Palma’s Casal Solleric will inaugurate two new artistic proposals next Thursday, 30 April: “Wunderkammer”, by renowned international photographer Joan Fontcuberta, and “Había en el fondo del mar”, by artist Nuria Mora.
The exhibitions were presented this Monday by Palma City Council’s first deputy mayor and councillor for Culture, Javier Bonet, accompanied by artists Joan Fontcuberta and Nuria Mora, the curators of the exhibitions, Iván de la Nuez and Pilar Rubí, and Cort’s general coordinator for Culture and Tourism, Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta.
A delegation from the Toni Catany International Photography Centre Foundation also attended, headed by its president, Lluís Segura, and its director, Antoni Garau.
“Wunderkammer”, one of the major highlights of Mallorca PhotoFest
The exhibition “Wunderkammer” forms part of the “Galàxia Fontcuberta” project, created through the collaboration between Palma City Council and the Toni Catany Foundation. This proposal is structured around two venues and two complementary exhibitions.
On the one hand, “Wunderkammer” can be visited at Casal Solleric until 5 July. On the other, the Toni Catany Foundation, based in Llucmajor, will host “La vía láctea. Retratar árboles”, which will open on Wednesday, 29 April and remain open to the public until 27 September.
Fontcuberta’s exhibition in Palma proposes a non-linear journey through history, with references ranging from dinosaurs to the Spanish conquest of America and Darwin’s research. The proposal is part of the first edition of Mallorca PhotoFest, a festival that takes over from Palma Photo and has been launched by the gallery association Art Palma Contemporani, with the support of institutions and organisations.
During the presentation, the councillor for Culture, Javier Bonet, highlighted “the immense honour” it represents for Palma and for Casal Solleric to host the work of an artist with more than five decades of experience in photography, teaching, essay writing and exhibition curation.
Joan Fontcuberta, an international benchmark in photography
Born in Barcelona in 1955, Joan Fontcuberta is one of the leading figures in contemporary photography. His work forms part of collections held by major international institutions such as the MoMA in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the MACBA in Barcelona and the IVAM in Valencia.
Throughout his career, he has received major awards, including the National Photography Award in 1998 and the prize awarded by the Hasselblad Foundation in 2013. In 2021, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Sorbonne University in Paris, and in 2026 the Government of Catalonia granted him the Creu de Sant Jordi.
Nuria Mora presents “Había en el fondo del mar”
Alongside Fontcuberta’s exhibition, Casal Solleric will also host “Había en el fondo del mar”, an intervention by Nuria Mora conceived specifically for this cultural space in Palma.
The proposal forms part of the programme for the new edition of Biennal B, a cultural event promoted by the Consell de Mallorca and Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma.
Mora’s intervention takes the form of an underwater setting in which visitors can discover different treasures connected to the building’s architecture. The artist has developed a proposal that engages directly with the spaces of Casal Solleric and its heritage dimension.
A career linked to international contemporary art
Born in Madrid in 1974, Nuria Mora has a solid artistic career and has exhibited her work in international galleries and museums such as Tate Modern in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Johannesburg and the Roman Forum Hall of the Ambrosian Library in Milan, where she developed her most recent project, entitled “Cinderella”.
This will not be the first time Mora has presented her work in Mallorca. The artist has previously exhibited at the Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation, as well as at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, Matadero Madrid and La Casa Encendida.
For the organisation of this exhibition, Palma City Council has collaborated with the Club Marítimo de Palma and Gerreria Pere Coll, located in Pòrtol, Marratxí, where the artist has been preparing her intervention.
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