Luis Vidal Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Spain   The Botín Centre, a space for art, culture and education, projecting into the Bay of Santander, restores the ties between the historical part of the city and the sea. The freeway separating the park from the sea has now been rung underground through

After decades of supporting young artists, the Botín Foundation has decided to give its former grant-holders a greater presence at its center in the city of Santander, through works of theirs that also serve to create fresh views of the institution’s

For the first time in an exhibition devoted to the oeuvre of Juan Muñoz (1953-2001), there will be few of the enigmatic dummies of people that reawakened interest in the human figure at a moment in time when sculpture seemed to have practically done

With large windows overlooking the Bay of Santander, the Botín Centre is the ideal place in which to hold Ellen Gallagher’s first exhibition in Spain: a dialogue with the Atlantic Ocean by means of compositions presenting multiple layers of materials

Iñaki Bergera   The Botín Centre’s current show on Thomas Demand presents his photos of realistic models that he himself  makes with paper and cardboard.

On view through 3 November at the Botín Foundation in Santander is ‘Calder Stories.’ Eighty pieces of different origins are on display in an exhibition that is distinct for two main reasons. First, instead of centering around the American artist’s ca

Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and with an exhibition design by Renzo Piano, the show ‘Calder Stories’ covers five decades in the career of Alexander Calder (1898-1976), unveiling lesser known facts about the work of the American author, like his coll

The author of the ‘four wells and a pond’ built around the Botín Centre building by the water in Santander, Cristina Iglesias – the winner of Spain’s National Visual Arts Award in 1999 – has been invited by the foundation of the Cantabrian banking in

After one on Carsten Höller, ‘Julie Mehretru. A Universal History of Everything and Nothing’ is the Botín Centre’s second exhibition since its inauguration in June of this year. A selection of thirty paintings and sixty drawings rendered with graphit

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Renzo Piano   Question: Thank you so much for receiving us in your home here in Punta Nave, near Genoa, your hometown, where you were born almost eighty years ago. You turn 80 in September, and this is perhaps a good moment to go through your biography. An asteroi

In Santander 23 June was opening day for the Botín Centre, now the most important exhibition space of the Cantabrian capital. It completes an iconic cultural route along Spain’s northern coast that stretches from the City of Culture in Santiago de Co

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The meeting of a fisherman and a sailor has produced a miracle in Santander. Back in 2010, Emilio Botín, banker and fisherman, commissioned Renzo Piano, architect and sailor, to build an art center in Santander. Seven years later, the careening volum

The announcement of the Cuba-United States thaw coincided with exhibitions, in two different art centers in Spain, on the oeuvre of Carlos Garaicoa, one of the most widely acclaimed among contemporary Cuban artists. Born in Havana in 1967, Garaicoa h

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