Centro Botín, Santander, Spain
June 2022
June 25–October 16, 2022 The first retrospective of drawings by Juan Muñoz brings together more than 200 works loaned by institutions and private collectors, offering a comprehensive but intimate presentation of a fundamental and constant facet in Muñoz’s practice. Emerging in the early 1980s, Muñoz was one of the leading artists of his generation. Shortly after, he began to exhibit his work internationally, with solo presentations in galleries and museums and in important survey exhibitions like the Venice Biennale or Documenta IX in Kassel. Though Muñoz was renowned for his enigmatic sculptures and for his installations of rooms with figures, drawing played a particular role for him—drawing as a thought, a sketch, or a fully developed work on paper. His drawings can be understood as part of his sculptural works or as independent narrative scenes. The exhibition, curated by Dieter Schwarz, is structured chronologically as a sequence of 12 sections addressing different themes of the artist’s work. Each section recreates past exhibitions in which Muñoz incorporated drawings—reuniting the artworks for the first time—and groups works from specific periods in Muñoz’s practice. Learn more about the exhibition at Centro Botín.