Name: Picasso Memory and Desire
Start: 2026-02-01T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-04-12T20:00:00+02:00
Location: malaga

Picasso Memory and Desire

Event details

Palacio de Buenavista San Agustín,8, malaga, malaga

1 February 2026 until 12 April 2026

# Málaga

14.11.2025 – 12.04.2026
Picasso Museum Málaga

In the 1920s and 1930s, European society developed amidst powerful and dramatic paradoxes. The devastating implementation of colonialism continued, and extreme nationalism would eventually lead lethally from one war to another. Despite this, many men and women transformed their mindsets and social values in favor of liberating emancipation. Modern Art spread across broad social circles and at the same time, began to be questioned by emerging authoritarian political regimes. The dialectic between permanence and change was incessant. The present repositioned the memory of a past that remained implicated in everyday life. However, new ways of life and thought propelled a continuous desire for transformation. Memory and desire.

The myth of technical and scientific progress raised doubts, but this did not prevent the strong promotion of continuous self-analysis and the aspiration to revise inherited identities. The subject wanted to redefine itself. Surrealism – not without contradictions – permeated the entire creative environment broadly. The dynamic relationship between memory and desire showed that the present was not a stopped moment, but a continuous flow of interactions. The complex dialogue between all that was lived and all that was to be lived was the engine of existence. Memory was not just an archive of the past: it was reactivated and made contemporary according to the demands of desire.

PICASSO MUSEUM MÁLAGA

Buenavista Palace, San Agustín, 8
29015 Málaga, Spain

Tel.: 952 12 76 00
Web: www.museopicassomalaga.org

Regular hours:
July-August: daily from 10 am to 8 pm
September-October: daily from 10 am to 7 pm
November-February: daily from 10 am to 6 pm
March to June: daily from 10 am to 7 pm

Free admission on Sundays during the last two hours of opening.

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