Past Exhibitions
Past Exhibitions
From Greco to Goya: Masterpieces from the Prado Museum
This exhibition is part of a four-year collaboration between the Museo Nacional del Prado and the Museo de Arte de Ponce. It was preceded by the exhibition Sleeping Beauty: Victorian Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce presented in Madrid in the spring of 2009.
Matthias Weischer: New Work
This is the second of three exhibitions the museum organized featuring the work of artists active in Leipzig, Germany. In 2007-2008 the museum presented David Schnell: Hover, the next project being a traveling retrospective of the work of Neo Rauch.
Present Body
Present Body brings together five artists from different disciplines that focus on the body as inspiration, subject and symbol. Adal gives us the photographic sequence Falling Eyelids, a surrealist story in a fotonovela format. The clothes-breastplate of Norah Hernández’s Body of Light installation are, metaphorically, recipients of the soul. The installation based on textiles, The Curse of the Parrot: The Magical Dogs by Elsa María Meléndez displays highly personal and social narratives.
11 in 2011
11 in 2011 is an online exhibit of eleven videos by artists from Puerto Rico, the United States, Australia, and Singapore. One of the videos belongs to the museum’s permanent collection: Citizenship Exam, by Puerto Rican artist Marta Mabel Pérez.
Encounters: Space, Time and Life
The completion in 2010 of the extensive renovation and expansion of the Museo de Arte de Ponce offers the opportunity both to celebrate the homecoming of the museum’s collection and to see it with fresh eyes. For the inaugural exhibition, the Museo de Arte de Ponce’s curatorial and education staff chose to focus on the permanent collection and to emphasize its variety and strengths.
Julio Micheli – Beetles of Puerto Rico
In the animal kingdom, insects constitute one of the most numerous groups of all land species. Among these, the beetles (order Coleoptera) make up one of the largest: approximately 350,000 species have been catalogued. The most obvious characteristic that separates Coleoptera from other insects is their wings.