Culture

As part of its commitment to artistic, historic and cultural heritage, Iberdrola group organises different art-related initiatives, undertakes lighting and restoration projects for historic buildings, promotes cultural events and collaborates on worthy publications.

Through its foundation, Iberdrola collaborates with the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum on social inclusion initiatives seeking to enable children, young people and adults to gain access and take part in accordance with their particular individual needs.

Iberdrola has collaborated with the Prado Museum since 2010, when it established a partnership that took the form of support for conservation and restoration programs as well as sponsorship of several exhibitions. Since 2018 it has also been a Patron of the museum.

The noteworthy patronage work of the company is materialised in a very special way with its permanent collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, of which it has been its sponsor since it was opened. According to such a commitment, Iberdrola has supported different exhibitions and initiatives of the Guggenheim museum.

The car, with its links to design, art, cities, technology and the future, is the protagonist of the exhibition Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture, inaugurated in April at the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao. Its curator, the architect Norman Foster, one of the most renowned on the international scene, is a self-confessed lover of automobiles: he collects them, admires them, drives them and now exhibits them. As a result of this passion, the cars are presented in the exhibition as aesthetic works on wheels accompanied by related works of art, which in turn reflect on the past and the future.

A history professor specialising in art, Javier González de Durana has curated the exhibition Jorge Oteiza and Eduardo Chillida. Dialogue of the 50s and 60s, which arrives at the San Telmo Museum in San Telmo, San Sebastian, on 8 April after its visit to Valencia. The exhibition, which includes works on loan from Iberdrola, presents for the first time the creations of two of the most internationally renowned Spanish sculptors of the 20th century. The most relevant thing for Durana is that the exhibition is not about the personal confrontation between the two artists, but about the years of friendship, encounter and mutual learning. An opportunity for healing art.