
The audiovisual programs are intended to counteract the predo
The audiovisual programs are intended to counteract the predo
Saturday, 23, Sunday, 24, and Friday, 29 November 2024 – Check programme
Almost ten years on from the exhibition Hito Steyerl. Duty-Free Art, this audiovisual series offers a chance to taker a deeper look at the work of Hito Steyerl, a pivotal figure in contemporary critical thought around images, technology and power. Organised jointly by the Museo Reina Sofía and Márgenes, an international film festival in Madrid which explores new audiovisual idioms, the series features a master lecture by Steyerl and a selection of her films, stretching from her early documentary essays to her most recent output.
Wednesday, 20 November 2024 - 7pm
To celebrate Black Awareness Day on 20 November, the figure of Zumbi dos Palmares, a key figure in the fight against slavery in Brazil, will be commemorated on the same date of his murder. The Maloka Association, in collaboration with Museo Situado, will pay homage via a collective concert which, through music, dance and the interventions of anti-racist projects such as the Sindicato de Manteros (the Union of Street Vendors), honours the legacy of the Black and Afro-descendent population in Brazil.
Wednesday, 9 and 16 and Thursday, 17 October 2024 - Check programme
This encounter series, which revolves around the exhibition Esperpento. Popular Art and Aesthetic Revolution, comprises presentations of the show by its curatorial team and two theatre pieces which reflect on the notion of “esperpento” and are performed by the companies Lagartijas tiradas al sol and ButacaZero.
Thursday, 19 September 2024 - 12:30pm
The Museo Reina Sofía joins with the Festival de las Ideas (the Festival of Ideas), a new event which operates under the slogan “Thought Takes to the Streets” and comes into being with the aim of disseminating contemporary theory and, in the process, filling Madrid’s streets, squares and cultural spaces with concepts. In its first edition, which orbits around catharsis, the Museo welcomes a reflective walk around the Collection, led by artist Marina Núñez.
Saturday, 29 June 2024 - 6pm and 8pm
The performances of James Lee Byars (Detroit, Michigan, 1932 – Cairo, 1997) bring together the aesthetic and life concerns of this unique artist. In conjunction with the exhibition the Museo Reina Sofía devotes to the artist, under the title James Lee Byars. Perfect Is the Question, and inside the framework of the programme Living Matter. Other Approaches to Material, this day re-stages, over two sessions, a selection of James Lee Byars’s performances, which open a dialogue with his visual work inside the space of the show. In the form of a coda, the activity also includes the presentation of a new performance conceived specifically for the occasion, Acaeció en Granada, which explores Byars’s relationship with the artist Miguel Benlloch (Loja, Granada, 1954 – Seville, 2018) in the city of Granada.
Activity of: Living Matter
Monday, 24 June 2024 - 7pm
This encounter welcomes screenings of films by Shuruq Harb (Ramallah, 1980), Shereen Abdel-Karim Hassanein (Gaza City, 1996) and Lara Salous (Ramallah, 1988), three Palestinian multidisciplinary artists that are part of the Tadafuq project, which provides artistic training and mentoring online for Palestinian creatives from the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Jerusalem. The initiative has been developed by artist and curator Nicolás Combarro since 2020.
Activity of: Critical Thinking Gatherings