Munch–Picasso: Influencias y afinidades is presented at the Museo Picasso Málaga from 30 October 2026 to 28 February 2027. It is the first exhibition to bring Munch and Picasso together in direct dialogue, examining how both artists contributed to the emergence of modern art through experimentation and intense engagement with their own obsessions and emotions.

The exhibition brings together more than one hundred works, including paintings, prints and drawings, with loans from major Spanish and international institutions. Among the lenders are the Munchmuseet in Oslo, Tate, the Albertina in Vienna, MoMA in New York and Kode in Bergen, as well as the Museo Reina Sofía, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Museu Picasso Barcelona.

Importantly, the exhibition does not present a straightforward story of influence. Instead, it explores the thematic and artistic affinities that emerge between two artists who worked independently but repeatedly confronted similar questions.

At the centre are subjects that are almost universal — love and desire, illness, death, loneliness and existential anxiety. The female figure also plays a particularly important role within this shared symbolic universe.

The comparison is especially revealing because Munch and Picasso developed very different visual languages. Munch's psychological intensity and expressive distortion can be placed alongside Picasso's constant reinvention of form, allowing visitors to see how emotion itself became a subject of modern painting.