IVAM Collections

One of the principal commitments of a museum is to increase and carry out research into their collections. The collection of the IVAM, consisting of over seven thousand works of art, is part of the public heritage whose purpose is to further the artistic education of the citizens who visit this institution. The variety and the richness of the collection of the IVAM provide a good opportunity to examine the plurality of the events that took place within the artistic culture of the 20th century in pursuit of both enjoyment and knowledge. In the last few years, the IVAM has carried out important research and diffusion of its collections. Along with the spaces in this centre dedicated to the permanent exhibition of the work of Julio González and Ignacio Pinazo, the IVAM uses galleries 3 and 4 to present periodically new viewpoints regarding developments in modern art by means of the museum collection. We must not forget, on the other hand, that the IVAM also continues to present different thematic exhibitions with works from the collection in collaboration with other national and international museological institutions. This exhibition is unique in that it presents a view of 20th century sculpture with works in the collection of the IVAM. In this new exhibition, the IVAM not only presents its most recent acquisitions, donations and loans, but it develops one of the strategic lines of the museum’s programme: the reexamination of the work of the great sculptors of the 20th century and its complex relationship with other artistic manifestations, mainly painting, as is inevitable in an institute whose centre point is the largest collection in the world of works by the sculptor Julio González. This exhibition comprises some 150 pieces, among which it is worth mentioning especially recent additions of works by artists like Jacques Lipchitz, Eduardo Chillida, Tony Smith, Esteban Vicente, Georg Baselitz, Lucebert, Manolo Valdés or Markus Lüpertz.