Carmen Cervera finally steps into her future museum: "It's the legacy I will leave in Barcelona"

BarcelonaAmid "For Sale" and "For Rent" signs, Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza, Carmen Cervera, visited the site of the museum that will bear her name in the heart of Barcelona this Thursday. The collector attended the first ephemeral art installation at the iconic Cine Comedia, the Palau Marcet, the future location of the Carmen Thyssen Barcelona Museum. Cervera explained that the new facility is "progressing." Construction will begin in 2026, and it will open in 2028. "It's the legacy I will leave in Barcelona. It's my city, and I love it very much," she said. Cervera also emphasized the positive relationship with the City Council and expressed her gratitude to Mayor Jaume Collboni. "All the museums in Barcelona are helping us, and we are very united to ensure its success," she said. It appears the museum will combine major works with emerging talent. The focus will be on established works from the 19th and 20th centuries, especially Modernist and Noucentista paintings—Ramon Casas, Eliseu Meifrèn, and Santiago Rusiñol, among other pieces from the Baroness's collection—but there will also be works by younger artists, some related to the digital realm. "There are endless exhibition possibilities," said Guillermo Cervera, Carmen Cervera's nephew. "You can't achieve international success if you don't first succeed locally; we all need to understand that," he said. Nearly one hundred students from a dozen art and design schools, such as Llotja, Elisava, Massana, IDEP, and EINA, have collectively transformed the 500 seats of the space to bid farewell to the old cinema, which closed in January 2024. such as designer Jordi Labanda, chefs Carme Ruscalleda and Raül Balam, artist TVBoy, designer Javier Mariscal, dancer Julio Bocca and model Judit Mascó to give creative ideas to young students.

He doesn't lose his last name.

The Baroness has had to deny in recent hours that she has lost her title and the Thyssen-Bornemisza surname because her Swiss passport wasn't renewed: "It's nonsense. It's something they've made up, and I don't know why. I will always be my husband's wife and widow," and I will be for the rest of my life. The aristocrat lived for years in Lugano, but in 2014, the residence she inherited from Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Villa Favorita, was sold. The Baroness stated that she didn't want to pay taxes to several countries when her official residence is in Andorra. One of her twin daughters, Carmen, accompanied her at the event in Barcelona and said she will participate in the project. The nineteen-year-old has moved to the capital. She studies law at the International University of Catalonia and lives in an apartment in Sarrià. Also present was his nephew, Guillermo Cervera, and managing director Juan Manuel Sevillano, from Stoneweg Plazas & Experiences