SANTANDER.- Yuko Mohri (Kanagawa, Japan, 1980; lives and works in Tokyo) is known for her intricate and original compositions, recently presented in Italy at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) in the Japan Pavilion. Mohri’s delicately balanced sculptures reveal the latent complexity of the natural and artificial structures that constitute our world and the constant flow of energy surrounding us.
Entanglements is Yuko Mohri’s most extensive solo exhibition to date at a European institution. The title evokes the invisible links and complex interactions that exist between objects, forces, sounds, and people. The show explores how each element belongs to an interconnected system in which nothing acts independently, and everything is part of a vast, ever-evolving network of relationships.
Pirelli HangarBicocca Curators: Fiammetta Griccioli and Vicente Todolí
Centro Botín Curator: Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz
Exhibition organised by Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan and Fundación Botín
Marisol: When Things Are Just Beginning
May 23–October 25, 2026
Marisol Escobar, known simply as Marisol, was a Paris-born Venezuelan and American artist (1930–2016) celebrated for her bold and satirical sculptural portraits and mixed-media compositions. Her work explored gender roles, celebrity culture, and family dynamics, combining humour with incisive social critique.
Marisol: When Things Are Just Beginning is the first retrospective of Marisol’s drawings, featuring more than 100 works spanning from the 1950s to her death, presented alongside a small selection of sculptures that extend her drawing practice into three dimensions, archival materials, and several of Warhol’s films in which Marisol starred. The title recalls dealer Leo Castelli’s remark to Marisol in the late 1950s when she left the United States following her successful presentation at his New York gallery: “How can you leave when things are just beginning?” The phrase also resonates with her subsequent decisions to withdraw from the center of the art world at key moments in her career, after which her work would reemerge profoundly transformed.
Curator: Dr Laura Vallés Vílchez
Exhibition coproduced by Fundación Botín and MAC/CCB- Museu de Arte Contemporânea e Centro de Arquitetura/ Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa
Created in collaboration with the Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Solange Pessoa
October 10, 2026–March 2027
Solange Pessoa channels an enchanted vision of the natural world, creating paintings, installations, and sculptures deeply rooted in the landscapes of southeastern Brazil—where she lives—as well as in humanity’s earliest visual languages. She consistently incorporates organic, mineral, and unconventional materials into her art, including feathers, seeds, stones, wool, bones, hair, and earth, alongside bronze, clay, and found objects. By pairing enduring substances such as stone with ephemeral organic matter, Pessoa produces works that resonate like archaeological relics while honoring nature’s cycles of growth, decay, and transformation.
Pessoa´s first exhibition in Spain, will present a comprehensive overview of her artistic practice, spanning sculpture, drawing, ceramics, installations, and film. Conceived in close dialogue with the architecture and light of Centro Botín’s gallery spaces, the show will illuminate her engagement with prehistoric and ancestral symbols, as well as her inventive use of both organic and unconventional materials.
Curator: Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz
Itinerarios XXXI
November 21, 2026–April 2027
Since 1993, Fundación Botín has awarded its Art Grants annually to support Spanish and international artists in their training, research, and production. The annual Itineraries exhibition is the culmination of this fellowship and showcases a wide range of artistic interests and practices.
In 2026, the XXXI edition of Itineraries will feature the works of Elena Aitzkoa (Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain, 1984); Sahatsa Jauregi (Salvador de Bahía, Brazil, 1984); Naomi Rincón Gallardo Shimada (Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, 1979); Inmaculada Salinas (Guadalcanal, Seville, Spain, 1967); Mar Reykjavik (Valencia, Spain, 1995); and Lorenzo Sandoval (Madrid, Spain, 1980).
