Centro de Arte La Regenta
Centro de Arte La Regenta brings contemporary art to a building with an earlier life: it occupies a former tobacco factory in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in the Puerto-Canteras area. The project for that factory dates to roughly the 1940s and was drawn up by architect Fernando Delgado. In the 1980s, the Government of the Canary Islands acquired the property and rehabilitated it for exhibitions, and the museum opened its doors for the first time in 1987. What you encounter inside is shaped by the building’s original logic. Its interior is organized around a large courtyard and a network of galleries, echoing the patio houses found in traditional Canarian architecture. That spatial plan matters because it turns the factory shell into a flexible venue for year-round traveling exhibitions of fine arts. …
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