From Invisibility to the Spotlight: Women Artists from the 20th and 21st Centuries You Need to Know

Courses and workshops

Online

Other activities

General Public

Museum Members

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is now offering accessible online art courses where you can learn about key concepts and ideas in the history of modern and contemporary art from an up-to-date perspective.
Taught by renowned experts in a variety of fields and drawing on the Museum Collection and its dynamic, variegated art program, art courses are designed to offer an overview of each subject while kindling interest and the desire for further knowledge.
Workload: 6 hours (at your own pace) 
Target audience: People over 18 who are interested in contemporary art 
Language: Spanish 
Structure: 4 modules, 16 video lessons, additional resources 
Certification: Upon completion of the course, you will get a certificate 
Duration of the Course: Three months from date of purchase
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS COURSE?
With a few rare exceptions, women artists remained in the shadows for many centuries, until impressionist artists drew attention to their creative work in the late 19th century.
The first online course to be offered by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, taught by Lourdes Cirlot, Professor Emeritus of History of Art at the University of Barcelona, will deal with the role played by women artists in the 20th and 21st centuries. Among others, the course’s learning goals are:
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<li>To understand the virtually invisible role played by women in the history of art by focusing on individual female modern and contemporary artists.</li>
<li>To discuss the real contributions made by women, placing them in the history of 20th- and 21st-century art.</li>
<li>To analyze the important role played by women artists in disciplines like weaving, performance, and, more recently, video-creation.</li>
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Introduction, Structure and Course Syllabus <a href="http://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2022/01/Intro-EN.pdf">[+info]</a>
Taught by 
Lourdes Cirlot, Emeritus Professor of Art History at Universitat de Barcelona

Online Art Course. From Invisibility to the Spotlight: Women Artists from the 20th and 21st Centuries You Need to Know

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is now offering accessible online art courses where you can learn about key concepts and ideas in the history of modern and contemporary art from an up-to-date perspective.

Online Art Course. From Invisibility to the Spotlight: Women Artists from the 20th and 21st Centuries You Need to Know | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Lagunartean: Guided Tour and Express Lunch

Members

Discover the new exhibition: Arts form the Earth
Make good use of your lunch break by visiting the Museum’s temporary exhibitions and having an express lunch at the Bar Guggenheim Bilbao.
Menu
Appetizer: Gazpacho
Main course: Eggplant parmigiana or Vegan/Beef burger
Dessert: Orange cake or Chocolate cake
Bread, water
Two glasses of wine per person
Language: Spanish
Members only

Conoce la nueva presentación de la Colección del Museo, que integra piezas del depósito de la Colección Inge Rodenstock.

Lagunartean: Guided Tour and Express Lunch | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Guided Tours

Tours

Explore the exhibition Arts of the Earth, the new presentation from the Museum Collection, and the work of Portuguese artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva in these special guided tours, in Spanish or Basque.
And head over to the Guggenheim Bilbao Channel for exclusive online content about our exhibitions: audio guides, curator-led tours, and more.
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<td width="39%">Arts of the Earth</td>
<td width="19%">60 min.</td>
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<td width="39%">Friday, February 6</td>
<td width="19%">12:00 pm noon</td>
<td width="25%">1 group</td>
<td width="16%">Spanish</td>
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<td width="39%">Friday, February 6</td>
<td width="19%">1:00 pm</td>
<td width="25%">1 group</td>
<td width="16%">Spanish</td>
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<td width="39%">Sunday, February 8</td>
<td width="19%">12:00 pm noon</td>
<td width="25%">1 group</td>
<td width="16%">Spanish</td>
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<td width="39%">Sunday, February 8</td>
<td width="19%">1:00 pm</td>
<td width="25%">1 group</td>
<td width="16%">Basque</td>
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<td width="39%">Friday, February 13</td>
<td width="19%">5:00 pm</td>
<td width="25%">1 group</td>
<td width="16%">Spanish</td>
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<td width="39%">Friday, February 13</td>
<td width="19%">6:00 pm</td>
<td width="25%">1 group</td>
<td width="16%">Spanish</td>
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<td width="39%">Sunday, February 15</td>
<td width="19%">5:00 pm</td>
<td width="25%">1 group</td>
<td width="16%">Spanish</td>
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<td width="39%">Sunday, February 15</td>
<td width="19%">6:00 pm</td>
<td width="25%">1 group</td>
<td width="16%">Basque</td>
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<td width="39%">Presentation from the Collection</td>
<td width="19%">60 min.</td>
<td width="25%"> </td>
<td width="16%"> </td>
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<td width="39%">Friday, February 20</td>
<td width="19%">5:00 pm</td>
<td width="25%">1 group</td>
<td width="16%">Spanish</td>
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<td width="39%">Sunday, February 22</td>
<td width="19%">6:00 pm</td>
<td width="25%">1 group</td>
<td width="16%">Spanish</td>
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<td width="39%">Maria Helena Vieira da Silva – Last chance!</td>
<td width="19%">60 min.</td>
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<td width="39%">Friday, February 20</td>
<td width="19%">6:00 pm</td>
<td width="25%">1 group</td>
<td width="16%">Basque</td>
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<td width="39%">Sunday, February 22</td>
<td width="19%">5:00 pm</td>
<td width="25%">1 group</td>
<td width="16%">Spanish</td>
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Explore the exhibition Arts of the Earth, the new presentation from the Museum Collection, and the work of Portuguese artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Guided Tours | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

ITP Aero

Courses: Drawing for Beginners 

Families

Children and Families

Drawing for Beginners is a course designed to explore a variety of drawing processes and techniques in a stimulating and fun environment. In a series of activities using paint, ink, paintbrushes, crayons, and other materials, we will learn concepts such as symmetry, gradient, and composition, experiment with textures, and create images step by step.
Saturday, January 24 and Sunday 25 
Controlled Print
Using India ink and brushes, we will get familiar with drawing strokes and learn how to regulate our energy when drawing.
Saturday, January 31 and Sunday, February 1 
Symmetrical Drawing
Using techniques like monotyping and string printing, we will create images that are perfectly symmetrical.
Saturday, February 7 and Sunday 8 
Dawns: An Introduction to Color Theory
Using chalks and crayons, we will discover techniques like blending and gradient. The idea is to combine colors or tones so that they blend smoothly, as in a sunrise picture.
Saturday, February 14 and Sunday 15 
Animals in the Snow
Using templates and masking techniques, we will be able to create contrast and texture.
Saturday, February 21 and Sunday 22 
Upside Down! Figure and Background
Using animal pictures, we will learn how to master charcoal drawing.
Saturday, February 28 and Sunday, March 1 
Hidden Drawing
We will discover an amazing technique: tempera resist, where the drawing emerges under water, as if we were developing a photo.
Conducted by: Raúl Domínguez Pazo
Time: 5:30 pm
Ages: 6–10
Language: Spanish
Limited capacity | Limited spaces available

Courses: Drawing for Beginners

Drawing for Beginners is a course designed to explore a variety of drawing processes and techniques in a stimulating and fun environment

Courses: Drawing for Beginners | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Books Alive! Aliens in the Museum

Cataplina, who specializes in unidentified anomalous phenomena, is looking for strange creatures and beings from other worlds. She travels the world in search of extraordinary creatures, including aliens and extraterrestrials, for a gorgeous illustrated catalogue. She is coming to the Museum with a special mission: finding strange beings hidden in the Pop Art works in the galleries. Are you ready to help her out in her difficult endeavor?
Conducted by: Catalina Martínez-Moro
Ages: 3–5
Duration: 120 min.
Language: English
Limited capacity | Limited spaces available

Cataplina, who specializes in unidentified anomalous phenomena, is looking for strange creatures and beings from other worlds.

Books Alive! Aliens in the Museum | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Performances: Doppel-Chess

On stage

Come and enjoy our interactive performance Doppel-Chess, designed by Olatz de Andrés as a dialogue between dance, chess, and the visual arts.
To Portuguese painter Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, chess was a valid tool for rational analysis and the development of intelligence skills, and could be extended to creative disciplines like dance.
Performed by Lokke Dance Company, Doppel-Chess has two central themes: chess and movement. Two bodies that merge through their own acts and chess pieces that move in connection with Vieira da Silva’s oeuvre and the stunning architecture of the Museum’s Atrium.
Duration: 15 min.
Limited capacity
*Activity subject to change. The activity is likely to be recorded for promotional and archival purposes.

Come and enjoy our interactive performance Doppel-Chess, designed by Olatz de Andrés as a dialogue between dance, chess, and the visual arts.

Performances: Doppel-Chess | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Art Adventures: The Keeper of the Planet

In this workshop, participants will make their own characters to protect the Earth, using organic materials such as leaves, sticks, seeds, and natural clay. They will thus bring to life their own protecting figures for our planet – figures that stand for care and protection.
This activity brings together sensory exploration, artistic expression, and environmental awareness, encouraging creativity and environmental responsibility in a recreational setting.
Conducted by: Aitziber Aguirre, Mónica Martínez, Adria Parravicini, Maite Ruiz
Saturdays, February 7, 14, 21, and 28 (Spanish); Sundays, February 8 and March 1 (Basque)
Ages: 3–5
Duration: 90 min.
Languages: Basque and Spanish
Limited capacity | Limited spaces available

In this workshop, participants will make their own characters to protect the Earth, using organic materials such as leaves, sticks, seeds, and natural clay.

Art Adventures: The Keeper of the Planet | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Baby Art: Playing with Light and Air

Surrounded by stimuli and playing games, babies and their families interact as they explore the galleries of the Museum. This season, the program will take inspiration from the works of Jenny Holzer and Mark Leckey shown in the Museum to offer a sensory journey that weaves together art, lights, and air – an immersive experience where babies can move freely around and explore materials that will spark their curiosity and awaken their senses. We will play with colors that change with the light, adding air to the mix.
Conducted by: Aitziber Aguirre, Mertxe Periz, Mónica Rodríguez-Curiel, Maite Ruiz
Saturday, February 7 and Sunday 8: 12–24 months (Spanish)
Saturday, February 14 and Sunday 15: 6–12 months (Basque)
Saturday, February 21 and Sunday 22: 24–36 meses (Spanish)
Saturday, February 28 and Sunday, March 1: 12–24 months (Basque)
Ages: 6–36 months
Duration: 120 min.
Languages: Spanish and Basque
Limited capacity | Limited spaces available

Surrounded by stimuli and playing games, babies and their families interact as they explore the galleries of the Museum

Baby Art: Playing with Light and Air | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Digital Image Workshops: Crazy Ball

In this workshop, you will take creative pictures using a ball lens (an optical lens in the shape of a sphere) for stunning visual effects. The lens will be a sort of magic window into Arts of the Earth – a way of looking at the exhibition from unusual points of view. The idea is to focus, experiment, and find new ways of looking at and recording the world around you with the help of photography.
Conducted by: Aitziber Aguirre
Time: 10:15 am
Duration: 90 min.
Ages: 9–12
Languages: Bilingual (Spanish, Basque)
Limited capacity | Limited spaces available

In this workshop, you will take creative pictures using a ball lens (an optical lens in the shape of a sphere) for stunning visual effects. The lens will be a sort of magic window i

Digital Image Workshops: Crazy Ball | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Creativity Lab: Imagined Woods

Together, we will create our own woods using organic materials: leaves, sticks, seeds, fibers… Through observation and play, individual participants will contribute their own shapes and textures to a common landscape inspired by the exhibition Arts of the Earth. This activity takes an artistic and sensory approach to nature, using experimentation and group work to encourage reflection on the environment and the need to take care of it.
Conducted by: Aitziber Aguirre, Mónica Martínez, Adria Parravicini
Sundays, February 8 (Spanish), 15 (Spanish), and 22 (Basque)
Duration: 90 min.
Ages: 6–10
Languages: Basque and Spanish
Limited capacity | Limited spaces available
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Together, we will create our own woods using organic materials: leaves, sticks, seeds, fibers…

Creativity Lab: Imagined Woods | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Occident

Free Admission: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection

Educators

Schools

A unique opportunity for educators to visit the new presentation from the Museum Collection including recent acquisitions, gifts, and loans—over 50 artworks from renowned artists, including Jenny Holzer, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, and Helen Frankenthaler, among others, from the post-war years to the present. The selection shows the expression of emotions, themes, and ideas in a variety of languages and styles.
Hours: 10:00 am–7:00 pm
 
Helen Frankenthaler 
Requiem, 1992 
Acrylic on canvas 179.1 × 243.8 cm Guggenheim Museum Bilbao © 2025 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP

A unique opportunity for educators to visit the new presentation from the Museum Collection including recent acquisitions, gifts, and loans—over 50 artworks from renowned artists, including Jenny Holzer, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, and Helen Frankenthaler

Free Admission: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Collaborations: Arriaga Theater

Bertolt Brecht’s and Kurt Weill’s La ópera de los tres centavos (The Threepenny Opera)
Get your ticket at the theater’s box office. Showing your Museum Member card, you will get 25% off ticket price (up to two tickets per Member card).
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Get your ticket online or at the theater’s box office. Showing your Museum Member card, you will get 25% off ticket price (up to two tickets per Member card). To get your tickets online, go to Special Rates.

Collaborations: Arriaga Theater | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Nerua is offering diners a special treat on the weekend of February 13th to 15th

The Nerua Guggenheim Bilbao restaurant will be giving customers a little welcome treat on February 13th, 14th, and 15th. 
People with a lunch or dinner reservation during that weekend will receive their special treat at the start of their experience.A simple gesture that complements the gourmet experience and the time shared at the table. A way to enjoy Nerua and the surroundings of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, paying attention to the little details.
Museum Members: 5% off
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The Nerua Guggenheim Bilbao restaurant will be giving customers a little welcome treat on February 13th, 14th, and 15th. People with a lunch or dinner

Nerua is offering diners a special treat on the weekend of February 13th to 15th | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Special evening menu at Bistró on February 13th and 14th

Bistró Guggenheim Bilbao propone un menú especial para las noches del 13 y 14 de febrero, pensado para disfrutar de la gastronomía en un ambiente relajado y contemporáneo.
Una experiencia culinaria cuidada, ideal tanto para compartir en pareja como para encuentros con amigos o en familia.
El menú estará disponible exclusivamente esas dos noches y tendrá un precio de 39 €, además de nuestra carta habitual.
Una invitación a saborear la cocina de Bistró desde otra perspectiva, en un entorno único junto al Museo Guggenheim.
Amigos del Museo: 5% de descuento
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Bistró Guggenheim Bilbao propone un menú especial para las noches del 13 y 14 de febrero, pensado para disfrutar de la gastronomía en un ambiente relajado

Special evening menu at Bistró on February 13th and 14th | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Books Alive! Little Dots  

Visiting Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. Anatomy of Space, we will see how the artist uses lines and colors to create fascinating labyrinth-like spaces in her paintings. We will also listen to a delightful story, The Dot, whose main character develops their own artistic style starting from a single dot. Together, we will see how a simple dot can grow into something much larger and amazing — and, by connecting dots, we will draw lines, shapes, and compositions of our own. This activity invites us to spark our imagination, share our creative process, and explore new forms of artistic expression.
Conducted by: Adria Parravicini
Duration: 120 min.
Ages: 6–10
Language: English
Limited capacity | Limited spaces available

Books Alive! Little Dots

Visiting Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. Anatomy of Space, we will see how the artist uses lines and colors to create fascinating labyrinth-like spaces in her paintings.

Books Alive! Little Dots | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Opera Screenings: Teatro Real Archive

We are offering a new series of screenings from the Teatro Real Archive, including major opera productions, concerts, dance shows, and theater plays, both classical and modern, to be enjoyed on the big screen.
LA TRAVIATA 
Giuseppe Verdi 
One of Verdi’s best-known works, presented in 2025 on the stage of the Teatro Real under the extraordinary artistic direction of Willy Decker. 
Approx. duration: 2h 21min. In Italian with Spanish subtitles. Opera in three acts.
Streaming will start on time.

We are offering a new series of screenings from the Teatro Real Archive, including major opera productions, concerts, dance shows, and theater plays, both classical and modern, to be enjoyed on the big screen.

Opera Screenings: Teatro Real Archive | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Play Experiences: Random Play

Play Experiences: Random Play 
Saturday, February 21
This unstructured play activity will focus on the artists featured in the Museum’s exhibition Arts of the Earth. Participants will use natural materials to build shapes, put together compositions, or make art interventions. In the process, they will discover that nature can be the language of creativity.
Encouraging experimentation and enhancing awareness of organic materials, the activity will lead to the individual or group creation of figures, sculptures, or even maps.
Conducted by: VACA rules!
Sensory Games: Feel, Play, Create 
Saturday, February 14
Using our senses, we will cross the bridge that links the past and the present, discovering magical worlds and new ways of looking at the things around us. Taking a look at Mark Leckey’s installation, we will try to identify the feelings that the city that “stood in its brightness” kindles in us. We will be surrounded by sound, in a tale where each of us is the main character. Action, imagination, and fun will come together to offer a highly personal view of the city.
Our sensory games are designed to get every family member involved, working together in a meaningful, rewarding experience.
Conducted by: Eliezer Ruiz
Times and ages: 10:15 am, 3–5 (1 group); 12:15 pm, 6–10 (1 group)
Duration: 90 min.
Languages: Bilingual (Basque, Spanish)
Limited capacity | Limited spaces available

Play Experiences

This unstructured play activity will focus on the artists featured in the Museum’s exhibition Arts of the Earth

Play Experiences | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Sensory Games: Feel, Play, Create

Using our senses, we will cross the bridge that links the past and the present, discovering magical worlds and new ways of looking at the things around us. Taking a look at Mark Leckey’s installation, we will try to identify the feelings that the city that “stood in its brightness” kindles in us. We will be surrounded by sound, in a tale where each of us is the main character. Action, imagination, and fun will come together to offer a highly personal view of the city.
Our sensory games are designed to get every family member involved, working together in a meaningful, rewarding experience.
Conducted by: Eliezer Ruiz
Times and ages: 10:15 am, 3–5 (1 group); 12:15 pm, 6–10 (1 group)
Duration: 90 min.
Languages: Bilingual (Basque, Spanish)
Limited capacity | Limited spaces available

Using our senses, we will cross the bridge that links the past and the present, discovering magical worlds and new ways of looking at the things around us

Sensory Games: Feel, Play, Create | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Family Yoga

This yoga practice for the whole family invites you to share and rejoice, enjoying postures anyone can try. Yoga will help you connect to Mother Earth, finding ways of giving back what nature bountifully offers.
Guided by breathing, your body will resort to a variety of asanas to practice “earthing”, thus feeling the energy and power of the earth. You will become a river, a flower, a tree… In so doing, you will be part of a big family that respects, cares for, and thanks nature.
Conducted by: Eliezer Ruiz
Ages: 6–10
Duration: 90 min.
Languages: Bilingual (Spanish, Basque)
No experience needed
Limited capacity | Limited spaces available

This yoga practice for the whole family invites you to share and rejoice, enjoying postures anyone can try. Yoga will help you connect to Mother Earth, finding ways of giving back what nature bountifully offers.

Family Yoga | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Integral Yoga [+15]

Wellbeing

In the unrivaled setting of Richard Serra’s The Matter of Time, the Museum offers an accessible integral yoga class for all levels, from beginner to advanced.
The class will begin when the Museum is still closed, thus creating the special and quiet atmosphere that yoga requires. Serra’s sculptures will be used as a source of inspiration for participants to gently explore such powerful concepts as presence, gravity, and balance. By doing a variety of breathing exercises and trying integral yoga poses, you will find balance between mind and body, and establish a deeper connection to yourself and the world around you. The class will end with a short meditation to give you the peace and balance you need on a Sunday.
Conducted by: Vanesa Cuesta
Duration: 90 min.
No experience required
Yoga mats to be provided by the Museum
Limited spaces available
* Activity subject to change.
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In the unrivaled setting of Richard Serra’s The Matter of Time, the Museum offers an accessible integral yoga class for all levels, from beginner to advanced.

Integral Yoga [+15] | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Art &…

Art &amp; Music: Graphic Scores 
Sunday, February 15
In this workshop, you will make and perform your own graphic scores – the representation of music through the use of visual symbols outside the realm of traditional music notation. The symbols can be lines, shapes, colors, drawings, or other forms of representation that are capable of expressing beat and pitch. In graphic scores you use your imagination to make music based on images – a unique way of expressing emotions and ideas in music. The workshop brings together different artistic languages – music, visual arts, and performing arts –, giving families the chance to experience music in a transdisciplinary, imaginative, and unconventional way, beyond mere reproduction.
Conducted by: Adria Parravicini
Art &amp; Movement: Drawing with Your Body 
Sunday, February 22
Step into a world where drawing and movement come alive together! In Art &amp; Movement, you will be creating art with your whole body, not just drawing with your hand. Jump, roll, dance, wander around, and laugh as you see how your physical actions shape the marks you make—and how your strokes inspire movement.
Warning! This playful session is likely to spark lots of excitement and peals of laughter! No drawing or dancing skills? No problem!
You can join solo, with a friend, or as a family. Inspired by the research done by Simona Lobefaro and Alessandro Lumare (Segni Mossi), this activity is all about exploring the connections between drawing and movement, usually considered as distinct, unconnected languages.
Conducted by: VACA rules!
Times and ages: 10:15 am, 3–5 (1 group); 12:15 pm, 6–10 (1 group)
Duration: 90 min.
Language: Spanish
Limited capacity | Limited spaces available

Art &amp; Music: Graphic Scores Sunday, February 15 In this workshop, you will make and perform your own graphic scores – the representation of music

Art &amp;… | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Art &… | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Breakfast & Art: Fancy a chat? [65+]

Talks

On this occasion, Breakfast &amp; Art, the activity we organize with the help of Museum volunteers, will focus on the subject of Ancient Traditions and Rituals.
Breakfast &amp; Art provides the cultural backdrop for Museum volunteers and seniors to spend time together, share experiences, opinions, and concerns, and discuss current issues in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. Targeted at seniors over 65, these meetings are connected to the exhibitions on view or to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection. The meetings are supplemented with a guided tour of the relevant Museum galleries.
To address this month’s subject, Ancient Traditions and Rituals, we will take a look at some of works on display in the Museum’s exhibition Arts of the Earth and Sky Hopinka’s immersive video installation Fainting Spells.
Duration: 90 min.
Age: 65+
Limited spaces available

On this occasion, Breakfast & Art, the activity we organize with the help of Museum volunteers, will focus on the subject of Ancient Traditions and Rituals.

Breakfast &amp; Art: Fancy a chat? [65+] | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Breakfast & Art: Fancy a chat? [65+] | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Art as a Mirror of the World Around Us

“Approaching Art” is a series of introductory courses to contemporary art that deal with seminal key concepts with an instructive, accessible approach. Each course is divided into three easy-to-grasp modules, which also work as independent units, for the enjoyment and understanding of contemporary art, the Museum’s exhibitions, and the works in the Collection.
Conducted by: Iñigo Sarriugarte Gómez, Professor of History of Art at the University of the Basque Country (EHU/UPV) 
Type of course: on-site (it can be done online) 
Day and time: Tuesdays, 6:00–7:30 pm 
Target audience: adults interested in contemporary art 
Language: Spanish
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS COURSE?
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<li>You will get acquainted with a series of relevant contemporary artists, their production, contributions, and influences, and with a number of specific artworks, placed in their historical, social, political, and artistic context.</li>
<li>In this approach to modern and contemporary art, you will acquire some basic notions to gain confidence in this field.</li>
<li>You will explore the work of female artists and the place they deserve in the history of art.</li>
<li>You will discuss common threads in contemporary art that have acquired great importance and notoriety at a social level, such as equality, diversity, and sustainability.</li>
</ul>
CONTENTS
Module I: Utopias and Shattered Dreams
October 21: Social, Scientific, and Cultural Transformations 
From the late 19th century to the outbreak of World War II, the world witnessed a number of profound political, social, and technological transformations: the growth of cities powered by the late Industrial Revolution; unprecedented advancements in science and technology; the rise of new social classes and social movements. World War I meant the disruption of the existing world order, leaving in its wake a devastated European continent and paving the way for both revolutionary and authoritarian movements. In addition, the profound economic crisis of 1929 aggravated the situation of uncertainty and lack of stability, which led to the rise of totalitarianism in several countries.
Fundamental discoveries in physics, chemistry, and biology led to unprecedented progress in science and technology, transforming the way the world was viewed and bringing in modern times. New philosophical, psychological, and artistic schools—positivism, psychoanalysis, and the avant-garde movements—encouraged men and women to question traditional values and explore new means of expression and knowledge.
November 4: The Emergence of Utopia and Other Looks 
Avant-garde art movements, like Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, or Surrealism reflected the uncertainty and the need for renewal of the day. New artistic languages and ways of thinking, under the influence of utopian and idealistic notions, were used in an effort to build a better world through art. Meanwhile, the language of abstraction that emerged in the previous century took root, and the new perspectives and forms of expression helped artists find forms of representation that were far away from reality.
Selected artists: Giacomo Balla, Marcel Duchamp, Vasily Kandinsky, Hilma af Klint, René Magritte, Kazimir Malevich, Maruja Mallo, Piet Mondrian, Kurt Schwitters.
November 18: Artistic Communities and Settlements—Monte Verità and Bauhaus 
In the early 20th century, artistic communities were established in Europe and America as spaces to experiment, break away from the established norm, and collectively find new ways of living and creating. Inspired by utopian ideals and driven by the will to challenge social conventions, these communities gathered artists, intellectuals, and reformers.
An emblematic case in Europe, Monte Verità, Switzerland, was considered a forerunner of alternative movements. It brought together artists, writers, and thinkers in search for freedom, life in contact with nature, and experimentation in the spheres of art and ideas in the early 20th century. Monte Verità became a laboratory for new practices combining art, dance, spirituality, vegetarianism, and communal life, anticipating some of the aspects of the countercultural movements of later years.
There were other, similar, initiatives across Europe. The Bauhaus in Germany, for instance, was a creative, interdisciplinary community where art, architecture, and designed were integrated under a transformative, and collective approach.
Selected artists: Josef and Anni Albers, Marcel Breuer, Isadora Duncan, Walter Gropius, Alexej von Jawlensky, Paul Klee, Rudolf von Laban, László Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta Stölzl, Marianne von Werefkin, Mary Wigman.
December 2: Tour of the exhibition Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. Anatomy of Space.
Module II: In Search for New Freedoms
January 20: Social, Scientific, and Cultural Transformations 
The end of World War II marked the beginning of a new era of transformations and a new global order. Against the backdrop of the Cold War, Europe and Japan undertook their reconstruction, which led to unprecedented economic growth in the Western world. Decolonization began in Africa and Asia, changing the political map of the world.
Among the most relevant scientific innovations of the period, the Space Race and man’s first landing on the Moon in 1969, advances in nuclear power and medicine, or the development of new technologies revolutionized communications and everyday life.
Existentialism, structuralism, hermeneutics, postmodernism, and liberation movements framed and gave voice to mankind’s concerns associated with the uncertainty of the post-war world, the reconstruction efforts, and the need to find new meanings for life and new forms of freedom.
February 3: Organicism, St Ives School, Informalism, New York School v. Pop Art 
The visual arts reflected the profound changes experienced in the world in the aftermath of World War II, with the tensions and aspirations that characterized societies in need of change. The emerging art movements broke away from traditional aesthetics, promoting artistic languages that were essentially abstract.
In the 1950s, as London was grappling with the consequences of the war, a group of artists gathered in the Cornish town of St Ives. The St Ives School and organic sculpture led the avant-garde in Britain: they promoted the use of nature-inspired forms and the harmonious integration of the artwork and its environment. In France and Spain, the art scene was dominated by Informalism or Art Informel, while in America, Abstract Expressionism promoted abstract, non-representational art on an international level, while Pop Art championed popular culture and figurative art.
Selected artists: Arman, Marisol Escobar, Richard Hamilton, Barbara Hepworth, Roy Lichtenstein, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Andy Warhol.
February 17: The Dematerialization of Art and the Emergence of New “Exhibition Spaces” 
In the 1960s and 1970s, against the backdrop of the pacifist and feminist movements, art turned once again to nature, landscape, and the Earth, albeit not under a traditional, figurative approach. Movements like Land Art or Earth Art, Arte Povera, or Atmospheric Art flourished in the art world, seeking new forms of representation or interventions in reality where nature was used as material (soil, wood, the elements, etc.) and/or as creative tool. This led to the emergence of new spaces for artistic creation and exhibition, such as natural or open environments, which transcend the walls of museums and galleries .
Through performance art and certain feminism and pacifist claims, the human body acquires and unprecedented visibility.
Selected artists: Giovanni Anselmo, Jannis Kounellis, Richard Long, Fujiko Nakaya, Robert Smithson, James Turrell, Yoko Ono.
March 3: Tour of the Permanent Collection and the exhibition Arts of the Earth, part 1
Module III: Without Borders: Mother Earth
March 17: Social, Scientific, and Cultural Transformations 
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the end of the Cold War and ushered in a new era, characterized by rapid globalization and significant political transformations. Social movements for the advancement of civil rights, gender equality, and diversity spread across the globe.
The rise of the internet and digital technology revolutionized communications, education, and relationships in society and at the workplace. The Human Genome Project, the use of renewable energy, and space research broadened the horizon of knowledge.
Following postmodernism, philosophy embraced pluralism and diversity while focusing on topics such as democracy, global justice, the ethics of technology, environmental awareness, ecofeminism, and decolonial perspectives.
New artistic practices appear to open up new spaces for reflection about social and environmental issues as well as collective identity.
April 7: Beyond Modern Art in the West: New Ideas and Creative Avenues 
In 1989, a contemporary art exhibition was held in Paris under the title Magiciens de la terre, curated by Jean-Hubert Martin. The show had a huge impact in that it challenged Eurocentric and colonial practices within contemporary art exhibitions, featuring both Western and non-Western artists shoulder to shoulder.
Later, the awareness of the true place that each artist occupies opens a continuous debate and reflection on decolonization in contemporary art, questioning the "official" historiography, almost always told from a single point of view, and giving visibility to other artistic practices that previously had no voice.
Selected artists: Agnes Denes, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Barbara Kruger, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Huang Yong Ping, Susana Solano, Cecilia Vicuña
April 21: Tour of the exhibitions Ruth Asawa and Arts of the Earth, part 2 
May 5: Contemporary Art and Environmental Sustainability: Art as a Driver of Change? 
Over the past few decades, growing awareness of climate change and humankind’s responsibility in it has inspired a generation of artists whose creative purpose and processes try to shed light on this threat through art. Practices such as agriculture, agronomy, botany, geology, chemistry, physics, or biology inevitably intersect with the arts.
Contemporary art practices reflect the way in which we have related and relate to the natural world and the environment around us, how we have gone from being "spectators" to having greater awareness and involvement.
Selected artists: El Anatsui, Olafur Eliasson, Fernando García-Dory, Julie Mehretu, Asunción Molinos Gordo
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Image: 
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908–1992) 
Figure de ballet, 1948 
Oil and graphite on canvas, 27 × 46 cm 
Courtesy Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris–Lisbon 
Inv. CR587

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As part of the Museum’s Wellbeing through Art program, Slow Gazing offers the chance to look at the artwork slowly and carefully, savoring the moment.

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