In the spring of 2010 the CA2M will present a new selection of its works as part of a programme of temporary exhibitions to show the public the contents of the Contemporary Art Collection owned by the Regional Government of Madrid.

One of CA2M objective is working with its entire art collection: preserving, studying, exhibiting and bringing it closer to the public through educational activities. Collection  IV entails reflection on the perspective of the architectonic, real and fictitious spaces.

Walead Beshty: A Diagram of Forces features an overview of the work of this artist through a selection of his works from the past ten years. Using the intersections between the three overlapping grid systems present in the floor plan of the CA2M, Beshty will design an exhibition that has both a physical and conceptual experience of “in-betweenness” evidenced in the sharp angles, abrupt turns, and off-kilter placements of the walls.

In Dead End, Gregor Schneider’s project for CA2M, the artist has situated himself in a theoretical no man’s land at the point of contact between the vestiges of the traditional house that once occupied the site of the museum in Mostoles and the present building itself. Visitors wend their way through a vast, enclosed labyrinth of pipes that extend throughout the centre.

The first and third floor of the Centre, as well as other common spaces, are allocated to this exhibition. It is an heterogeneous compilation of techniques and topics. Amongst the pieces of the show, we can identify paintings, sculptures, engravings, photographs and installations as well as a wide range of video works.

Estación experimental fue una exposición que presentó la obra de aquellos artistas para los que la razón de su trabajo es un impulso irrefrenable que les conecta con la parte más pura de la investigación científica. Desviándose de las directrices preestablecidas en el arte contemporáneo, estos creadores compartían en su trabajo una cierta fascinación por temas extra-artísticos, por lo que sucede dentro del campo de lo real pero también en el más allá.

This monographic exhibition, the first a Spanish museum ever dedicated to this young Cuban artist, presents a great number of his recent works in addition to some pieces created especially for the exhibition. Its includes installations, sculptures, objects, interventions, performances and drawings.