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Atrium of the museum. Building designed by American architect Richard Meier |
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Introduction | |
MACBA Foundation is a private entity promoted in 1987 by a broad cross-section of Spanish civil society. Since that year, in the firm conviction that a city with an artistic and avantgarde background like Barcelona should have an internationally recognised contemporary art museum, the thirty-seven members of the Board and the thirty-three Founder Companies, with their generous contributions, marked the beginning of the future MACBA permanent art collection.
FMACBA is a non-profit organisation, autonomously and independently managed, and its task is to do with the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, with which it works in close cooperation. It represents civil society in the MACBA Consortium, the governing body of the Museum, which includes members of the Catalan Government, Barcelona Council and the Spanish Government.
Most of the Founder Companies continue to accredit, with notable periodic gifts, their confidence in the entity, which also has a growing number of private individuals and companies that help to consolidate the work undertaken by the founders.
Twenty years after its constitution, the Foundation has brought MACBA over 2000 works of art. It still persists in its purpose of enlarging the Collection year by year.
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Board of the FMACBA visiting the permanent collection |
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Board | |
The Board is the organ of government and representation of MACBA Foundation and its main aim is to see that the aims of the Foundation are fulfilled. It currently consists of thirty-eigth members, among them representatives of the Catalan Government, Barcelona Council and Diputació de Barcelona.
The Board, whose members work disinterestedly, is structured in a Delegate Committee and a number of working committees that make the management more efficient.
Honorary Chairman
S.M. la Reina Doña Sofía
Chairman
Leopoldo Rodés Castañé *
First Deputy Chairman
Javier de Godó Muntañola, Conde de Godó*
Second Deputy Chairman
Lola Mitjans de Vilarasau *
Treasurer
Pedro de Esteban *
Secretary
Oscar Calderón de Oya *
Board Members
Macià Alavedra i Moner *
Manuel Alorda Escalona
Isak Andic Ermay
Plácido Arango Arias
Núria Basi More
Joan-Jordi Bergós
José Felipe Bertrán de Caralt
Elena Calderón de Oya *
Artur Carulla Font
Josep M. Catà i Virgili *
José Francisco de Conrado i Villalonga
Diputació de Barcelona
Josep Ferrer i Sala
Bruno Figueras
Santiago Fisas i Ayxelá
Ricard Fornesa i Ribó
Bonaventura Garriga i Brutau
Joan Gaspart i Solves
Liliana Godia Guardiola
Dinath de Grandi
José Mª Juncadella Salisachs *
Lady Jinty Latymer
Alfonso Líbano Daurella
Hans Meinke
Casimir Molins i Ribot
Ramon Negra Valls
Marian Puig i Planas
Maria Reig Moles
Jordi Soley i Mas
Josep Suñol Soler
Marta Uriach Torelló
Mercedes Vilá Recolons
Victoria Ybarra de Oriol, Baronesa de Güell
Juan Ybarra Mendaro
* Members of the Executive Commission
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Fundació MACBA Workshop |
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The Workshop | |
In 1997 the Board of MACBA Foundation decided to set up a working party consisting of young people from the worlds of culture and business who would bring new ideas and dynamism to the Foundation. Thus the MACBA Foundation Workshop was created with two basic goals: to procure funds that will enable the institution to perform its task of acquisition of works for the Collection, and to help strengthen the presence of MACBA in society.
Today the Workshop has thirty six members who carry out different activities, such as the organisation of an annual fundraising event, visits to exhibitions at MACBA with commentaries by the curators, colloquium-dinners with leading figures from the art world, children’s programmes designed to make them more familiar with art and, lastly, the organisation of cultural trips to different places around the world which are extended to all associates of FMACBA.
The Workshop is made up of:
Manuel Barbié Nogaret
José Luis Blanco Ruiz
Berta Caldentey Cabré
Eulalia Caspar
Cristina Castañer Sauras
Miriam Cavero
Pilar Cortada Boada
Mª José de Esteban Ferrer
Pedro Domenech Clavell
María Entrecanales Franco
Rafael Ferrater Zaforteza
Josep Gaspart i Bueno
Ezequiel Giró Amigó
Pedro González Grau
Teresa Guardans de Waldburg
Pilar Líbano Daurella
Juan Lladó Arburúa
Álvaro López Lamadrid
Ignacio Malet Perdigó
Jaime Malet Perdigó
Cristina Marsal Périz
Mercedes Mas de Xaxàs Faus
Ignacio Mas de Xaxàs Faus
Àngels Miquel i Vilanova
Jordi Prenafeta
Sara Puig Alsina
Jordi Pujol Ferrusola
Juan Ribas Araquistain
Alfonso Rodés Vilá
Miguel Soler-Roig
Miguel Suqué Mateu
Francesc Surroca Cabeza
Tomas Tarruella Esteva
Álvaro Vilá Recolons
Neus Viu Rebés
Alex Wagenberg |
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First stone in the building of the museum |
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Task | |
At the founding event held on 6 May 1987 the primordial aim of FMACBA was established: the creation of a major art collection for MACBA. Nevertheless the artistic criteria of selection and formation of the Collection are the competence of the director of the Museum, with the assistance of an Advisory Committee of recognised international prestige.
Another of the most important tasks of the Foundation is the constant promotion of the Museum and the publication of its calendar of exhibitions and activities. As a result of this joint enterprise, in recent years there has been a substantial increase in the number of visitors to all the events programmed by MACBA, which now enjoys indisputable credit all over the world.
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Contact | |
Plaça del Àngels, 1, 08001 Barcelona.
Tel: +34 93 412 12 70
Fax: +34 93 301 10 44
e-mail: fmacba@macba.cat
STAFF
Director: Ainhoa Grandes
Fundraising Department: Isabel Crespo y Ariadna Delgado
Secretariat and Administration: Clara Domínguez |
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