Are you looking for a cultural plan this summer? August is the perfect month to enjoy art calmly. Without crowds or queues, the public museums and cultural centers of Spain offer a rich and stimulating program, ideal to rediscover painting, sculpture or installation in unique spaces.
Here we leave you a selection of 10 exhibitions of active plastic arts during the month of August 2025, all in public institutions. A useful guide if you travel, if you stay in your city or if you simply need a good dose of beauty, thought and aesthetic experience.
1. XLII Pontevedra Art Biennial
Where: Pontevedra (Galicia) · When: Until 30 September
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The Galician biennial turns Pontevedra into a great open-air museum. More than 60 artists from 28 nationalities explore memory, violence and contemporary politics through painting, sculpture, video and installation. The works are distributed by the Provincial Museum, churches, squares, courtyards and the Island of Sculptures. An opportunity to tour the city with another look.
2. Anna Weyant
Where: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid · When: Until 31 August
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The young Canadian artist presents for the first time in Spain her contemporary figurative painting. With a classic look but an ironic and ambiguous narrative, Weyant blends technical elegance with visual criticism. An exhibition as subtle as uncomfortable, that does not leave indifferent.
3. Isabel Coixet – Collages. Learning in disobedience
Where: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid · When: Until September 14
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The film director is also a visual artist. In this intimate and political exhibition, Coixet presents collages constructed with clippings, phrases, objects and images that function as visual diaries of critical thinking. A delicate, feminist and deeply personal exhibition.
4. Secundino Hernández – Total station
Where: MUSAC – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León · When: All August
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A decade of work by the Madrid painter unfolds in this retrospective. His canvases combine stains, gestures, trailed strokes and layers of color with a physical energy that leaps from the stand to the viewer. Hernández is one of the most powerful names in Spanish painting today.
5. DRIFT – Amplitude / Prairie
Where: MUSAC, León · When: All August
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The Dutch collective DRIFT presents kinetic and light sculptures that explore the relationship between technology, nature and perception. Their floating structures move like living organisms and transform the exhibition space into a hypnotic sensory experience.
6. Nacho Criado – White
Where: Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid · When: All August
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This exhibition reviews the work of the Jienense artist, pioneer of conceptual art in Spain. His installations and sculptures dialogue with architecture, silence, absence and poetic thought. A sober sample, essential and full of meaning.
7. Live Art Festival in Genalguacil
Where: Genalguacil (Málaga) · When: August 9-16
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During a week of August, this small Andalusian town welcomes artists who live and create works there in dialogue with the environment and neighbors. The pieces remain in the municipality, turning it into a permanent open-air museum. A collective experience of art, landscape and community.
8. NMAC Biennial – Montenmedio Foundation
Where: Vejer de la Frontera (Cádiz) · When: All August
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Contemporary art in nature. This biennial brings together sculptures and installations by international artists such as Marina Abramovi ć , Sol LeWitt or Cristina Lucas, integrated into a coastal pine forest. A perfect visit to combine art, landscape and walking.
9. Pere Llobera – In my father’s house
Where: Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca · When: Until 25 August
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An intimate and pictorial exhibition that traces the artist’s family memory through domestic scenes, affective images and cultural nods. Llobera recovers the expressionist gesture as a means of telling personal stories. Honest, emotional and symbol-laden painting.
10. Joan Miró – Sculpture and material
Where: Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Palma de Mallorca · When: Until 15 September
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Miró’s sculptural side takes centre stage in this exhibition, which presents pieces in bronze, ceramics and assembled objects created in the last years of his life. The most special: they are exhibited in their old workshops, now converted into a museum. A direct trip to the physical and mental universe of the artist.
In August we closed the doors of Marquesa Gallery, but art continues to beat across the country. We hope this selection inspires you to look, explore and let yourself be surprised. And in September, with renewed energy, we are waiting for you with new proposals, artists and experiences in our gallery in Carabanchel.
Happy summer, and happy artistic route.
[author _ rocio]