Exhibitions publications

Javi Cruz has a lot to do with the forms of production currently taking place in Madrid that define its contemporary cultural scene today

Cuatrocientos setenta y tres millones trescientos cincuenta y tres mil ochocientos noventa segundos was the title of the exhibition, as well as the precise amount of time that Los Torreznos had been working together at that point. In a certain way, it made it seem to us as though during  during those fifteen years, Los Torreznos had created only a single piece of work, one that consisted of counting from 1 to 473,353,890, like they had started counting in February 1999 and had continued non-stop, day and night, in a fifteen-year-long performance.

The catalogue was designed to be a 'mediated artistic space' created through the written word and the absence of images, which represent the axis around which the work revolved. Designed by Susi Bilbao, it contains texts by some thirty authors, among which you can find Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego, Kurt Johannessen and Los Torreznos.

Querer parecer noche brings together different forms of artistic production in Madrid. Its creations are split between a longer tradition of historical nostalgia and the current histrionic moment, with their different sensibilities and ways of living, where the 'local' is built on the fine line between those who live there and those who are passing through.

Autoeclipse is an exhibition designed to be a sort of retrospective of recent works, one that nonetheless allows us to take a critical look at Armando Andrade Tudela's work to date. The pieces on display work through the tensions they create with their predecessors, with Armando's own biography, and with the political and social development of the places where the artist has lived, reflecting an artistic endeavour in the public and social space as well as in the more intimate, private one.

Todos los conciertos, todas las noches, todo vacío brings some of Ana Laura Aláez's latest works into dialogue with other works from the beginning of her career. The exhibition is cast as a return to the source, going back to the beginning and working in the cracks of the themes that have been a part of her work over the last twenty years.

Through interdisciplinary practices, the artists offer alternatives to conventional narratives about socio-political minorities, including discussions about the role of contemporary artistic production. 

Francesc Ruiz's first major exhibition at a state museum in Spain is a retrospective and an exhibition of new works.

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