Coming soon “The Possibility of a World. Visions of Nature in the BBVA Collection”

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Curator: Alfonso de la Torre
Free admission
Dates: 09 July – 12 October 2025
Place: Palacio de San Nicolás. Plaza de San Nicolás, 4. 48005 Bilbao
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday 11 am – 7 pm (Closed on 25th and 31st July, 15th and 22nd August)
Guided tours free-of-charge in Spanish, upon previous registration, managed by Sedena Wednesdays at 5:30 pm and Saturdays at 12 noon. Information and booking: exposiciones@sedena.es / +34 610 38 24 47 (Mon-Fri, 9 am – 2 pm)
Groups with independent guide: booking required
Wheelchair access through Fueros Street

BBVA’s latest exhibition at its historic headquarters in Plaza de San Nicolás, Bilbao, is The Possibility of a World. Visions of Nature in the BBVA Collection, a cultural project responding to BBVA’s ongoing commitment to give the general public a chance to enjoy the rich artistic heritage it has accrued over the years.

Curated by Alfonso de la Torre, a theorist and critic specialising in contemporary Spanish art, the exhibition brings together around fifty works from the BBVA Collection, alongside several works on loan courtesy of the artists. The display invites reflection on the relationship between art and images of nature, featuring works from the 17th century to the present day by artists such as Miquel Barceló, Martín Chirino, Juan Luis Goenaga, Sixe Paredes, Juan Ugalde, Darío de Regoyos, Marta Cárdenas, Fernando Zóbel, Robert Mangold, Alfonso Gortázar, Miguel Ángel Campano, Mari Puri Herrero, Vicente Ameztoy, Pablo Palazuelo, Ruth Gómez, Gonzalo Chillida and Santiago Rusiñol.

The exhibition takes us on an overview of representations of nature, viewed through two fundamental gestures: seeing and contemplating. Seeing is understood as the distance that allows us to comprehend; contemplating, on the other hand, implies immersion, an experience of the subject in the midst of the elements. These two modes have run through the history of art right up to the present day.

The title, borrowed from Jean-Luc Nancy, suggests not only the evocation of a pristine nature but also our responsibility towards a fragile world. In these times of imbalance in nature, art offers itself as a space of hope, a consciousness, rather than a solution. A way of reminding us that nature is not merely an artistic subject matter, but the very condition of art’s becoming.
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