The shift that took place in sculpture in the twentieth century was a response to the new narrative values that appeared in the visual arts and that incorporated advances in science and culture in their proposals.

This exhibition aims to analyse abstract art practices developed in the post-war period to the present day, from those most sublime to the most ideological proposals, from the object to the concept, trying to unravel their meanings and contradictions, examining their techniques and procedures.

Alexandr Ródchenko (St Petersburg, 1891 – Moscow, 1956) was one of the most outstanding Soviet avant-garde artists during the period between the two world wars. He was the founder of Russian Constructivism and one of the artists who introduced photomontage to the Soviet Union.

In order to contextualise and enrich the reading of the show devoted to Alexander Rodchenko in Gallery 3, this exhibition in the Library is presenting a selection of fifty jewels of Soviet design from our collection, made by artists such as El Lissitzky, Gustav Klutsis, the brothers Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg,...

The exhibition recreates the slow and thorny path along which Valencian female artists had to advance in order to achieve visibility and professionalisation, starting in the period of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship and the Second Republic (a time when women really began to emerge in public life), continuing with the era of the Franco regime...

Ignacio Pinazo (Valencia, 1849 – Godella, 1916) opened up a new field for the treatment of naturalism, light and investigation.

THAT PINK THING is a temporary intervention made on the IVAM’s façade by the artist Jerónimo Hagerman (Mexico City, 1967) and the architects María Langarita (Calatorao, 1979) and Víctor Navarro (Madrid, 1979). Their intention is to reveal an IVAM parallel to the one that was designed on the basis of the modern logic of what is hard and solid, ...

Anticipating the IVAM’s thirtieth anniversary next year, in 2019, Patricia Gómez (Valencia, 1978) and María Jesús González (Valencia, 1978) are presenting a specific project for Gallery 6 with their eye on the museum’s history.

Annette Messager (Berck-sur-Mer, France, 1943) belongs to a generation of artists that accepted the need to create different languages with which to identify, languages separate from the patriarchate.