From 29 August to 19 September, Swiss artist Raffaela Zenoni will present her series Mother Earth  and  The Other Ancestral Gallery across both floors of the Centro Cultural El Convento in Gaucín.

In the Mother Earth cycle, the artist creates, through 15 large-format works, a connection between our eternal Mother Earth and the past, present and future, bringing them together in the “Now”.

In The Other Ancestral Gallery , Zenoni presents portraits of more than 50 fictional, surreal and at the same time strikingly present ancestors originating from numerous countries, periods and societies.

Experience shows that conversations between ancestors and family members can occasionally become somewhat stagnant. To counteract this, the Swiss artist is also presenting around 20 sculptures from her  Talking Heads series.

Zenoni’s work reveals an unconditional desire to connect with the spiritual world. Her artistic practice has the capacity to generate impulses and open up new perspectives on our own lives.

Her profound connection with Gaucín becomes particularly visible in the exhibition “Conectados – Connected”. The exhibition builds a bridge between Zenoni’s creative universe and the unique history and extraordinary landscape of Gaucín.

In the words of Mayor Pedro Godino Martín:

“I am convinced that ‘Conectados – Connected’ will give rise to numerous valuable connections and inspire us to rediscover and deepen our relationships with one another, with our ancestors and with our Mother Earth.

The Swiss artist lives in Gaucín and, between 2008 and 2026, has exhibited in Bern, Berlin, Brussels, Echternach/Luxembourg, Frankfurt am Main, Gaucín, Luxembourg City, Split, St. Moritz, Stuttgart, Zagreb and Zurich.

In 2025, she published her first art novel, “Sleeping in a Mosaic”, originally written in German and also published in Spanish, English and Croatian. The book will be available for purchase during the exhibition. Raffaela Zenoni is a member of the artists’ collective “Art Gaucín”.

Interviews with the artist and/or the exhibition curator, Helmut Klikovits, can be arranged during the exhibition opening on 29 August at 7:00 p.m., or by prior appointment.

The whitewashed streets and historic corners of Gaucín will once again become a showcase for contemporary art with a new edition of Art Gaucin, the annual cultural event that transforms this beautiful village in the Serranía de Ronda into a vibrant showcase of creativity, inspiration and open doors for the public.

Over two weekends — 29, 30 and 31 May, and 5, 6 and 7 June 2026 — artists living in the town will open the doors of their studios to share their creative processes, their works and the intimacy of their workspaces with the public.

This year’s edition will feature twenty-one artists spread across sixteen studios, offering visitors an intimate and authentic experience in which painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking and textile art engage with the beauty of the Andalusian landscape.

This year, the collective is enriched by the addition of two new artistic voices: Belén Montero, who works in textile art, and Adrian Barclay, who specialises in painting and printmaking.

Art Gaucín also brings together artists of recognised national and international standing such as Sánchez Zabaleta, Juan Antonio Sangil, Raffaela Zenoni and Ira Goldberg, amongst others.

José María Díez and Roderic Stokes will participate as guest artists in this edition.

In addition, the El Convento Cultural Centre will host a group exhibition bringing together works by the participating artists, making it one of the key venues for this year’s event.

As part of the art trail, visitors will also be able to enjoy the group exhibition of contemporary art at the Shapó Olé gallery, a venue joining this cultural celebration by offering a carefully curated selection of contemporary works in dialogue with the creative spirit of Art Gaucín.

The event invites locals and visitors, lovers of art and charming villages, to wander the streets of Gaucín and discover the open studios.

Information maps for the tour will be available in studios, bars and restaurants across the town.

Art Gaucín is not just an exhibition: it is an opportunity to step into the very heart of artistic creation and enjoy a unique and unforgettable cultural experience.

The Museo del Realismo Español Contemporáneo (MUREC, Almería) presents the exhibition Almería. La tierra ausente by the painter Joseba Sánchez Zabaleta (Cistierna, León, 1970), in which he expresses the sensitive and spiritual experience that the province produces in him and how it has inspired him to create his series El olvido que nos habita, from which 18 works dating from the last five years have been selected for the occasion.

Committed to realism, Sánchez Zabaleta reflects through painting on the objects that surround us and on the creative process itself: visual poetry. Using elements from nature and the Almerian landscape, everyday objects and abandoned buildings, he shows the perishable, the passing of time and the transformation of matter. Each of his paintings evokes silence and from introspection invites the viewer to become the protagonist of the scene, starting from contemplation and meditation, in a painting of pause and stillness.

The exhibition, organised by the Ibáñez Cosentino Art Foundation in collaboration with the Diputación de Almería and curated by Juan Manuel Martín Robles, delves into a lesser-known Almería, because the painter’s creative process maintains a constant, the search for places that move, those which, from the ruins and through a refined painting, are shown in a desolate and absent space.

The landscapes that will be on display until 30 March in Room 2 of temporary exhibitions at the MUREC feature Cabo de Gata, a refuge for the artist, where his ideas for painting and the inspiration of everyday life come from. A landscape full of silence where the humble vegetation, the passing of time, the clamour of its landscapes and the echo of the voices of its people cohabit.

Through different pictorial constructions, the painter explores the concept of inhabiting, which has lost meaning and significance, associated with a mere physical aspect, that of a simple occupation of space. However, from his painting, he proposes an anthropological and philosophical vision of how we inhabit a territory from a symbolic, physical and aesthetic construction, from a concern for rootedness and forms of belonging.

From the perspective of the traveller-painter, architecture, the fragment and the fragile take centre stage in each of the pieces that make up this exhibition. Memory and its debris become the objective narration of the passage of time, in a dialogue between past and future.

Considered for many years as a minor art, ceramics is experiencing a sweet moment and now occupies a relevant place in the contemporary art scene in its own right.

LA REUNIÓN was born from the desire to promote the exhibition of artists who work with ceramics, showing the many possibilities it offers within the current art.

With the support of Gaucín’s town hall, starting this journey with 10 relevant artists in the ceramic world we invite you to the first exhibition of this collective of the hand of LA CASA AMARILLA and as collaborators and godmother of this artistic initiative and curated by Fernada J Carregado.

Date: August 16 to September 9
Venue: Cultural Center the convent, Gaucin
Inauguration: August 16 – 19:00 h

Welcome to a new edition of Art Gaucín open Studios 2024.

This year 23 artists will open the doors of their studios as they do every year. This year a new member Peter Dover joins the team.The two guest artists this year are Elena Camacho and Bárbara Sunhy.
We are waiting for you all in Gaucín to enjoy one more year of this art event.

On Friday 15th March 2024 the Museum of Contemporary Spanish Realism, MUREC, was inaugurated in Almería: the only museum in the country dedicated to this artistic movement. It is housed in an emblematic 16th century building, the former Santa María Magdalena Provincial Hospital. A new exhibition space that houses 300 works of art within its walls steeped in history.

The permanent collection of the MUREC shows works by artists with a name of their own in 20th century Art History: Sorolla, Zuloaga, Romero de Torres, Antonio López, Ramón Gaya, Andrés García Ibañez and Carmen Laffón. Also the famous group of Madrid realists which, in addition to Antonio López, includes artists such as María Moreno, Amalia Avia, Francisco López and Isabel Quintanilla, Julio López and Esperanza Parada.

Room 10 exhibits works by the most significant realists of the 21st century. Two works by the Basque artist Joseba Sánchez Zabaleta hang on the walls of this room and become part of the museum’s permanent collection.

Aveiro occupies a privileged place in the centenary depth of ceramic creation and production, being synonymous of an identity assumed as a factor of innovation and economic, social and cultural development of the City, the Municipality and the Region.

Celebrating and projecting artistic ceramics as a distinct and distinctive art, and seeking its creative dynamics towards the future, the International Biennial of Artistic Ceramics of Aveiro was created in 1989, which this year celebrates its 16th edition. It is more than three decades of constant commitment that, from 2017, acquired a unique brilliance, the result of the commitment and investment made by the City Council of Aveiro, on the path of affirmation and consolidation on a global scale.

This edition of the Biennial has the largest participation in its history, with 565 artists and 915 works in competition. 62 nationalities from the five continents are present, combining and showing, from Aveiro to the world, different geographies, conceptual lines, techniques and methodologies of artistic work with ceramic body.

Congratulations to all those who made the success of yet another edition possible, especially to the Jury, who took the arduous decision to choose for exhibition only 9% of the works that reached us, the national and international Artistic Community, and to the Great Team of the Aveiro City Council for the intensity of work and dedication in this project that will allow us to have, in the near future, a museum space of Contemporary Art dedicated exclusively to Artistic Ceramics, designed by the architect João Mendes Ribeiro, which we present publicly in this Biennial 2023.