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IVAM Opens Major Permanent Display of About 500 Works

The hybrid chronological show is presented as a living installation that curators say will be regularly updated to address gaps in the collection.

Overview

  • The Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno has unveiled a permanent presentation called 'La Colección del IVAM hasta hoy' that brings roughly 500 works by more than 260 artists together in renovated galleries and public areas.
  • Curators built the route on a chronological backbone and added four thematic itineraries—Conflictos, Cromatismos, Ecologías and Identidades—to offer different readings of the same holdings.
  • Museum leaders describe the display as a mutable, 'living' installation and say they will add, rotate and activate works over time to reduce historical imbalances in gender, race and representation.
  • The installation highlights distinctive strengths of the collection, including a large Soviet-art fonds, an expanded photography presence, and sculptures and site works placed on the explanade and in lobbies; coverage also notes the show excludes comic art.
  • Some reports say one work on view is scheduled to travel to New York’s MoMA but that claim is provisional and shows a possible artist-name discrepancy in coverage that requires corroboration.