Previous Exhibitions
The exhibition The Infinitely Variable Ideal of the Popular attempts to review the work of Jeremy Deller by incorporating early as well as recent work, bearing in mind that this is the first exhibition of its kind presented in a Spanish-speaking country. The selected pieces make evident the manner in which Deller departs from object production in order to give way to collective actions, which arise from within the art sphere, only to later desert it.
Can art be a shared and fun experience? Sacrilege is a work by British artist Jeremy Deller, a full-scale replica of the Stonehenge megalithic monument, reproduced as an "inflatable castle", which the audience is invited to jump on. This is one of the largest inflatable structures in the world, with a surface of over one thousand square meters. The work is a reflection on the monument, which, ever since its creation 4000 years ago, has had a public use as a work of art, reformulated over and over throughout History.
Nominal Nature is an exhibition conceived as an interweaving of three pieces located at three points in the vertical axis of the museum building: the entrance area, the elevators, and the rooftop terrace, complemented by a performative talk titled Pabellón in the ground floor auditorium. The pieces gathered in this project combine different media, practices and processes, which bear similitude with the activities upon which the knowledge of Nature was built during Modernity, for the purpose of which they articulate methodologies that come from the field of science transposed to other realms..
The works from the ARCO Foundation Collection allow us to trace out an itinerary through the art from the decade of the 1960's to nowadays, this time with a focus on two ideas that have also been an important part of the exhibition programming of the CA2M in recent years. On the one hand, the very notion of art, and its potential to generate meaning through minimal gestures. The other theme that plays a role in this presentation is personal and collective memory, as well as our capacity to reread our past in order to understand the present and imagine the future.
Orden Inconcluso (Unfinished Order) aimed at drawing a conceptual line between the different decades of Carlos Garaicoa’s work. Works that share economy and architec-ture understood as power, control and utopia have been carefully selected. Also, the exhibition offered the opportunity to see a few project-specific works that try to define and to dig into the artist’s intention to find a connection between the political and eco-nomic realities that he has experienced.
Primera muestra en el CA2M de la Colección Fundación ARCO, meses después de que el centro se convierta en sede de la colección. La exposición proponía un recorrido por las piezas más significativas, a través de las cuales era posible revisitar los cimientos sobre los que reposa gran parte del arte actual, así como detectar algunos de los desarrollos posteriores.
It’s Possible Because It’s Possible brings together a series of pieces by Raqs Media Collective, a group of artists created in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi (1966), Monica Narula (1969) and Shuddhabrata Sengupta (1968).
It’s Possible Because It’s Possible brings together a series of pieces by Raqs Media Collective, a group of artists created in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi (1966), Monica Narula (1969) and Shuddhabrata Sengupta (1968). Located in New Dehli, Raqs Media Collective, is a thinking laboratory that uses the aesthetic as a starting point for social and political reflection. It’s Possible Because It’s Possible is an irrefutable statement against a defeatist determinism. This title becomes an appeal or a sort of manifest.
This exhibition, conceived as an event, will enhance performativity and the way it works, the way it performs itself. It will include objects, media as well as bodies. It will be “live” at all times, as installations, photography, films, performances, discussions, inhabit the space of the museum.