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
From Private to Public: Collections at the Guggenheim
June 26, 2009–January 10, 2010
In conjunction with a presentation of the museum’s collections of early modern art from Impressionism to Surrealism, From Private to Public: Collections at the Guggenheim explores the intriguing parallels between a diverse group of art enthusiasts whose lives intersected over several decades.
Guggenheim Museum
Bilbao Collection
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection has a unique, yet complementary, identity from the collections at the other Guggenheim
institutions, featuring works by some
of the most significant artists of the second half of the 20th century: Eduardo Chillida, Yves Klein, Willem de Kooning, Robert
Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Clyfford Still,
Antoni Tàpies, and Andy Warhol, among others.
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.
Visit the collection online