Juan Navarro Baldeweg, ‘Navarro Baldeweg. Hacer y azar’ at CentroCentro
CentroCentro, Madrid
08 July 2025
As Madrid’s CentroCentro unveils ‘Navarro Baldeweg. Hacer y azar’ (Doing and Chance) on view from 12 June to 2 November 2025, a sweeping retrospective of Juan Navarro Baldeweg’s multifaceted career, Opera Gallery proudly echoes this showcase by exhibiting works by the artist in ‘Summer Vibes III’, currently on view in our Madrid space until 30 August.
Curated by Ignacio Moreno Rodríguez, ‘Hacer y azar’ marks Navarro Baldeweg’s long-awaited return to a Madrid institution after more than a decade. This landmark exhibition brings together over 70 works—paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings, photographs, and architectural models—spanning six decades of practice, from 1963 to 2025. It includes pieces from major public and private collections such as MNCARS, IVAM, and the Lafuente Archive, as well as the artist’s own holdings. Notably, several of Navarro Baldeweg’s most recent works, created in the past two years, are shown for the first time.
The show also underscores Baldeweg’s insistence on art’s rootedness in the physical world—how human perception, natural forces, and sensory experience coalesce in artistic creation. In this light, his architecture is not separate from his painting, but an extension of the same inquiry into light, structure, and spatial intuition.
Juan Navarro Baldeweg stands as one of Spain’s most singular and respected creative figures. Trained as an architect, he has received some of the country’s highest honours in both architecture and the visual arts, including the National Prize for Plastic Arts and the Gold Medal for Fine Arts. His work is held in institutions such as the Pompidou Center, Getty Villa, and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Opera Gallery is honoured to feature Navarro Baldeweg in ‘Summer Vibes III’, offering collectors and visitors a unique opportunity to engage with his artistic vision in dialogue with the CentroCentro exhibition. We invite you to experience both exhibitions this summer and discover the rich, poetic logic of an artist who continues to shape the visual language of our time.
