Image creditPati Grabowicz, © Steve McQueen
At a glance
30–45 minutes

A darkened Bilbao gallery turns voice, light and sound into a physical encounter with memory, presence and collective emotion.

Key Movements
Contemporary Art
Medium
Video Art
Genre
ConceptualDocumentary
Meet the artist
Why go
Steve McQueen’s 66–76–26 at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a focused installation by one of today’s most important artist-filmmakers, using moving image, sound, light and space to make the viewer intensely aware of their own body and perception.
You'll see
Moving-image installation · Sound and light · Gallery 105 · Nina Simone and David Bowie references · A sculptural approach to film
Pace of visit
Compact in scale, but sensory and atmospheric; allow time for your eyes and body to adjust to the space.
Don't miss
Gallery 105, where the installation’s scale, darkness, sound and projection conditions shape the way the work is felt.
Artlovers Tip

A compact but powerful Bilbao stop for visitors interested in film as space: McQueen makes sound, darkness and memory feel physically present.

Inside the exhibition

Steve McQueen. 66–76–26 is on view at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Bilbao, Spain, from 9 October 2026 to 21 February 2027. The exhibition presents a new installation by Steve McQueen, the London- and Amsterdam-based artist, filmmaker and screenwriter known for turning moving image into a precise spatial experience.

The museum’s presentation centres on McQueen’s interest in personal and collective themes, explored through vision, sound, light and the physical conditions of spectatorship. The installation is shown in Gallery 105 and connects with his wider practice, where the projected image is never just a screen: it becomes a space that changes how the viewer stands, listens and feels.

The title 66–76–26 points to a layered timeline of voice and cultural memory. Press coverage notes that the work brings together a cappella versions of “Wild Is the Wind” associated with Nina Simone in 1966 and David Bowie in 1976, reframed in 2026 inside the Guggenheim Bilbao.

Exhibition

Steve McQueen

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