Bilbao
Instantly hailed as the most important structure of its time, Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao recently celebrated a decade of extraordinary success on October 19, 2007. With close to ninety exhibitions and over ten million visitors to its credit, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao forever changed the way the world thinks about museums, and it continues to challenge our assumptions about the connections between art, architecture, and collecting.
On View Now
May 24–September 12, 2010
On the centenary of Henri Rousseau’s death, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in partnership with the Foundation Beyeler, Basel, is devoting an exhibition to this extraordinary French painter.
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Bilbao Collection
The Guggenheim Bilbao's collection spans from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, concentrating on post-war painting and sculpture in America and Europe. The collection includes key works by significant artists including Anselm Kiefer, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, and Richard Serra, whose work The Matter of Time was created to be a permanent installation in Bilbao's largest gallery.
Also of Interest
Arcos Rojos by Daniel Buren
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao commissioned French artist Daniel Buren to create a site-specific work that uses the La Salve Bridge, located next to the museum. Designed as a vertical piece perpendicular to the bridge, out of which three circles located at equal distances from each other are cut, Arcos Rojos makes the structure of the La Salve Bridge a more visible and inviting entrance to the city center.
Plan Your Visit
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Avenida Abandoibarra, 2
Bilbao 48001, Spain
For current hours, admission prices, and events, please visit the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Web site
THE GUGGENHEIM
COLLECTIONS
Discover works in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Peggy Guggenheim
Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
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