what to visit in Malaga

Showing at Malaga’s Cánovas Theatre between 9th-11th April is the play from Producciones Imperdibles, “The Seven Deadly Sins.” It is an exciting project which mixes dance, theatre and multimedia in order to explore the seven deadly sins. The work is an aesthetic comment based on the first teachings of Christianity, which guided followers on morality. The [...]

As it does every year, spring and cinema will be joining forces in Malaga, which between the 26th of March and 2nd of April will be hosting the 14th edition of the Malaga Spanish Film Festival in different venues round the city. As usual, the programme will be divided into the following; Official Selection, Zonazine, [...]

Until March 6, the CAC Malaga presents the retrospective of Portuguese contemporary artist of great international recognition, Julião Sarmento. The exhibition Julião Sarmento 2010-2011, counts with a wide sample of painting, semi-figurative drawings, sculptures, videos and collages. Julião Sarmento was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1948. He studied painting and architecture at the Escola Superior de [...]

Pablo Picasso is undoubtedly one of the most appreciated painters of all time and that is why an exhibition that was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (MET) announced that it was visited by no less than 700 000 people, making it the most visited show since 2001. The exhibition ran from [...]

On September 11, an interesting retrospective of the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe opened at the Contemporary Art Centre of Malaga.  This photographer is hailed as a luminary in American photography, and noted as one of the most transgressive and visionary figures in contemporary art. A select collection of a total of 115 images will be [...]

Toys are a common element of all happy, economically stable childhoods, and even the poorest children generally find something to play with.  Play is a natural instinct. Some toys are much better than others but children have always found things to have fun with and use their imaginations to the fullest. “Toys of the avant-garde” [...]

The Malaga Picasso Museum (MPM) has been reinvigorated by the direction of Jose Lebrero, whose plan to attract the maximum audience possible is to bring contemporary artists who have a connection with the genius Picasso. His magnificent new plan opens with an installation by famous video art pioneer Bill Viola, born in 1951 in New [...]

María José Gallardo, a young painter from Seville, will present her exhibition “Brothers” at the Unicaja foundation in Malaga. Most of the paintings on display depict female figures wearing clothes adorned with eclectic symbolic markers of religion, cinema, folk tales, traditions or images that exist in today’s media culture. Two of the most important paintings [...]