Susana Rivas, Culture Delegate, and Jesús Romero, Museum Director, announce the diverse and educational exhibition program that has been put together for Casa Briones, which will host exhibitions on painting, drawing, nature, cinema, anniversaries, and much more.
The municipal delegate for Culture, Susana Rivas, and the director of the Chiclana Museum, Jesús Romero, announced on Monday at a press conference the complete program of temporary exhibitions that Casa Briones will host throughout 2026, a total of 22 proposals that will stand out for their versatility and in which art in its most varied forms will take center stage, including drawing, nature, music, cinema, the events that will accompany us throughout the year, and the 150th anniversary of Chiclana being granted city status.
Susana Rivas has emphasized that "the program we have prepared at the City Museum for 2026 responds, as on other occasions and as has been our hallmark in recent years, to diversity, with the aim of catering to the tastes and interests of all audiences, with a special emphasis on the educational nature of all the exhibitions. We are convinced that these proposals will meet the expectations of the public and will continue to strengthen the Chiclana Museum as one of the great cultural landmarks of our city."
For his part, Jesús Romero, in addition to giving a brief overview of the different exhibitions that have been programmed, welcomed the completion of the work carried out on the museum's facilities, which last year "significantly restricted the use of some rooms, which had to remain closed, forcing us to redouble our efforts. It was a difficult year, and I say this because everything is then quantified in figures, and the figures, in the end, are not the real ones. Despite this, we ended the year very satisfied with the program exhibited and with the number of visitors.
The exhibition ‘Mandalas’ will open the new exhibition season on Wednesday 11, remaining open to the public until April 26, and opening the doors of the Museum to a wide variety of artistic expressions, as it did in its day with repair tattoos, to offer a series of mandalas in which the plastic and the therapeutic come together. Three other exhibitions will be launched in March: ‘Drawing’ (March 13 to May 10); ‘The Creation of the World’ (March 17 to May 10), which takes a journey through the origin and development of the Spanish language through major works that gave it life and consolidated it; and ‘Primers for Painters’ (March 19 to May 17), which was originally scheduled for last year but was one of the exhibitions that the Museum's works caused to be dropped from the exhibition calendar. We are now reviving it. An interesting display of what primers for painters were like from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Engraving as a learning tool.
To mark the centenary of the birth of one of cinema's most iconic figures, the exhibition ‘Marilyn Monroe, 100 Years’ will open to the public on April 30 and run until June 14, while three other exhibitions will open to the public throughout May: ‘El campito de Hera’ (Hera's Little Field) by Julio Castilla (May 15 to July 5) ; ‘García Gutiérrez. Bibliographic Exhibition’ (May 19 to July 5), which is part of the program for the 150th anniversary of Chiclana being granted city status; and ‘Walls for Andrea’ by José Guerru Gudiña, from May 26 to July 19.
At the dawn of summer, Casa Briones welcomes ‘Chiclana dibujada’ (Chiclana in drawings), which will be with us from June 19 to August 2. In this exhibition, two artists who live and work in Chiclana capture the hidden corners of our city, which is now also theirs. From July 8 to August 30, ‘Chiclana, vistas nunca vistas’ (Chiclana, unseen views) will be open to the public, an exhibition of works by artists from here or closely linked to the city. Meanwhile, on July 10, Javier Palacios' ‘Bichos’ (Bugs) will open, which until August 30 will bring us closer to the small fauna that inhabits the Pinar Público de la Barrosa through watercolors.
Bern Foster will be featured at the Museum from July 30 to September 20, an artist from here, from right here, whose work is recognized in the United States. Recognition for an artist who is as interesting as he is honest. 'Córdoba, la luz del pensamiento' (Córdoba, the light of thought) will be on display from August 6 to September 27, coinciding with the 900th anniversary of the birth of the Cordovan philosopher Averroes, while from September 8 to October 18, Daniela Martínez's ‘Kintsugi, del hecho al hecho’ (Kintsugi, from fact to fact) will be on display at Casa Briones.
Paco López will offer the second installment of his initiative where records, their covers, and art take center stage through “Art and Music: Art and Jazz,” from September 24 to November 1, while with the end of summer, the Renaissance arrives at the Chiclana Museum with three consecutive exhibitions: Renaissance I (September 30 to December 8), Renaissance II (October 1 to December 6) and Renaissance III (October 23 to December 8), a wide-ranging exhibition with a marked educational character that, starting with two rooms which will then be joined - in stages - by two other spaces, offers a journey through Renaissance art and the cultural movement that, beyond art, was also.
Last year, one of the stars of the program was Catalan artist Montserrat Gudiol. We learned something about her explicitly religious work at that time. This year, we will delve more deeply into it on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, to whom Gudiol dedicated an interesting series of drawings. Thus, on December 11, we will have 'San Francisco, 800 Años' ('St. Francis, 800 Years'). Meanwhile, from December 16, we will have the exhibition 'Tres pintores chiclaneros del XIX' ('Three 19th-century painters from Chiclana’), where the spotlight will fall on the works of Sebastián Gessa, Juan Antonio González, and Eduardo Vassallo.
'Things', which will open on December 17, is a curious exhibition in which the pieces lack, so to speak, any intrinsic value. They are valuable because of what they represent, because of the emotional connection we have with them. Pieces that have a story behind them. A story that is inseparable from the piece that we will show to the public. The last exhibition of the year will be ‘Una madre, un hijo’ (A Mother, a Child), which will run from December 18 and, in keeping with the Christmas season, will offer a journey through the iconography of the Virgin and Child, so present in our culture throughout the centuries, from the Middle Ages to the present day.
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