Altered listenings and porous practices
Based on the different exhibitions, activities, workshops and collection of the museum, we propose different encounters and different points of view on contemporary artistic practices and their capacity for influence and social transformation.
Al cuidado de las pequeñas sombras (In the care of the small shadows) is a site-specific installation created by Elena Alonso for the terrace of the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Museum, consisting of four sculptures conceived as a bat shelter.
An Wei Lu Li has created a specific pictorial installation for the cafeteria at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Museum, with the sponsorship of Cervezas Alhambra
Let’s Think Positive came about in 2003 as part of the exhibition If Alive that Manuel Saiz presented at the Museu de L’Empordà in Figueres, Girona. The idea behind the exhibition was the beginning of the preparations for his future 65th birthday on the 10th of January 2026.
This first graphic intervention by Maria Medem opens a space for reflection on illustration at the CA2M Museum. Maria Medem's imaginary universe, reflected in different non-exhibition areas of the Museum, generates a sensorial and experimental atmosphere where the limits between the real, the strange and the ambiguous are blurred and materialized in different forms.
Lucía C. Pino works primarily with image and sculpture. For the past decade, the artist’s practice has largely been concerned with questioning the material and ontological inertias rooted in design, architecture and sculpture, such as attachment, solidity or durability.
A sound intervention can be conceived as a non-invasive intervention in space, as a presence that inhabits it in a subtle and temporary way. For this new intervention, artist Julia de Castro uses her voice to develop a sound action based on a dialogue, or a reaction, with some of the pieces in the museum's exhibitions.
Ester Partegàs’s exhibition, conceived jointly for the Museo CA2M of the Autonomous Community of Madrid and Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani in Palma de Mallorca, represents a broad survey of her work over the last three decades.