MUSEO THYSSEN MADRID, ISABEL COIXET, COLLAGES. MUMBAI + LONDON, ON THE ANCIENT WORLD. BRITISH MUSEUM

Perspectivas 9 de junio de 2025

Isabel Coixet. Collages. Aprendizaje en la desobediencia La sala 30 del museo acoge a partir de mañana, y hasta el 14 de septiembre, una selección de collages realizados por la directora y guionista de cine Isabel Coixet (1960). Se trata de medio centenar de piezas presentadas en diferentes soportes y técnicas que van de lo digital al lienzo, pluma, cartón o táblex, entre otras, en las que Coixet emplea un lenguaje narrativo similar al que utiliza en sus películas. Comisariada por Estrella de Diego, esta muestra forma parte del programa de PhotoEspaña 2025.  LEER MÁS +

MUMBAI + LONDON, ON THE ANCIENT WORLD. BRITISH MUSEUM

Exhibition / 24 April 2025 – 11 January 2026

In partnership with

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) in Mumbai

Three sculptures from cultures rarely seen side by side have been brought together from ancient Egypt, the Mediterranean and India as part of a groundbreaking project.

Co-curated with one of India's leading museums, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), this display highlights the Mumbai museum's ambitious Ancient World Project, realised in collaboration with the British Museum as part of a long-standing partnership between the two institutions. It reflects the varied ways ancient civilisations imagined the divine and gave it physical form, using the same approach as a recent exhibition at CSMVS. The next phase of the project, opening in Mumbai in December 2025 will look more widely at ancient India's relationship with the world around it.

Standing in conversation with each other, the British Museum sculptures – of the Indian god Vishnu, the ancient Egyptian goddess Sekhmet and the Roman god Bacchus (or Greek Dionysos) – pose intriguing questions around how global co-curation can unlock new insights. Does seeing these sculptures together change the way we understand them? What do they have in common and what makes them distinct?

While the gods of ancient Egypt, the Greek world and Rome are no longer worshipped, India has maintained its traditions of sacred sculpture and religious practice. Seeing their depictions together opens up a space for looking at and thinking differently about ancient cultures. The display highlights how, in contrast to the focus on the ideal human body in Greek and Roman art, Indian gods, like ancient Egyptian deities, often combine human and animal form to convey spiritual meaning.

Find out more

To see more objects like these, visit the special exhibition Ancient India: living traditions (22 May – 19 October 2025) in The Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery; China and South Asia (Room 33), The Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery; Egyptian sculpture (Room 4); or The world of Alexander (Room 22).

Acknowledgements

This display has been co-curated by CSMVS curators Joyoti Roy and Vaidehi Savnal and British Museum curator Thorsten Opper.

The British Museum's work with CSMVS and the wider Ancient World Project (including this display) is generously funded by Getty through its Sharing Collections in India initiative. This is an international partnership dedicated to promoting a global understanding of the ancient world through collaborative cross-cultural exhibitions and educational programmes.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/mumbai-london-new-perspectives-ancient-world