Centre Pompidou Malaga
First Centre Pompidou outside of France opened in spring 2015 in the city of Málaga, Andalusia—the birthplace of Pablo Picasso. Located on the city’s waterfront, El Cubo is a cultural venue comprising 6,000 square metres beneath a glass cube, originally built in 2013 and redesigned by the French artist Daniel Buren in 2014.
Visitors are invited to experience Centre Pompidou through the richness of its collection, the excellence of its programme, the intersection of artistic disciplines, and the innovation of its educational initiatives, particularly those aimed at younger audiences. Part of the programme is deliberately focused on the local art scene, with a strong emphasis on Spanish artists.
Centre Pompidou Málaga opened its doors on 28 March 2015 in the presence of the President of the Spanish Government, Mariano Rajoy, and the French Minister of Culture and Communication, Fleur Pellerin.
Following its success, the partnership agreement between Centre Pompidou and the City of Málaga, initially signed in September 2014 for a period of five years, was first extended in March 2020 for a further five years, and then again in March 2025 for a ten-year term.
In Malaga, the semi-permanent exhibition invites visitors on a journey through 20th- and 21st-century art across an area of 1,800 square metres, featuring dozens of works selected from the Centre Pompidou’s unrivalled collection.
- 1st tour, from March 2015 to October 2017: "The Collection" based on five themes: metamorphoses, the body fragmented, the body politic, self-portraits, and the man with no face
- 2nd tour, presented from December 2017 to January 2020: "Modern Utopias"
- 3rd tour, from March 2020 to November 2021: "From Miró to Barceló. A Century of Spanish Art"
- 4th tour, from April 2022 to November 2023: "Un temps à soi. Se libérer des contraintes du temps"
- 5th tour, from December 2023 to April 2025: "Place-ness. Habiter un lieu"
- 6th tour, from July 2025 to January 2027: "To Open Eyes. Artists' Gaze"
It presents two or three themed or monographic temporary exhibitions each year, designed by the curators of Centre Pompidou and built up from the different segments of the collection (visual arts, drawing, photography, design, architecture, film, new media).
This experience can be lived out in the course of multi-disciplinary programmes devoted to dance, performance art, the spoken word, cinema, and through mediation tools, particularly those for a young public.
