In April 2017 the Museu Picasso and Fundació Palau. Centre d'Art will have the pleasure of hosting the 3rd International Congress Picasso. Thanks to the initiative of the Musée Picasso-Paris, since 2015 this congress has provided an international forum in which the most recent studies about the work and figure of Picasso are presented.

The congress is scheduled for April 27 through 29 and will welcome academics, researchers and scholars from all over the world, offering them a forum in which to share their knowledge and expertise on Picasso.

The organizing committee welcomes proposals for papers addressing the topic of “Picasso and Identity.” In addition to scholars, critics, and curators, we hope to attract a wide variety of participants, including artists, writers, and students. We seek submissions from our globally diverse community.

We encourage candidates to address the topic of Identity in the most creative terms, without being constrained by conventional definitions. We offer the following suggestions of themes within the topic of Identity as a means to stimulate proposals, without seeking to limit lines of inquiry.

Approaches to Picasso and Identity:

• The Role of Picasso’s Biographers
• Popular Conceptions of Picasso in the Mass Media and Film
• Picasso’s Engagement with Art History and Myth
• Collaboration versus Independence in the Formation of Identity: writers, performers, and other artists
• The Impact of Gender and Sexuality
• Political Identity
• The Importance of Place: The Cultural Geography of Identity