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Banco Santander Collection
The foundation is responsible for preserving, promoting and researching the Banco Santander Collection, made up of more than one thousand paintings, drawings, sculptures, decorative arts, banknotes and coins produced between the third century BC and the present day.
In order to publicise its holdings, the foundation arranges loans of items to other museums and institutions and carries out different multimedia projects. The latest is “Vívela”, an audiovisual series in which culture industry professionals discuss the links between works in the collection and their own fields or relevant themes and issues (gender equality, sustainability, etc.). In 2023, the third season of “Vívela” consisted of three episodes, dedicated to travel, the performing arts and music, with the participation of Las Hijas de Felipe and Lucía Mbomío, Manuela Velasco and Rafael R. Villalobos, and Niño de Elche and Zahara, respectively.
In 2022, the foundation launched a new programme called Investiga Colección Banco Santander, which promotes in-depth research into the collection from an innovative cross-cutting perspective. A more detailed description of this programme can be found in the section on art-related calls.
Nicanor Piñole
María Teresa González del Valle
Exhibition "Em boa memória. Retrato, Humanidade e Futuro". Edifício dos Leões-Espaço Santander, Lisbon 18.12.2021–29.01.2023
Ignacio Zuloaga
Las tres primas (sketch)
Exhibition "Em boa memória. Retrato, Humanidade e Futuro". Edifício dos Leões-Espaço Santander, Lisbon 18.12.2021–29.01.2023
Circle of Giuseppe Bonito
Carlos III
Exhibition "Em boa memória. Retrato, Humanidade e Futuro". Edifício dos Leões-Espaço Santander, Lisbon 18.12.2021–29.01.2023
Mariano Benlliure
José Gómez-Acebo y Cortina, III marqués de Cortina
Exhibition "Em boa memória. Retrato, Humanidade e Futuro". Edifício dos Leões-Espaço Santander, Lisbon 18.12.2021–29.01.2023
Francisco de Goya (copy)
Portrait of Meléndez Valdés
Exhibition "Em boa memória. Retrato, Humanidade e Futuro". Edifício dos Leões-Espaço Santander, Lisbon 18.12.2021–29.01.2023
Anonymous follower of Goya
María Consolación Azlor, condesa de Bureta
Exhibition "Em boa memória. Retrato, Humanidade e Futuro". Edifício dos Leões-Espaço Santander, Lisbon 18.12.2021–29.01.2023
Círculo de Velázquez
Circle of Velázquez
Exhibition "Em boa memória. Retrato, Humanidade e Futuro". Edifício dos Leões-Espaço Santander, Lisbon 18.12.2021–29.01.2023
Joaquín Sorolla
Portrait
Exhibition "Em boa memória. Retrato, Humanidade e Futuro". Edifício dos Leões-Espaço Santander, Lisbon 18.12.2021–29.01.2023
Joaquín Sorolla
Portrait of Calixto Rodríguez
Exhibition "Em boa memória. Retrato, Humanidade e Futuro". Edifício dos Leões-Espaço Santander, Lisbon 18.12.2021–29.01.2023
José Gutiérrez Solana
Valentín Ruiz Senén
Exhibition "Em boa memória. Retrato, Humanidade e Futuro". Edifício dos Leões-Espaço Santander, Lisbon 18.12.2021–29.01.2023
Amalia Avia
Puerta del monigote
Exhibition "El Japón en Los Ángeles. Los archivos de Amalia Avia". Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid 23.09.2022–15.01.2023
José Gutiérrez Solana
Mujeres vistiéndose (Coristas de pueblo)
Exhibition "José Gutiérrez Solana. Obras invitadas". Museo Carmen Thyssen, Málaga 07.11.2023–28.01.2024
José Gutiérrez Solana
La casa del arrabal (Las chicas del arrabal)
Exhibition "José Gutiérrez Solana. Obras invitadas". Museo Carmen Thyssen, Málaga 07.11.2023–28.01.2024
Pablo Ruiz Picasso
Busto de caballero III
"La Obra Invitada" exhibition. Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao 18.10.2023–10.03.2024
Manuel Millares
Homúnculo
Exhibition "¿Qué humanidad? La figura humana después de la guerra (1940–1966)". Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona 27.10.2023–11.02.2024
El Greco
Christ Crucified with Toledo in the Background
Exhibition "El Greco. Un pintor en el laberinto". Palazzo Reale, Milan 11.10.2023–25.02.2024
Patricia Gadea
Diosas, esposas, rameras y esclavas
Exhibition "La ocupación. Carta blanca a Cabello/Carceller". Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid 07.10.2023–10.03.2024
Joaquín Sorolla
Niños buscando mariscos
Exhibition "Los veranos de Sorolla". Fundación Mapfre, Madrid 22.09.2023–07.01.2024
Joaquín Vaquero Palacios
Templo de Apolo en Corinto
Exhibition "Natureza Viva, Paisagem e Sustentabilidade". Edifício dos Leões-Espaço Santander, Lisbon 07.06.2023–31.01.2024
Evaristo Valle
Vagabundos
Exhibition "Natureza Viva, Paisagem e Sustentabilidade". Edifício dos Leões-Espaço Santander, Lisbon 07.06.2023–31.01.2024
Darío de Regoyos
Altos hornos de Bilbao
Exhibition "Natureza Viva, Paisagem e Sustentabilidade". Edifício dos Leões-Espaço Santander, Lisbon 07.06.2023–31.01.2024
Genaro Pérez Villaamil
La catedral de Sevilla por el lado de las gradas
Exhibition "Natureza Viva, Paisagem e Sustentabilidade". Edifício dos Leões-Espaço Santander, Lisbon 07.06.2023–31.01.2024
Joaquim Mir
Aigües roges (Aguas rojas)
Exhibition "Natureza Viva, Paisagem e Sustentabilidade". Edifício dos Leões-Espaço Santander, Lisbon 07.06.2023–31.01.2024
Cirilo Martínez Novillo
Paisaje con figuras
Exhibition "Natureza Viva, Paisagem e Sustentabilidade". Edifício dos Leões-Espaço Santander, Lisbon 07.06.2023–31.01.2024
Johan de Lagoor
Paisaje con cuatro árboles
Exhibition "Natureza Viva, Paisagem e Sustentabilidade". Edifício dos Leões-Espaço Santander, Lisbon 07.06.2023–31.01.2024
José Beulas
Toledo
Exhibition "Natureza Viva, Paisagem e Sustentabilidade". Edifício dos Leões-Espaço Santander, Lisbon 07.06.2023–31.01.2024
Joaquín Sorolla
Agustín Otermín
Exhibition "Sorolla en negro". Centro Cultural Bancaja, Valencia 05.05.2023–10.09.2023
Rafael Martínez Padilla
Mar y cielo
Exhibition "Costa Brava. El descubrimiento del paraíso (1870–1936)". Museu d'Art, Girona 15.04.2023–17.09.2023
Santander Art Gallery
Grupo Santander City, located in the town of Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, has an art gallery that can be visited free of charge where selected works from the bank's art collection are on display.
At this venue, the foundation organises activities (seminars, workshops, talks, guided tours, etc.) for Grupo Santander employees and their families as well as other communities.
Between 1 March and 15 November, employees were invited to attend six talks titled “Sobremesa con...” [Table Talk with...], where Rodrigo Muñoz Avia, María López, Ianko López, Tania Pardo, Joaquín Gallego and Marta Pérez Ibáñez discussed artists and works in the collection.
Two shows were also offered: an improv theatre session on 18 May to mark International Museum Day, and a gospel concert on 19 December to celebrate the holiday season.
Workshops about the Banco Santander Collection were held every Saturday from March to December. The family workshops combined fun and learning to introduce children to the art world. Meanwhile, in the workshops intended for different groups, contemporary women artists presented creative practices that connected works in the collection to different themes or topics (nature, astronomy, tales of love and desire, etc.).
Exhibitions
Fundación Banco Santander views art as a social and educational tool with an important mediating purpose.
In addition to displaying an ample selection of works from the bank's art collection at the Santander Art Gallery, the foundation participates in exhibitions organised by other museums and cultural institutions.
The following pages provide details on the shows held during 2023 in partnership with Patrimonio Nacional, Banco Santander Portugal and the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon, the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao.
Fundación Banco Santander sponsored the first temporary exhibition organised at the Royal Collections Gallery by Patrimonio Nacional, the Spanish heritage agency.
The show is a chronological survey of the history of the carriage in Spain and its importance for the public image of the monarchy between the sixteenth and the twentieth century. It features seven coaches, five small vehicles and two motorcars, as well as paintings, tapestries, trunks, uniforms and other objects related to royal travel that put the pieces in historical context.
Visitors can use touchscreens to explore the interior of the vehicles, and an audiovisual production about the Royal Stables explains how carriages have been used over the centuries.
The official opening of En movimiento. Vehículos y carruajes de Patrimonio Nacional [In Motion: Carriages and Other Vehicles in Patrimonio Nacional’s Collections] took place on 25 July 2023, with the king and queen presiding. The show will remain open to the public until September 2024.
Royal Collections Gallery, Madrid.
The foundation, Banco Santander Portugal and the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon co-organised this show held at the Edifício dos Leões from 7 June 2023 to 31 January 2024.
It features works from the collections of all three institutions—Banco Santander, Banco Santander Portugal and Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga—made between the sixteenth and the twentieth century, as well as contemporary creations by Portuguese artists like Vhils, Bordalo II, João Cutileiro and Joana Vasconcelos.
This journey through European art history explored humanity's relationship with nature via three core themes: the idealised landscape, the humanised landscape, and the quest for a new landscape.
Edifício dos Leões-Espaço Santander, Lisbon.
In 2023 the foundation and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao presented two new editions of the exhibition programme La Obra Invitada [The Guest Work], which commemorated two important dates in the history of art: the centenary of Sorolla’s death and the fiftieth anniversary of Picasso’s.
Several pieces from the Museo Sorolla collection were on display from 10 July to 15 October 2023: two canvases titled Bajo el toldo. Playa de Zarauz (1910) and Playa de Zarauz (1910), four life drawings of female figures, and a photograph of the artist painting outdoors in that coastal town belonging to the Basque province of Gipuzkoa.
From 18 October 2023 to 10 March 2024, the museum exhibited two works from the final period of Picasso's career: Busto de caballero III (1967) from the Banco Santander Collection, and Mousquetaire à la pipe (1968) from the Artium Museoa in Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao.
The foundation joined forces with the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) to organise this free exhibition of a selection of the works created during the five editions of the CNIO Arte programme since it was first introduced in 2018.
The show featured three photographs, two videos, fifty-nine drawings and four collages by five Spanish artists (Eva Lootz, Chema Madoz, Carmen Calvo, Daniel Canogar and Susana Solano) inspired by the work of five researchers in different scientific fields (Margarita Salas, Ignacio Cirac, Juan Luis Arsuaga, Sarah Teichmann and Pedro Alonso).
Visitors were able to see the exhibition at the Instituto Cervantes in New York from 2 February to 15 April 2023, the Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain in Washington, D.C., from 27 April to 30 June 2023, and the Instituto Cervantes in Chicago from 25 October 2023 to 25 January 2024.
Instituto Cervantes, New York and Chicago.
Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain, Washington, D.C.
Supporting Artistic Production
Derivada is a Fundación Banco Santander programme that supports contemporary artists, sponsors the production of works on paper and promotes collecting.
The featured artist in 2023, Ira Lombardía, created a work titled Vessel for the occasion, inspired by the age-old depiction of the female body as a receptacle. As contemporary art expert Bea Espejo explained in the accompanying text, her piece explores classical iconography and reviews the conventions regarding the image of the feminine throughout the history of art.
Vessel was exhibited at the Estampa fair, held in Madrid from 19 to 22 October, along with the rest of the works made by the artists who have participated in the programme since it began in 2018.
Fundación Banco Santander and the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have been the driving forces behind this initiative that explores the relationship between art and science since 2018.
For the sixth edition, visual artist Amparo Garrido drew inspiration from Elisabeth Blackburn, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, and her studies of how stress affects telomere length in order to create a short titled Meditación [Meditation]. This film narrates the artist’s journey to Extremadura in search of the serenity needed to reverse the shortening of these DNA sequences at the ends of our chromosomes.
Meditación had its first screening at the CNIO on 15 February and was on display from 22 to 26 February at ARCOmadrid, the international contemporary art fair. As usual, the sale proceeds were used to fund cancer research at the CNIO.
Supporting Collectors
For the last thirteen years, the foundation has sponsored this programme, which offers free advice to prospective contemporary art buyers during the ARCOmadrid fair with the aim of making collecting available to a wider audience and promoting artistic production.
Experts from Arte Global, the international consulting firm that manages First Collector, supplies interested visitors with a selection of galleries, artists and works suited to their interests and budget. Moreover, since 2020 this service has also been available in digital format, giving participants the option of receiving this personalised information on their phones.
Fundación Banco Santander sponsors the contemporary art fair Estampa and two of the activities in its Colecciona programme: the Colecciona [Collect] seminar and “De la mano de un coleccionista” [A Collector’s Guide].
At the tenth Colecciona seminar, divided into six sessions held between 16 March and 3 June, various architects and art collectors came together to discuss the latter’s relationship with the architectural designs they commission to display, store and preserve their collections.
While the fair was open, from 19 to 22 October, it also offered “De la mano de un coleccionista”, in which a member of the 9915 Association gives participants guided tours of the galleries they find most interesting and explains why they chose them.
The foundation sponsored the 10th Collecting, Contemporary Art and Society seminar at the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP) in Santander.
From 17 to 19 July, participants reflected on how the contemporary art scene has evolved over the last decade and attempted to predict future changes in the short and medium term. New forms of collecting and patronage, current communication strategies and channels, and the shifting relations between artists and society were among the topics of discussion.
Calls
The second call for submissions to this research grant programme, created with the aim of gaining a deeper knowledge of the Banco Santander Collection, was issued on 18 April and ended on 18 May.
The programme is open to individual researchers, collectives, groups and organisations. Candidates can submit proposals to study works and/or artists in the collection from the perspective of any discipline or field of knowledge, and their research may be presented in different formats depending on the contents (article, dossier, podcast, audiovisual piece, curatorial project, etc.).
In 2023, a committee of independent experts and Fundación Banco Santander members chose the following projects: Arte, energía y transformación: una lectura sobre recursos y materialidad en las colecciones del Banco Santander, by curator Alejandro Alonso, and El universo inmaterial de las pinturas de José Gutiérrez Solana de la Colección Banco Santander, by Asociación para el Estudio del Mueble.
In partnership with Wikiesfera, the foundation organised an editing marathon on 27 May in Santander to remedy the lack of Wikipedia content about certain topics and groups.
The goal of this second edition was to create entries about some of Cantabria’s endangered heritage assets on Hispania Nostra’s “Red List”.
After a practical session to learn how to use the editing tool, participants composed entries on the following Cantabrian cultural assets: the Palace of Ceballos (Santa María de Cayón), Rigada Tower (Ribamontán al Monte), the water supply system of El Chorrillo (Castro Urdiales), the old schools of Terán (Cabuérniga), the cartulary from the Monastery of San Salvador de Oña (Archivo Provincial de Cantabria), the lazareto or leper hospital of Abaño (San Vicente de la Barquera), the Cave of Las Brujas (Suances), the Caserío Redondo farm (Molledo), the cave church of Campo Ebro, the Palace of Revillagigedo (Ramales de la Victoria) and the Cave of Los Emboscados (Ruesga).
Partnerships
Fundación Banco Santander sponsors the Francisco Calvo Serraller lecture series, organised by the Foundation of Friends of the Prado Museum to publicise the rich heritage preserved at the museum.
The series titled “Los fastos del gótico. El arte de la última Edad Media”, held between 3 October 2023 and 12 March 2024, explored the aesthetic universe of the fifteenth century in all its varied expressions and disciplines: painting, precious metalwork, set design, music, astrology, etc.
The foundation is a corporate friend of the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Its support, along with that of other businesses and institutions, helps to preserve and promote the museum's collection and organise the different activities on its cultural programme (temporary exhibitions, guided and educational tours, courses, lectures, workshops, concerts, cinema, etc.).
Fundación Banco Santander is one of several organisations that contributes to the upkeep of this museum and the conservation of its holdings. Artium’s collection is dedicated to contemporary art, especially works made from the 1950s to the present day, and therefore offers valuable insight into the creative output of the Basque Country in recent decades.
The foundation is a protector-level partner of this independent association of contemporary art professionals that seeks the benefit of the entire art community.
The IAC works to implement best practices at art centres and museums and pursues initiatives that aim to perfect the institutional network devoted to the creative endeavours of today and encourage a new social perception and the international promotion of Spanish contemporary art.
Fundación Banco Santander is a collaborating partner of this association, which aims to provide solutions to the problems faced by private collectors of contemporary art in Spain.
To this end, it offers training, mediation and guidance for its members and organises working groups and activities such as exhibitions, courses and lectures.