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Children and Families

Time to change Puppy’s plants again! We will take Jeff Koons’s giant dog-shaped sculpture as the starting point of our hunt for unconventional materials in art: vegetation, discarded cardboard (as in Robert Rauschenberg’s works), and what not! To celebrate Global Recycling Day (March 18), we will make “natural self-portraits” with recycled cardboard and natural objects such as leaves, twigs, and dirt.
Activity for Museum Members only
Children aged 3-5 must be accompanied by an adult. Both the child and the accompanying adult must have tickets.
Dates:
<ul>
<li>Saturday, May 18: Spanish (ages 3-5)</li>
<li>Saturday, May 18: Basque (ages 6-11)</li>
<li>Sunday, May 19: Basque (ages 3-5)</li>
<li>Sunday, May 19: Spanish (ages 6-11)</li>
<li>Saturday, May 25: Basque (ages 3-5)</li>
<li>Saturday, May 25: Spanish (ages 6-11)</li>
<li>Sunday, May 26: Spanish (ages 3-5)</li>
<li>Sunday, May 26: Basque (ages 6-11)</li>
</ul>

Time to change Puppy’s plants again! We will take Jeff Koons’s giant dog-shaped sculpture as the starting point of our hunt for unconventional materials in art.

Explore Your Creativity with Puppy | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Architecture Lab III

Museum Members

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
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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! Art is Everywhere 

An amusing story is the starting point of this activity in English combining reading, creative play, and art. You will discover how art can be everywhere – not just in the galleries of a museum but also on the streets or even at home. Are you ready to find it? You will also be encouraged to explore some of the strategies used by the artists in the Pop Art movement; for instance, taking objects, portraits, paintings, or comic strips out of their original context and transforming them into something new by resorting to intervention, humor, and irony. Are you ready to do the same?
Conducted by: Adria Parravicini

Books alive! Art is Everywhere

An amusing story is the starting point of this activity in English combining reading, creative play, and art.

Books alive! Art is Everywhere | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

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

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

Family Yoga

Aimed at the whole family, these classes use art and accessible yoga poses to help you attain wellbeing, improve your quality of life, and develop your emotional intelligence. By doing breathing exercises and trying poses inspired by the works of Giovanni Anselmo, kids and the grown-ups with them will learn to relax, focus on their bodies, identify their emotions, and become aware of the world around them. These yoga classes will give them the chance to connect to their creative essence as they explore conscious movement.
Sunday, May 12: Spanish and Basque 
Sundays, May 19 and 26: Spanish

Aimed at the whole family, these classes use art and accessible yoga poses to help you attain wellbeing, improve your quality of life, and develop your emotional intelligence.

Family Yoga | 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

Workshop: Uramado AR

Courses and workshops

In the context of the exhibition Uramado AR, which is being held in Bilbao, the Institut Français Bilbao and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao have organized a series of children’s workshops on digital art. Uramado AR, created by Julie Stephen Cheng, offers an experience in augmented reality, telling the story of Tanukis, spirits of the forest waking up in the city. Using a tablet or a smartphone and the free app, participants will go on a treasure hunt route across the city to find these fascinating creatures. As they are discovered one by one, they come to life, ask questions, and respond to the user’s replies. The conversations with them can shed light on the differences between us and the multiplicity of worldviews available, in an experience that is both playful and poetic.
In this Museum workshop, children will have to find the Tanukis and learn about them with the help of drawing. They will make up stories and draw scenes based on the characters from Japanese mythology brought to life by augmented reality. At the end of the route, they will discover that they themselves are spirits too, and they will make their own colorful masks! The masks will also come to life thanks to augmented reality. Participants can then take their masks home to go on playing.
Two groups: 
10:30 am–12:00 noon: 15 children 
12:30 pm–2:00 pm: 15 children
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In the context of the exhibition Uramado AR, which is being held in Bilbao, the Institut Français Bilbao and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao have organized a series of children’s workshops on digital art.

Workshop: Uramado AR | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Discover Japan

General Public

To mark the exhibition devoted to Yoshitomo Nara, we will zoom in on the art, customs, stories, and images of the most contemporary Japanese culture.
Participants will discover many ways of creating, as well as visiting and seeking inspiration from the Museum’s exhibitions. They will learn and make new friends while engaging in fun artistic activities. Each day, an adventure!
For children born between 2012 and 2020.
Ages: 
Group 1: Born between 2020 and 2018. 
Group 2: Born between 2017 and 2012.
Dates: 
Week 1: From 24 to 28 June [Spanish]: 2 groups (one for Group 1 and another for Group 2) 
Week 2: From 1 to 6 July [Basque]: 2 groups (one for Group 1 and another for Group 2) 
Week 3: From 8 to 12 July [Spanish]: 2 groups (one for Group 1 and another for Group 2)
Languages: Spanish /Basque. 
Participants (per group): 15.

Summer Workshops 2024

To mark the exhibition devoted to Yoshitomo Nara, we will zoom in on the art, customs, stories and images of the most contemporary Japanese culture.

Summer Workshops 2024 | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Summer for Teens 2024 

Youths

Japan is Cool
Would you like to learn a few things about Japan – e.g. Japanese lifestyles, art, and looks? If you are 13 to 16 years old, enjoy activities in English, and are interested in meeting new people, this is the right place for you!
Based on the exhibition dedicated to Yoshitomo Nara, we will dive into contemporary Japanese culture, drawing inspiration from Nara’s works and the creations of other Japanese artists to make our own designs.
A series of workshops held during the week will explore the connections between art and popular culture, focusing on music, food, comic books, manga and design, among other topics. The workshops will be conducted in English by artists and experts in a variety of fields. Japan Is Cool will show you multiple ways of creating objects, as well as multiple sources of inspiration in the Museum’s exhibitions.
We will give you ideas and show the ways to realize them. You choose the final outcome! Using creativity as your main tool, you will try different media for your creations.

Summer for Teens 2024

Would you like to learn a few things about Japan – e.g. Japanese lifestyles, art, and looks? If you are 13 to 16 years old, enjoy activities in English, and are interested in meeting new people, this is the right place for you!

Summer for Teens 2024 | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

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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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Activities

From April 12 to July 14, 2024

Online art courses Pop Art: Past and Present

Explore Your Creativity with Puppy

Architecture Lab III

Books alive! Art is Everywhere

Baby Art: We Are Color

Drawing: A Beginners Course II

Family Yoga

Books Alive! en familia: Magical Creatures

Workshop: Uramado AR

Summer Workshops 2024

Summer for Teens 2024

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