Opening times:

Wednesday 8 starting at 4 pm.

From 8 to 12 November, from 10 am to 10 pm.

Michael Ende is playful and transcendent. And now we are celebrating a couple of anniversaries of his work: the 50th anniversary of Momo in 2023 and the 45th anniversary of The Neverending Story in 2024. We’re taking this opportunity to learn more about a creator in the labyrinth of tradition and contemporaneity, a writer in the mirror of literature as a reflection of the universe, a neverending author in a puzzle with infinite combinations. Ende was fated to ask questions about the labyrinth and its puzzles in the contemporary world, given the correspondence between his surname and the title of his most famous work: Ende is, paradoxically, endless, because he and his work are all about imagination, all about words that construct our dreams.

He didn't need to write too many titles before he was admired by young and old alike. An essayist, playwright, librettist, novelist, storyteller and poet, he is best known as the author of The Neverending Story (1979), Momo (1973), Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver (1960), the play Jojo: Story of a Mountebank (1982) and the endless Mirror in the Mirror: A Labyrinth (1984), a bottomless well each time we read it. The infinite variety of his readers also makes him an entire library. The challenge? To explain this from within each of us.

The exhibition curator: Joaquim Noguero