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.

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.