A Guide to Life in Valencia

The Parpalló Room in Valencia is currently exhibiting “La Grande Fête #1″ by Han Hoogerbrugge.
In La Grande Fête,  an interactive installation, Hoogerbrugge portrays the obsessions of contemporary man. To do so, he assembles several characters who represent a large part of the members of the human race that do not want to face up to [...]

The Parpalló Room in Valencia is currently exhibiting Augmented Sculpture de Pablo Valbuena.
Augmented Sculpture is an installation that reflects on the temporary quality of the space and its constant transformation. In this  computer science culpture, Pablo Valbuena raises two levels that explore different aspects from the spatio-temporal reality.
The first level consists of a physical [...]

The exhibition, organized by the MuVIM and Mediterranean Caja, concentrates on the futuristic movement and its influence on the Italian publicity of the time.
One of the more interesting movements is that of vanguard, that was developed between the first and second decade of century XX in Italy.
There are more than 80 works, among which [...]

The Museum of the City of Valencia is currently showing the exhibition “”En el camino”, in which the artist Horacio Silva shapes the impressions that a trip to China gave him.
Horacio Silva has confessed that, at the outset, when they proposed to him this exhibition, he had doubts, a thought that is recognized like one [...]

The Fine Arts Museum is currently showing the exhibition “The birth of a painting from the visible to the invisible
This exhibition, through high-resolution infrared reflectography shows underlying drawings made before applying layers of colour from a select group of artists, Spanish, Italian and Flemish from the XV and XVI. These great painters of the [...]

2010 celebrates the centenary of the birth of Ramon Gayo.
The IVAM is paying tribute to the great artist Ramon Gayo with an exhibition of some of his many masterpieces.
Ramon Gayo is considered to be a painter who writes. His legacy is a pictorial work equipped with a great coherence, that little by little is purified, [...]

With the arrival of summer, the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) in Valencia has new challenges to face and new artists to welcome  including Wang Xieda, a Chinese artist showing his work for the first time in Europe.
The exhibition, which is running until 27th August at the IVAM, brings together 14 drawings and 12 [...]

The Municipal Palace, now called the Palacio de la Exposicion, is located in a privileged environment of the city with excellent transport links and surrounded by open spaces.
It was once part of the various buildings constructed for the Regional Exhibition held in Valencia in 1909, which were mostly were demolished when the contest ended. Only [...]

On June 28, 2001 the Museu Valencià de la Il·lustració i de la Modernitat opened to the public, better known as the MuVIM it had to overcame problems caused by the emergence of complex archaeological remains in the surrounding landscaping.
It is located in a stark building, the architectural work of Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra Seville, and [...]

El Almudin
Constructed in the 16th century the El Almudin building in Valencia served as a warehouse. This gave rise to the name “almudin” from Arabic. The structure was used to store the grain for the city.
Originally it would have a much smaller build but it has been expanded over the centuries XV and XVI to [...]