Festivals and Films
Madrid What's on
24 April - 9 September. Caixaforum Madrid hosts a major exhibition dedicated to the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), one of the most important artists of the 18th century.
The show...
Madrid What's on
14 February - 20 May. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, in collaboration with the Caja Madrid Foundation, presents the first major retrospective in Spain devoted to Russian artist Marc Chagall.
Highl...
Madrid What's on
René Daniëls. An exhibition is always part of a greater whole
20 Oct - 26 March. The Reina Sofia presents an exhibition dedicated to the work of Dutch artist Ren
Madrid What's on
22 November - 26 March. An exhibition charts the 40-year career of Spanish artist Antoni Muntadas, considered one of the country's pioneers of media art and conceptual art.
In his works Muntadas u...
Madrid What's on
Berthe Morisot: The Woman Impressionist
15 November - 12 February. For the first time Spain dedicates a major exhibition to the work of Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), the first woman to join the Impressionist movement.
On loan predominantl...
Madrid What's on
18 October-22 January 2012. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum presents an exhibition of architectural paintings dating from the 14th to the 18th centuries.
The common thread between the paintings is t...
Madrid What's on
16 Sept-18 Dec 2011.
The Museo Nacional del Prado displays a Pablo Picasso masterpiece: Acrobat on a Ball. Completed in 1905, the canvas is regarded as one of the greatest works from Picasso's ros...
Madrid What's on
Elena Asins: Fragments of Memory
15 June-12 Oct. According to the Reina Sofia Museum, currently hosting an exhibition of the work of Spanish artist Elena Asins (born in 1940), her work reflects "both the constructive tradition of the...
Madrid What's on
6 May-12 September. Leon Golub (1922-2004) worked independently as an artist throughout his career, seemingly oblivious to the emerging art movements that surrounded him.
This retrospective compri...
Madrid What's on
3 June-11 September. The Romanian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the Artes del Ayuntamiento in Madrid and the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Bucharest, offers a glimpse of Bucharest...
Madrid What's on
Not just Goya: Acquisitions for the Department of Prints and Drawings 1997-2010
5 May-31 July. The Prado Museum is currently displaying a wide selection of drawings, artists' notebooks and photographs which, due to their fragile nature, are normally stored in the department of Pr...
Madrid What's on
8 March - 5 June. This exhibition counters the stereotypical view of women as depicted throughout the history of Western art: often appearing as seductive, indulgent and submissive, and featuring in a...
Madrid What's on
16 May-30 August. In January 2010 Haiti was struck by a catastrophic earthquake, the epicentre of which was near the town of L
Madrid What's on
11 May-12 September. The Reina Sofia presents an exhibition of work by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama whose artistic career spans almost six decades and incorporates movements such as feminism, minimali...
Madrid What's on
A hard, merciless light: The Worker-Photography movement 1926-1939
6 April-22 August 2011. The Reina Sofia museum examines a photography movement from the first half of the 20th century when the medium was commandeered by various sectors in trade unionism, as well as...
Madrid What's on
5 February - 3 May. Buenos Aires artist Roberto Jacoby, born in 1944, has become one of the most significant conceptual artists to emerge from Latin America in recent decades. Described as a multi-fac...
Madrid What's on
Cold America: Geometrical Abstraction in Latin America (1934-1973)
11 February - 15 May 2011. This exhibition charts the complex and disjointed history of the geometric abstraction art movement in Latin America, and its subsequent influence on European abstraction....
Madrid What's on
12 January - 25 April 2011. Vienna artist Dorit Margreiter is concerned with modern architecture and for over a decade has been documenting visually the contrasting and interwoven relationships of the...
Madrid What's on
26 November - 25 April 2011. The exhibition "ctrl" at the Reina Sofia museum sees acclaimed Polish sculptor Miroslaw Balka examining symbols of power structures and ideologies.
Balka inverts and co...
