The Region of Madrid’s Department of Culture, Tourism & Sports commissioned the filmmaker José Luis López Linares and the Lopez-li Films production company to make a short artistic documentary film called “CA2M, 10 AÑOS EN MÓSTOLES” (CA2M, 10 YEARS IN MÓSTOLES), whose primary goal is to showcase the cultural value of CA2M. The film was conceived to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the opening of the museum belonging to the Region of Madrid, a benchmark for contemporary art in the whole area of influence and more particularly for the city of Móstoles.

The Art Fellows program is made initiated and supported by Mophradat, a non-profit contemporary arts association based on Brussels that creates opportunities for thinking, producing, and sharing among contemporary artists from the Arab World and their peers everywhere. Art Fellows is a pan European project which includes: Beursschouwburg in Brussels, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid, CCA: Center for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, WIELS | Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels, and Münchner Kammerspiele in Munich.

On 23 and 24 September the city of Móstoles will host its 2nd Culture Forum. The idea behind the forum is to act as an open debate that will lead to the drafting of proposals and initiatives for cultural action, as well as the participation of groups, associations and other bodies who play a key role in the city’s day-to-day cultural life.

The performance Quarter of an Hour of Metaphysical Culture is a presentation of physical training created from a poem by the same name by the Romanian poet Ghérasim Luca. The goal is to situate the metaphysical ideas contained within the poem (life, death, emptiness, anxiety, ideas, shivers), without any drama, based on a repetition of physical and sound exercises. The poet provides the “meta” and the performers the “physical”.

CA2M is a partner of the fourth edition of The Future Generation Art Prize, a worldwide competition established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in Ukraine. All artists up to the age of 35 of all backgrounds, working in any medium, anywhere in the world are encouraged to apply. Supporting the application process, more than 600 correspondents all over the world will be nominating artists for the prize and over 50 Partner Platforms worldwide will be ambassadors for the Future Generation Art Prize to encourage artists within their regions to apply.

Taking Venus as a paradigmatic figure of the position assigned to women within the hegemonic narrative of art history, the workshop Venus. 

A series of Crisis Cabinets (of political fictions) was called in order to tackle the situation and to study a series of measures to take within the stipulated deadline. G

Brief Festival is a celebration of creativity and an inspirational gathering of some of the best professionals in graphic creation every year in Madrid. The programme for the festival includes conferences, workshops, encounters, projections, exhibitions and much more.