• The programme showcases collaborations with prestigious international institutions, reinforcing Centro Botín’s standing on the global art stage and expanding the cultural and social impact of its art initiatives.
• Japanese artist Yuko Mohri will open the exhibition calendar with her installations, where everyday objects and invisible forces intertwine to create dynamic, living ecosystems.
• Her show will be followed by the first solo exhibition in Spain of renowned Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa, offering a comprehensive look at her multifaceted practice.
• Centro Botín will also present the first retrospective dedicated to the drawings of Marisol — a landmark exhibition that offers a comprehensive look at the celebrated American artist. The show forms part of Fundación Botín’s ongoing commitment to curatorial and academic research on drawing.
• The exhibition calendar concludes withItinerarios XXXI, the annual show featuring the projects of artists awarded an Art Grant by Fundación Botín, reaffirming the Foundation’s ongoing support for contemporary art. Additionally, Yuko Mohri and Solange Pessoa will each lead an artist workshop, further strengthening the Foundation’s commitment to fostering meaningful connections between internationally renowned artists and both national and international creators.

Centro Botín’s exhibition programme for the coming year begins in March with Entanglements by Yuko Mohri, which is the Japanese artist’s most extensive solo exhibition in a European institution to date. Organised with Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, the show explores how each element belongs to an interconnected system where nothing acts independently and everything is part of a vast network of constantly-evolving relationships. It will be followed by the first exhibition in Spain by the renowned Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa, who will offer a comprehensive overview of her artistic practice, encompassing sculpture, drawing, ceramics, installation and film. This exhibition will be conceived in close dialogue with the architecture and light of Centro Botín’s rooms, highlighting the artist’s approach to prehistoric and ancestral symbols, as well as her inventive use of organic and unconventional materials.

Additionally, and as part of Centro Botín’s commitment to offering new perspectives on the great masters of the 20th century and to research into drawing practices, the programme will include the first retrospective dedicated to Marisol’s drawings, with more than 100 works spanning from the 1950s until her death, presented alongside a selection of sculptures, archival materials, and several films by her friend Andy Warhol, in which Marisol starred. This exhibition is created in collaboration with the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and will be co-produced with MAC/CCB- Museu de Arte Contemporânea e Centro de Arquitetura / Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon).

In November, Itinerarios XXXI will open, showcasing the culmination of the annual Art Grants awarded by Fundación Botín. In February, open calls will be announced for the XXXIII Art Grants and the XX Grant for Exhibition Curatorship and Museum Management. Additionally, Yuko Mohri and Solange Pessoa will each lead workshops for creative professionals, underscoring Fundación Botín’s continued commitment to supporting contemporary art.

Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, Director of Exhibitions and the Collection at Centro Botín and member of the Advisory Art Committee said: “I am very excited about the 2026 programme, which firmly reinforces our commitment to drawing practices with the first extensive retrospective of Marisol’s drawings. While Marisol is best known for her Pop sculptures, her expressive drawings – a constant throughout her artistic practice – deserve in-depth research and promotion. This exhibition will highlight the central role her work played in the New York art scene of the 1960s and ’70s, while revealing the elusive nature of her works on paper, whose aesthetics evolved dramatically over the decades, yet consistently maintained a critical and playful perspective on society. I hope our visitors will be captivated by the tension between the organic and the artificial, the monumental and the meticulous: a dynamic at the heart of all the artists in this programme. From the figures pierced by high heels in Marisol’s drawings, to the ethereal sounds of Yuko Mohri’s kinetic installations interacting with natural processes, and finally to Solange Pessoa’s extraordinary sculptural bodies that incorporate materials ranging from quartz and bronze to wool, hair, and earth.”

2025 Exhibition Programme

YUKO MOHRI: Entanglements (28 March – 6 September 2026)

Pirelli HangarBicocca Curators: Fiammetta Griccioli and Vicente Todolí.

Centro Botín Curator: Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz.

Exhibition organised by Pirelli HangarBicocca (Milan) and Fundación Botín

Yuko Mohri (Kanagawa, Japan, 1980; lives and works in Tokyo) is known for her intricate and original compositions which were recently presented in Italy at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) in the Japan Pavilion. Inspired by Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), Mohri creates site-specific kinetic sculptures that incorporate found items, as well as reworked musical instruments connected to electronic circuits. Her works respond to imperceptible, transient, and ephemeral phenomena, such as gravity, magnetism, heat, and humidity. Random and unstable environmental elements—such as air, dust, debris, and temperature—shape her assemblages, transforming them into organic ecosystems where the sound component is central.

Entanglements is Yuko Mohri’s most extensive solo exhibition to date at a European institution. The title evokes the invisible links and complex interactions that exist between objects, forces, sounds, and people. The show explores how each element belongs to an interconnected system in which nothing acts independently, and everything is part of a vast, ever-evolving network of relationships. Mohri’s delicately balanced sculptures reveal the latent complexity of the natural and artificial structures that constitute our world and the constant flow of energy surrounding us. Through the materials she employs, Mohri introduces subtle irony and a nearly hidden ludic dimension, drawing on cultural references, including those from philosophy to pop culture, as well as iconographic and sonic influences ranging from kinetic art to sound experimentation.

The exhibition is accompanied by the most comprehensive monograph to date on Yuko Mohri’s practice.

As part of Fundación Botín´s Artistic Support programme, each major exhibition at Centro Botín is connected to an Art Workshop organised by Fundación Botín and led by the exhibiting artist for a group of selected artists and creative practitioners. These immersive, residency-style sessions foster a communal environment for living, thinking, writing, and creating under the guidance of the host artist. Over 2026, Yukowill direct a Fundación Botín Art Workshop, encouraging a group of participants selected via an open call to engage in collaboration and creative exchange.

Mohri’s works have been exhibited at many leading institutions, including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), Seoul (2025); Artizon Museum, Tokyo (2024–25); Aranya Art Center, Hebei (2024); Atelier Nord, Oslo (2021); Japan House São Paulo (2021); Ginza Sony Park, Tokyo (2020); Camden Arts Centre London (2018); Towada Art Center, Aomori (2018–19); National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2012).

The artist represented Japan at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the Gwangju Biennale (2023); Biennale of Sydney (2022); Asian Art Biennial, Taichung (2021); Bienal de São Paulo (2021); Glasgow international (2021); Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2021); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018); Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane (2018); Centre Pompidou-Metz (2017); Biennale de Lyon (2017); Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2016); Yokohama Triennale, Kanagawa, 2014).

MARISOL: When Things Are Just Beginning (23 May – 25 October 2026)

Drawings from 1949 to 2016

Curator: Dra. Laura Vallés Vílchez.

Exhibition coproduced by Fundación Botín and MAC/CCB- Museu de Arte Contemporânea e Centro de Arquitetura/ Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa. Created in collaboration with the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Marisol Escobar, known simply as Marisol, was a Paris-born Venezuelan and American artist (1930–2016) celebrated for her bold and satirical sculptural portraits and mixed-media compositions. Her work explored gender roles, celebrity culture, and family dynamics, combining humour with incisive social critique. She emerged in New York’s vibrant art scene of the late 1950s and 1960s, moving in the same circles as Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, and Robert Rauschenberg. Throughout her life, she achieved wide international recognition, with major exhibitions in Europe and the United States, including representing Venezuela at the 1968 Venice Biennale and participating in Documenta IV, where she was one of only four women among 149 artists. Although her practice developed in parallel with Pop Art, she never fully embraced it, creating instead deeply personal works often imbued with feminist and political overtones.

Marisol: When Things Are Just Beginning is the first retrospective of Marisol’s drawings, featuring more than 100 works spanning from the 1950s to her death, presented alongside a selection of sculptures that extend her drawing practice into three dimensions, archival materials, and several of Warhol’s films in which Marisol starred. The extensive selection of works, drawn almost entirely from the collection of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, NY, highlights drawing as the most consistent thread throughout Marisol’s career, the medium by which she wove her global concerns, private discomforts, and imaginative fictions throughout her practice.

The title recalls dealer Leo Castelli’s remark to Marisol in the late 1950s when she left the United States following her successful presentation at his New York gallery: “How can you leave when things are just beginning?” The phrase also resonates with her subsequent decisions to withdraw from the centre of the art world at key moments in her career, after which her work would re-emerge profoundly transformed.

This exhibition forms part of Fundación Botín’s ongoing commitment to curatorial and scholarly research on drawing, which has included wide-ranging presentations dedicated to Goya, Millares, Juan Muñoz, and Silvia Bächli. It is accompanied by a bilingual Spanish–English catalogue that traces Marisol’s life and work through her drawing practice.

SOLANGE PESSOA (10 October 2026 – March 2027)

Curator: Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz

Solange Pessoa channels an enchanted vision of the natural world, creating paintings, installations, and sculptures deeply rooted in the landscapes of south-eastern Brazil—where she lives—as well as in humanity’s earliest visual languages. She consistently incorporates organic, mineral, and unconventional materials into her art, including feathers, seeds, stones, wool, bones, hair, and earth, alongside bronze, clay, and found objects. By pairing enduring substances such as stone with ephemeral organic matter, Pessoa produces works that resonate like archaeological relics while honouring nature’s cycles of growth, decay, and transformation.

Pessoa´s first exhibition in Spain, will present a comprehensive overview of her artistic practice, spanning sculpture, drawing, ceramics, installations, and film. Conceived in close dialogue with the architecture and light of Centro Botín’s gallery spaces, the show will illuminate her engagement with prehistoric and ancestral symbols, as well as her inventive use of both organic and unconventional materials.

As part of Fundación Botín´s Artistic Support programme, each major exhibition at Centro Botín is accompanied by an Art Workshop organised by Fundación Botín and led by the exhibiting artist for a group of selected artists and creative practitioners. These immersive, residency-style sessions foster a communal environment for living, thinking, writing, and creating under the guidance of the host artist.  Since 1993, Pessoa has taught at the Escola Guignard at the Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais (UEMG), contributing significantly to Brazil’s artistic and academic communities. Over 2026, Pessoa will direct a Fundación Botín Art Workshop, encouraging a group of participants selected via an open call to engage in collaboration and creative exchange.

Solange Pessoa (b.1961, Ferros, Brazil) lives and works in Belo Horizonte.  Her selected solo institutional exhibitions include Catch the Sun with Your Hand, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2025); Pilgrim Fields, Tramway, Glasgow (2025); Solange Pessoa, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (2023); Longilonge, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa (2019); Metaflor-Metaflora, Museu Mineiro, Belo Horizonte (2013); Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte (2008); Museu da Inconfidência, Ouro Preto (2000); Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte (1995); and Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo (1992).

Pessoa has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, including  Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles, Barbican Centre, London (2024);  The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2022); Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2022); Living Worlds, Fondation Cartier, Lille (2022);  Invenção de Origem, Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo (2018).

ITINERARIOS XXXI (21 November 2025 – April 2026)

Since 1993, Fundación Botín has awarded its Art Grants annually to support Spanish and international artists in their training, research, and production. The annual Itineraries exhibition is the culmination of this fellowship and showcases a wide range of artistic interests and practices.

In 2026, the XXXI edition of Itineraries will feature the works of Elena Aitzkoa (Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain, 1984); Sahatsa Jauregi (Salvador de Bahía, Brazil, 1984); Naomi Rincón Gallardo Shimada (Raleigh, North Carolina, United States); Inmaculada Salinas (Guadalcanal, Seville, Spain, 1967); Mar Reykjavik (Valencia, Spain, 1995); and Lorenzo Sandoval (Madrid, Spain, 1980).