The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear (Helga de Alvear Museum of Contemporary Art) is a museum located in
Cáceres, Spain. It is renowned for its extensive collection of contemporary art, and was established by
Helga de Alvear
Helga de Alvear ( Müller Schätzel, 1936 – 2 February 2025) was a German-Spanish art collector and dealer of contemporary art. Living in Madrid from 1959, where she had personal contact to the art scene, she began to collect contemporary art ...
, a German-born art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts, who was instrumental in promoting contemporary art in Spain.
Collection
The museum was established in 2010 as the Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear but reopened in its current form in a modernist building designed by
Emilio Tuñón
Emilio Tuñón Álvarez (born 1 January 1959 in Madrid) is a Spanish architect. In 2014, Mansilla + Tuñón Architects received the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (Spain) from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
Alvarez graduated from the E ...
in February 2021. The museum contains a collection of over 3000 pieces of art,
including paintings, sculptures, videos, photography, installation, and new media, with works by people such as
Andreas Gursky
Andreas Gursky (born 15 January 1955) is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany.
He is known for his Large format (photography), large format architecture and Landscape photography, landscape colour photog ...
,
Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter (; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced Abstract art, abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, photographs and Glass art, glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important con ...
,
Joseph Beuys
Joseph Heinrich Beuys ( ; ; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and Aesthetics, art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism and sociology. With Heinrich Böll, , Caroline Tisdall, Rober ...
,
Richard Serra
Richard Serra (November 2, 1938 – March 26, 2024) was an American artist known for his large-scale Abstract art, abstract sculptures made for Site-specific art, site-specific landscape, urban, and Architecture, architectural settings, a ...
, and
Eduardo Chillida
Eduardo Chillida Juantegui (Basque: ''Eduardo Txillida Juantegi''; 10 January 1924 – 19 August 2002) was a Spanish Basque sculptor notable for his abstract works.
Early life and career
Born in San Sebastián (Donostia) to Pedro Chillida an ...
.
References
External links
Official website(in Spanish)
Buildings and structures in Cáceres, Spain
Museums in Extremadura
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