Exhibitions

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Avenida Abandoibarra, 2
Bilbao 48001, Spain

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Past Exhibitions

Past Exhibitions

Browse past exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Nicolas Poussin, Satyrs Taking Sleeping Venus by Surprise, ca. 1625

Nicolas Poussin, Satyrs Taking Sleeping Venus by Surprise, ca. 1625 (detail). Oil on canvas, 77 × 100 cm. Photo © Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

Riotous Baroque: From Cattelan to Zurbarán

Featuring contemporary artworks presented alongside 17th-century paintings, this exhibition attempts to extricate the concept of the baroque from established clichés and traditional perceptions. With a clear shift away from pomp, ornament, and gold, it focuses on the baroque as a celebration of the precarious vitality that was hailed, rediscovered, lost, projected, and threatened by death.