what to visit in Malaga

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 [...]

A strange excitement runs through the shopping centre Vialia Malaga … a small crowd of onlookers are gathered in front of a stand prepared for the occasion, taking pictures with their cameras and mobile phones of an unusual sight: a man and a woman, both nearly naked and serving as “human trays” for sushi and [...]

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 [...]

The history of nudism goes back more than 70 thousand years. In fact, clothing is a relatively new invention in our history, and according to archaeologists, we began to dress only when we begin to migrate to colder parts of the world, about 40,000 thousand years ago. For example, the original Olympics (founded in 776 [...]

Though it is true that the bullfighting has as many detractors as followers around the world, it is also true that when the bulls are transferred to the art world, nobody has anything to object… Quite the contrary! The first solo exhibition of one of the most important figurative American painters of the second half [...]

After ten years without visiting Spain, the famous Anglo-Italian artist couple is back with a new exhibition in Malaga: “Jack Freak Pictures”. They present a set of 62 works dealing with his favourite topics such as death, religion, life, hope and money, with a clear critic to the British flag. The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) [...]

Love can be a beautiful, magical feeling, but is it lasting? Some people think that it tends to fade over time, but like everything in life, love is a practice that we should work at and look after every single day. If a couple neglects its relationship, it will eventually crack. Some people compare it [...]

We travel much more than ten years ago. Nowadays, we think nothing of taking the plane on a Friday after work, to spend the weekend in Spain, and come back Sunday evening to work again on Monday morning. It’s easier to travel, to emigrate, to meet people from other cultures and even love doesn’t have [...]

Sexual myths and fallacies are still today pending subjects for many of us. These misconceptions are a clear reflection of the obscurantism and the lack of transparency with which even today certain aspects of human sexuality are dealt with: masturbation, the size and shape of the genitals, homosexuality and female sexuality… Whether because of shame, lack [...]

Have you ever heard the word Dada spoken? It might be one of the first words children say when they begin to speak, right? Some art historians claim that it was precisely this term which lends its name to one of the most important, avant-garde and fancy artistic movements of the twentieth century: Dadaism. This [...]