Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM)

Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) occupies a historic mansion in Spain, combining stone walls with vaulted rooms. Its main façade has carried neon and text-based interventions. Inside, exhibitions bring conceptual installations, moving-image works and site-specific projects into conversation with the building.

The centre’s programme spans modern and contemporary art, catalogues and installations adapted to its individual rooms. A Carlos Garaicoa exhibition traces the artist’s movement from urban ruins towards vegetation and natural resistance. Pandemic conditions led him back to drawing, including trees growing through damaged architecture. The works question pressure on animals, plants and resources, and the possibility of coexistence. Public programmes and guided visits accompany the exhibitions.

Earlier projects included Joseph Kosuth’s neon work and Teresa Serrano’s videos about gender and social violence. Kosuth turned the principal façade into a multilingual meditation on meaning. That contrast leaves stone, vaulted rooms and neon together in one architectural image.