A Wholly Revamped Museum Will Open in Spain to House the Contemporary Art Collection of Dealer Helga de Alvear
German art collector and dealer Helga de Alvear is gifting her entire collection to a Spanish region.
Exterior of the Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear. Photo: Amores Pictures.
This spring, a city in Spain will become a European art destination when it opens a major expansion to one of the continent’s leading collections of contemporary art.
German art collector and dealer Helga de Alvear, who is also one of the founders of the fair ARCOMadrid, has amassed a formidable collection of 3,000 contemporary artworks over four decades. She has gifted the collection in its entirety to the Spanish region of Extremadura and will also donate a just-completed museum in the city of Cáceres to house it.