The music, dance and performance activities that feature in the Museo Reina Sofía programme are closely linked to the theoretical discourse in the organisation of the exhibition programme and the narrative in the Collection. Along with its own activities, the Museo also produces other shared activities that are the result of ongoing dialogue with a number of established collaborators. These activities include festivals, theatre performances, music conservatories, independent spaces, etc.
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Wednesday, 20 November 2024 - 7pm
Black Awareness Day in Brazil
Art to Rescue Our Ancestry
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.
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Wednesday, 9 and 16 and Thursday, 17 October 2024 - Check programme
Esperpento. Popular Art and Aesthetic Revolution
Encounters Around the Exhibition
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.
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Saturday, 29 June 2024 - 6pm and 8pm
Performance Day
Reactivations of the Performance Work of James Lee Byars and Miguel Benlloch
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
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Saturday, 9 March 2024 - 10pm
The Shore, the Tide, the Current: An Oceanic Caribbean
ARCOmadrid 2024 Party in the Museo Reina Sofía
The Museo Reina Sofía welcomes Caribbean tides and currents, which flow through the Sabatini Building’s Garden and Cloister from 10pm until midnight as part of the ARCOmadrid 2024 closing party. Embracing the themes of this edition of the Madrid art fair, The Shore, the Tide, the Current: An Oceanic Caribbean, DJ Valerie Brathwaite and Toccororo will unfurl a sound-based connection between distant shores, and with influences and approaches that are as interesting as they are different.
Activity of: The Caribbean Relation
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4 October - 30 November 2023 - Check programme
Not Yet, Still
Probationary Stage Practice with Paz Rojo
Across the months of October and November 2023, the artistic investigation Not Yet, Still will be developed inside the Museo Reina Sofía. The project by artist and researcher Paz Rojo is articulated via two laboratories, an encounter, a stage experiment and a conversation.
Activity of: Notes for a Time Apart
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30 June - 16 December 2023
The Institute of Suspended Time
Exhibition at the Office of the Instituto del Tiempo Suspendido and Activations
The Instituto del Tiempo Suspendido (Institute of Suspended Time, ITS) is a project by Javier Bassas and Raquel Friera which came into being as a fictitious (non)institution seeking to revise temporal regimes established in society.
Activity of: Notes for a Time Apart
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Friday, 16 and Saturday, 17 June 2023 - Check programme
Archipelago 2023
El Hierro Will Once Again Be the Centre of the World
El Hierro is not any volcanic island. For centuries, it was considered prime meridian before being replaced by Greenwich Mean Time at the International Meridian Conference in 1884. This occurred after the United Kingdom had standardised the measurement of time for the rest of the planet in 1840 via the Great Western Railway company. El Hierro, sitting halfway between Africa, Europe and South America, is a metaphor for music that circumvents Western media’s powerful grid, which rules the taste, presence and even fees of musicians from the experimental scene. El Hierro will once again be the centre of the world.
Activity of: TIZ 9. Relational Ecologies
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Thursday, 4 May 2023 - 8pm
Ornithology
A Conversation on Music Between Quico Cadaval and Pablo Castaño
This encounter pays tribute to Charlie Parker and Benny Harris’s classic Ornithology, and brings together two figures from Galicia who are both distinguished in their respective spheres: storyteller Quico Cadaval and jazz saxophonist Pablo Castaño.
Activity of: TIZ 9. Relational Ecologies
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13 April – 25 May 2023 - Check programme
When Destiny Catches Up with Us
Desperate Actions Before the Sixth Extinction
This programme, which throws into relief the sixth mass extinction in which our world is currently submerged, gathers popular knowledge and scientific research, focusing on marine life and insects. It zooms in on those species which, in being outside the scope of human perception, do not have the same visibility in our collective imagination as other endangered animals.
Activity of: TIZ 6. Planet A: Green World
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Friday, 17 March 2023 - 6pm
Project 30. Sketches of Heights
Performance
Project 30. Sketches of Heights is a site-specific performance which reflects, through a collective footprint and oral storytelling, on the memory of women during Franco’s dictatorship. It stems from research — conducted in Madrid during July of 2022 — into thirty women who explored the body at once as a wound and as a territory of resistance.
Activity of: TIZ 8. Feminist Power
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Saturday, 12, and Sunday, 13 November 2022 - Check times
Collective Mourning and Planetary Mourning. Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it's endless
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
Unending love or love dies, on repeat like it's endless is a choreography which explores relationships between desire, dance, fragmentation, love (understood as communality), mourning and time. Through the gesture, sensuality, relationality and touch, Baczyński-Jenkins’s practice unfurls structures and politics of desire.
Activity of: TIZ 5. Phantasmata
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Friday, 11 November 2022 - 7pm
Collective Mourning and Planetary Mourning. MONUMENT 0.6: Heterochrony
Eszter Salamon
The Museo organises Collective Mourning and Planetary Mourning, a double programme which is part of the 40th Autumn Festival of Madrid. The first part features the performance of Monument 0.6: Heterochrony, a stage piece by Hungarian choreographer Eszter Salamon, who creates an imaginary scene between past and present.
Activity of: TIZ 5. Phantasmata
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Friday, 14 October 2022 - Check programme
ESTUDIO IV in Conversation
This activity looks to bring the audience closer to the different performance pieces by approaching research fields which explore the different projects. Thus, it constitutes a common learning space in the form of a conversation between speakers in collaboration with the artists participating in this fourth edition. Set out around three conversations, the encounter prompts a reflection, questions and shared references as well as detecting and revealing common interests, connections and potential.
Activity of: ESTUDIO IV
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Thursday, 13, and Friday, 14 October 2022 - Check programme
ESTUDIO IV
Second Skin. Subcutaneous
Under the title Second Skin. Subcutaneous, this latest edition approaches people’s relationship with the world through the skin, understood both in the literal sense, the integumentary system which covers the body of vertebrate animals, and figuratively, the layer or layers of experiences, affection, knowledge, tradition or bodily techniques determining appearance and relationships.
Activity of: TIZ 5. Phantasmata
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Thursday, 22 September 2022 - 7pm
Free Unions. Returning Souls (Popol Vuh [Wuj]), a Performance by Benvenuto Chavajay
Activities on the Collection
This fresh edition of the Free Unions programme invites Guatemalan artist Benvenuto Chavajay to carry out the performance Returning Souls (Popol Vuh [Wuj]). With the aim of activating memory to translate and transcribe the silence of his ancestors, Chavajay looks to “make Guatemala’s soul return by means of the healing and dignifying role of art, thereby bringing justice to history,” in his words.
Activity of: TIZ 5. Phantasmata
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Wednesday, 21, Thursday, 22, and Friday, 23 September 2022 - Check programme
Collecting the Present
International Seminar
This seminar reflects on how performative artistic practices are inserted inside a collection and its institutional framework. To spark this debate, an approach is set forth from different perspectives — theory, practice and ethics — convening voices from inside and outside the museum as an institution. A series of lectures and events with different artists, theorists, curators and researchers brings together different viewpoints and reflections around working conditions with performative works of art.
Activity of: TIZ 5. Phantasmata