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Read more about 2024 ARCO AWARD

2024 ARCO AWARD

The ARCO Community of Madrid Award for Young Artists was created in 2004 to recognise the best work of art (including painting, drawing, comic, engraving, sculpture, mixed media, photography, installation and any other medium of artistic expression, without any limitations on either the theme or the technique) made by artists no older than 40, whose sale price does not exceed €35,000, and which has been exhibited in the corresponding edition of the ARCO Fair. The Community of Madrid acquires the award-winning work, which becomes part of CA2M’s Contemporary Art Collection.

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ÁNGELA DE LA CRUZ. FONDOS (LIGHT YELLOW)

Many of Ángela de la Cruz’s paintings are presented as extended bodies with clear physicality as she twists the canvases, scratches the fabric or manipulates the supports. This makes each of her works a container of stories where paint takes on a physical and spatial presence.

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EMILY JACIR. LINZ DIARY

Linz Diary, by the artist Emily Jacir, is a series of colour photographs taken in 2003 to capture the artist’s action which consisted of walking around a fountain in Linz Square, in Austria.

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EVA FÀBREGAS. GROWTHS

Eva Fàbregas envisions interaction with art through sensorial experience. Her sculptures, made of soft, ethereal materials like fabric and air, often include sound and beckon us to draw closer through the senses, to discover them through touch, generating an intimacy in which affect can flow.

On the occasion of International Museum Day, the CA2M opens on Monday 18th of May, and invites you to get to know the storage areas of the Center with the Museum's Conservation team. The CA2M Collection consists of over 1600 works of art from all artistic disciplines, which are joined by over 300 works by 224 artists from the ARCO Foundation Collection, in deposit at the CA2M since last year. The sum total of both collections constitutes a key set of works in order to understand contemporary creation, since they collect the main trends in art from the second half of the 20th Century until today.

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MON 18th MAY 17:00 H. AND WED 20th MAY 12:00 H.

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Read more about INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY 2015

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On the occasion of International Museum Day, the CA2M opens on Monday 18th of May, and invites you to get to know the storage areas of the Center with the Museum's Conservation team.

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INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY 2015

Is it a cycle?

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Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:00 — Sat, 31/12/2016 - 12:00

CÁPSULA COLECCIÓN: JACOBO CASTELLANO

Made by Jacobo Castellano between 2004 and 2005, Casa is one of the artist’s first sculptural pieces. Based on his grandparent’s now abandoned house in a village in Jaen

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Sun, 01/01/2017 - 12:00 — Sun, 31/12/2017 - 12:00

COLLECTION CAPSULE: TERESA LANCETA

Lanceta defends the importance of weaving techniques and advocates placing weaving on a par with painting and sculpture. She argues that the “peripheral position of fabrics is not just metaphorical, but a reality, because societies that still weave are also peripheral

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Mon, 01/01/2018 - 12:00 — Mon, 31/12/2018 - 12:00

COLLECTION CAPSULE: PEDRO NEVES MARQUES

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.

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Tue, 01/01/2019 - 12:00 — Tue, 31/12/2019 - 12:00

CÁPSULA DE COLECCIÓN: RUBÉN H. BERMÚDEZ Y TÚ, ¿POR QUÉ ERES NEGRO?

Y tú, ¿por qué eres negro? (And you, why are you black?) is an open, personal and collective archive of the construction of Blackness as a political force in Spain which can be approached in many ways. It is a dispositif to construct a history of our own but also an educational tool aimed at racialised audiences and an instrument of empowerment placing Afro- at the centre.

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ASSOCIATED MAKING

To celebrate International Museum Day, CA2M has come up with a new way of activating its collection and making it more widely accessible.

“ASSOCIATED MAKING. ASSEMBLY KIT OF PIECES FROM THE CA2M COLLECTION” is a curatorial programme by Marta Ramos-Yzquierdo that views the exhibition as an open, imaginative and surprising reflection in which artists, institutions and audiences can collectively rethink our contemporaneity.