Sensitive Spaces. «la Caixa» Foundation Contemporary Art Collection

“Space is where things gravitate, around an axis, in regular orbits or in random movements. The axis of this little reflection is the series of works gathered for the exhibition Sensitive Spaces and, by extension, the idea of space itself. The satellite notions we will bring in to gravitate around it will be three in number: experience (practiced space), fiction (theatrical space) and installation (institutional space).

Each of these ideas must meet a very precise objective: to reconstruct quickly the history of the notion of space to the point of identifying it as a place that has been experienced; to accentuate the theatrical nature of the staging required by that practice; and lastly to place this setting and the experience of it in its context, in the logic of artistic-inscription. Naturally, the intersections between each of these spheres are at least as revealing as their own definitions.”

Martí Peran
[Excerpt from the essay Spaces (Practiced, Fictional and Institutional), published in the exhibition catalogue]

The "la Caixa” Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, which began to take shape in the 1980s, provides a broad overview of the international art of the last thirty years. From the first acquisitions it became a reference point on the European art scene and set Spanish art in the international context, thus bringing out its relations with the artistic currents of other countries.

Over more than twenty years, the "la Caixa” Foundation Contemporary Art Collection has acquired a unique, well-defined identity. It consists of over 750 works that span all artistic practices, and includes not just fully recognized artists like the ones already mentioned, but also young creators who point to new directions for the future of art.