Exhibitions
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From Caravaggio to Bernini, masterpieces of the Italian 17th century
7 June-16 Oct. The Royal Palace of Madrid presents an exhibition of Italian 17th-century art comprising some 70 paintings, from the national collection, on loan from palaces, convents and embassies....
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6 April-15 Aug. The Reina Sofia holds a retrospective dedicated to the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam (1902-1982) whose work is currently undergoing a reappraisal in the international art world.
Lam gai...
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Rémy Zaugg: The Question of Perception
31 March-28 Aug. The Reina Sofia presents Spain's first exhibition dedicated to Swiss conceptual artist Rémy Zaugg (1943-2005). In addition to his art, Zaugg was an influential critic and observer of...
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Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the studio
1 March-19 June. In conjunction with the Denver Art Museum, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza presents Europe's first retrospective on Andrew and Jamie Wyeth, leading figures of 20th-century American reali...
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9 Feb-22 May. The Thyssen-Bornemisza shows 90 works by a group of 20th-century realist painters and sculptors who lived and worked in Madrid, including Amalia Avia, Richard Estes (see Telephone Booths...
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Andrzej Wróblewski: Recto / Verso
17 Nov-28 Feb. Andrzej Wróblewski (1927–1957) is regarded as one of Poland's most important 20th-century artists, despite his career being cut short by a mountaineering accident when he was just 29....
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20 Oct-28 Feb. Major retrospective dedicated to Russia's Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) who is credited with creating the world's first abstract paintings and was also a pioneer of both the Blue Rider...
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Punk: Its traces in contemporary art
The Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M) explores the origins of the anti-establishment punk movement, and the subculture it generated, in contemporary art.
The exhibition comprises installations, doc...
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White Fire: The Kunstmuseum Basel Modern Collection
The Museo Reina Sofía shows a significant selection of works on loan from the Kunstmuseum Basel in Switzerland, which is currently closed for renovation works.
The 100 or so pieces on displa...
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Exhibition exploring the common ground between fashion photography and painting, through a selection of images from the archive of leading fashion magazine Vogue.
Each exhibited photograph contains...
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Exhibition highlighting the work of Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664), spanning his career from his earliest commissions to key paintings from his mature period.
The Museo Th...
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José Antonio Suárez Londoño: Musetrario
The first major solo exhibition in Europe devoted to Colombian artist José Antonio Suárez Londoño is a retrospective of his work since the 1970s.
The show features works of var...
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Retrospective highlighting the work of French Fauvist painter Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) who was also a draftsman, printmaker, illustrator and designer, known for his colourful, decorative style.
The M...
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The first exhibition in Spain to examine the advent of Impressionism in America in the late 19th century, following the landmark showing of French Impressionist work in New York in 1886.
That exhib...
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This is the first retrospective devoted to the Italian conceptual sculptor and writer Luciano Fabro (1936-2007) since his death in Milan seven years ago.
As an artist Fabro is most associated with...
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Alma-Tadema and Victorian Painting in the Pérez-Simón Collection
Fairytales, nymphs and nudes, mythology and sourcery all feature in the 50 paintings on show at the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum.
The works belong to the Aesthetic movement that emerged in Victorian E...
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The Reina Sofia presents a Spanish history of the photobook, defined as a publication comprising a series of photographs telling a story, a format often used by historians and art photographers.
Th...
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Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff
This body of work by contemporary American artist Kerry James Marshall is billed as one of the most comprehensive ever assembled.
Based in Chicago, Marshall is from Alabama, and the central theme o...
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This summer Madrid hosts two important exhibitions highlighting the Pop Art movement, with a common entrance ticket for both shows.
The first exhibition Pop Art Myths, which takes place at the Thys...
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The order of time and things. The home studio of Hanne Darboven
The work of German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) is the subject of an exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofia.
Not conceived as a retrospective in the traditional sense, the show is desc...
