Previous Exhibitions

This exhibition features a selection of works belonging to the collection owned by the CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo. A large proportion of them are recent acquisitions and are on display for the first time. Many are photographs, but videos, drawings and other media are also included.

The Imagining_Writing History exhibition is designed to complement and reinforce the issues that will be addressed during the international seminar. It also provides an opportunity to present a dialogue between a selection of works by the artists participating in the lectures, pieces from the CA2M Collection and historic works from the collection owned by the Regional Government of Madrid.

The Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo presents two installations by the artists David Bestué and Marc Vives. The first one, entitled Acciones en el universo, 2007, presents us with a type of tunnel of horror or experimental corridor and is divided into 11 separate spaces. The second installation, entitled La Confirmación, follows a character through different stages of his life that lead him to re-examine some of the certainties he has hitherto regarded as irrevocable.

In the show on display at CA2M, co-produced with Malmö Konsthall, Leopold Kessler presents a selection of his videos, sculptures, photographs and objects used for various actions conducted between 2005 and 2008. The show also features a new video piece entitled Neighbours and two interventions in the public space to take place in the town of Móstoles.

Under Cover: Four States of Privacy highlights the unique aspects in the language of 40 authors whose work revolves around a common theme. Regardless of their period or the techniques, the exhibition explores the expressions which, through the medium of graphic art, reveal the dual conceptual dimension of physical and mental space.

This exhibition brings together a selection of artists – both national and international – whose works represent a broad spectrum of aesthetic languages and, as a collection of samples, definitively characterise the current evolution of contemporary video art.

This exhibition presents a sentimental journey through the black and white Spain of the Fifties and Sixties, through its clichés and rituals, its majesty and its poverty, accompanied by a silent, discriminating Ramón Masats.

The UPRISING exhibition aims to express the values of freedom and citizen resistance that inspired the uprisings of 2 May 1808 through works (photographs, videos, paintings and sculptures) belonging to the Contemporary Art Collection of the Regional Government of Madrid.

First individual exhibition in Spain of Discoteca Flaming Star, an interdisciplinary group of artists. With Cristina Gómez Barrio and Wolfgang Mayer as its founders and leading members, the group can either expand or shrink, becoming a type of meeting place that shifts and changes according to the way the performances develop.