ITP Aero

Books Alive! Cakes, Cakes and Cakes.

Families

Children and Families

Museum Members

Are you a fan of cakes? What is your favorite type of dessert? Are you familiar with Pop Art? It is an art movement inspired by popular culture—hence the name. Artists in the Pop Art movement drew inspiration from everyday objects and images—even food! In this activity, we will take a look at the Pop art works displayed in the Museum to think about such topics as eating and consumption. Then, we will make a very sweet sculpture, using a slice of cake as our model. A workshop for our senses. A world of flavors lost and remembered, pleasant aromas, and fascinating textures!
Conducted by: Catalina Martínez-Moro
<img loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-359927" src="http://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-300x119.png" alt="Dia del niño" width="149" height="59" srcset="https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-300x119.png 300w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-1024x406.png 1024w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-768x305.png 768w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-1536x609.png 1536w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-2048x812.png 2048w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-1920x762.png 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px" />
Fundación Crecer Juntos

Books Alive! Cakes, Cakes and Cakes

Are you a fan of cakes? What is your favorite type of dessert? Are you familiar with Pop Art? It is an art movement inspired by popular culture—hence the name.

Books Alive! Cakes, Cakes and Cakes | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

ART Space: Creativity Lab

In this ART Space activity, we will draw inspiration from the colorful works of Pop art and the cunning ways devised by Pop artists to work. Some resorted to industrial materials and techniques to emulate mass production. Would you like to try this formula? Use multiple templates and colors to make your own mass-produced artworks, inspired by everyday images taken out of context.
Sundays, April 14 (Spanish), 21 (Basque) and 28 (Spanish).
<img loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-359927" src="http://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-300x119.png" alt="Dia del niño" width="111" height="44" srcset="https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-300x119.png 300w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-1024x406.png 1024w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-768x305.png 768w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-1536x609.png 1536w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-2048x812.png 2048w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-1920x762.png 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 111px) 100vw, 111px" />
Fundación Crecer Juntos

In this ART Space activity, we will draw inspiration from the colorful works of Pop art and the cunning ways devised by Pop artists to work.

ART Space: Creativity Lab | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Online Art Course: Film & Video, moving image as an Artistic Medium

Courses and workshops

Educators

Online

The online art courses at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao are accessible yet thorough, offering a unique opportunity to learn about key topics and concepts in the history of modern and contemporary art from a current perspective.
With the participation of experts in each field, the courses take as their starting point the Museum’s collection and its dynamic and varied artistic programming.
For a decade now, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao's Film &amp; Video exhibition programme has examined the different currents and modalities of contemporary artistic practices using film and video media.
Learning outcomes
The learning outcomes of this online course are, among others:
<ol>
<li>To provide key references that allow you to easily learn the main features of the evolution of moving image in contemporary art and its main ramifications and numerous possibilities.</li>
<li>To present a selection of works and projects based on the Film &amp; Video exhibition history.</li>
<li>To offer a sequence of different case studies, divided into four thematic modules.</li>
</ol>
Taught by 
<a href="http://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/04/YARA-SONSECA-1.pdf">Yara Sonseca</a>, Art Historian and Independent Curator.
<a href="http://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Programa-web-FilmVideo.pdf">Structure and Programme</a>
Language: Spanish
Duration 
Open for three months. Participants will be able to complete the course at their own pace, from anywhere. The next module can be accessed after completing the previous one.
Who is it aimed at? 
Anyone over the age of 18, with or without art knowledge, who is looking to gain a broader and more current perspective or simple key terms of reference. Members of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Community will have priority access to the 50 available places.
<a href="http://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2023/10/Preguntas-frequentes.pdf">FAQ</a>
Photo: 
Christian Marclay 
Video still from The Clock, 2010 
Single channel video with stereo sound 
24 hours, looped 
Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

The online art courses at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao are accessible yet thorough, offering a unique opportunity to learn about key topics and concepts in the history of modern and contemporary art from a current perspective.

Online Art Course: Film &amp; Video, moving image as an Artistic Medium | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Online Art Course: Film & Video, moving image as an Artistic Medium | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Baby Art: We are colors

Surrounded by stimuli and playing games that kindle curiosity, babies and their families interact as they explore inspiring works in the Museum Collection, like Richard Serra’s The Matter of Time or Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #831. Then, they take part in an immersive workshop exploring colors and structures to find hidden treasures. Baby Art offers a space for exploration, thus awakening and stimulating the senses—sight, touch, hearing, smell, and taste. In Baby Art, babies play, explore, and create in a magical, welcoming environment.
<ul>
<li>Saturday, April 13 and Sunday, April 14: 6–12 months (Spanish)</li>
<li>Saturday, April 20 and Sunday, April 21: 12–24 months (Spanish)</li>
<li>Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28: 24–36 months (Basque)</li>
</ul>

Surrounded by stimuli and playing games that kindle curiosity, babies and their families interact as they explore inspiring works in the Museum Collection, like Richard Serra’s The Matter of Time or Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #831.

Baby Art: We are colors | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Family Yoga

Aimed at the whole family, these classes use art and yoga poses to play, share, and connect. Art can help us all—kids and adults alike—attain wellbeing, improve our quality of life, and develop our emotional intelligence.
By doing breathing exercises and trying poses inspired by the Museum’s works of art—this month our inspiration will be Ellsworth Kelly’s Yellow Curve I—kids learn to focus on their bodies and the world around them. These yoga classes will give the little ones and the grown-ups with them the chance to connect to their creative essence as they explore conscious movement.
<img loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-359927" src="http://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-300x119.png" alt="Dia del niño" width="111" height="44" srcset="https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-300x119.png 300w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-1024x406.png 1024w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-768x305.png 768w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-1536x609.png 1536w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-2048x812.png 2048w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-1920x762.png 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 111px) 100vw, 111px" />
Fundación Crecer Juntos

Aimed at the whole family, these classes use art and yoga poses to play, share, and connect.

Family Yoga | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Drawing: A Beginners Course II

Drawing helps us think. In this final term, we will explore the possibilities of drawing as a tool for perception, and we will see how drawing changes our relationship to the world.
We will begin by analyzing how to use drawing to perceive reality. When we draw, we stop to look at things differently, broadening our view. In this workshop, we will learn to draw the structure of things beyond their appearance, and to draw the images projected by our imagination too.
The results will be surprising and fun. Throughout the course, we will learn a variety of drawing techniques—charcoal, watercolors, markers, etc.—and try them on various mediums.
Conducted by: Raúl Domínguez Pazo
Third term: from April 21 to May 26
April 21: Drawing and Thinking
How can we make our thoughts and ideas visible? We will try showing what happens inside us, the way we feel, the things we want to happen, by drawing them.
April 28: Seen and Done
We will visit some of the Museum’s galleries to make drawings. Usually, when we go to an exhibition, we just stare at the artworks on display. How does our perception of them change when we look at them and draw?
May 5: Structure and Surface
Looking at the surface of things, we will try to guess what is inside them: What lies behind a cloth? What does the skeleton of a bird look like? What do the walls in a building hide?
May 12: Maps of Imaginary Places
We will design the city we would like to live in, an unknown planet, or just the land that comes out of the tip of our fingers as we draw.
May 19: Unheard-of Associations: Frottage
Frottage (French: “rubbing”) is a technique in which paper or canvas is placed over a grainy surface and rubbed with a crayon or charcoal, thus recreating the texture of a variety of surfaces and objects. With the help of overlapping shapes and weaves, we will create unexpected compositions.
May 26: Looking at Music, Listening to Drawing
Can we make a visual representation of sound and music? Exploring the correspondences between music and drawing, we will see how to express our inner experience by means of strokes and colors.

Drawing helps us think. In this final term, we will explore the possibilities of drawing as a tool for perception, and we will see how drawing changes our relationship to the world.

Drawing: A Beginners Course II | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Feel, Play, Create

Vibration, creativity, conscious touch, intuitive movement, focus, breathwork, active listening… Play, sense, feel… to live in the moment.
Against the background of the Giovanni Anselmo exhibition, we will explore a series of ideas to awaken our senses during our tour of the exhibition and later in the Education Space.
Inspired by Anselmo’s works, this play-and-creation workshop stimulates our senses in connection with matter and energy, inviting us to rely on creative intuition. Resorting to enjoyable sensory dynamics, we will learn to practice mindfulness.

Vibration, creativity, conscious touch, intuitive movement, focus, breathwork, active listening… Play, sense, feel… to live in the moment.

Feel, Play, Create | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

ART Space: Art Adventures

ART Space invites all family members to engage in discovery and creation. This month, we will take a look at the work of Giovanni Anselmo, who used simple materials found in nature, such as stone, water, or cotton, to reflect on fundamental questions: time, transformation, weight… To Anselmo, art was a tool to understand the world around us. Would you like to follow a similar approach? Try different materials and use them together to make your own sculpture!
Saturdays, 13 (Spanish), 20 (Basque) y 27 (Spanish). 
Sundays, 14 (Basque), 21 (Spanish) y 28 (Basque).
<img loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-359927" src="http://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-300x119.png" alt="Dia del niño" width="149" height="59" srcset="https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-300x119.png 300w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-1024x406.png 1024w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-768x305.png 768w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-1536x609.png 1536w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-2048x812.png 2048w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-1920x762.png 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px" />
Fundación Crecer Juntos

ART Space invites all family members to engage in discovery and creation. This month, we will take a look at the work of Giovanni Anselmo, who used simple materials found in nature, such as stone, water, or cotton, to reflect on fundamental questions: time, transformation, weight…

ART Space: Art Adventures | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

APPROACHING ART VII

General Public

How to Look at Contemporary Art with Your Own Eyes
The onsite course series Approaching Art is an introduction for those who want to get basic knowledge and references in contemporary art.
Approaching Art VII offers the tools you need to appreciate and enjoy contemporary art—or maybe reject it—on the basis of rigorous criteria.
The Museum’s art program and other examples from the international art scene will be used to illustrate some of the concepts discussed in the course, which will focus on the origins and background of what we understand as “contemporary art,” review the formal and technical disruptions that resulted from the introduction of certain technologies in late-19th-century artistic practices, and finally analyze the situation of art today, from those approaches that seem to validate anything as art to those that challenge the reality of today’s global art.
Objetives 

<ul>
<li>To give an overview of Western modern and contemporary art using basic concepts and a specialized lexicon that enable participants to feel confident in the field, building their own criteria and critical views.</li>
<li>To share knowledge of specific artists and works as well as critical figures in the contemporary art scene, along with their influences and contributions, and their artistic, socio-political, and historical context.</li>
<li>To discuss the origins and background of contemporary art, the revolutionary technologies associated to it, and its development into today’s global art.</li>
<li>To shed light on women artists and give them the place they deserve in the history of 20th- and 21st-century art.</li>
<li>To encourage participants to look at art “with their own eyes,” experiencing the works physically, and to share new knowledge in practical ways during exclusive guided tours of the Museum exhibitions.</li>
</ul>
Conducted by: 
<a href="http://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2023/09/CV-Andere-Larrinaga.pdf">Andere Larrinaga Cuadra</a>, Professor of the Department of Music and Art History of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU); faculty member and Vice-Chancellor for Quality in the UPV/EHU School of Fine Arts.
<a href="http://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2023/09/APROX.-ARTE-VII-ESTRUCTURA-Y-PROGRAMA-WEB.pdf">Structure and Contents</a>

Onsite Course: An Introduction to Contemporary Art

The Approaching Art classroom course series is a non-academic introduction for those who want to get basic knowledge and references in contemporary art.

Onsite Course: An Introduction to Contemporary Art | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Breakfast & Art: Fancy a Chat?

Talks

Organized by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Volunteer Program, this program offers a space for socializing and dialogue for Museum volunteers and seniors over 65 who want to spend time together, meet new people, share experiences and concerns, and discuss current issues. In a friendly, relaxed atmosphere, the chats will be connected to the exhibitions on show or the Museum Collection. Participants will also go on a guided tour of the relevant Museum galleries.
Upcoming dates and topics:
<ul>
<li>April 16: “Industrial Materials and Art” – June Crespo. Vascular</li>
<li>April 30: “Bizkaia and its Substratum: Sustainability” – Puppy and Olafur Eliasson</li>
</ul>

Organized by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Volunteer Program, this program offers a space for socializing and dialogue for Museum volunteers and seniors over 65 who want to spend time together, meet new people, share experiences and concerns, and discuss current issues. In a friendly, relaxed atmosphere, the chats will be connected to the exhibitions on show or the Museum Collection. Participants will also go on a guided tour of the relevant Museum galleries.

Breakfast &amp; Art: Fancy a Chat? | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Breakfast & Art: Fancy a Chat? | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Guided tours

Members

Tours

Have you been to our latest exhibitions? In the Members’ private zone you can access online tours and content on these showx, which we encourage you to visit!
Languages: Spanish and Basque
<ul>
<li>Activities for Museum Members only</li>
<li>Please remember: Non-members will not be allowed, and participants may be asked to show their Member cards</li>
<li>Fast-track access: Show your ticket with the QR code</li>
</ul>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>DATE</td>
<td>TIME</td>
<td>&nbsp;
&nbsp;</td>
<td>LANGUAGE</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Giovanni Anselmo</td>
<td> 50 min</td>
<td>(20 visitors/group)</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Friday, May 3</td>
<td>12:00 noon</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Friday, May 3</td>
<td>1:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Friday, May 3</td>
<td>5:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Basque</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Friday, May 3</td>
<td>6:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sunday, May 5</td>
<td>12:00 noon</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Basque</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sunday, May 5</td>
<td>1:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sunday, May 5</td>
<td>5:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sunday, May 5</td>
<td>6:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pop Art</td>
<td>60 min</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tuesday, May 7</td>
<td>12:00 noon</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tuesday, May 7</td>
<td>1:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tuesday, May 7</td>
<td>5:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Basque</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tuesday, May 7</td>
<td>6:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Friday, May 10</td>
<td>12:00 noon</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Friday, May 10</td>
<td>1:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Friday, May 10</td>
<td>5:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Basque</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Friday, May 10</td>
<td>6:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sunday, May 12</td>
<td>12:00 noon</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Basque</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sunday, May 12</td>
<td>1:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sunday, May 12</td>
<td>5:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sunday, May 12</td>
<td>6:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>June Crespo</td>
<td>50 min</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Friday, May 17</td>
<td>12:00 noon</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Basque</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Friday, May 17</td>
<td>1:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Friday, May 17</td>
<td>5:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Friday, May 17</td>
<td>6:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sunday, May 19</td>
<td>11:00 am</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sunday, May 19</td>
<td>12:00 noon</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Basque</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sunday, May 19</td>
<td>1:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sunday, May 19</td>
<td>5:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sunday, May 19</td>
<td>6:00 pm</td>
<td> 1 group</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Have you been to our latest exhibitions? In the Members’ private zone you can access online tours and content on these showx, which we encourage you to visit!

Guided tours | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Architecture Lab III

In the third term of our Architecture Lab III, we will discuss urban networks, both visible and invisible; we will draw trees and build nests; we will learn to identify species of plants and birds in order to identify other inhabitants of our cities; we will focus on the senses through which we perceive architecture and its surroundings: the close relationship between sound and space, between touch and the texture of materials; we will take a look at the city through a magnifying glass for a detailed view of its flowers and insects; also, we will look at it from a distance to get an idea of its true size, as if in an impressionist painting. By the end of the term, we will become walking, thinking buildings in the city we would like to live in.
Conducted by: Maushaus
<img loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-359927" src="http://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-300x119.png" alt="Dia del niño" width="111" height="44" srcset="https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-300x119.png 300w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-1024x406.png 1024w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-768x305.png 768w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-1536x609.png 1536w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-2048x812.png 2048w, https://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Logo-DiaDelNiño-Cast-RGB-Horizontal-1920x762.png 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 111px) 100vw, 111px" />
Fundación Crecer Juntos
Third term: from April 13 to June 15
April 13: Trees and Leaves
All the knowledge and wisdom we need to build a city can be found in nature. Trees can be considered the first natural buildings: many different species live in them. Since the dawn of time, human beings have used wood for their architectural feats. Trees grow by fractal branching, iteration by iteration. In so doing, they give us information about the seasons and shield us from heat and rain.
April 20: Nests
When we look at the common tailorbird and see how it builds its nest—sowing leaves together with plant fiber to make a cradle—we wonder whether it got this skill from humans or rather if it was the other way around. The dexterity and delicacy of some creatures when it comes to building a shelter for themselves show how much animals care for their families. Inspired by them, we will build our own nest-homes.
April 27: The Forms of Sound
If you are willing to listen, buildings will talk to you. They have a lot to tell you in terms of size, location, age, materials, purpose, and residents. The voice of a building, the way in which they express themselves, is essential to understand architecture. We can relate to space not only on the basis of light, touch, or temperature, but by means of sound as well. Close your eyes and listen carefully.
May 4: A Tactful Approach
Buildings can be appreciated by means of touch too. By feeling the texture, the roughness, the temperature, and the tectonics of materials, we can learn many things about the spaces we inhabit. We just need to close our eyes and touch. In this workshop, we will make a sample book to learn a lot of interesting things about the materials used in buildings.
May 11: I Spy with My Little Eye
Drawing with your eyes can be an interesting task. It means identifying forms and shapes before the first strokes reach the paper. This can be applied to contemplating architecture. Knowledge can enhance our understanding, as well as our drawing skills. In this lab, we will take an observational approach to architecture, resorting to different dynamics and representation techniques.
May 18: A Room with a View
City buildings shelter us. A great deal of what happens in our lives takes place in them. Looking out the windows, we can learn what is going on outside. Conversely, looking in from the street, we can imagine the stories unfolding inside, knowing that every home is a world. In this workshop, we will think and talk about city buildings, and the ways people have of living in them.
May 25: Walking Buildings
In this lab, we will create in a performative way an urban environment populated by colorful buildings. Playing a fun game with props, we will become walking buildings to think about cities and the relationship between them and the natural environment.
June 1: Urban Structures
Living in cities requires not only buildings, public spaces, or natural areas. We also need structures to communicate and get around. In this lab session, we will build connecting structures for the various spaces that make the urban layout.
June 8: Networks
Until recently, communication between people took place in the streets or in other physical spaces in the city. Today, we have “digital cities,” where we have other ways of connecting that cannot be seen, but are pretty much real. In this lab session, we will play games focusing on the city we live in as a maze of networks, with zillions of nodes, connections, and intersections.
June 15: Solving the Problem
In this workshop, we will try to find the solution to some of the problems faced by people in cities. Each of us will be an expert in a particular area of the urban world: construction noise, sidewalk flooding, picnic areas nearby, and so on.

In the third term of our Architecture Lab III, we will discuss urban networks, both visible and invisible; we will draw trees and build nests.

Architecture Lab III | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Books Alive! Big Questions

A storytelling activity in English for children to get acquainted with the most fascinating stories and acquire oral communication skills as they play creative games.
Can you touch a star? What will you look like when you are older? Some questions have no easy answers… Perhaps looking at the works of Giovanni Anselmo in the Museum, you will come across some of them… Take a look, take your time, let curiosity guide you, think about stories that fuel your dreams… You will try your hand at various ways of making art: paint dripping, rolling marbles, soaking cotton in paint, and others. The results of the experiments will be amazing!
Conducted by: Mónica Rodríguez-Curiel

A storytelling activity in English for children to get acquainted with the most fascinating stories and acquire oral communication skills as they play creative games.

Books Alive! Big Questions | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

ART Space invites all family members to engage in discovery and creation. This month, we will draw inspiration from Pop Art and the ingenious ways artists found to include everyday objects in their works of art to striking results. Then we will make your own sculptures, considering those objects that say something about us, about what we like or what matters to us. After making our picks, they will go into an original – and fun – composition.
Languages: Basque, Spanish
<ul>
<li>Saturday, May 4: Spanish and Basque</li>
<li>Saturday, May 11: Basque and Spanish</li>
<li>Sunday, May 5: Basque</li>
<li>Sunday, May 12: Spanish</li>
</ul>

ART Space invites all family members to engage in discovery and creation. This month, we will draw inspiration from Pop Art and the ingenious ways artists found to include everyday objects in their works of art to striking results.

Baby Art: We Are Color

Surrounded by stimuli and playing games that kindle curiosity, babies and their families interact as together they take a look at inspiring works in the Museum’s Collection, like Richard Serra’s The Matter of Time or Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #831. This month, we are offering an immersive workshop exploring colors and structures to find hidden treasures. Baby Art offers a space for exploration, thus awakening and stimulating our senses – sight, touch, hearing, smell, and taste. In Baby Art, babies play, try things, and create in a magical, open environment.
Dates:
<ul>
<li>Saturday, May 4 and Sunday, May 5: 6-12 months (Spanish)</li>
<li>Saturday, May 11 and Sunday, May 12: 12-24 months (Spanish)</li>
<li>Saturday, May 18 and Sunday, May 19: 12-24 months (Basque)</li>
<li>Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26: 24-36 months (Spanish)</li>
</ul>

Esta actividad, concebida como un espacio de estímulos y juego que fomenta la curiosidad, está enfocada a la interacción entre las familias y sus bebés, que descubren de la mano inspiradoras obras del Museo, como La materia del tiempo de Richard Serra o el Dibujo mural de Sol Lewit.

Baby Art: We Are Color | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

What is there beneath your feet? And behind the walls around you? Pipes, wires, ducts, drains and sewers… Drawing inspiration from the works of artist June Crespo, we will come up with stories set in hidden places. As you visit the exhibition, think about the ways in which the works are interpreted and the things they suggest. Let the art surprise you, take a close look, and make your own connections. In the workshop afterwards, try hard and soft materials, compare and contrast natural and man-made elements, and connect them to tell your own made-up stories, set in imaginary lands.
Sunday, May 5: Spanish 
Sunday, May 12: Basque

What is there beneath your feet? And behind the walls around you? Pipes, wires, ducts, drains and sewers…

Wellbeing Tours: Slow Looking [18+]

Wellbeing

As part of the new program launched by the Museum, Wellbeing through Art, Slow Looking offers visitors the chance to look at the art collections slowly and carefully, savoring the moment. In a guided tour of some of the works in the Museum’s Collection, Slow Looking delivers a mindful experience in which participants do breathing and meditation exercises to enhance their connection to art, as well as their sense of wellbeing and peace of mind.
Conducted by: Esther Boulandier

As part of the new program launched by the Museum, Wellbeing through Art, Slow Looking offers visitors the chance to look at the art collections slowly and carefully, savoring the moment.

Wellbeing Tours: Slow Looking [18+] | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Concerts: Chillida & Chaconne: The Space Of Sound

On stage

On the 100th anniversary of Eduardo Chillida’s birth, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is joining the celebrations with a concert of the Bilbao Choral Society. Johann Sebastian Bach, alongside contemporary composers, will enter into a conversation with those of Chillida’s works on display on the Museum terrace – a unique setting for their music.
Bach’s music is ever-present in the work of Eduardo Chillida. This concert, featuring accordion player Iñaki Alberdi and the Bilbao Choral Society under the baton of Enrique Azurza, connects the work of the man from Donostia-San Sebastián to the music of the German genius, including pieces like his Chaconne, adapted for accordion and choir by Javier Quislant, along with works by contemporary composers like Sofía Gubaidulina and Knut Nystedt.
* Activity and program subject to change.

On the 100th anniversary of Eduardo Chillida’s birth, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is joining the celebrations with a concert organized with the help of the Bilbao Choral Society.

Concerts: Chillida &amp; Chaconne: The Space Of Sound | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Concerts: Chillida & Chaconne: The Space Of Sound | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

2024 trips

These are the trips we have planned for Museum Members in 2024.
2024 ARCOmadrid, March 7-8 
This year, ARCOmadrid will take place between March 6 and March 10. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is planning a guided tour for Members and a program of activities that includes visiting the Royal Collections Gallery.
The 43rd iteration of ARCOmadrid, to be held at the IFEMA facilities in Madrid, will focus on the Caribbean, introducing artists and galleries from this region of the Americas.
<a href="http://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/01/MADRID-7-8-marzo-2023.pdf">Download the full program here</a>
Pamplona, May 10-12, 2024 
In February, the Museum is staging an exhibition dedicated to Pamplona-born artist June Crespo. It will be the perfect excuse to visit the capital of Navarra and discover its exhibition facilities, including the Oteiza Museum and the Museo Universidad de Navarra, designed by Rafael Moneo.
<a href="http://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/01/PAMPLONA-Guggenheim-Bilbao-10-12.5.pdf">Download the full program here</a>
Stockholm and Copenhagen, June 16-21, 2024 
We will visit the homeland of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), whose work – discovered in the past few years – will be shown in the Museum in October, as we enjoy the Scandinavian summer and celebrate Midsommar (Midsummer’s Day) in Sweden.
<a href="http://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/01/Escandinavia-Guggenheim-2024.pdf">Download the full program here</a>
London: National Gallery, Frieze, and Music, October 11-14 - SOLD OUT PLACES 
On the occasion of Frieze London and the National Gallery’s Bicentenary, we will take you on a 
private tour of a Van Gogh exhibition, and Patricia Sojo will reveal the secrets of the London musical season.
<a href="http://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/01/Viaje-a-LONDRES-Museo-Guggenheim-Bilbao-.pdf">Download the full program here</a>

These are the trips we have planned for Museum Members in 2024.

2024 trips | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

New collector’s edition works

New collector’s edition works
We are glad to invite you to the presentation of Cathedral-Goal Keeping I and Cathedral-Goal Keeping II (2024), the two limited-edition works created by artist Darío Urzay for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to celebrate the Athletic Club’s victory at the 25th King’s Cup.

Meetings with artists: Darío Urzay, introduced by curator Lucía Agirre

We are glad to invite you to the presentation of Cathedral-Goal Keeping I and Cathedral-Goal Keeping II (2024), the two limited-edition works created by artist Darío Urzay for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to celebrate the Athletic Club’s victory at the 25th King’s Cup.

Meetings with artists: Darío Urzay, introduced by curator Lucía Agirre | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Guided tours with…

In May, biologist and scientific illustrator Izaskun Alberdi will take us on a tour of the exhibition June Crespo. Vascular, focusing on the connections between the work of the Navarra-born artist and the world of plants. Izaskun will show us how stems, vessels, and epidermis can be seen in the organic forms of Crespo’s sculptures in gallery 105.

In May, biologist and scientific illustrator Izaskun Alberdi will take us on a tour of the exhibition June Crespo. Vascular, focusing on the connections between the work of the Navarra-born artist and the world of plants.

Guided tours with… | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Livestream Concerts: Berlin Philharmonic

This month, the Berlin Philharmonic will offer a performance of Má vlast (My Fatherland), by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884), under the baton of Russian-Austrian conductor Kirill Petrenko. Má vlast is a cycle of six symphonic poems, the best-known of them being Vlatava (The Moldau), a tribute to Czech river. The poems display before the audience fascinating sound worlds within the realm of Romanticism.
This activity is organized with the Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall and the Bilbao Philharmonic Society in the context of the TopARTE program.
* Activity and program subject to change.
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This month, the Berlin Philharmonic will offer a performance of Má vlast (My Fatherland), by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884), under the baton of Russian-Austrian conductor Kirill Petrenko.

Livestream Concerts: Berlin Philharmonic | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Books Alive! en familia: Magical Creatures

As you swim in an underwater museum, you will meet a bunch of puzzling, magical creatures. Then you will try and find extraordinary characters in the fascinating exhibition dedicated to artist June Crespo: Vascular. Use your magical powers to create new worlds where anything can happen. Fun and laughter guaranteed!
Conducted by: Catalina Martínez-Moro

As you swim in an underwater museum, you will meet a bunch of puzzling, magical creatures.

Books Alive! en familia: Magical Creatures | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Special Day for Museum Members

Art & Music

25th Anniversary

Public programs

TopARTE

Activities

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao’s activities calendar. Concerts, lectures, courses, family activities, films, shared reflections...

Calendar of activities | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Courses Pop Art

The online art courses of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao offer accessible yet rigorous training in key concepts and topics in the history of modern and contemporary art, addressed from current perspectives. Drawing on the participation from experts in specific fields, these courses are inspired by the Museum Collection and its dynamic exhibition program.
Pop art was an art movement characterized by a return to representation, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture—hence the name of the movement. Emerging in Britain in the 1950s, Pop art flourished in America in the 1960s, where a sudden boom in the economy triggered the growth of consumerism. Some of the artists in the Pop art movement reacted by incorporating images from mass culture and using techniques that emulated (or parodied) industrial production. Pop art drew on billboards, commercial ads, films, television, pulp magazines, comic strips, or even shop windows.
This course offers a broad overview of the relevance of Pop art and its various manifestations in the international art scene, its main representatives, and its influence on contemporary art practices.
Objectives
This online course is aimed at:
<ul>
<li>Analyzing the keys to the most salient characteristics of Pop art, as well as the social, political, economic, and cultural background that led to its emergence and development internationally.</li>
<li>Exploring the work of the leading Pop artists, including several women, and their most iconic creations.</li>
<li>Showing the influence of Pop art on other forms of culture beyond the visual arts, e.g. music or fashion.</li>
<li>Understanding the legacy of Pop art and its influence on contemporary art from a 21st-century perspective.</li>
</ul>
CONDUCTED BY: 
José Lebrero Stals, culture and art manager, exhibition curator (link to <a href="http://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/CV-José-Lebrero.pdf">CV</a>)
<a href="http://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Programa-Curso-online-arte-pop-para-web.pdf">Structure and Contents </a>
Language 
Spanish
Duration 
The course will be available online for three months. Participants will be able to access the course wherever they are, progressing at their own pace. Upon completing a module, they will be able to move on to the next one.
Target Audience 
People over 18 who are interested in broadening or updating their knowledge of modern and contemporary art or getting a few key references on this art movement. No prior knowledge required. Members of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Community will have priority over other applicants to access the 50 places available.
<a href="http://cms.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/uploads/2024/03/Preguntas-frequentes.pdf">FAQs</a>

Online art courses Pop Art: Past and Present

Los cursos de arte online del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao ofrecen una oportunidad única de formarse de manera accesible a la vez que rigurosa sobre temas y conceptos clave de la historia del arte moderno y contemporáneo desde una perspectiva actual. Contando con la participación de expertos en cada campo, los cursos toman como punto de partida la Colección del Museo y su dinámica y variada programación artística.

Online art courses Pop Art: Past and Present | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

18€ Adults - 9€ Senior - 9€ Students

TopARTE, an initiative of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, remains firmly committed to local cultural actors and organizations. The result of this fruitful collaboration is a multidisciplinary program offering a wide range of content and formats, reaching all kinds of audiences.
As part of this initiative, the Museum hosts activities from a variety of fields, including architecture, film, dance, design, gastronomy, music, performance art, and theater.

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From April 12 to July 14, 2024

Online art courses Pop Art: Past and Present

Books Alive! Cakes, Cakes and Cakes

ART Space: Creativity Lab

Online Art Course: Film & Video, moving image as an Artistic Medium

Baby Art: We are colors

Family Yoga

Drawing: A Beginners Course II

Feel, Play, Create

ART Space: Art Adventures

Onsite Course: An Introduction to Contemporary Art

Breakfast & Art: Fancy a Chat?

Guided tours

Architecture Lab III

Books Alive! Big Questions

ART Space: Art Adventures

Baby Art: We Are Color

ART Space: Creativity Lab

Wellbeing Tours: Slow Looking [18+]

Concerts: Chillida & Chaconne: The Space Of Sound

2024 trips

Meetings with artists: Darío Urzay, introduced by curator Lucía Agirre

Guided tours with…

Livestream Concerts: Berlin Philharmonic

Books Alive! en familia: Magical Creatures

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