GALERIA MIGUEL MARCOS

Miguel Marcos Gallery was founded in Zaragoza in 1981 and in 1987 opened a second space in Madrid, working in parallel in both cities. On February 27, 1998 Barcelona opens its gallery with the exhibition "Quatre emplaçaments" Joan Brossa. Since then Miguel Marcos Gallery is based in Barcelona, ​​a space that has hosted today without interruption over a hundred individual and group exhibitions of artists internationally. Throughout his career he has shown a consistent and unconditional commitment to the Spanish art of the eighties, incorporating contemporary artists from around the world who not only base their practice on painting, but used formats and languages ​​such as installation, photography or video art.

In addition to its activity as a gallery, Miguel Marcos Gallery works for the preservation and dissemination of historical memory and culture, accompanying his curatorial and expository work with editing publications maintained. These include for painting, painted Years, Miguel Marcos 25 years or 20 in the Collection Miguel Marcos. In 2007 it published the report of its activities in two volumes under the title The Book Gallery Miguel Marcos. 1977-2005. For the construction of this publication, which covers comprehensively different aspects's galleries profession, they worked critics and art historians renowned as Juan Manuel Bonet, Fernando Castro Flórez, Miguel Fernández-Cid, Pablo Jiménez Burillo, Arnau Puig, Enrique Rosina Gómez Baeza or Juncosa. Currently, under the policy grant from the Gallery to the dissemination and democratization of culture, The Book Gallery Miguel Marcos. 1977-2005, as well as other publications bottom of the gallery, is located in the largest and most prestigious libraries around the world.

Miguel Marcos Gallery has participated in numerous editions of the most important art fairs internationally, among which ARCO Madrid, Art Basel, Art Chicago, Art Cologne or FIAC. In 2008, the Spanish Association of Art Critics granted the AECA Award for Best participating gallery at ARCO 2008.