Previous Exhibitions
Architect Andrés Jaque’s studio, the Office for Political Innovation, has been in charge of carrying out a series of architectural acupuncture interventions at the museum. These actions, which have been taken to ease the pain in the institution's body at specific points like the façade and the central atrium, have allowed CA2M's architecture to be adapted for the uses assigned to its spaces for different activities and programmes.
El CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo de la Comunidad de Madrid inaugura la primera exposición individual en España de la artista Lynn Hershmann Leeson (1941, Cleveland, EE UU). Comisariada por Anna Gritz, y producida con el Kunst Werke de Berlín, la muestra, que lleva por título Primera persona plural, pone el foco en la indagación constante de Hershman Leeson en temáticas de identidad, construcción de género y autodeterminación sexual, y en el desarrollo que la artista hace de esas ideas en íntima relación con los avances tecnológicos y científicos.
As always, we are caught between desire and appearances, between the wanting and seeming of a Spanish night that does not allow us to see fully. Between the legacy of our historical nostalgia and the present of our histrionic moment, it is in the baroque, in brownish-grey, in oiliness, where we will find ways to negotiate with a painful and elusive tradition.
On view in the museum lobby, The Pudic Relation Between Machine and Plant, 2016, a piece by the New York based Portuguese artist Pedro Neves Marques (Lisbon, 1984), consists of a video made with the King’s College Centre for Robotics Research in which a sensitive plant, a Mimosa Pudica, reacts in contact with a robotic arm, closing every time the cyborg limb touches it.
Little animals, ash trays showcases a number of works that came from this facsimile alongside other prior works which are key to Rometti Costales’ artistic worldview. The project imagines a material and unpredictable choreography that allows materials, gestures, space or time to give shape to the unknown.
Little Animals, Ash Trays reúne una serie de piezas que son esenciales en el imaginario de los artistas, cuya práctica se caracteriza en lo formal en el empleo de técnicas como el collage, el ready-made – objeto encontrado-, y en lo discursivo se adentra en la ficción, en la antropología crítica y las antologías no occidentales.
Archivo F.X by the artist Pedro G. Romero (Huelva, 1964) is a collection of documentation “in construction”, comprising more than one thousand images and files that are, on one hand, an archive of images of anticlerical political iconoclasm in Spain and also, on the other, and cast under the same light, a mirror held up to the radical projects of the modern vanguard from Malevich to Rothko, from Dada to the Situationists.
The work of Jochen Lempert (Germany, 1958) engages with photography from the optic of research and visuality, very often with the intention of questioning the criteria behind a search for the truth and the models that shape the world.
Julia Spínola (Madrid, 1979) develops her practice across the fields of sculpture and drawing. In her works, the continuous references to text and to performance give rise to systems of correspondences that operate as approximations to a single theme based on the relations set in place between figures, objects and movements.