Structure of the museum

The museum consists primarily of four parts. Three parts are permanent exhibitions from the collection of Wolf and Mercedes Vostell, as well as from the collection of the Italian art collector Gino Di Maggio, who specifically collected the art of the Fluxus artists. The third part contains temporary exhibitions of changing Conceptual artists.^[9] The museum also includes the outdoor exhibition in the nature reserve Los Barruecos. The outdoor exhibition includes the sculptures VOAEX (1976) and in El muerto que tiene Sed (1978).^[10][11]

Collection Wolf and Mercedes Vostell

The opening collection Wolf and Mercedes Vostell offers an extensive and varied tour through the selection of cycles by the founding artist.^[12] It consists of five works, which make up the special reference of this museum: Automobile-Fever (Auto-Fieber) (1973),^[13] Fluxus-Buick-Piano (1988)^[14], Endogene Depression (1975–1978), Requiem for the forgotten (Réquiem por los olvidados) (1986), The Breakfast of Leonardo da Vinci in Berlin (Das Frühstück von Leonardo da Vinci in Berlin) (1998)^[15]

As objects, most of these parts contain elements of the fetishistic symbolism of the 20th century.

To all this belong five sculptures The Concrete Bulls (Los Toros de Hormigón) (1990), four large reliefs (Trashumancia) (1993) and paintings such as The Burial of the Sardine (El Entierro de la Sardina) (1985), The Billard Girls (Las Chicas del Billar) (1986), Mythos Berlin (1987) and Estrella Seelenfreund (1994).

In addition, the Wolf and Mercedes Vostell Collection has a large number of paintings like the cycles El muerto que tiene Sed and VOAEX and the sculpture projects Icarus and Tanit, which attempt to offer a comprehensive tour of a selection of the artist's cycles. Also worth mentioning are the works Transmigration III (1958–1959), in which a television set is integrated, and Foreign mountain (Montaña extranjera) (1958), with which Wolf Vostell began his production in Extremadura.

In the garden of the museum there is a 16-meter high sculpture by Wolf Vostell with the title Why did the process between Pilate and Jesus take only two minutes? (Por qué el proceso entre Jesús y Pilatos duró solamente dos minutos?) (1996), consisting of the fuselage of a Russian Mig-21 airplane, two automobiles, computer monitors and three pianos.^[16]

Fluxus Collection

The Fluxus collection was donated to the museum by the Italian art collector Gino Di Maggio in october 1996. Di Maggio established a personal relationship with the Fluxus artists, took care of their works and exhibited them first in the multipurpose room Multhipla and later in the Mudima Foundation.

The donation consists of a series of works, most of which are Fluxus actions and interventions, so that the Photographs, videos, manifestos and various texts are the necessary additions to these bundles of files.

The exhibition comprises 250 works, installations, Paintings and Sculptures by 31 artists of European, North American and Asian origin who, since the late 1950s and 1960s, have synthesized the upheavals in all areas of culture in the Happening and Fluxus movements in favour of a renewal of the artistic field in an interdisciplinary and intermediary manner, transcending everyday life and as the seed of a fundamental social transformation.^[17]