From December 13, 2010 to February 6, 2011. Works loaned by: private collections, IVAM, Bancaja, Museu Victor Balaguer, Diputación de Valencia. The exhibition on Normative Art is composed of more than 50 works including sculptures, paintings and photographs and commemorates the 50th anniversary of the first Spanish Normative Art exhibition that took place in Valencia on March 12, 1960. The exhibition, curated by Pablo Ramírez and Angel Llorente, displays 12 sculptures by Andreu Alfaro, Grupo 57 and José María de Labra, 27 paintings by Isidro Balaguer, Monjalés, Manolo Calvo and Grupo 57, 5 photographs by José Martínez Perís and Grupo Parpalló, 5 luminous reliefs by the Alicante-born Eusebio Sempere, 2 panels by José Mª de Labra, as well as other exhibition elements such as the poster from the 1960 exhibition and a film by Equipo 57.

From March 2 to June 5, 2011 Works loaned by the Chirivella Soriano Foundation, Valencia. This new presentation of the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante, which is based on the Collection of the Chirivella Soriano Foundation, is structured in four areas: Prelude on white; isolated individual, society; destruction and love; and finally, Harmony of opposites.

From October 4, 2011 to January 8, 2012 The works in this exhibition confront the viewer with the physical presence of painting. In its visible components—form, color, and line—lies all of its persuasive capacity. Its materiality is perceived as a visual event that emerges from the pictorial plane and acts as an energy that envelops the viewer and implicates them emotionally. In the twentieth century, painting freed itself from its imitative and representational function of the visible world and became a reality in itself. Abstraction led it to undertake a journey of exploration of the flat surface of the canvas and its physical properties, during which it stripped away everything that was not objective.

From April 25 to July 8, 2012.

Curator: Ángeles Imaña.
Coordination: Museum of Contemporary Art, MACA
Works loaned by the Aena Foundation. The selection displayed at MACA corresponds to an excellent generation of artists who represent the best of Spanish art from the last quarter of the twentieth century. Already classic names of a contemporary aesthetic such as: Eduardo Arroyo, Miquel Barceló, José Manuel Brotó, Luis Gordillo, Cristina Iglesias, Miquel Navarro, Pablo Palazuelo, Soledad Sevilla, José María Sicilia, Darío Urzay, Juan Uslé, Xesús Vázquez and Dario Villalba.
The selected works stand out for their contemporaneity and expressive force and provoke in the viewer an intense emotional impact.

From September 13, 2012 to January 6, 2013 Curator: Rosa Mª Castells.

Coordination: Museum of Contemporary Art, MACA.

Production: Social Work Fundación Mediterráneo and Culture Department of the Alicante City Council

This exhibition brings together a selection of works that are part of this Fundación Mediterráneo Collection deposited at the MACA. The exhibition brings together a series of works by different artists that share a common creative process. A fragmented process, made in pieces, often asymmetrical and that reveals the structure of the work, always with an uncomfortable sensation of nakedness or defenselessness.

From May 15 to September 21, 2014. Desborde consists of a large-scale textile whose raw material is red, orange, and gold plastic thread with a wire core. The structure is formed by 100,000 meters of wire and 3 million knots, which is based on the concept of a fractal—a knot that repeats and connects the different parts of the mesh with great possibilities for permutations.

From July 3 to September 21, 2014

Curator: Felipe Garín Tarancón

Coordination: Rosa Mª Castells González

Production: Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community.

Works loaned by the Yera Collection.

The Mariano Yera Collection follows the evolution of the history of art in Spain as it represents the main pictorial movements and their most outstanding authors. It consists of more than one hundred and forty works of great quality, all of them expressive of the particular perspective of each of the sixty-three artists that make up this unique testimony of Spanish pictorial creation from the 1950s of the last century until the end of the twentieth century, a period rich in artistic proposals of enormous relevance. A selection closer to the Sempere generation is the one shown at the MACA.

From September 30, 2014 to January 11, 2015.

Curated by: Laura Brogueras - Rosa Mª Castells

Organized by: Fundación Telefónica and MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante.

In collaboration with: Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community and Provincial Council of Alicante.

Works loaned by Fundación Telefónica.

Cubism proposes a revolutionary way of painting based on an intense work of deconstruction of reality, a rejection of conventional perspective, an absence of details, and a geometrization of forms. By modifying the way of representing the nature of everyday objects, cubism changed forever the way of looking at painting: now the viewer must traverse planes, lines, and colors, arranged according to their own rhythm that demands not only sensory contemplation, but also an intellectual exercise of reconstruction.

Screening of: "Juana Francés, the Hidden Force" directed by Natalia Molinos and Maxi Velloso.

With the support of Generalitat Valenciana, Culture Department of Alicante and MACA, and in collaboration with Casa Mediterráneo and the support of Espejo de Alicante. Friday, October 17, 2025

Lecture by María Rosón, Professor of Contemporary Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid.
With the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Universities and Employment of the Valencian Regional Government. November 7, 2025