The Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante MACA has organized a week of activities on the occasion of World Alzheimer's Day, which is celebrated on September 21st. Under the motto "Integrating Innovation," the museum offers, from September 18th to 24th, guided tours, panel discussions, and the screening of a film with the aim of educating, informing, and promoting empathy towards people suffering from Alzheimer's.



The Culture Councilor, Nayma Beldjilali, has emphasized "the work that the museum has been doing since 2012 to bring its collections closer to the most vulnerable groups, and especially the journey it has undertaken hand in hand with the Alzheimer's Association of Alicante, with which we work side by side with the objective of reducing the daily effects of the disease in users and promoting their development through memories via art." "Thanks to the activities that will be developed during the coming week at the museum, we will be able to learn firsthand about the characteristics and consequences of this disease, which increasingly affects more people," the councilor noted.

Eusebio Sempere is the absolute protagonist of the two exhibitions that the Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante presented this morning in an event attended by Nayma Beldjilali, councilor for Culture; Pilar Tébar, general director of Cultural Heritage of the Valencian Regional Government and Rosa Castells, curator of the exhibitions and conservator of the MACA. Both exhibitions of the Alicante artist Eusebio Sempere, produced by the City Council of Alicante thanks to the financial contribution of the Regional Government, bring to the general public the most personal and unknown side of the most internationally known Alicante artist and one of the most relevant Spanish artists of the second half of the twentieth century.

The Museum of Contemporary Art has exceeded 100,000 visitors in 2024 since it opened its doors in March 2011. Specifically, 103,519 people have visited the museum in person, which represents a 15% increase compared to the previous year, when the figure stood at 89,793.



As is now customary, if we analyze the figures carefully, we observe that international visitors are the majority coming to the museum, with a total of 49.57%, while national visitors account for 32.62% and local or provincial visitors represent 17.81%.



Attendees at activities reached 11,387 people. Of the 482 activities developed during this year, 15 were space concessions, with 467 being the museum's own activities.



For its part, in the digital area, the data continues to increase as each year. In 2024, the website had 184,000 visits, while Facebook has 11,340 followers; Twitter 6,324 followers; Instagram 9,223 followers; YouTube 3,728 views and the TikTok channel, created this year, reaches 794 followers.



One of the museum's pillars is education and mediation, and this year MACA has served 3,756 schoolchildren; 312 users in the social education program and 158 visitors during the MACA weekend program.



The museum, as noted by the Culture Councilor, Nayma Beldjilali, "is excellent news that once again the museum continues on the upward trend of recent years, and for the first time in its history surpasses the 100,000 visitor milestone. This is the result of an enormous effort by the entire museum team, who work with such dedication day after day to offer world-class programming both in its exhibitions and in the activities carried out around them".

On May 18th, at the proposal of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the International Museum Day is celebrated, and, as has been happening since 2013, Alicante will join again. This year's theme is "The future of museums in communities in constant change," focusing on how museums can navigate and contribute to a world experiencing profound social, technological, and environmental changes.

The City Council (MACA, Las Cigarreras, and MUSA), the Provincial Council (MARQ, MUBAG, and the Juan Gil-Albert Alicante Institute of Culture), The Ocean Race Museum, the Museum of the University of Alicante, the University Headquarters City of Alicante, and the Museum of Waters of Alicante, come together again to offer a carefully curated program for all audiences.



This morning the presentation to the media took place at the University Headquarters and was attended by the institutional representatives of the different administrations involved.

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante (MACA) will host from November 18 to 21 the film cycle 'Black cinema: audiovisual resonances from Africa and the diaspora', inspired by the work of artist Kara Walker and curated by Beatriz Leal, a researcher specializing in contemporary African art and cinema. The sessions will take place on all four days of the cycle, at 6:00 p.m., with free admission.

This film cycle is programmed and inspired by the work of Kara Walker and the exhibition 'Burning Village' which was shown at MACA from February to September of this year and which will be on display until February 2026 at the IVAM, Centre Julio González in Valencia.

The five fiction titles that make up the cycle are the work of two female directors and two male directors of African and African American origins, pioneers in a vanguard and critical art that frees itself from European references and seeks its own grammar and references. In line with Kara Walker's research into form and mastery of artistic techniques that she employs to delve into the historical and psychological aftermath of slavery and social injustice, the films have been selected for their thematic, poetic, historical and geographical connections with the artist's production.

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante fills with energy, creativity and encounter thanks to a new edition of "ALL people MACA", days dedicated to making visible people with disabilities with the objective of claiming their active presence in the cultural and artistic field coinciding with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities celebrated on December 3rd.



In its eighth edition the days, which will take place on November 28 and 29 and December 3, will include workshops, music, exhibitions, a live podcast and encounters with artists and collectives. The museum will become a laboratory of ideas, sounds and emotions, a space where the boundaries between audience and creator become blurred, giving way to an open, inclusive and transformative dialogue.

The meeting with the National Award for Visual Arts winner will serve to present the winning performances from the course held at the museum on the occasion of her exhibition



Artist Esther Ferrer and art critic Margarita de Aizpuru will converse this Saturday at MACA about art, gender and performance. Additionally, the event will serve to present the winning performances from the course held at the museum on the occasion of the exhibition "Esther Ferrer: the body traversed by gender, space and time" which could be seen at the beginning of the year. The event will take place starting at 6 p.m. with free admission.



Esther Ferrer is a reference point in Spanish contemporary art and a pioneer of performance in Spain, whose work is recognized with the National Award for Visual Arts, the Velázquez Award for Visual Arts and the MAV Award (Women in the Visual Arts).



The winning performances presented within the framework of the meeting are those by Gloria Segura, Cristina Granja, Ana Peris and Sylvia Peceño. All of them with a gender perspective.



Margarita de Aizpuru was the curator of Esther Ferrer's exhibition at MACA, organized by the Consortium of Museums of the Generalitat, which could also be enjoyed at the Carmen Center in Valencia.

The exhibition, produced by the Consorci de Museus de la Generalitat, can be visited until February 9, 2025. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante MACA presented this Friday the exhibition "Esther Ferrer: the body crossed by gender, space and time", produced by the Consorci de Museus de la Generalitat, which brings together an important selection of the work of this multifaceted artist, a prominent reference in Spanish contemporary art and pioneer of performance art in Spain, whose work is recognized with the National Prize for Plastic Arts, the Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts and the MAV Prize (Women in the Visual Arts). More information in the full note

The Museum of Contemporary Art in
Alicante has presented this morning the largest Kara Walker exhibition
held to date in Spain. The exhibition, which opens to the public
this Friday at 7 p.m., was presented to the media by the acting
councilor of Culture, Antonio Peral; the curator of the exhibition, Rosa Mª
Castells, and collectors Michael Jenkins and Javier Romero.
The exhibition, which can be visited until September 7, presents a
journey through her trajectory over the last four decades. Kara Walker is
one of the most prominent artists of her generation and most interesting in the
international art scene, with a complex body of work that analyzes in
sometimes chaotic scenes, issues of race, identity, power and desire
used always as systems of oppression and subjugation, across
centuries and continents. More information in the full note

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante (MACA) with the support of the Valencian Regional Government inaugurated this Wednesday the exhibition "Juana Francés, The Construction of a Modern Artist, 1945-1956", composed of 52 pieces, 28 oil paintings and 24 drawings, and a very extensive series of documentary materials including catalogs, press clippings, photographs and correspondence that can be visited until January 25, 2026.

The exhibition reviews for the first time the origins of her painting, the years of training, her most symbolist figurative period and her personal transition before embarking on the generational adventure of abstract art. More information in the full note