The Collection

Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma has an important collection of more than 900 works of art. The initial core of the collection features the donation and loan of artworks from the Fundació d’Art Serra and its founding president, Pere A. Serra Bauzà, together with works deposited by Palma City Council, the Council of Mallorca and the Government of the Balearic Islands. This is complemented by acquisitions, donations and subsequent loans made by artists, collectors and other entities, such as the Barrié Foundation and its International Contemporary Painting Collection.

The Es Baluard Museu Collection has its starting point in a series of works representing the pictorial modernism of the late 19th century and early 20th century. This is followed by work by leading artists from various avant-garde movements, continuing through to the tendencies that emerged in the 1960s and afterwards (conceptual art, minimalism, the new figuration, amongst others), bringing us to the present day.

The main artists and movements that have coalesced on the Balearic Islands in the past and still today, in dialogue with national and international art contexts, comprise a complex corpus. In response to this, the collection has undergone continual evolution since its first public presentation on 30 January 2004, when Es Baluard Museu was officially opened.

In this permanent Exhibition Hall of the Collection, some of its most representative works are on display. The Es Baluard Museu Collection has been activated to encourage reflection, as a principal and fundamental instrument for knowledge and research, thus facilitating the telling of art history. In this particular case, we see the gradual rupture of pictorial space and a series of historical advances that have been essential for understanding abstraction and the multiple variants of contemporary painting.