Visitors explore the exhibition in Beijing, on November 21, 2025. Photo: Dong Feng/GT

The Instituto Cervantes in Beijing ­inaugurated an exhibition titled ­Crossroads: An encounter between artists and collectors from China and Spain, which brings together more than 40 Spanish and Chinese artists, whose works are part of important private ­collections promoted by women in Spain and China, on November 21. 

Director of the Instituto Cervantes in Beijing, Isabel Cervera, told the Global Times that the exhibition definitely deserves visitors' checkout. 

"This exhibition offers visitors some space to meet ideas, people, and creativity," said Cervera. 

This exhibition takes the dialogue ­between Chinese and Western women artists and collectors as its framework; and through more than 40 carefully selected works, it opens an artistic ­dialogue that transcends time and culture. 

The 44 works that make up Crossroads consist of collections of works ­acquired by Spanish and Chinese women.

"All the participating artists address universal themes such as memory, female identity, the body, motherhood, the environment in which they live, social concerns ... and that unites them all, Spanish and Chinese," Lucia Ybarra, one of the curators, told the Global Times in an exclusive interview. 

Even though the artists from the two countries are from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, thanks to the universal language of art, "all of them talk about similar narratives, they focus on their social worries, maternity, bodies, memory, and feminine identity," which turns out to be common, she said.