Art Collection
Obra 'LA DISTÀNCIA MÉS CURTA' - ('THE SHORTEST DISTANCE') artist Perejaume. First work acquired collection

The Moll de Costa dock was opened in the city of Tarragona in June 1986.
To make this possible, the old sheds on this dock had to be restored, with these eventually coming to be used mainly for cultural, social and leisure activities. Urban development work was also carried out on the Moll de Costa dock, and over the years the warehouses known as ‘refuges’ were also added.
From 1988 onwards, Shed 2 on the Moll de Costa dock began housing a series of exhibitions with a very clear and groundbreaking approach that has led to the Port of Tarragona and our city becoming well-known and recognised all over the world. The works shown have always been benchmarks in contemporary art with marked conceptual lines.
In fact, it was with the first group exhibition entitled "Culmination of an environment" that the Port of Tarragona’s Art Collection really got under way, with the donation of the piece “The shortest distance” by the artist Perejaume.
In recent years, the Port of Tarragona has been managing these areas, endowing them with an intense cultural and social activity that has earned the recognition of the public and of the critics.
Over the years a great many artists have donated their works and efforts, and day by day this collection has grown until it now contains some eighty pieces.
It should be noted that a variety of disciplines are represented: sculpture, photography, engravings, etc., but above all paintings. The collection also embraces a variety of styles, both figurative ones and those that can be considered as examples of lyrical or geometrical abstraction.
Throughout this period a great deal of effort has gone into cataloguing, classifying and conserving all the pieces that form part of the Collection.
1988-2023 35 YEARS PROMOTING CULTURAL INITIATIVES AND PROJECTS
2013 marked a quarter of a century since the Port of Tarragona decided to convert the dock sheds into cultural facilities open to the city, to art and to culture in general.
A great many artists have passed through these one-time sheds, converted into excellent exhibition galleries.
The Port has works by a good many of these creators in its collection; making it a highly varied compilation, as corresponds to the artistic expressions of recent years and of course to the orientations of the sheds themselves.
Download the catalogue for the 35 years
DISSEMINATION
We are making the art collection visible
In order to make our Art Collection visible, a new exhibition format has been created in the lobby of the Port of Tarragona building, and this can be visited in office hours.
We will be changing the works on show on a quarterly basis so that people can gradually get to know our collection. Come along and visit us!
Where are we?
VIEW SOME OF THE DONATED WORKS
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Silenci i espai
Gerard Castellví
Oli sobre tela 60 x 70 cm
Pertany a l'exposició “Un diàleg amb mi”
2024 - Donació 2024 -
Energia Lumínica
Josep Mas Tuset
Fotografia en paper Hahnemühle 45 x 65 cm
Pertany a l'exposició “Trobades amb l'etern”
2022 - Donació 2024 -
Identificación sicopática
Santiago Arranz
Llàpis i aquarel·la sobre paper
49 x 49 cm (emmarcat 50 x 50 cm)
Pertany a l'exposició “SANTIAGO ARRANZ. ENTRE L’ART i LA LITERATURA”
2014 - Donació 2024 -
Cercle de terres vermelles i cercle de calc
Roser Oduber
Mixta sobre tela
30 cm diàmetre
2022 -
Sobreviure a Fukushima (Banc de peixos)
Núria Fernández Estopà
Inflables metal·litzats i dibuixos amb retolador permanent
200 cm x 120 cm diàmetre
2013 -
Cercant el millor indret on crèixer
Dolors Puigdemont
Composició digital
30 x 199,38 cm
2006 -
Al principi (Sèrie Paraula)
Rafa Barrué
Acrílic sobre tela
146 x 146 cm
2014 -
Me voy
Eduard Virgili
Collage, acrílic i ferrocianur
39,5 x 54,5 cm
2018 -
Barca transparent sobre blau
Àngel González Llàcer
Cartronet i acrílic sobre cotó
114 x 162 cm
2015 -
Batecs de llum i foscor
Marta Balañá
Pintura dins de l'exposició 'Un color porta a l'altre'
Obra sense títol
103 x 216 cm
Mixta sobre tela
2009 -
Núria
Jorge R. Pombo
Carbó i oli sobre tela
61 x 50 cm
2008 -
La Venus primitiva (neix del mar!)
Conxita Boncompte Coll
Tècnica mixta
25 x 25 cm
2016 -
Dibuix que marca els progressos del qualificatiu astral
Associació Josefa Tolrà
Edicio digital
36,5 x 27 cm
1956, edició 2016 -
Mujer cupletista, de la serie Gran Vía
David Beníliam
Còpia fotogràficca en procés: gelatino-bromur de plata sobre paper baritat -5/100
40 x 30 cm
2007 -
Mujer con alas negras, de la serie Gran Vía
David Beníliam
Còpia fotogràficca en procés: gelatino-bromur de plata sobre paper baritat -3/100
30 x 40 cm
2007 -
Cándida de la serie Etíops
Ram Giner
Fotografia
24 x 18 cm
2010 -
Tarragona. Part alta
Tito Figueras
Acrílic sobre tela
80 x 80 cm
2011 -
Entrance
Tom Carr
Instal.lació: Cubs de formigó
750 x 1050 x 200 cm
1989 -
Himeneu
Maïs
Ferro i tècnica mixata
65 x 45 x 45 cm
2002 -
Sense títol
Tom Carr
Esmalt i grafit sobre paper
69 x 99 cm
1989 -
Mosaic
Anna Lentsch
Acrílic sobre tela
60 x 60 cm
1995 -
La platja dels voyeurs (sobre el sostre plujós)
Josep Maria Rosselló
Oli sobre llenç
121 x 121 cm
2005 -
La mar
Béatrice Bizot
Bronze i acer corten
2013 -
Sense títol, de la sèrie HEAVEN
Àlvar Calvet
Mixta damunt fusta
80 x 80 cm
2003 -
Mientras pasa el tiempo
Marleen Pauwels
Mixta sobre fusta
100 x 130 cm
2008 -
In luce 2
Sonia Ciscato
Oli sobre tela
200 x 190 cm
2010 -
Duel, o perquè el preu de la telefonia mòbil és tan car
Jordi Biendicho Vidal
Oli sobre tela
145 x 114 cm
2007 -
Fachada (Santillana del Mar)
Mercedes Gómez-Pablos
Oli damunt llenç
90 x 162 cm
2002 -
El número 6
Josep Quesada
Mixta sobre tela
90 x 72 cm
2002 -
Tarragona des del Moll de Reus
Fermí Carré
Aquarel·la
77 x 107 cm
2002 -
Vaixells
Rosendo Linares
Oli sobre tela
81 x 130 cm
2007 -
Skyline del Port
Pere J. Salas
Oli sobre fusta
60 x 120 cm
2013
Exhibitions
Every year the Art Collection is organising exhibitions in various places on the Port of Tarragona’s Moll de Costa dock.
VIEW LAST YEAR’S EXHIBITIONS
Josefa Tolrà, medium and artist (Cabrils, Barcelona, 1880-1959)
Between 1941 and 1959 the artist drew tirelessly, taking advantage of the nights of insomnia. She has left us a hundred or so drawings, notebooks full of texts and illustrations and shawls embroidered with an exquisite ornamental technique.
This exhibition in Tarragona brought together a very important part of her work and introduced several unpublished works, such as the magnificent drawing entitles Las Hadas (The Fairies). She always said that "I only feel at peace when I am drawing", and her creativity springs from the strength of a reincarnation in life. Her works currently form a part of three international museums of contemporary art, and a collection of drawings will be incorporated into the collection of the Prado Museum in Madrid.
Antonio de Felipe
GRAFFITIPOP
With pop iconography figuring in much of his work and the presence on the public scene as a modus operandi, Antonio de Felipe has signed works that have been exhibited in national art centres such as the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Picasso Museum in Barcelona or the IVAM in Valencia; as well as in prestigious international centres such as the Levy galleries in Hamburg, Terminus in Munich or the Andipa in London.
Some of his most recognised works remain in our collective imagination, and among these we cannot fail to mention his peculiar and iconoclastic vision of the icons Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe, the historic album covers of groups that the Valencian artist reinvented, and of course his "Cows" series - one of his most interactive works that had a great public impact. Without of course forgetting the famous Cibeles painting that disappeared from the municipal offices....
Works that always ended up having a dual status as a collector's piece and advertising message at the same time; a dual source which the author has always drawn on, and which has made him internationally renowned.