CaixaForum's new program: Alice in Wonderland, alien life and Peter Paul Rubens

Barcelona's CaixaForum, one of the city's most visited museums, presented its program for the 2024-2025 season on Tuesday.

The museum is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and with the season's theme of 'Growing within culture,' the museum will focus on enhancing the user experience.

'Alice in Wonderland' will take center stage, with the largest exhibition of its kind in the world.

Starting October 17, the exhibition 'The Worlds of Alicia. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' will analyze its cultural impact almost 160 years after its creation by English author Lewis Carroll.

In collaboration with London's Victoria and Albert Museum, the exhibition will be theatrical and immersive, exploring its impact on art, cinema, fashion and science.

Aliens. Is there life outside the Earth? 

The CosmoCaixa Science Museum in Barcelona, also managed by the La Caixa Foundation, will host an exhibition on extraterrestrial life.

From February 25 to October 19, the exhibition will explore the fascination for extraterrestrial life and how it has been portrayed in cinema, art and literature.

The exhibition will also project some possible future scenarios through technology and science, including interactive elements, models, real pieces and audiovisual works.

Peter Paul Rubens  

Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, the most influential artist in the Flemish Baroque tradition, will be the focus of CaixaForum from 28 May.   

With collections from Madrid's Museo del Prado, Rubens' works will be in dialogue with other artists such as Van Dyck, Jordaens and Brueghel.  

Around sixty works will be on display, including 'The Birth of Apollo and Diana', 'The Death of Seneca' and 'The Immaculate Conception.' 

The Weimar Republic 

Starting in April, the exhibition 'Uncertain Times. Interwar Germany' will focus on the tumultuous years of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933).

Combining art, film, music, and interactive elements, the exhibition will show how these times of uncertainty became the spirit of an era.

The novelist Thomas Mann, the artist Käthe Kollwitz, the painters Otto Dix and Jeanne Mammen, and the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein were all influenced by this period.