Hortensia Herrero Art Center. Valencia. Opening November 2023

Javier Molins is the artistic advisor of the Hortensia Herrero Art Center that opened in Valencia on November 2023. This Art Center hostes the collection of Hortensia Herrero, a patron of the arts and Vice-president of Mercadona, Spains largest supermarket chain. Javier Molins has been the collection's artistic advisor since its foundation and has built the collection in close collaboration with Herrero.

The art centre is housed in the Palacio Valeriola, a 17th century baroque palace, in the historic part of the city. Restored mindful of its architectural heritage, the palace together with a newly built annex, offers more than 3.500 square metres of exhibition space spread over 17 individual exhibition rooms. With the opening of the museum, Hortensia Herrero’s extensive private art collection becomes accessible to the general public for the first time, including half a dozen large-scale works commissioned specifically for the new museum.

Major living artists including Sean Scully, Georg Baselitz, Tony Cragg, Olafur Eliasson, Andreas Gursky, Anish Kapoor, David Hocknety or Anselm Kiefer have works on view as part of the collection presentation. Molins also commissioned seven site specific works that responded to the buildings architecture as new permanent features.