Notes related to España

The Thyssen Museum's Vision and Presence series will be complemented with a set of lectures by Latin American women artists to be held at Casa de América.

The exhibition at KBr Fundación MAPFRE Photo Center gathers Mexican artist Tina Modotti’s work, recovering her facets as an artist/photographer and as a revolutionary/anti-fascist militant. 

Manuel Segade was elected as the new director of the Museo Reina Sofía, a position held by Manuel Borja-Villel between 2008 and 2023.

The Jan Mulder Collection in collaboration with Casa de América and PHotoESPAÑA inaugurated the exhibition Martín Chambi and his Contemporaries. The Andes Photographed. The exhibition is part of the official tour of the PHotoESPAÑA2023 festival.

Enredos: Eva Fàbregas proposes an intuitive relationship between the artist’s sculptures and drawings and a selection of works from Centro Botín's art collection.

It is the first museum in Spain to become an active member of the international community of art organizations working to reduce the environmental impact of the museum sector.

The exhibition Río Sil, lines and geometries by Irene Kopelman at the Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia, approaches the landscape of the Sil river bank reiterating a model of observation that affects the relationship between art and natural sciences.

Deeply influenced by the socio-natural context of Brazil, the work of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (Barcelona, 1977; lives and works in Rio de Janeiro) looks into ecology as a tool to analyse the relationships of mutual transformation.

The exhibition presents more than thirty works by the Spanish artist preserved in the institutional collection, commemorating the 50th anniversary of his death.

The exhibition at Casa América presents the work of Cuban painter Rafael Soriano (1920-1915), a recognized master of geometric abstraction and a figure of global transcendence in the art world of the twentieth century.

Fundación MAPFRE presents Leonora Carrington in Revelación, an exhibition that aims to pay tribute to her and to make her work known. This is the first exhibition of the artist in Spain.

The Spanish capital presents a series of activities aimed at strengthening the ties between both cities united by their history, tourism, culture and gastronomy.

The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, in collaboration with the National Gallery of London, presents a retrospective dedicated to the British painter Lucian Freud (1922-2011), on the occasion of the centenary of his birth.

ARCOmadrid ended its 2023 edition with a strong presence of Latin American galleries and artists, more than 93,000 visitors, and works that move and challenge.

For the 2023 edition of ARCOmadrid, Hache Galería presents a selection of works by Florencia Böhtlingk as part of the program Nunca lo mismo. Latin American Art. It is curated by Mariano Meyer and Manuela Moscoso.

The Reina Sofia Museum of Art proposes an approach to the Susana and Ricardo Steinbruch Collection with the exhibition Un acto de ver que se despliega (An act of seeing that unfolds).

Fundación Botín announces its 30th edition of the Art Grants offering six scholarships for artists of any nationality. Registration deadline: May 5th, 2023.

A total of 211 galleries from 36 countries are participating in the Spanish fair from February 22^nd to 26^th. Latin American art is present with 11 galleries.

Foto Colectania Foundation presents the exhibition Marcelo Bordsky. Poetic Resistance, curated by Irene de Mendoza.

La Casa Encendida de Fundación Montemadrid presents the work of artist Christine Sun Kim, winner of the Prix International d'Art Contemporain (PIAC) 2022, from the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco.

The exhibition Margarita Azurdia. Margarita Rita Rica Dinamita is the first monographic exhibition in Europe dedicated to Margarita Azurdia (Antigua Guatemala, 1931 - Guatemala City, 1988), one of the most emblematic Central American artists of the 20th century.

María Teresa Hincapié: If This Were A Beginning of Infinity, in MACBA, is an initial attempt to organize the physical and intangible legacy of this artist, so vital to understanding present-day practices.

The exhibition El nudo vertical, at Es Baluard Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, is dedicated to the artist Jorge Eduardo Eielson and offers the opportunity to examine his artistic production from the late 1950s to his latest works.

Currently on view at La Casa Encendida, In the depth heat leaks is Prouvost's first solo show in Spain and traces the path of a 12-year period in which she has produced five audiovisual installations.

Within the framework of the XXIII Pan American Biennial of Architecture of Quito (BAQ), +ARTE gallery will participate with works from the exhibition Parajes escondidos: dentro de lo visible. 

In Alcobendas a new art gallery was inaugurated. This is Fleisch, a space dedicated to architecture, art and gastronomy. In an industrial warehouse renovated by Kurhaus Studio, the Spanish architect Nicolás Sfeir and the curators from Peru and Argentina Carlos García-Montero and Manuela Barreiro are carrying out an international project that proposes exhibitions with bold montages. This is Huacas: architectural synthesis by the Peruvian artist Yerko Zlatar, the exhibition that inaugurates its official program, which can be visited by appointment until the end of September.

On April 7, the Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga (Porto, 1976) presented his new installation Against the Extravagance of Desire at the Palacio de Cristal in the Retiro Park. Last Thursday, July 7, three months after its inauguration, Bunga returns to the Palace to undertake a performative intervention on his work.

The Sala Alcalá 31 of the Community of Madrid presents the exhibition "A bridge to stay" in which the artist Guillermo Mora dialogues with the architecture of the room and influences how this space is perceived and transited. A questioning of hierarchies and pre-established orders that leads to new ways of traveling, looking at and experiencing space and painting.

The Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum (Madrid, Spain) contains the world view of the American people. Almost four centuries of American painting are on display in rooms 46 to 55 on the first floor of the museum. To name but a few names: Peale, Cole, Heade, Church, Hopper, Burchfield, Shahn, Rothko, de Kooning, Pollock, Estes... Probably the most complete collection of American art in Europe, and a must-see exhibition for anyone who wants to understand the history and thougt of the Western country.

CGAC -Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea- exhibits Buen Gobierno (Good Government) by Peruvian artista Sandra Gamarra Heshiki.