The exhibition presents the collection and history of the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español to the German public, between September 2023 and January 2024, through the agreement reached by the Fundación Juan March with the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz and with the collaboration of Spanish Cultural Action.
Characterized by its unprecedented emphasis on non-figurative art and its extraordinary location in a series of Gothic buildings 200 meters above the Huécar river gorge, the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art, founded by the artist Fernando Zóbel (1924-1984 ), opened its doors in the city of Cuenca on July 1, 1966.
The following year, Alfred H. Barr, the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, visited it and called it "the most beautiful little museum in the world." It was also a museum that anticipated Spain's transition to democracy. The museum embodied the principles of artist-run space long before the concept was institutionalized and operated outside of official, state-controlled culture. Thanks to the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art, Cuenca quickly became a colony for artists, as well as a dynamic center for the promotion, exhibition, and creation of contemporary art.