The Museo Picasso Málaga envisions its 2026 programme as a commitment to the dialogue between tradition and contemporary art, reinforcing its role as an internationally renowned institution. Through exhibitions that combine Picasso’s work with essential figures in modern and contemporary art, the museum is seeking to generate new interpretations, promote research and foster collaboration with leading cultural institutions, offering the public experiences that enrich their understanding of art and its relevance today. The 2026 exhibition programme creates spaces for reflection and discovery in which tradition and avant-garde interconnect to offer the public a pluralistic and transformative vision of the current art scene.

Elena Asins. Antigone
January 23 – May 3, 2026

The 2026 programme will open with Elena Asins. Antigone, an exhibition devoted to a key figure in Spanish conceptual art, renowned for her formal rigour and her exploration of mathematical, poetic and visual languages. On the tenth anniversary of Asins’s death, the museum is paying tribute to the artist by inviting visitors to experience her final work, the installation Antigone, loaned from the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, which will be presented alongside one of the audiovisual pieces that Asins created around the myth of Antigone. The exhibition will be accompanied by a cultural and educational programme. This new edition in the exhibition series The Invited Work, which has brought creations by James Turrell and William Kentridge to the museum on previous occasions, is curated by Miguel López-Remiro, artistic director of the Museo Picasso Málaga. This collaboration with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía strengthens the two institutions’ commitment to excellence and cooperation between museums to promote the dissemination of cultural heritage.

Elena Asins (1940-2015) Antígone, 2014. Corten steel and polyurethane Paint, 80 x 1950 x 124 cm. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Bequest Elena Asins, 2017. Work licensed by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

Joana Vasconcelos / Transfiguration
May 29 – September 27, 2026

At the end of May, the Museo Picasso Málaga will present Joana Vasconcelos / Transfiguration. The exhibition emphasises transfiguration as the core of the artist’s work, referring to how Vasconcelos transforms and re-signifies different aspects of reality. It brings together a selection of pieces that together offer a survey of the artist’s career, spanning works dating from the late 1990s to recent creations, casting a new light on her artistic evolution. Through sculptures and monumental installations Vasconcelos explores the relationship between Portuguese traditions and contemporary art, transforming everyday materials—textiles, ceramics and tiles—into pieces that celebrate cultural heritage and collective identity from a critical and transformative perspective. Notable among the lending institutions are the Fondation LVMH pour la Création, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), the Luis Adelantado Collection and works from the artist’s own studio. Curated by Miguel López-Remiro, artistic director of the Museo Picasso Málaga, the exhibition reinforces the museum’s interest in international collaboration and in the presentation of unique projects within the field of the art of our time.

Joana Vasconcelos (1971) www.fatimashop, 2002. Piaggio APE50, luminous statues of Our Lady of Fatima, ultraviolet light bulb, painted MDF, timer Video projection: Gone Shopping (Fui às Compras) mini-DV transferred to digital, PAL, 4:3, color, sound, 33 min. Piaggio: 167 x 123 x 265 cm. Projection: 3 m large (proportional  height) Fondation Louis Vuitton, ParisJoana Vasconcelos. www.fatimashop, 2002 / Photo: © Manchester Art Gallery © Joana Vasconcelos, VEGAP, Málaga, 2025

Munch-Picasso. Influences and affinities
October 30, 2026 – February 28, 2027

Autumn will be marked by the presentation of Munch-Picasso. Influences and affinities, which for the first time proposes a dialogue between the Norwegian Edvard Munch (1863-1944) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in order to explore how both paved the way for modern art through a unique combination of experimentation and expression of their obsessions and emotions. Curated by Paloma Alarcó, Head of the Department of Modern Painting at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, the exhibition benefits from the special collaboration of the Munch museet in Oslo and the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso (FABA), as well as numerous loans from Spanish museums such as the Museu Picasso Barcelona, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, and further loans from international museums such as Tate, London, the Albertina, Vienna, the MoMA, New York, and the Kode, Bergen, among others. Featuring more than a hundred paintings, prints and drawings, the exhibition will aim to reveal the mutual influences and numerous thematic affinities that exist between the two artists, while also establishing the shared concerns underlying multiple aspects of their art and probing to what extent their radical creation has shaped the way we see the world today.

Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944). The Artist and his Model, 1919–1921. Oil on canvas, 128 × 152.5 cm. Munchmuseet, Oslo © DeAgostini Picture Library/Scala, Florence

Reflections. Picasso x Barceló
March 27 - June 28, 2026

In addition, following its showing at the Museo de Almería, the travelling exhibition Reflections. Picasso x Barceló will arrive at the Museo de Cádiz in the spring of 2026, where it will be on display from 27 March to 28 June. The project was devised and created in collaboration with Miquel Barceló, the Museo Picasso Málaga, and the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, with sponsorship from Fundación Unicaja and the support of the Regional Ministry of Culture and Sport. Around one hundred works—the majority ceramics—by Pablo Picasso and Miquel Barceló will establish a dialogue between the two artists based around experimentation, tradition and the reflection of classical art from contemporary perspectives, all in connection with the collections of the Museo de Cádiz. The exhibition is curated by Laura Esparragosa, director of the Museo de Cádiz, and Miguel López-Remiro, artistic director of the Museo Picasso Málaga.

Miquel Barceló (1957) Ganivetades, 2009. Ceramics, 54 x 32 cm Artist’s Collection © Photo: David Bonet, 2025 © Miquel Barceló, VEGAP, Málaga, 2025

Pablo Picasso: Structures of Invention. The Unity of a Work
Extended until 2028

Finally, the Board of Trustees of the Museo Picasso Málaga is pleased to announce that the exhibition Pablo Picasso: Structures of Invention. The Unity of a Work will remain on display at the Palacio de Buenavista until 2028 instead of ending in 2027, as initially planned. This decision reflects the ongoing public interest and the exhibition’s importance within the Museo Picasso Málaga’s programme. This prolongation will allow for continued sharing and study of the artist’s work in collaboration with the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso. Curated by Michael FitzGerald, Kluger Family Professor of Art History at Trinity College in Hartford, USA, the exhibition, which opened in 2024, brings together an exceptional group of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, drawings and prints in the galleries of the Palacio de Buenavista, demonstrating the coherence and innovative drive characteristic of Picasso’s entire career.

Once again, all the exhibitions in the 2026 programme will be accompanied by a corresponding catalogue, as well as a comprehensive educational and cultural programme designed to make them accessible to every sector of the public in a reflection of the museum’s mission of accessibility and outreach. The Museo Picasso Málaga’s 2026 programme reaffirms its commitment to cultural creation, dissemination and research, strengthening its role as an internationally renowned institution dedicated to the study of Picasso’s work and to fostering dialogue between artists of different generations.