CaixaForum Madrid to host exhibitions on ‘Alice in Wonderland’, Weimar and Oceania in the new season
- CaixaForum Madrid will host four proposals during the 2024-2025 season
- A programme of activities designed for everyone
The director of the Exhibitions and Collection Area of the ‘la Caixa’ Foundation, Isabel Salgado, and the director of CaixaForum Madrid, Isabel Fuentes, presented this Wednesday the new 2024-2025 exhibition season at CaixaForum Madrid, under the slogan ‘We grow in culture’.
The ‘la Caixa’ Foundation has designed a multidisciplinary and innovative programme for its centres in the CaixaForum network, the result of experience, rigour and hard work, with exhibitions produced in-house and others in collaboration with leading national and international cultural institutions. This unique model represented by the CaixaForum network reflects the ‘la Caixa’ Foundation's firm commitment to the dissemination of knowledge, culture and science as drivers of social transformation.
CaixaForum Madrid to host exhibitions on ‘Alice in Wonderland’, Weimar and Oceania in the new season
In line with the programming of recent years, the ‘la Caixa’ Foundation continues to work on the dissemination of culture, art and science in a cross-cutting and complementary way. Thus, CaixaForum and the CosmoCaixa Science Museum consolidate their work in a single network and will add exhibitions that can be seen in other parts of the territory.
The 2024-2025 programme offers, as usual in the programming of the CaixaForum centres and the CosmoCaixa Science Museum in Barcelona, a wide range of proposals that include art, history and scientific dissemination.
CaixaForum Madrid will host four proposals during the 2024-2025 season
The public at CaixaForum Madrid will be able to enjoy the following exhibitions this season: Uncertain times. Germany between the wars; Alice's Worlds. Dreaming Wonderland, in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum; Voices of the Pacific. Innovation and tradition, in collaboration with the British Museum; and until 6 April 2025, the exhibition Dinosaurs of Patagonia, in collaboration with the Egidio Feruglio Palaeontological Museum (MEF).
CaixaForum Madrid will kick off its new season on 16 October with the multidisciplinary exhibition ‘Uncertain times. Germany between the wars’, dedicated to the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), when the German country sought to re-found itself through a democracy that, not without tensions, led to an explosion of artistic creativity, thought and social progress.
With a combination of works of art, archival material, film, music and historical documents, as well as interactive elements, this exhibition demonstrates how during this period uncertainty became the spirit of the times: a circumstance that was exploited by the great figures who lived and excelled then and who shaped the world of today, such as Thomas Mann, Käthe Kollwitz, Otto Dix, Jeanne Mammen and Albert Einstein. The exhibition can be visited at the cultural centre until 23 February 2025.
‘Alice's Worlds. Dreaming Wonderland’ will surprise visitors to CaixaForum Madrid from 3 April with the largest exhibition dedicated to this Victorian cultural phenomenon, which forms part of today's collective imagination, at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
This exhibition is the first to offer a broad overview of the impact and influence of this Victorian work, a cultural phenomenon in terms of its scope and a source of inspiration for the most creative minds. The proposal vindicates the validity of the character of Alice, almost 160 years after her creation by Lewis Carroll, and presents her from a broad viewpoint, the protagonist of these different ‘worlds’ in which the character has been reinterpreted.
The exhibition, which can be visited until 10 August 2025 at the cultural centre, delves into the background and context of the work, and reviews its interpretations from different disciplines: cinema, plastic arts, fashion and science. With a theatrical and immersive staging, it offers a broad vision of the character, and includes a playful dimension and a space for reflection that establishes a dialogue between Alice's world and the one we live in.
Another highlight of the season is the exhibition ‘Voices of the Pacific. Innovation and tradition’, which will arrive at CaixaForum Madrid on 27 May and will remain until 21 September 2025, in a great celebration of the creativity and artistic sensitivity of the people of the Pacific Islands.
Oceania is a complex network of islands and cultures united by the Pacific. This ocean has not only been their livelihood, but has inspired the development of their creativity. Fans and hooks, clubs and canoes, almost everything is beautifully crafted, with decorations imbued with spiritual meaning.
This exhibition features more than 200 pieces from the British Museum's collections and from various Pacific Islands, and includes historical artefacts as well as works by contemporary artists that reflect the richness of Oceanian art. Among the historical and contemporary pieces are everything from ceremonial oars to exquisitely carved basalt ancestor figures.
Until 6 April 2025, the public at CaixaForum Madrid will be able to enjoy the exhibition ‘Dinosaurs of Patagonia’, which reviews the evolution and great diversity of the dinosaurs that inhabited one of the richest regions in terms of palaeontological remains of these fascinating animals. One of the star pieces of the exhibition, which contains 13 dinosaur specimens, is a life-size replica of the largest dinosaur known to date, the ‘Patagotitan majorum’, a giant from the Cretaceous that measured 38 metres long and weighed 77 tonnes.
In addition to this giant, the exhibition shows more life-size replicas, such as another of the largest dinosaurs (Tyrannotitan chubutensis); the smallest, measuring just 75 centimetres (Manidens condorensis), and two of the oldest, which lived 230 million years ago (Eoraptor lunensis and Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis).
A programme of activities designed for everyone
The programme of activities invites people to participate in spaces of encounter and exchange that favour critical thinking, learning, interaction and social cohesion.
We want to connect with the interests of broad and heterogeneous audiences through a plural content in terms of approaches, disciplines and formats, working with local, national and international professionals and institutions of reference.
These are some of the concepts that make up the programme of activities, as well as some outstanding projects for the coming season:
- Experimentation. We propose significant learning environments in the field of visual and performing arts, literature, science, design and technology, among others, with professionals from the educational, cultural and scientific sectors.
- Innovation and creativity. The programme of activities supports and promotes national creative talent through different proposals that bring together art, science and technology in programmes and activities.
- Dissemination. Conferences, dialogues and live talks will be organised on history and thought, art and design, film and literature, music, basic science, science and society, the environment, food and health, with leading researchers and thinkers, both national and international.
- Participation. We promote projects that invite experimentation, active learning and co-creation.
- New approaches to exhibitions. A series of proposals amplify the visit to the exhibitions with thematic tours, artistic interventions, spaces for experimentation, dynamic visits and family visits.
- Music. Music is approached in the broadest possible way, telling its history, bringing it closer to children, encouraging participatory projects and offering a complete and varied programme of concerts ranging from classical music to electronic music, jazz and world music.
