At the Guggenheim Bilbao a major exhibition on Vasily Kandinsky

Vasily Kandinsky (Moscow, 1866 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1944) is the protagonist of an exhibition titled Kandinsky that runs from November 20, 2020 to May 23, 2021 at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum in Madrid.

Curated by Megan Fontanella, the exhibition is a retrospective of the complete evolution of the artist’s career and traces the key periods of his artistic parabola, dwelling in its four sections also on his sojourns in Russia, France and Germany. The aim of his art was to liberate painting from its ties to the natural world, discovering a new thematic based on the “inner necessity” of the artist.

The exhibition, therefore, starts from his youthful period, when in Munich he was a student of Franz von Stuck at the Academy of Fine Arts and together with Franz Marc founded the Blaue Reiter, then moves on to when he had to leave Germany at the outbreak of World War I in 1914, thus moving to his hometown of Moscow, where he began to engage with the Russian avant-garde. After the period when Kandinsky joined the teaching staff of the Bauhaus in Dessau, we move on to 1933, when he again had to leave Germany because of the rise of the Nazis and moved to Paris where he would meet the Surrealists.

The story of Vasily Kandinsky is closely linked to that of the Guggenheim Foundation, created in New York in 1937, as from 1929 Solomon R. Guggenheim, an industrialist and wealthy collector, began collecting the works of Kandinsky, whom he would shortly meet at the Bauhaus.

For all information you can visit the official website of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Pictured: Vasily Kandinsky, Composition 8 (Komposition 8) (1923; oil on canvas, 140.3 × 200.7 cm, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)

At the Guggenheim Bilbao a major exhibition on Vasily Kandinsky

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