Center for Contemporary Art Málaga

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Center for Contemporary Art Málaga

Center for Contemporary Art Málaga - Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga (CAC) is a contemporary art museum in the Spanish city of Málaga .

history

The exhibition hall is located in a former wholesale market hall, the Mercado de Mayoristas de Málaga . The construction was planned in 1937 in Calle Alemania not far from the Río Guadalmedina , started immediately after the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 and opened in 1942. It was built according to plans by Luis Gutiérrez Soto , a renowned Spanish architect of the Modern Movement , and its straight, functional lines and cubic structure follow the triangular shape of the property. After a major renovation by the architect Miguel Ángel Díaz and a renovation, the building was inaugurated in 2003 as an exhibition hall and museum. The official opening took place on February 7th, 2003 by Cristina of Spain and her husband Iñaki Urdangarin . In terms of content, the CAC is based on the model of the German art gallery (in contrast to the art museum ) with a focus on presentations of contemporary art . It is located in the Soho district , which is one of the reasons why it developed into an artists' quarter .

museum

Since then, the building has housed the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (CAC), one of the most famous museums for contemporary art in Andalusia and, along with the Museo Picasso , is the main attraction for art lovers in Málaga. Changing special exhibitions by contemporary Spanish and international artists are shown on approximately 6000 m². The permanent collection includes 400 works from the 1950s to the present. Well-known artists in the collection include Art & Language , Louise Bourgeois , Olafur Eliasson , Thomas Hirschhorn , Damien Hirst , Thomas Ruff , Miquel Barceló and Santiago Sierra .

Since 2017 there have been solo exhibitions by artists such as Lawrence Weiner , Peter Doig , Rosemarie Trockel , Tracey Moffatt , Stephan Balkenhol and Sean Scully .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CAC Málaga: Exposiciones, información y obras de este singular museo. Retrieved January 24, 2019 (European Spanish).
  2. ^ CAC Malaga, information. Retrieved January 25, 2019 .
  3. ^ Soho Art District of Malaga | Urban art | Andalucia.com. Retrieved January 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Solo exhibitions in the museum

Coordinates: 36 ° 42 ′ 52 "  N , 4 ° 25 ′ 32"  W.