Elements of Vogue was shown at CA2M between November 2017 and May 2018. This is the book of an exhibition explored how minorities use their bodies to create dissident forms of beauty, subjectivity and desire
Performative Walkthroughs
After months without being able to be physically present in the museum, we are now returning to our performative walkthroughs in order to recover a shared closeness in our exhibitions. We will have to relearn how to move simultaneously through the exhibition halls, to keep our distance while remaining close, to invent new ways of looking after each other, of listening to one another and to share. To this end, the walkthroughs will be limited to a maximum of 10 people.
Cecilia Vicuña. Seehearing the Enlightened Failure brings together over a hundred works by poet, visual artist, and activist Cecilia Vicuña. Since the 1960s, the artist has constituted a radical perspective on the relationship between art and politics through her writing and art making.
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.
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.
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.