Centro Botin
Art Center / Botin Spain
Centro Botin is an art centre designed to generate social development and wealth, making the most of the potential of the arts to awaken our creativity.
The Centro Botin aims to be one of Spain’s leading art centres and part of the European circuit of first-rate arts centres, that stands out for its excellent programme, using art to improve the lives of people and society; A lively, welcoming place, a regular meeting point for people to enjoy themselves, learn, and become inspired, thanks to the diverse range of artistic experiences on offer for all types of audiences; An engine for generating economic, social, and cultural wealth on the Cantabrian coast.
The Centro Botin is an arts centre designed by Pritzker Prize winner architect Renzo Piano, in co-authorship with luis vidal + architects. It is located in a privileged part of Santander and uses a broader urban intervention to integrate the city centre and the historic Pereda Gardens with the Bay. The building has a total built-up area spanning 8,739 m², which is made up of two blocks, connected by a structure of squares and the walkways known as – “the pachinko”. The west block is dedicated to art, with two exhibition rooms measuring a total of 2,500 m2; and the east block is for cultural and educational activities, boasting an auditorium for 300 people, classrooms, work spaces, and a rooftop terrace to enjoy the breathtaking views of Santander and its Bay.
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Centro Botin
Art Center / Botin Spain
Centro Botin is an art centre designed to generate social development and wealth, making the most of the potential of the arts to awaken our creativity.
The Centro Botin aims to be one of Spain’s leading art centres and part of the European circuit of first-rate arts centres, that stands out for its excellent programme, using art to improve the lives of people and society; A lively, welcoming place, a regular meeting point for people to enjoy themselves, learn, and become inspired, thanks to the diverse range of artistic experiences on offer for all types of audiences; An engine for generating economic, social, and cultural wealth on the Cantabrian coast.
The Centro Botin is an arts centre designed by Pritzker Prize winner architect Renzo Piano, in co-authorship with luis vidal + architects. It is located in a privileged part of Santander and uses a broader urban intervention to integrate the city centre and the historic Pereda Gardens with the Bay. The building has a total built-up area spanning 8,739 m², which is made up of two blocks, connected by a structure of squares and the walkways known as – “the pachinko”. The west block is dedicated to art, with two exhibition rooms measuring a total of 2,500 m2; and the east block is for cultural and educational activities, boasting an auditorium for 300 people, classrooms, work spaces, and a rooftop terrace to enjoy the breathtaking views of Santander and its Bay.
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Tom Hegen / Salt WorksLimited EditionThe archival pigment print inserted in Tom Hegen’s special edition Salt Works shows one of the many sea salt production sites the photographer portrayed from the air and captured in their unique beauty as an abstract field. (more…)
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The Shadow PandemicViolence against Women in Times of CovidThe U.N. has designated November 25th as International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. By truism, this is a proposition that states really nothing beyond what is implied by its terms… (more…)
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Christian Dior: Designer of DreamsDec 21, 2022 – May 28, 2023Following its success at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and after having traveled the world from London to New York, the exhibition Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams will be presented at the emblematic Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (more…)
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On the Peripheryby Sinziana VelicescuSinziana Velicescu’s work is a minimalist and abstract approach, a modern chronicling of a quiet land surveyor, completely separated of sentimentality. The publication of her series is a documentation of time, bracketed in images of framed surfaces of space. (more…)
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Deana LawsonVarious, 2022–2023This exhibition is the first museum survey dedicated to the work of Deana Lawson, a singular voice in photography today. For more than 15 years, Lawson has been investigating and challenging conventional representations of Black life through a wide spectrum of photographic languages (more…)
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Fred SandbackLong-term viewUsing subtle methods and an economy of materials, Fred Sandback’s work creates striking perceptual effects in response to the surrounding architecture. (more…)
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Lu GuangPhotographerLu Guang was born in 1961, in Zhejiang Province, China. He has been passionate about photography since he held a camera for the first time, in 1980 when he was a factory worker in his hometown in Yongkang County. (more…)
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Ingel Vaiklaartist / filmmakerIngel Vaikla is a visual artist and filmmaker from Estonia. She studied photography in Estonian Academy of Fine Arts (BA) and film in Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Gent (MA). In her work she questions the relationship between architecture and its users, and the representation of architecture in camera based mediums. (more…)
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Matter. Non-Matter. Anti-Matter.Dec 3, 2022 – Apr 23, 2023The EU project Beyond Matter: Cultural Heritage on the Verge of Virtual Reality researches ways to re-experience past exhibitions using digital and spatial modeling methods. (more…)
