New Exhibition Programme

Main Venue

Parque del Retiro Venues. Palacio de Velázquez and Palacio de Cristal

Screening. Interval 26. Rita Azevedo Gomes The Portuguese Woman

Rita Azevedo Gomes, La portuguesa. Film, 2018

The Intervals series, which screens recent film work, welcomes one of the most arresting and poetic feature-length films in recent years, The Portuguese Woman by Rita Azevedo Gomes (Lisbon, 1952), a director who prolongs that constant tension between experimentation and narrative film-making in her work. In this particular film, Azevedo demonstrates how historical period cinema can be reconsidered through an avant-garde lens, putting forward, at the same time, a powerful feminist argument related to the present day.

The Portuguese Woman is a story of waiting, a period of time in which life dissipates. Set in the Middle Ages, the film recounts the eleven years that Lady von Ketten, an aristocrat of Portuguese origin who has recently married, spends waiting for her husband, who has left to fight against the Bishop of Trent in northern Italy. Ultimately, a protracted confinement, forced by the wars of men for power and religion, in which life passes by. 

Date: Thursday, 12 and Saturday, 14 September 2019
Hour: 7pm and 6pm
Location: Sabatini Building, Auditorium
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía
Programme: Intervals
Admission: Free, until full capacity is reached

Concert Series. Archipelago 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. Thus, it can be recognised more as a way to advance and reconcile and not solely as a skewed attempt to preserve a kind of mythicised originality.

Programme: Miguel Nava and Rafa Martín, Rashad Becker, Ipek Gorgun, Nina García, Saba Alizadeh, Gaba, Síria, R. Vincenzo, Lechuga Zafiro, Psicolabio, Chulapeiras, Żywizna (Raphael Rogiński + Genowefa Lenarcik), Lea Bertucci, Kolida Babo, Asmâa Hamzaoui and Bnat Timbouktou, and MCZO & Duke.

Dates: From 18 to 21 September 2019
Hour: (check programme)
Location: Museo Reina Sofía (Sabatini Building, Vaults Gallery, Garden, Auditorium and Palacio de Cristal, Retiro Park); Iglesia de San Millán y San Cayetano; Municipal School of Music and Dance, Distrito Centro María Dolores Pradera
Curatorship: Rubén Coll and José Luis Espejo
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía
With the sponsorship of: Estrella Damm
With the collaboration of: Madrid City Council (subsidies for festivals, exhibitions, events, congresses and other cultural events 2018–2019)
With the support of: Goethe-Institut Madrid
With the technical support of: the Laboratory of Computer and Electronic Music (LIEM), the Centre of Performance Technology (CTE), the National Institute of Performance Arts and Music (INAEM) and the Municipal School of Music and Dance, Distrito Centro María Dolores Pradera
Admission: Free, until full capacity is reached

Open call. Workshop and Concert. Udlot Udlot by José Maceda

Udlot Udlot. Manila 1975, Courtesy of the UP Center for Ethnomusicology

Inside the framework of Archipelago 2019, The Museo Reina Sofía opens a call to register for the performance piece Udlot Udlot, by José Maceda, in the Palacio de Cristal. The call is aimed at anyone interested in music and does not require knowledge of music theory. Those that register will receive instruments and instructions, finally, will rehearse and play the piece as the conclusion to a recreational day. 

Dates: Wednesday 18 and Saturday 21 September, 2019
Hour: (check programme)
Location: Municipal School of Music and Dance, Distrito Centro María Dolores Pradera and Retiro Park, Palacio de Cristal
Curatorship: José Luis Espejo
Education programme: Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca, Cristina Gutiérrez and Jesús Jara
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía
With the support of: The Philippine Embassy in Spain, the Spanish Embassy in the Philippines, the UP Center for Ethnomusicology
Admission:
For workshop and concert, free entry with prior registration required at sonido@museoreinasofia.es until 13 September. Emails can be sent individually or through groups or music schools. Participation does not require knowledge of music. Recommended minimum age: 13
Concert admission, free until full capacity is reached