Annie Leibovitz Partners with the Marta Ortega Perez Foundation for A Coruña Showcase

Wonderland opens its doors in Galicia. The Marta Ortega Pérez Foundation will host the first major retrospective of the American photographer and portraitist Annie Leibovitz from November 22nd at the Foundation’s space in Spanish city of A Coruña.

The exhibition unfolds Leibovitz’s photographic universe, creating a space full of remarkable characters and extraordinary stories. Wonderland starts with the photographer’s early years, when she made a name for herself in the industry for her intimate portraits of musicians such as Bob Dylan, Grace Slick, John Lennon, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for Rolling Stones magazine.

Following Leibovitz’s trajectory through art, film, music, sports and politics with the sections Early Years and Stream of Consciousness, which shows the evolution of the photographer in different styles. Both parts of the exhibition feature portraits of writers, performers, visual artists, as well as landscapes, interiors and objects.

The Marta Ortega Pérez Foundation will host ‘Wonderland’ until May 2026

Wonderland ends with more than one hundred prints of fashion photography, much of which has never been exhibited to the public and forms the soul of the exhibition, as well as video installations, where a film produced by the Foundation accompanies the show with interviews with personalities who have collaborated with Annie Leibovitz throughout her career.The exhibition is accompanied by a film produced by the Foundation featuring interviews with personalities who have collaborated with Annie Leibovitz throughout her career, such as Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Gloria Steinem, Karen Elson, Tina Brown, Mary Howard and Phyllis Posnick.

“I kept my fashion photographs over the years because I wasn’t sure where they fit.... Then I understood that they were part of a whole,“ the photographer has explained.

The MOP Foundation, created in 2022, will open the doors of the sixth exhibition it has hosted next November 22nd, and can be visited until May 1st, 2026 at the Muelle de la Batería, in A Coruña.

Steven Meisel: 1993 A Year in Photographs and Helmut Newton, Fact & Fiction are some of the exhibitions that have taken place in the Galician space in recent years. The last one to land at the Foundation was David Bailey’s Changing Fashion, which opened its doors on June 28 and was the first retrospective in Spain of the British photographer, considered one of the most important photographers in the world.a of the British photographer, considered one of the fundamental names in the definition of the aesthetics of the sixties and seventies.