Madrid, a City with a Wide Range of Contemporary Art

ARCOmadrid has once again become the Spanish capital in the focus of international contemporary art during the month of February. Beyond the pavilions of the Fair, the most important museums and art centers of Madrid, as well as private and corporate collections, retain some of the most important exhibitions for its beginning that coincides with ARCOmadrid.

Collections

Some of the most interesting collections are open to the public during the celebration of the Fair as the one in the Fundación ARCO, the Grazyna Kulczyk Collection, the Colección Jozami, the Colección Telefónica and of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.

Alcobendas Art Centre

-“Colección Fundación ARCO: Variation. Lo obsesivo como forma de paisaje”. The exhibition will bring together a selection of the more than 300 pieces that are included in the Colección Fundación ARCO. Artists: Ignasi Aballí, Lara Almarcegui, Francis Alÿs, Carl Andre, Polly Apfelbaum, Alexander Apóstol, Elena Asins, Txomin Badiola, Ricardo Basbaum, Christian Boltanski, Iñaki Bonillas, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Alan Charlton, Raimond Chaves & Gilda Mantilla, Hanne Darboven, Denmark, Olafur Eliasson, Ji í David, Esther Ferrer, Emily Jacir, Ana Jotta, Donald Judd, Hassan Khan, Nelson Leirner, Jorge Macchi, Teresa Margolles, Allan McCollum, Óscar Muñoz, Rivane Neuenschwander, Gabriel Orozco, Thiago Rocha Pitta, Allen Ruppersberg, Bülent _angar, Gregor Schneider, Jack Strange, Wolfgang Tillmans, Sue Williams.

Curator: Tania Pardo.

Artists: Ignasi Aballí, Lara Almarcegui, Francis Alÿs, Carl Andre, Polly Apfelbaum, Alexander Apóstol, Elena Asins, Txomin Badiola, Ricardo Basbaum, Christian Boltanski, Iñaki Bonillas, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Alan Charlton, Raimond Chaves

Santander Art Gallery

-“Grazyna Kulczyk Collection”. The exhibition of the collection includes more than 100 works by international and contemporary Polish artists ranging from the end of 1940s to the present day. Polish artists such as Magdalena Abakanowicz, Roman Opalka, Zofia Kulik, Alina Szapoczikow, Fangor Wojciech, Libera Zbigniew o Katarzyna Kozyra, are shown along with important international artists such as Eliasson Olafur, Donald Judd, Jeny Holzer, Sam Francis, VALIE EXPORT, Bettina Rheims, Roman Opalka and Antoni Tàpies.

Fundación Lázaro Galdiano
-“Entre Tiempos…presencia de la Colección Jozami en el Museo Lázaro Galdiano”. Display presenting the intervention from the Jozami collection with pieces of contemporary art (videos and photographs of international artists). Antonio Berni, Christian Boltanski, Joaquín Torres García, Vik Muniz, Luis Seoane, José Gurvich, Xul Solar, Rafael Barradas, Liliana Porter, Ana Mendieta, Regina José Galindo, Graciela Sacco, Leandro Erlich, Daniela Edburg, Óscar Bony, Díaz & Reidweg, Nicole Tram ba vang, Barthelemy Toguo, the Campana brothers, among others.
Curator:  Diana B. Wechsler

Espacio Fundación Telefónica
-“Fotografía contemporánea en la Colección Telefónica”. A selection of more than 50 works of contemporary photography included in the Colección Telefónica. The collection reflects some of the most representative movements of photography of the last four decades, covering pieces ranging from 1973 to 2006. Some artists: Richard Prince, John Baldessari, Sherrie Levine, John Coplans, Cindy Sherman, Bernd  y Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Cándida Höffer, among others.

Curator: Ramón Esparza.

MNCARS – Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
-“Mínima Resistencia. Entre El Tardomodernismo y la Globalización: Prácticas Artísticas Durante las Décadas de los 80 y 90”. This sample of art funds was produced in Spain and in the international context, and it provides enriching dialogues between works that mostly have not been seen in the rooms of the Museum because they are new acquisitions.

Corporate collections

Also during the celebration of ARCOmadrid, special guests and collectors will have the opportunity of visiting, exclusively, interesting corporate collections, that open their doors to show how to work surrounded by art. Exceptional visits to the Colección Inelcom, the Colección Banco de España and the Colección Bergé.

#FocusFinland in Madrid

Together with the participation of galleries at ARCOmadrid, the guest country makes a significant effort to present Finnish contemporary art, possibly the most ambitious outside its frontiers with more than 10 exhibitions and workshops of Finnish artists in Madrid.

 CA2M
- Specific intervention. Otto Karvonen.

Centro Cibeles de Cultura y Ciudadanía
-new specific installation. Kaarina Kaikkonen
-“Hypnopompic”. Kustaa Saksi

Conde Duque
-“Abendland”. IC-98.

Filmoteca Española
--Projection of the latest film by Peter von Bagh

Instituto Iberoamericano de Finlandia
-“Bread of life”. Adel Abidin

La Casa Encendida
-“The future is not what it used to be”. Kurenniemi & Taanila
- Audiovisual program

Matadero
-Residencias El Ranchito with Finnish artists.
Curators: Taru Elfving y Manuela Villa
-CINETECA. Finnish documentaries.

MNCARS – Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
- Projection of Aki Kaurismäki

MEDIALAB-PRADO

Pantallas Callao (Callao Square)
- Screening of Finnish video art.

Exhibitions in Museums and Centers of Art:

MNCARS – Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
--"Biographical forms. Construction and individual mythology".

Curator: Jean-François Chevrier.

-“Chris Killip.Trabajo/Work”.
Curator: Ute Eskildsen.

-Amos Gitai.
Curator: Jean-François Chevrier.

-“Elly Strik. Fantasmas, novias y otros compañeros”.

-“Wols”.
Curator: Guy Brett.

-“Roman Ondák. Escena”. Palacio de Cristal.

Curator: Jean-François Chevrier.

 -“Idea: Pintura Fuerza. En El Gozne de los años 70 y 80”. This exhibition gathers several paintings by 5 Spanish artists : Alfonso Albacete, Miguel Ángel Campano, Ferrán García Sevilla, Juan Navarro Baldeweg y Manolo Quejido,  produced between 1978 y 1984.

Museo Nacional del Prado
-“Historias naturales. Un proyecto de Miguel Ángel Blanco”.

-“Las furias. Alegoría política y desafío artístico”. More than 20 works of artists such as Miguel Ángel, Tiziano, Rubens, Ribera, among others, that deal with the sophisticated subject of Furies.

Curator: Miguel Falomir.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
-“Cézanne”. The first monographic about the artist in Spain in the last 30 years.

Curator: Guillermo Solana.

La Casa Encendida
-“Generación 2014”. The exhibition showcases the winning proyects of the call for support to the young creation of La Fundación Especial Caja Madrid. Artists: Greta Alfaro, Nora Barón, Tania Blanco, Andrea Canepa, Edu Hurtado, Mariona Moncunill, Anna Moreno Castells, Sara Munguía, Leonor Serrano Rivas, and Belén Zahera.

-“Escenarios del cuerpo. Las metamorfosis de Loïe Fuller”. The exhibition dedicated to the dancer, choreographer and performer from the beginning of the 20th century, who developed the idea of metamorphosis and the perpetual motion using in her plays the latest scientific discoveries of her time.

Curator: Aurora Herrera.

Fundación Mapfre
-“El Taller de Picasso”. The exhibition runs the workshop of the artist as a space for experimentation, in which the stylistic metamorphosis of Picasso is developed.
Curator: Maite Ocaña

CA2M – Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo
- Teresa Margolles (Culiacán, México, 1963). The artist explores the social and political context of Mexico and the way this determines the individual.

Lamata (Valencia, 1959) and Jaime Vallaure (Asturias, 1965). Artists of artists, they constitute one of the main references in Spain in the field of performance.

Centro Cibeles de Cultura y Ciudadanía
-“La colección Masaveu: del Románico al Renacimiento”
Curator: Ángel Aterido.

-“Artesanía española de vanguardía. Innovación y diseño”

-“Feria internacional ciudad creativa / CIBELES 2013”
Curators: Daniel García-Andújar y Gustavo Romano

-“FEMINIS-ARTE II”
Curator:: Margarita Aizpuru

Source: ARCOmadrid