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The collection contains over a thousand pieces which span the period from the second century BC to the present day. Although paintings comprise the bulk of the collection, it also includes sculptures, decorative arts, and a significant selection of coins and notes.
The foundation is responsible for promoting the study and public awareness of these works.
Its responsibilities include facilitating loans to other museums and cultural institutions and carrying out various audiovisual initiatives. The foundation’s website offers detailed information and high-resolution images of selected pieces in the collection, as well as the “Vívela” video series, ten episodes in which prominent figures in the culture industry invite us to consider the works from different angles (craft, fashion, food, music, etc.).
Constant research into the collection gave rise, in 2024, to a revised edition of the catalogue with updated information on its works and artists. The third edition of Investiga Colección Banco Santander, the research grant programme, was also organised to encourage cross-cutting, innovative studies of the collection. The conclusions of some of the research papers submitted to this programme are published under the title recolección.
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
José Gutiérrez Solana
El espejo de la muerte
Exhibition «Esperpento. Arte popular y revolución estética». Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid 09.10.2024-10.03.2025
José Gutiérrez Solana
Bodegón de la lombarda
Exhibition «Modernidad latente. Vanguardistas y renovadores en la figuración española (1920-1970). Colección Telefónica». Museo Carmen Thyssen, Málaga
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
Cristo agonizante con Toledo al fondo
Exhibition «El Greco. Un pintor en el laberinto» Palazzo Reale, Milán 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
Genaro Pérez Villaamil
La procesión del Corpus en el interior de la catedral de Sevilla
Exhibition «Sedes Hispalensis: Fons Pietatis». Cathedral of Sevilla 03.11.2024-20.12.2024
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
Baile en el café Novedades de Sevilla
Exhibition «Sorolla, cien años de modernidad». Galería de las Colecciones Reales, Madrid 17.10.2024-30.04.2025
Niki de Saint Phalle
Bailarina
Exhibition «Agnès Varda. Fotografiar, filmar, reciclar». Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona 17.07.2024-08.12.2024
Investiga Colección Banco Santander
The foundation issued the third call for submissions to this research grant programme, created to promote a better understanding of the Banco Santander Collection. The programme is open to individual researchers, groups and non-profit organisations.
Candidates may submit proposals to study the works that make up the collection from the perspective of any field of knowledge, and they can present their research in different formats depending on the content (article, dossier, audiovisual production, curatorial project, etc.).
A committee of independent experts and representatives of Fundación Banco Santander selected the two winners: Aarón Jara Calabuig for a research project that associates art and set design in the work of José Caballero, and Raquel Manrique Alcaide for her study of the historical frames in the collection.
Additionally, in 2024 the foundation launched recolección, an editorial series that publishes the best projects of each edition in Spanish and English. The debut of recolección featured one of the research papers selected following the first call for grant applicants: Art, Luxury and Magnificence: Tapestry in the Banco Santander Collection, by Jesús Félix Pascual Molina and Miguel Ángel Zalama Rodríguez.
Santander Art Gallery
The art gallery, located in Grupo Santander City in Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, opened in 2006 to provide a permanent home for the bank’s art collection.
Admission is free, and guided tours are available. The gallery is open to visitors from 10 am to 5 pm, Monday through Thursday, and from 10 am to 2 pm on Fridays.
The foundation also organises different activities for group employees at the gallery and offers a cultural mediation service based on education, social inclusion and community involvement with families, schools and diverse social groups.
From 21 February to 20 November, the foundation organised six sessions of “Sobremesa con...” [Table Talk with...], where experts from the art world discuss works and artists in the Banco Santander Collection. The guest speakers in 2024 were Elisa Hernando, Lucía Muñoz Iglesias, Nacho Ruiz, Mikel Chillida, Aritz González and Juan Francisco Rueda.
On 8 May, the improvisational theatre company Impromadrid gave a performance set in the Spanish Golden Age.
And, as a prelude to the Christmas holidays, on 11 December the Lavanda Jazz Band played classic swing tunes and carols set to swinging rhythms.
En 2024 tuvieron lugar diecisiete visitas para familias. Se trata de experiencias lúdicas pensadas para un público intergeneracional que conectan la colección con el paisaje circundante y las esculturas situadas en el exterior de la sala.
Se programaron también diecinueve talleres destinados a estudiantes de primaria, ESO y bachillerato procedentes de diversas escuelas públicas, y tres especialmente adaptados a los niños de 2 y 3 años que acuden a la Escuela Infantil de la Ciudad Grupo Santander.
Las actividades para comunidades se dirigen a diferentes grupos sociales que enriquecen la comprensión de las obras artísticas. A lo largo del año se organizaron once sesiones en las que participaron familias con menores en régimen de acogida, alumnos afectados por parálisis cerebral, y usuarios de dos centros de día para mayores y un centro ocupacional.
Exhibitions
The foundation manages the permanent exhibition of the bank’s art collection at the Santander Art Gallery in Grupo Santander City. Every so often, it rotates the works on display and refreshes the design and layout of rooms dedicated to certain genres or artists.
The foundation also participates in exhibitions organised by other museums and institutions. In 2024, it sponsored two editions of the exhibition programme La Obra Invitada [The Guest Work] at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao.
The art gallery, located in Grupo Santander City in Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, exhibits a selection of the works that comprise the bank’s art collection.
Visitors are able to admire Flemish, Dutch and Italian paintings from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as remarkable examples of Spanish painting ranging from the Middle Ages to today.
There are special areas dedicated to the canvases that Sert made to adorn the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, a survey of Gutiérrez Solana’s pictorial career, and several drawings by Nonell, Anglada Camarasa, Tàpies and Laffón.
The exhibition includes sculptures from the fifteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, although most are by major contemporary artists like Chirino, Chillida and Solano.
The decorative arts are represented by two strongboxes from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and several pottery pieces from the Alcora Royal Manufactory.
Finally, most of the coins and notes from the bank's impressive numismatic collection, which spans the history of the Iberian Peninsula, are also on display.
Sala de Arte Santander, Boadilla del Monte (Madrid)
The foundation works with the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao to organise two editions of the exhibition programme La Obra Invitada [The Guest Work] every year.
From 12 March to 2 June, the museum displayed three luxury items fashioned by the renowned armourers of Eugui, Navarre, and now in the Spanish Royal Collections managed by Patrimonio Nacional: a sallet (ca. 1596), a buckler depicting the Judgement of Paris (ca. 1598) and a harquebus (ca. 1620). They were accompanied by various nineteenth-century documents: an illustrated book containing the finest creations of those armourers, published by the medievalist Achille Jubinal; photographs by Charles Clifford and Jean Laurent; and a photo album belonging to the Count of Lipa.
From 29 October 2024 to 2 February 2025, the guest work was a selection of forty manuscripts from the Arriola-Lerchundi Library, dated to between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries, including books of hours, royal charters, liturgical books and patents of nobility. Displayed alongside them were several works of art from the museum's own collection—eleven paintings, one sculpture, one watercolour and two photographs—related to the manuscripts’ content.
Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao
Supporting Collectors
For the fourteenth consecutive year, the foundation sponsored this programme, which offers free advice to prospective contemporary art buyers during the ARCOmadrid fair. The service is provided by Arte Global, an international consulting firm specialised in art collecting and cultural projects.
From 6 to 10 March, its experts offered personalised recommendations of artists, galleries and works at the fair to anyone interested in starting or growing an art collection. The recommendations are always tailored to the collector’s tastes and budget. A digital version of this service has also been available since 2020, allowing users to receive buying suggestions on their phones.
Fundación Banco Santander sponsors two activities that are part of the Estampa contemporary art fair programme: the Colecciona seminar and “De la mano de un coleccionista” [A Collector’s Guide].
The eleventh edition of the seminar elaborated on the previous year’s theme: the relationship between contemporary art collectors and architecture. Between 6 April and 8 June, tours, conversations and lectures were offered in several buildings managed by private collectors of contemporary art to share their collections with the public.
“De la mano de un coleccionista” took place while the fair was open, from 17 to 20 October. In this programme, a collector from the 9915 Association gives guided tours of the gallery booths and artists they find most interesting. Emilio Mendoza, Juan Alfonso Contreras, and Fátima Rodríguez and Elías Cabrera led three tours in 2024.
The foundation sponsored the 11th Collecting, Contemporary Art and Society seminar at the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP) in Santander, organised on 15 and 16 July by Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo (IAC) and the 9915 Association of Private Contemporary Art Collectors.
This year’s seminar focused on professionalism in the culture industry and public-private sector partnerships as essential prerequisites for a healthy, flourishing art ecosystem.
Partnerships
The foundation sponsors the Francisco Calvo Serraller lecture series, organised by the Foundation of Friends of the Prado Museum.
From 1 October 2024 to 25 February 2025, the series titled “Entre el amor y la muerte. Las pasiones en el arte” explored how the passions, so fundamental to human life, have been represented in art throughout history.
The foundation is a corporate friend of the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. As such, it helps to preserve and promote the museum’s collection and facilitate the different activities it plans.
Fundación Banco Santander is one of several organisations that supports Artium Museoa. Its contribution aids the implementation of the museum's annual programme and the maintenance of its artistic assets, comprising works from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that have ties to the Basque Country.
The Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo (IAC) is an independent association that seeks the benefit of the entire art community in Spain. Its initiatives strive to promote the network of contemporary art institutions, ensure the implementation of best practices in the culture industry, and create a positive social perception of Spanish contemporary art.
Fundación Banco Santander is an institutional collaborating partner of this association, which defends the interests of private collectors of contemporary art in Spain. Thanks to this partnership, the foundation is able to share experiences and swap ideas and opinions with members of the collecting community.