Previous Exhibitions
The show at the CA2M includes an early series of videos by Guy Ben-Ner recorded between 2002 and 2005, all with the common theme of the paternal figure within the family and all of which extrapolate the situation to any other figure that tries to conform to a group.
Auto. Dream and Matter analyses the presence of the car in contemporary art. Featuring over 100 works by 60 artists from both Spain and abroad, the exhibition explores the relationship between car culture and artistic creation in recent decades.
The exhibition Light Years. Cristina Lucas comprises videos, photographs, drawings and installations that serve as performative acts in which the artist herself, other characters, the spectator and even animals directly confront the symbols, myths and metaphors of defining moments in the western patriarchal domination.
Featuring the photographs of 10 national and international artists, this exhibition focuses on the periphery as the constantly changing area that surrounds cities and pushes the rural world – what remains of nature – out to a few reserves destined in time to disappear almost completely.
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.