The cartoonist Paco Roca (Valencia, 1969), National Comic Award in 2008 for his graphic novel Arrugas (2007), has developed a specific project for gallery 6 of the IVAM. A bet that analyzes and expands the expressive possibilities of comics as an artistic discipline, ...

This new look at the IVAM Collection will set out from one of its central nuclei, Pop Art, especially British Pop Art and the Spanish forms of realism, in order to expand the concept of realism to which they were related.

Of a documentary nature and related to the exhibition Times of upheaval, the show finds matter and memory connections in the works of three Valencian writers, Max Aub (Paris, 1903-Mexico City, 1972), Eduardo Hervás (Valencia, 1950-1972) and Rafael Chirbes (Tavernes de la Valldigna, Valencia, 1949-2015).

1989 was a historic year. It put an end to an era defined by the Cold War and confrontations between East and West, between pro-Soviet dictatorships and Western democracies.

The IVAM (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno) opened in 1989. It was the first modern and contemporary art museum project fostered in Spain following the country’s devolution and the need to acknowledge and promote art and culture.

The project created for the façade of the IVAM by Soledad Sevilla (Valencia, 1944) is based on a persistent memory from her teenage years in Valencia: the geometric tiles that cover the wall of the cloister at The Patriarch's Church (Iglesia del Patriarca).

Beyond the idyllic view of the Mediterranean Sea portrayed in the early 20th century by northern painters who were fascinated by its light, the Mediterranean has encompassed a superimposition, mingling and confrontation of languages, cultures and religions since the beginning of history.

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

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.