Female artists represent 25.6% in the 14 temporary exhibitions currently hosted by the city of Alicante, although if we consider individual and collective exhibitions separately, things change. There is only 1 individual exhibition dedicated to a female artist, the one that the Alicante University Museum (MUA) dedicates to Alissia, pseudonym of researcher and professor María Penalva titled "REVERS.A /REVERS.Ø / REVERSE.E", which represents 12.5% in temporary individual exhibitions. This imbalance is especially significant because individual exhibitions allow for a better appreciation of an artist's creative universe and therefore their consolidation. With regard to collective exhibitions, the presence of women begins to become visible from the 20th century onwards.

Why is it still difficult for female artists to access an individual exhibition and, therefore, to show their work in a more complete and rigorous way? How can we achieve greater balance in the exhibition programming of museums and artistic spaces? What is the best way to make the work of female artists public? To debate these issues, the MAV association (Women in the Visual Arts) has organized the cycle "DebatsMAV: Repensant les exposicions d'artistes dones" whose next session will take place on November 23rd, at 6 p.m., at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACA) in Alicante. The debate will be opened by 3 prominent women from the art world: Rosa Castells, director of MACA, Rocío de la Villa, director of the M- Arte y Cultura Visual magazine, curator and university professor, and the renowned artist Paloma Navares. Cultural manager Sofía Albero Verdú will moderate this third colloquium.