Overview
- The museum inaugurates the rehabilitated space with George/Georg Baselitz: Paintings 2014–2025, a show of roughly 50 large canvases curated by Norman Rosenthal and on view until 1 March 2026.
- Baselitz’s recent work foregrounds aging, corporeality and provocation, featuring inverted figures and the imperial-eagle motif, including the 2024 canvas No puedo tener sexo with a stockings-clad eagle.
- The 1970 building returns to public use after about three years of closure, with some 6,000 square metres reopened in a layout that recovers the original open, luminous design.
- A ground-floor survey titled Ataria, curated by Miriam Alzuri, presents Basque artists with works from 1973–2023 and debuts the circa-1700 painting Vista de Bilbao.
- Outside the entrance, visitors are greeted by Eduardo Chillida’s Elogio del hierro III, a four-metre, 18-tonne sculpture installed in recent weeks.