The Mirador del Carmen exhibition hall has received 40,000 visits since its opening.

The cultural center, which has become a national reference, has exhibited works by great names in art from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Fundación MAPFRE and the Zuloaga Foundation.

Until February 23rd you can visit the exhibition ‘Drawing modernity. From Fortuny to Tàpies’, with drawings by artists like Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Salvador Dalí or Joan Miró.

The exhibition space of the Mirador del Carmen Cultural Center has received 40,000 visitors since its opening in April 2023 thanks to the four exhibitions that, so far, have passed through this municipal facility. The center is currently hosting an interesting exhibition with drawings by the most outstanding universal geniuses of art, ‘Drawing modernity. From Fortuny to Tàpies’, with funds from Fundación MAPFRE, which can be visited until February 23.

The exhibition space of the Mirador del Carmen has become, despite its short existence, a national reference center where high-level exhibitions with funds from Fundación MAPFRE, the Zuloaga Foundation or the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza collection have already passed through. The quality of the works that have passed through this municipal facility has captured the attention of thousands of neighbors and visitors, who have been able to admire up close creations by artists such as Goya, Zuloaga, Picasso, Dalí, Joaquín Sorolla, Julio Romero de Torres or Mariano Fortuny, among others.

In April 2023 the Mirador del Carmen Cultural Center, which also has an auditorium, the seven-story Library of Contemporary Cultures and a conservatory, inaugurated its exhibition hall with the show ‘Living in Painting. Spanish Art in the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection’, a selection of 46 pieces from Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza’s Spanish collection that provided a broad overview of Spanish painting over more than a hundred years of history, from the last decades of the 19th century to the first decades of the 21st century.

The exhibition reflected Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza’s interests as an art collector, who since the 1990s has been acquiring outstanding works of Old Masters, American painting and 20th century avant-garde, but above all, 19th century Spanish painting, especially Andalusian and Catalan.

After its success, the exhibition with the Thyssen Museum’s holdings gave way to the show ‘Goya. Disasters of War. Collections Fundación MAPFRE’, which offered the opportunity to see the 80 prints that Francisco de Goya y Lucientes made to express the pain and anguish he felt at the events of the war and its consequences on the civilian population.

Women in the Zuloaga Collection. Seven centuries of art’, organized by the Consistory and the Zuloaga Foundation, has been the third of the exhibitions that have passed through the facilities of the exhibition space of the Mirador del Carmen. The exhibition, with 120 works from the painter’s family, brought visitors closer to the representation of the social diversity of women in art and the role of women who for years have preserved, expanded and disseminated the collection of the Zuloaga family.

The exhibition center is currently showing the exhibition ‘Drawing modernity. Fundación MAPFRE Collections’, a sketch, as if it were a diary, of the art history of a large part of the 20th century on paper. Among the collections on display to the public are works by great universal geniuses of painting such as Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Edgar Degas, Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró.

The exhibition, which can be visited until February 23, displays a hundred drawings from the period between 1864 and 1968 created by undisputed figures in the history of art that for the first time hang on the walls of the Mirador del Carmen. Among these masters we can highlight names such as Joaquín Sorolla, Auguste Rodin, Egon Schiele, Mariano Fortuny, Rafael Alberti, Eduardo Chillida or Antoni Tàpies.