Fundación Pablo Iglesias

Exposiciones / Presentación

As part of a general project dedicated to the recuperation of the history of left-wing politics and the memory of the recent past, the Foundation organises exhibitions for the public in general. The Foundation uses these shows to place figures that have been important to Spanish socialism (Pablo Iglesias) in their historical context, to commemorate landmarks of the history of democracy in Spain (women's right to vote, the 25th anniversary of the Spanish Constitution) or to make events whose meaning must be rethought by the collective conscience relevant once again in contemporary times (the exile of the Republicans, the exile of children during the Civil War).

Exhibitions have become one of the Foundation's most important activities and attain great public repercussion. They are also used to display the material deposited in the Foundation's Documentary Collection: posters, documents, photographs, letters, objects, works of art, etcetera.

	PABLO IGLESIAS 1875 - 1925 In 2000, the Foundation celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of Pablo Iglesias with an exhibition at the Retiro Park in Madrid that illustrated the different periods of the life and times of the founder of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.
	EXILE This exhibition presented images from the successive periods of the Spanish Republicans’ exile from 1939 to 1978: the retreat, the Diaspora, the second defeat, the trasterrados (long-term/permanent exiles), the wandering Numancia and the returnees. It was on show in Madrid, Granada, La Coruña and Cádiz.
	THE EXILE OF THE CHILDREN When the Spanish Civil War broke out, thousands of children had to leave Spain to escape the bombings, hunger and fear. The exhibition presented a reflection of their suffering, tracing their journey to the countries of destination and their subsequent experience there. It was on show in Bilbao, Barcelona, Salamanca, Seville, Badajoz, Valencia, Gijón, La Coruña, Saragossa and Madrid.
	WOMEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE 1877 - 1978 The exhibition used documents, objects and images to offer an itinerary along the history of how women conquered the right to vote, from the first American suffragettes to Spanish women in the 20th century. As well as in Madrid, it was on show in Granada, La Coruña and Seville.
	WORDS AND IMAGES: 25 Years of the Spanish Constitution To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Spanish Constitution, an exhibition was staged at the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Circle) in Madrid, gathering original graphic works by 25 Spanish artists for the Foundation's project.
	CIVIL WAR POSTERS The Pablo Iglesias Foundations has one of the best collections of Republican posters from the Spanish Civil War and the exhibition was used to present them to the public. It was on show in Madrid and other Spanish cities, as well as in Toulouse, Mexico City, Guatemala and Buenos Aires.
	WAR CORRESPONDENTS From among all the wars that have touched the world, there has been one of them which has had a special resonance and that joined together to a large number of journalists, writers, intellectuals and artists. The Spanish Civil War was the testing area for the world war and the last confront to which thousands of volunteers arrived from the whole world in order to fight for their ideas.
	SHIP ON LAND This exhibition, organised together with the Autonomous National University of México (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,UNAM), will be inaugurated next 27th of november in México FD. It includes the presence of Spain in México through the XXth century by images, reflections, documents and testimonies by means of three differentiated stages: the Spanish colony in Mexico up to the Civil War, the exile after the war and the definitive rootedness.
	TRANSITION PERIOD The expositive project introduces the Spanish transition as a collective work, opposite to the traditional presentation as a work of a few. It is shown the important role played by the Spanish society within the process, meanwhile it indicates politicians the way to be followed, mainly through the mobilization and the vote.
	FACING FASCISM 1.000 americans are estimated to have died in the Spanish Civil War fighting for protecting the government of the Republic democratically chosen, against the militar uprising. Hundreds of young people from New York fought in the Jarama battles, Belchite and in many other Spanish cities, and many of them died. Grouped in the Lincoln Brigade, they were integrant part of the International Brigades.
	JUAN NEGRIN This exhibition, performed by the State Society of Cultural Commemorations, the Pablo Iglesias Foundation, the Juan Negrín Foundation and the Town Council of Madrid contributes to recover the figure of this significant scientist and master of scientists, politician and the last President of the Board of Ministers of the Second Republic, who has been up to nowadays, moreover, one of the great relegated within the history of the Spanish socialism.