Wednesday, June 11, 2025.

Isabel Guiu, poet and curator, who will share with the group her life and creative experience alongside Alicante-based plastic artist Pepo Cantos, of whom she was a companion and principal disseminator of his legacy.

Cantos was a multifaceted, vitalist artist and deeply Mediterranean, with an international trajectory that included Paris, New York, Holland and Latin America. Portrait painter, landscape painter, graphic humorist and cultural agitator, he founded workshops, directed galleries, exhibited in public and private institutions, and always maintained a constant search around figurative art and personal expression.

June 13, 2025.

Conversation. The absences in Spanish colonial discourse: Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara with:

Donato Ndongo is one of the reference African writers in the Spanish language, author of countless articles, lectures and stories as well as four novels. As a journalist, he was a delegate of the Efe Agency in Central Africa for a decade and has been a contributor to numerous media outlets. Likewise, he has carried out intense academic activity in various universities and research centers.

Juan Carlos Gimeno is a professor of anthropology at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Linked to Saharan issues for more than 20 years, he has conducted fieldwork in Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Cuba and Western Sahara.

Coordinated by: Mercedes Jabardo.

June 28, 2025. Conversation between Margarita de Aizpuru and Esther Ferrer on the occasion of the exhibition Esther Ferrer. The

Display on June 28, 2025 of the performances with a gender perspective that were selected at the beginning of the year, on the occasion of the course held around Esther Ferrer's exhibition.

The selected ones were:

Gloria Segura
Cristina Granja
Ana Peris
Sylvia Peceño.

Tuesday, June 3, 2025.

Exploring the continuity of racial conflict in the Mediterranean. Race, gender, sexuality and violence(s) from the Spanish State with:

Lucia Mbomio is a journalist, writer and anti-racist activist. She is currently a reporter for TVE's program Aquí la tierra and collaborates with the online community for Afro-descendant women "Afroféminas".
Pastora Filigrana is a labor lawyer, trade unionist and feminist activist and advocate for the rights of the Romani people. She was the defender of the struggles of Moroccan women workers in the strawberry fields of Huelva in 2019.
Nogoye Mbati is a sociologist, French teacher, braider, hotel maid, housekeeper, founding member of the association of Senegalese women in Alicante… Nogoye Mbati's life has been shaped by different intersections in countries such as Senegal, Spain, Germany and Switzerland.

Cycle coordinated by Mercedes Jabardo.

From February 28 to September 7, 2025 at the MACA. The exhibition brings together the numerous works by Kara Walker present in the Michael Jenkins and Javier Romero collection of the MACA. Curated by Rosa Castells, it consists of 44 pieces that cover part of her trajectory and constitute one of the most complete sets of the artist's work existing in European institutions. Here are shown drawings, prints, sculptures, artist books and one of her most recent videos, a total of 31 works donated to the MACA in 2021 and 13 pieces deposited in 2024 for this exhibition that have traveled from New York.

September 16, 2025.

Organized by: Product Design Department of EASDA, School of Art and Higher Design of Alicante and MACA

In a historical moment marked by climate collapse, loss of biodiversity, and a systemic linear economy, this symposium urges critical, ethical, and ecological analysis of the anthropocentric era. An era rooted in the conception of the natural world as an unlimited resource destined to be exploited, consumed, and discarded.
The five voices propose an interwoven vision of the ecological transition through design research, artistic practice, and collaboration between academia and industry, addressing contemporary challenges and environmental activism from different perspectives.

The symposium highlights the role of art and design as transformative agents, capable of imagining other futures and of questioning, from the present, the footprint of objects whose scale exceeds human experience of time and the implications of inhabiting a finite planet.

Expert Panel and Presentations:
Irene Brotóns Brotóns. "Designing the Ecological Transition. Beyond Extractivism"
Ana Martínez Gorostiza. "Contemporary Environmental Photography. From Awareness to Evidence"
Inma Peñate Cerro. "Art and Design for a Sustainable Industry"
David Villalba Díaz. "Notes for a Form. From the Limits of the Visual to Speculative Archaeology"

Moderator
María Navarro. Manager of ADCV and Director of ENCIRCULAR

From June 12 to September 13, 2015

Curated by: Rosa Mª Castells

Production: City Council of Alicante and Provincial Council of Alicante. It includes a total of 15 works by artists that are part of the Fundación Caja Mediterráneo Collection.

From July 3 to December 27, 2019

Installation. Ground Floor.

Organization: MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante

Production. Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community and Culture Department of the City Council of Alicante.

Isidro Blasco visits the MACA when he comes to Alicante and always finds his father's work at the foot of the staircase, framed between the arches of the old Casa de la Asegurada. The exceptional piece by Arcadio Blasco, Enclosure for a Legal Murder from 1971 is an emblematic work of the 20th Century Art Collection. It is an iron and ceramic sculpture that envelops a space of ideological repression and political resonances.

From March 9 to September 5, 2021

Taking into consideration that in 2021 the Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante celebrates its tenth anniversary, that when it opened its doors it did so by dedicating a floor to the Juana Francés Collection bequeathed to this museum by the artist upon her death, and taking into consideration that a review of her work is presented as a contemporary requirement, we propose the exhibition of a significant part of Juana's work corresponding to the informalist and surrealist periods. The lands and the boxes that span a period from 1957 to 1979.