Triángulo Rosa [Pink Triangle] Encounter on LGTBIQ+ activism in schools More information: Spanish activity Triángulo Rosa Education
Miriam Cahn The artistic production of Miriam Cahn (Basel, Switzerland, 1949) materialises with a strong influence from 1960s feminist and pacifist movements. For the artist, her work with drawing and painting is a bodily act with a performative quality, and since the start of her career in the 1970s the centrality of the body has been related to a growing awareness of feminism. For Cahn, art is politics and the imprint of issues related to contemporary society can be discerned in her oeuvre. Each gesture, movement and thought is “just as important” as the rest. The breadth of her work is traversed by her interest in important issues: feminist defence, war, violence, sexuality, family and death. Moreover, the artist alludes to intersections and connections with the work Pablo Picasso produced during the Spanish Civil War. During the Yugoslav Wars, the media showed images of concentration camps, torture, and the rape of women and girls… their faces expressing the pain that made her think of the weeping women in Picasso’s work. Works that recount ethnic clashes between the peoples of the former Yugoslavia or the media’s use of contemporary armed conflicts as a spectacle. Inside the framework of:Feminist Revolt in the Museum The Collection
Natalia Iguiñiz Since the start of her career, Natalia Iguiñiz (b. Lima, 1973) has worked in close connection with different women’s collectives and feminist movements in her country. In this interview, she analyses issues that include how her projects approach the way in which the containment of women’s sexual and reproductive rights creates major tensions in the cultural and social context of Peru. Both in her solo work and as part of different artists’ collectives — with Sandro Venturo in La Perrera (The Kennel), or alongside Claudia Coca, and others, in Colectivo Sociedad Civil (Civil Society Collective) — her practice as a poster artist has evolved towards a more direct, first-person intervention in the city’s public space as she reflects on themes such as gender identity, violence against women, political denunciation during Alberto Fujimori’s term of office and inequality in civil society.Inside the framework of:Feminist Revolt in the Museum The Collection
play pause stop Download Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France in the 1970s and ‘80s Interview with Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez y Giovanna Zapperi
Archipelago 2019 Concert Series September 2019 For the third year running, the programme Archipelago encourages an understanding of the complexity of the contemporary world through listening, exploring what is understood by experimental music and the relation it bears to popular culture by way of different narratives and geographies. The present edition explores the concept of tradition: a term predominantly associated with conservatism and regression in the face of change, but with a meaning that implies the transfer of knowledge from one person to another and from one generation to the next. Activities Live Arts
Restoration of "Un mundo [A World]", by Ángeles Santos The work Un mundo (A World) by Valladolid artist Ángeles Santos was created in 1929 and made a huge impression on the intellectual circles at the time. The Collection Restoration
Ignacio Gómez de Liaño Gómez de Liaño is key to understanding the experimental poetry scene in Spain. The Collection
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Conference of Carolina Santamarina, Magda Lipska and Sezin Romi The Institution and the Construction of Archives’ Value 26 november, 2019 Conference at the "Session 2. Political Economy of Archives" in the seminar of "Archives of the Commons III. Non-appropriable Archives?". Seminars and conferences
play pause stop Download Language as a deposit of memory and history An interview with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Miguel Ángel Campano D’après Esta exposición ofrece un recorrido retrospectivo de la pintura de Miguel Ángel Campano. Exhibitions
Jörg Immendorff The Task of the Painter This retrospective exhibition devoted to the work of Jörg Immendorff (Bleckede, Germany, 1945 –Düsseldorf, Germany, 2007) surveys a career spanning more than four decades, setting forth the key stages and transformations in the artist’s work: from the sociopolitical and political upheaval works he conceived between the 1960s and early 1980s, to the encoded paintings in the latter stages of his output. Exhibitions
Mario Merz Time Is Mute This retrospective on the work of Mario Merz (Milan, Italy, 1925 – Milan, Italy, 2003) surveys the provenance of a body of work suspended in a kind of pre-historic time, at odds with the discourse of modern-era history. This anachronistic perspective, apparent in the choice of materials and iconography, stems from the ideological and committed stance of an artist and his relation to the political and intellectual climate in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, in addition to his rejection of pervasive capitalism and the American way of life after the Second World War.The search for mythology distinguished Merz’s work from his kindred contemporaries, for his archaism bore no relation to a melancholic yearning for the past, but instead was related to a razor-sharp critique of industrial and consumerist modernity. Exhibitions
Corbeaux (Crows) Interview to Bouchra Ouizguen As part of the performing arts series staged in collaboration with the Community of Madrid’s Teatros del Canal, the Museo Reina Sofía presents, over two sessions, Corbeaux (Crows), by choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen.Corbeaux is a kind of “living sculpture” with no contrivance, comprising raw elements, gestures, silences and, at times, the cries of a group of women dressed in black, their bodies creating figures and forms in the space they share with spectators. As the piece evolves, pre-conceived notions of time and space vanish, making way for a hard-to-classify lived experience intended to be both intimate and universal. Activities Live Arts
The Perturbable School The Perturbable School is an extended programme of studies, residence and cultural productions that runs in parallel to the exhibition Luis Camnitzer. Hospice of Failed Utopias (Museo Reina Sofía, 17 October 2018 - 4 March 2019). Education
Etel Adnan Interview by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez with Etel Adnan about her collaboration with Delphine Seyrig 2018 Video, colour, sound, (extract 17’ 12’’) Archive Centre Audiovisuel Simone De Beauvoir Exhibitions
Ulrike Ottinger Interview by Giovanna Zapperi with Ulrike Ottinger about her collaboration with Delphine Seyrig February 2017 Video, colour, sound, 94’, (extracts 23’ 33’’) Archive Centre Audiovisuel Simone De Beauvoir Exhibitions
Defiant Muses Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France in the 1970s and 1980s Delphine Seyrig (1932-1990) is best known for the roles she played in French auteur cinema, most notably in Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad, directed by Alain Resnais. However, during the 1970s, she became indeed an activist working collaboratively within the framework of the feminist movement. Around 1975, together with activist video maker Carole Roussopoulos and translator Ioana Wieder, she produced a series of videos under the collective name “Les Insoumuses” (Defiant Muses). This exhibition explores the intersection between the histories of cinema, video and feminism in France.Focusing on the emergence of video collectives in the 1970s, the exhibition proposes to reconsider the history of the feminist movement in France through a set of media practices and looks at a network of creative alliances that emerged in a time of political turmoil. Exhibitions
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Engineers or Hackers? Technological Systems and Political Change Lecture by Helen Hester 1 July, 2019 Lecture on the XF Manifesto Xenofeminism. A Politics for Alienation, which reconsiders the feminist political project. Seminars and conferences
David Wojnarowicz History Keeps Me Awake at Night From the late 1970s until his untimely death in 1992 through AIDS-related complications, David Wojnarowicz (New Jersey, USA, 1954 — New York, USA, 1992) produced a body of work that was as conceptually rigorous as it was stylistically diverse. His artistic career fused a broad array of forms, mediums and devices, for instance the use of photography as a narrative tool; collage as a resource for critique and political statements, stressed through the poverty of the medium; painting adopted to explore different allegorical processes; and photomontage and text employed as an approach to the queer and identity politics that also shaped his role as an activist. Exhibitions
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Moving the Centre Conversation with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 14 May, 2019 The Museo Reina Sofía welcomes Kenyan novelist and essayist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938), one of the strongest voices in international and African li Seminars and conferences
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Ecologies of Care in the Crisis of the Welfare State Round-table discussion. A Journey Questioning the Present: Institutional Critique Viewed from Trieste 11 April, 2019 The aim of this second encounter is to shed light on the three most important devices in the Trieste ecology of care: mental health, health in the ter Seminars and conferences
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Ecologies of Care in the Crisis of the Welfare State Round-table discussion. Enter Outside in Community Healthcare: Experimenting with Militant Research 10 April, 2019 In this first round-table discussion, workers from Trieste and Madrid present research materials, as well as questions and reflections posited through Seminars and conferences
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Thinking Is Three-Dimensional Encounter with Charles Ray 28 marzo, 2019 The interpretations of Ray’s artistic practice view it as a crossover between the contemporary and timelessness; in fact, references to the history of Seminars and conferences
Tetsuya Ishida Self-portrait of Other The work of Japanese artist Tetsuya Ishida (Yaizu, Shizuoka, 1973 – Tokyo, 2005) gives the experience of the contemporary subject a face as it explores the uncertainty and desolation of Japanese society, drastically altered by the technological advances and successive crises that have affected economies and politics the world over. More specifically, Ishida portrays, with descriptive precision, the mood of his generation, defined by the bursting bubble of finance and real estate and the mass lay-offs that plunged the country into a deep recession in 1991. Exhibitions
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download With the participation of Sara Buraya, Corina Oprea and Maria Eugenia Rodríguez Palop Presentation of the publication Feminisms [Feminismos] 22 marzo, 2019 Feminisms is a publication by L’Internationale online, with its point of departure from the diverse situated perspectives interwoven into movements su Seminars and conferences
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Rethinking Capitalism, Class and Gender Lecture by Nancy Fraser 22 marzo, 2019 In this lecture, the academic and philosopher Nancy Fraser exposes, through the questioning of what she calls "neoliberal feminism", her vin Seminars and conferences
Rogelio López Cuenca Keep Reading, Giving Rise Keep Reading, Giving Rise is the first retrospective of the artist Rogelio López Cuenca (Nerja, 1959). He has worked at the crossroads between the visual arts and the mass media. Taking writing off the page, he has exercised his own visual poetry that operates inside the tradition of institutional critique and the offshoots of Pop through multiple mediums such as painting, installation, urban interventions and publishing. Exhibitions
play pause stop Download Lost, Loose and Loved: Foreign Artists in Paris 1944-1968 Interview with Serge Guilbaut
The Avant-garde Networks of Amauta Argentina, Mexico, and Peru in the 1920s The Peruvian journal Amauta (1926–1930), founded and directed by José Carlos Mariátegui (Moquegua, Peru, 1894 – Lima, Peru, 1930), was one of the most influential publications in twentieth-century art. Conceived as a platform for the core debates on modernity, and in contrast to other avant-garde publications, Amauta was not the expression of one group, nor did it seek to impose one sole aesthetic or political programme. Rather, it aspired to become a medium with which to explore and discuss different movements of social transformation. Exhibitions
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Wide Audiences and the Visual Arts from 1950 to the Present: Agencies, Politics and Discourses Artists and/or Wide Audiences 30 November, 2018 Lectures by Katharine J. Wright, Andrew Cappetta and Patrick Van Rossem. Moderated by: Laura Ramírez Seminars and conferences
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Wide Audiences and the Visual Arts from 1950 to the Present: Agencies, Politics and Discourses Lecture by Lynn Spigel 30 November, 2018 This lecture explores how, since the 1960s, certain American artists have used talk shows as a space to develop artistic and political practices of co Seminars and conferences
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Wide Audiences and the Visual Arts from 1950 to the Present: Agencies, Politics and Discourses Broadening Audiences, Expanding Channels 30 November, 2018 Lectures by Briley Rasmussen, Daniel Verdú and Laura Gómez Vaquero. Moderated by: Alberto López Cuenca Seminars and conferences
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Wide Audiences and the Visual Arts from 1950 to the Present: Agencies, Politics and Discourses Biennials and Contemporary Publics 30 November, 2018 Lectures by Eva March and María Dolores Barrena Delgado. Moderated by: Desirée Vidal Seminars and conferences