The New World Order: An exhibition by Kepa Garraza
16.12.2025
Exhibition at Sala de Exposiciones Hospedería Fonseca
Until February 1, 2026
Tuesday to Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Sundays and holidays from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Closed on Mondays
The Sala de Exposiciones Hospedería Fonseca is hosting The New World Order, an exhibition by Kepa Garraza that brings together more than forty works from his most important series, created between 2007 and 2025. The exhibition The New World Order, curated by Francisco Javier Panera Cuevas, offers a critical journey through the different manifestations of power in the context of the so-called New World Order, through the incisive gaze of Kepa Garraza.
Between 2007 and 2010, Kepa Garraza developed BIDA (International Brigades for the Destruction of Art), a series focused on an imaginary terrorist group whose goal is to sabotage the institutions that sustain the art market and, by extension, the capitalist system and its scale of values. BIDA anticipates and dialogues with the current actions of activists who intervene in museums around the world.
In 2011, the series Osama was produced, in which Garraza addresses the media coverage of Osama Bin Laden's death from multiple perspectives. Kepa Garraza constructs a new reality that is an alternative to that disseminated by the mainstream media, highlighting the ability of narratives to shape collective perception. His work is based on a fundamental question: what if...? From there, he begins the search for another perspective, for a possible or fictional reality.
Between 2013 and 2015, Garraza created the series This is the End of the World as We Know It, a series that reflects the state of the world at the time of its production. The works show paintings of television channel screens, scenes featuring political leaders, and newspaper front pages announcing a hypothetical war between the United States and North Korea.
In Power (2016–2018), Kepa Garraza reflects on the representation of power from classical Greece to the present day. The series focuses on sculptures of historical figures of political or military power, such as Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, Philip II, and Barack Obama. Power analyzes the visual constants in the creation of propaganda throughout history.
The series We Just Want to Set the World on Fire (2021–2023) places the artist in a territory close to that of photojournalism. Through charcoal drawing, Garraza depicts the protests that arose after the lifting of restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The works are divided between those based on real photographs and those depicting fictional moments in which the focus is on fictional protesters.
New Monumentalism (2022–2023) reflects on the monuments and commemorative statues that inhabit urban spaces and form part of the collective everyday imagination. These figures, monarchs, political and military leaders, constitute one of the most normalized and familiar representations of power, integrated almost invisibly into the daily lives of citizens.
Finally, Screenshot (2025) is Kepa Garraza's most recent series, being presented to the public for the first time at the Sala de Exposiciones Hospedería Fonseca, and expands and updates the critical discourse that underpins The New World Order.
