhibition on the work of the French artist Philippe Parreno this spring, starting in mid-March, with the aim of bringing the public closer to the work of the artist, which is fundamental to understanding the evolution of contemporary art in the 1990s.
The Museum Foundation Board met last night at the museum, chaired by President Imanol Pradales, to present some of the artistic programming projects that the Guggenheim team is working on by 2027.
Starting in April, the Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera, a pioneer of abstraction, will be offered a major retrospective. The collection includes about 200 works created between 1937 and 2021, including paintings, sculptures, drawings and engravings.
Carmen Herrera, "Réalités Nouvelles", 1948, Estate of Carmen Herrera.
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Within the on-site cycle, two exhibitions will be presented this year, the first of which will open in May and will be dedicated to the London-based Korean artist Do-Ho Suh, and the second, that of the interdisciplinary Basque artist Itziar Barrio, will open in December 2027.
Also, on the occasion of the museum's 30th anniversary, a new presentation of its own collection is being prepared for the autumn as a celebration of the institution's career and its commitment to contemporary art and local society since its opening.
516,734 visitors in 2026
In view of its activity in the first six months of the year, the Board of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has announced a total of 516,734 visitors, 3% less than in the same period of 2025, about 13,500.
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