The MUCAC La Coracha will open after Easter and will focus on contemporary art with a collection of 600 works

The new MUCAC is now operational. The merging of the old Municipal Heritage Museum (MUPAM), the La Coracha rooms, and the old CAC Málaga ... unveiled on Tuesday the main outlines of the project and its new semi-permanent and temporary exhibitions, which will come to fruition after Easter. For now, it will be a partial opening of the first two spaces on Reding promenade, while the old wholesale market is still pending authorization from the Andalusian Regional Ministry of Culture - the building is protected as a BIC - to meet the deadline for its reopening in 2026. For now, the vanguard is the renamed MUCAC La Coracha, which moves away from the traditional municipal collection of 19th-century painting shown in this space to focus on contemporary art with the exhibition of about 600 pieces.

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Before orchestrating all this programming, the Culture Area conducted an inventory of the works that CAC Málaga, through its concessionaire, acquired over its two decades of existence for the City Council, and the catalog of this review amounts to 560 works, "some of which will already be exhibited, in addition to other funds from the municipal heritage collection," explained in a press conference Salvador Nadales, advisor to the Culture Area. In total, the old spaces of MUPAM and the adjacent room of La Coracha will exhibit about 600 pieces from the end of April, coming from the City Council's own funds and institutions such as the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the Málaga Museum, the College of Architects, and the Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art in Seville, among others.

In the presence of numerous artists and cultural managers, municipal officials explained that these spaces are now integrated into the Public Agency for the management of the Birthplace of Pablo Ruiz Picasso and other museum and cultural facilities, which has been directed by Luis Lafuente for a few months, and revealed that the first date marked in red on the calendar will be April 24, when the rooms of the old Municipal Heritage Museum will open with the new collection.

The mayor has urged the Andalusian Regional Government to expedite the permits for the rehabilitation of the old CAC: "We hope to have them as soon as possible."

Thus, on the ground floor, the Espacio Cero Málaga Sostenible will mix culture and ecology to show the role of art "in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals," stated Marta del Corral, curator and advisor to the Culture Area, who has advanced that the first exhibitions will be those of the French artist Francoise Vanneraud, who reflects on the relationship of people with the landscape, and that of the Malaga architect Álvaro Carrillo, about sustainable cities.

Contemporary Art

For their part, the exhibition halls on the first two floors will house the semi-permanent collection 'Yesterday, collection 1940-1990', a "reinterpretation" of the era that will "connect the national and Malaga artistic fabric," Nadales advanced about this contemporary art show that will remain for 18 months and will exhibit works by 70 artists. On the third floor, 'Nature in Resistance' will be displayed, in which, as a 19th-century cabinet of curiosities, a selection of the extensive collection of 19th-century landscapes, current art, and other pieces from the municipal funds will be exhibited. "We have created a space with the appearance of clutter with works from the 19th to the 21st century, from the great inherited collection, from Carlos de Haes to Juan del Junco," summarized the advisor.

MUCAC, which will also have a room for audiovisual projections, will complete its opening on April 30 with the La Coracha rooms, which will be dedicated to the snapshot with the temporary 'Omnímoda. Photography as display'. A montage that will try to show that "everything is image and our reality is conditioned by it," argued the curator and art critic, Sema D'Acosta, who has assured that "we live in the matriarchy of the image" and that the language of photography is in constant change. A power and an evolution that he will try to convey with the works of fifty artists, including Carmen Calvo, Cristina de Middel, Joan Fontcuberta, Esther Ferrer, Luis Gordillo, Pedro G. Romero, Marisa González, and Carlos Aires, among others.

Additionally, for the coming months, an exhibition on verdiales, an ancestral and popular flamenco art that seeks to enter museums, has been announced, while Helena Juncosa, former artistic director of CAC and now integrated into the staff of the museums' agency, has explained the ambitious exhibition about the poet, writer, playwright, and artist Rafael Pérez Estrada, which will be curated by Lidia Bravo and Carmen Juliá to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the innovative author's death.

The mayor of Málaga, Paco de la Torre, has assured that this new stage of this museum will be "very fruitful" and has also referred to the complete project of MUCAC that will be fully operational when the main headquarters of this institution in the old CAC Málaga on Alemania street reopens. Closed since last September, this cultural center is still pending the Culture permits from the Andalusian Regional Government for its rehabilitation to meet the deadline for its reopening. The City Council has set the first quarter of 2026 for the launch of the building, so the mayor has urged the regional administration to expedite the pending permits for the remodeling works: "We hope to have them as soon as possible."

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