The Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia (MUBAV) will host in this 2025 the exhibition ‘Classics and modern. Masterpieces of the BBVA collection ‘, a complete sample that will gather in the Valencian capital a total of 90 paintings of great teachers from the fifteenth to the 20th century that have figurative realism in common.
This was announced yesterday by the Department of Education, Culture, University and occupied after explaining in a press release the approval of an agreement between the Valencian Pinacoteca and the BBVA for the organization of this, which establishes the conditions and obligations of both MUBAV and BBVA in relation to this exhibition with a cost for the Valencian Generalitat of 94,000 euros.
This is the first agreement signed by both entities for the joint production of an exhibition, after the deposit of six paintings belonging to the BBVA collection that can be visited since February at the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia.
The exhibition, which will be held from November 13, 2025 to February 15, 2026, will be curated by the director of the MUBAV, Pablo González Tornel, including works by Murillo, Zuloaga, Van Dyck, Goya, Brueghel or Sorolla, all of them artists who had in nature their main reference and in formal realism their language.
The works will be grouped into four sections: the arts at the service of power. Kings and gods; The portrait. The human being in the center of the world; The triumph of genres. Landscape, still lifes and customs; and the paths of modernity, which will offer the visitor the best of European art.
About the BBVA collection:
The BBVA artistic collection is one of the richest in Spain, being composed of more than 9,000 pieces that cover a wide historiographic period from the fifteenth century to the present.
Within their funds, the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries stand out, represented by an extraordinary selection of works of art, mainly from the Dutch, Flemish and Spanish schools with pieces of Goya, Van Dyck, Snayers, Pickenoy, Pantoja de la Cruz, Carreño de Miranda or Murillo.
In addition, the art of the nineteenth and twentieth century is a great focus of interest, so it also has a considerable presence of internationally recognized artists such as Joaquín Sorolla, Santiago Rusiñol, María Blanchard, Joan Miró, Yves Tanguy, Antonio López, Antoni Tàpies or Miquel Barceló, among many others.
About the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia:
Hours of the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia:
- Monday: closed (also on January 1 and December 25).
- Tuesday: 10:00 – 8:00 p.m.
- Wednesday 10:00 – 8:00 p.m.
- Thursday: 10:00 – 8:00 p.m.
- Friday: 10:00 – 8:00 p.m.
- Saturday 10:00 – 20:00 h.
- Domingo: 10:00 – 20:00 h.
- Days with special opening hours: December 24 and 31, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Cost or rate to enter the museum:
- free entrance for all audiences at the opening schedule.
Museum location:
- San Pío V Street No. 9 of Valencia.
