This Tuesday, the “la Caixa” Foundation took stock of attendance at its centers and its cultural and scientific exhibitions during 2023. A total of 4,349,926 visitors have filled the CaixaForum centers and the CosmoCaixa Science Museum, and 3,807,567 , the traveling exhibitions promoted by the ”la Caixa” Foundation in 73 cities throughout Spain during this last year, which represents an overall increase of 13.19% compared to the previous year.
CaixaForum València has welcomed 899,339 visitors in 2023. The center has registered an increase of 34.10% in visitors this last year, compared to the 670,655 in 2022. Among those released in 2023, Apollo 11. The arrival of man to the Moon It has been the most attended exhibition, with 70,969 visitors, followed by Mummies of Egypt. Rediscovering six lives, in collaboration with the British Museum, with 67,110 visitors; Comic. Dreams and history, with a total of 54,814 and Tattoo. Art under the skin, in collaboration with the Musée du Quai Branly, with 54,680 visitors.
CaixaForum València will be the first center to host Interior Berlanga, the undisputed premiere of the season that proposes an intimate and complete portrait of Luis García Berlanga, one of the most international Spanish filmmakers and author of a humorous and critical story of the Spain of the second half of the 20th century. Conceived as a sequence shot with a narrative thread in the style of his films, this self-produced exhibition will discover unknown and exciting stories about his life and work: from stereotypes to reality, from the most media to the unknown.
Likewise, he will reveal a large part of his personal archive thanks to the cataloging, digitization and study work that the “la Caixa” Foundation has carried out together with the Ministry of Culture and the Spanish Film Archive. (From March 1 to June 9, 2024).
Photography will also be the protagonist at CaixaForum València, which will host the exhibition Expanded Visions. Photography and experimentation, the result of collaboration with the Center Pompidou. The exhibition traces the history of experimental photography from the beginning of the 20th century to the present through a hundred works.
The project proposes a reading of the experimental photographic movement through dialogue between historical and contemporary works, and presents the first photographic experimentations of the famous William Klein along with works by other artists, such as Man Ray, Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, Vera Lutter, Ellen Carey , Barbara Morgan, Florence Henri and Brassaï, among others. (From April 30 to September 1, 2024)
The XIX exhibition. The century of the portrait. Collections of the Prado Museum. From Enlightenment to Modernity will arrive at the center on July 10 to delve into the transformation of the public image of people during the 19th century through great works from the National Prado Museum in all techniques and formats, and from Goya to painters such as Federico de Madrazo, Eduardo Rosales, Ignacio Pinazo, Joaquín Sorolla or Ignacio Zuloaga.
The exhibition offers visitors the possibility of entering, through a genre of capital importance in Spanish painting, into the era that saw the birth of the economic and social structures that have shaped our contemporaneity. (From July 10 to October 20, 2024.)