This new exhibition at the IVAM Centre Julio González, curated by Brigitte Léal, former head of collections at the MNAM Centre Pompidou, explores for the first time the omnipresence of women in the work of Julio González: family portraits, depictions of women in modern life, academic or abstract nudes, real and idealised figures, historical and political […]
Julio González, Louise Bourgeois, Niki de Saint Phalle, Sophie Calle… W—galería opens the 2026 season with the exhibition Colección HELFT, celebrating the trajectory of Jorge Helft (1934–2025) and Marion Eppinger (1933) as key figures in Argentine and international art collecting. The exhibition brings together an exceptional group of works from this collection, a fundamental body for […]
Julio González’s work is featured alongside other Spanish pillars of 20th century art in the Fundacion ICO’s current exhibition. His work plays a key role in this survey from the turn of the century through the 1980s that aims to show the evolution of form, space and materials in drawing and sculpture. On view at […]
Julio González’s Don Quijote (c. 1930, iron) is on view through March 30, 2026 the MUCEM’s temporary exhibition on representations of this pivotal figure in Spanish culture. Gonzalez’s interpretation of the knight-errant, whose emtpy torso contrasts with his tall, proud stature, innovatively captures the Quijote’s dichotomy between grandeur and folly.
Though Roberta González and Argentine artist Sergio de Castro may never have crossed paths, the parallels in their personal lives and artistic trajectories merit being brought to light. “Roberta Gonzalez & Sergio de Castro: Face to Face” seeks to explore their work centred around the human figure in the context of the 1950s. Check out […]
This prickly plant native to arid regions has long been a source of fascination from both a botanical and artistic point of view. The New Museum of Monaco’s innovative new show, mounted in collaboration with the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakech, focuses on the various ways the cactus has inspired modern and contemporary artists, […]
In 1935, Julio Gonzalez participated in the groundbreaking exhibition “Thèse, Synthèse, Antithèse” at the newly opened Kunstmuseum Luzern, along with his friends and colleagues Calder, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Miro and Picasso (among others). While modern art was being derided as “degenerate” in Nazi Germany, this exhibition celebrated it. To commemorate the 90th anniversary of this groundbreaking […]
To celebrate its 15th anniversary, work form the Pompidou Center’s collection has taken over the Pompidou Center Metz in a new exhibition curated by contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan. In keeping with his conceptual and provocative work, of which “Comedian” (2019), a banana duct-taped to the wall, is the most notorious example, Cattelan’s exhibition creates unprecedented […]
Artwork by Julio and Joan González is currently on display at the Museu Picasso Barcelona, in its new exhibition “De Montmartre à Montparnasse: Catalan artists in Paris, 1889-1914”. It focuses on the important place held by Catalan artists among the influx of French and foreign creators that amassed in Paris at the turn of the […]
Opened in 2019 in Madrid, the Fundación Maria Cristina Masaveu Peterson uses its extensive collection to retrace Spanish 20th century art in its new exhibition « Masaveu Collection. 20th c. Spanish art from Picasso to Barceló ». A sculpture and several drawings by Julio González are on display in a gallery devoted to trailblazers of the Spanish […]
