Cindy Sherman exhibition, ‘The Women,’ brings a bold narrative to Hauser & Wirth Menorca

The much-anticipated Cindy Sherman exhibition The Women is now open at Hauser & Wirth Menorca, running from June 23rd to October 26th, 2025. Marking Sherman’s first solo show in Spain in more than two decades, this powerful Cindy Sherman exhibition brings together some of her most iconic works from the 1970s through the 2010s. Presented within the striking architecture of Hauser & Wirth Menorca, the show reintroduces audiences to Sherman’s ongoing exploration of image, identity, and performance.

Taking its name from the 1936 Broadway classic The Women, the Cindy Sherman exhibition offers a fresh, non-linear survey of female archetypes in a world increasingly defined by the gaze. Key series on display include Untitled Film Stills (1977–1980), which first established Sherman as a master of character and self-transformation, and Ominous Landscapes (2010), where digitally altered haute couture figures inhabit eerie island scenes.

Staged on the historic Illa del Rei, Hauser & Wirth Menorca provides a uniquely atmospheric backdrop for Sherman’s investigations into artifice and reality. Visitors can also view her Flappers series (2016–2018), which channels the bold glamour of 1920s women while addressing the complexities of aging and cultural expectation.

Early works like Bus Riders and Murder Mystery (both 1976) round out the exhibition, showing how Sherman’s fascination with costume, cinema, and narrative was already firmly rooted at the start of her career. Curated by Tanya Barson, the Cindy Sherman exhibition reveals the artist’s uncanny ability to anticipate our current image-obsessed culture, long before the age of selfies and filters.

More than a retrospective, this is a timely reintroduction—set within the peaceful surroundings of Hauser & Wirth Menorca—that challenges how we construct identity in a hyper-visual world. Barson notes that the show speaks directly to our performative era, where visibility and reinvention are constant.

In every corner of Hauser & Wirth Menorca, the presence of Sherman’s characters lingers, asking who we are when we pose, and who we become when we look.