Museo Reina Sofía, in its role as a vehicle of knowledge and reflection, as well as an impulse for new spaces for experimentation, creation and dissemination of contemporary art, sets in motion a number of diverse lines of thought and debate. The development of research, analysis and debate frameworks which can imbue the narrative of the Collection with an additional dimension, as well as the programming of exhibitions.The setting in motion of discussion forums on key issues of contemporary debate relevant to the museum as an institution dedicated to providing citizens with frameworks for the critical analysis of culture.The experimentation with alternative methods of mediation between the citizens and the museum's proposals, taking up as a starting point the experience of artists and of the agents with whom the museum establishes collaboration.
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Thursday, 22, and Friday, 23 June 2023 - Check programme
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Encounter around the Study Centre’s Research Fabric
The Museo’s Study Centre organises two public sessions based on the first edition of Connective Tissue, the Museo Reina Sofía’s Programme of Critical Museology, Artistic Research Practices and Cultural Studies. During the encounter, the team of mobilisers share the works developed up to this point and reflect on their predictions. Equally, the group of Resident Student Researchers present their work on posters and in installations and talks with people interested.
Activity of: TIZ 9. Relational Ecologies
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Saturday, 10 June 2023 - Check programme
Neighbourhood Picnic
Re-enchanting Lavapiés
In its fifth edition, the Neighbourhood Picnic transforms, once again, the Museo Reina Sofía, turning it into a space of encounter, enjoyment and resistance for all residents of Madrid’s Lavapiés neighbourhood.
Activity of: TIZ 9. Relational Ecologies
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Saturday, 25 March 2023 - 10:30am
Look Closely. Feminist Editathon by Women Creators
Wikipedia Publishing Workshop and the Presentation of Data Speak
Look Closely. Feminist Editathon By Women Creators is a workshop to address the substantial gender gap that exists on the platform in Spanish, both in terms of publishing and the nature of its content, as it looks to contribute to the creation of new entries by women creators.
Activity of: TIZ 8. Feminist Power
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10 March 2023 - 17 May 2023 - Check programme
From Malaise. Community Mental Health and Critical Institutionalism
Critical Node
In 2022, a group of people from Entrar Afuera, Nada Colectivo and Museo en Red embarked upon a research process on community mental health, critical institutionalism and the possibility of radio as a practice of collective communication. Therefore, the confluence of these three strands sets forth a hypothesis on cultural practice as a potential space for care and social transformation, inside the framework of structural forms of malaise rooted in the capitalist system.
Activity of: TIZ 7. Healing Institutions
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Monday, 19, Tuesday, 20, and Wednesday, 21 September 2022 - Check times
Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine. Session 3
Mette Edvardsen
The Museo Reina Sofía continues with its annual welcomes toTime has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine by choreographer Mette Edvardsen, a project where people from different countries memorise books of their choice. Together, they form a library collection of “living books” which, at stipulated times, are available to the public in the form of individual encounters from which to recite what has been learned to a visitor.
Activity of: TIZ 5. Phantasmata
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From 11 to 16 May 2022 - Check programme
Documents 21. Kenneth Goldsmith
An Archive Can Be Anywhere
This Documents' latest edition welcomes poet, artist and editor Kenneth Goldsmith (New York, 1961), an archive theorist, a poet in the sphere of “uncreative writing” — a concept based on plagiarism, appropriation and the non-subjective use of literature — and the creator of the digital platform UbuWeb, a paradigm of the immaterial museum of modern and contemporary art.
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Wednesday, 27 October 2021 - 1pm
On reading, writing, memory and forgetting in a library of living books
Conversation between Mette Edvardsen and Victoria Pérez Royo
This conversation between artist Mette Edvardsen and researcher Victoria Pérez Royo accompanies the second instalment of the project Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.
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