Anna Weyant

As part of the exhibition programme based on the Blanca and Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, the museum is presenting the work of Canadian artist Anna Weyant (Calgary, 1995). Curated by Guillermo Solana in close collaboration with Gagosian, this is the artist's first monographic exhibition to be hosted by a museum. It includes some twenty paintings selected from her recent work. 

Weyant’s works display a wealth of artistic references spanning from the Baroque to the first half of the 1900s – periods that are well represented in the Thyssen collections. They are brought into dialogue with a selection of paintings from the permanent collection on view alongside them. 

Known for her paintings featuring young women, she captures a world suspended between the dreamlike and the everyday in a figurative style well shaped in tradition. Her enigmatic iconography nods to both contemporary American popular culture and interwar modernist movements such as surrealism.