Richard Hamilton The Museo Reina Sofía pays homage to the figure of Richard Hamilton by means of an eponymous exhibition, held between 27 June and 13 October 2014. The piece, produced by Javi Álvarez, explores the most unique aspects of Hamilton’s work, reinterpreting many of the artist’s techniques, such as appropriation and collage, to convey them in the sphere of contemporary video. Exhibitions
Interview with Kerry James Marshall June 2014 In this interview, artist Kerry James Marshall (Birmingham, Alabama, 1955; currently resident of Chicago), talks about the reasons why he chose to address themes related to life, culture and Afro-American history, until that moment barely represented, approached through multiple lenses to provide new visions of issues connected to racial politics, cultural representation and social emancipation. Exhibitions
photobooks. Spain 1905-1977 Interview with Horacio Fernández May 2014 The Exhibition photobooks. Spain 1905-1977 presents a journey through the history of the photobook in Spain, setting off at the beginning of the 20th century and ending in the mid seventies, via a selection from the Museo Reina Sofía Collection, contextualised and accompanied by an assortment of complementary material. Curated by Horacio Fernández, the exhibition photobooks. Spain 1905-1977 is in collaboration with Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) to present part of the line of investigation and acquisition carried out by the Museo Reina Sofía concerning photobooks. Exhibitions
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Fernando Castro Flórez, Miroslaw Balka, Anda Rottenber and Timothy Persons Contemporary Art in Poland: Beyond East and West. Flux and Permanence 11 April, 2014 Seminars and conferences
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Gerald Raunig Revolution as an Expressive Machine 30 April, 2014 Seminars and conferences Centro de estudios
Playgrounds Reinventing the Square May 2014 With some 300 works, the exhibition recounts a different history of art, from the end of the 19th century to the present day, in which artists and activists play a part in redefining public space by exploring the city as a game board, questioning modern-day carnival and holidays, vindicating the right to laziness, reinventing the square as a place of revolt and discovering the possibilities of a new world through its waste. The exhibit takes the playground model as an ideological interrogation of an alienated and consumerist present. Exhibitions
Interview to Kaurismäki on his film series "After the Shipwreck. The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki (1983-1996)" February 2014 With the title After the Shipwreck. The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki (1983-1996), The Museo Reina Sofia proposed in 2014 the first retrospective of the Finnish filmmaker in a museum of modern art. This interview, written as a conversation, reveals some of the keys to his films: the existential desolation mixed with parody and black humour, gritty realism revised by quotes and fable, an ethic but nihilistic gaze to society and above all, unwavering belief in cinema as a space of freedom. Seminars and conferences Centro de estudios
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Simone Forti and Tania Arias Encounter with Simone Forti 28 marzo, 2014 Seminars and conferences
João Fernandes about the Exhibition Time and Things. The Home Studio of Hanne Darboven March, 2014 Hanne Darboven is an artist that has delved into the languages of conceptual art and minimal art, which have opened new formal possibilities for expression in the second half of the century. Her numerical series and series of drawings have filled the rooms of many exhibitions and many museums, but her serialism is very different from the one found in the work of other minimalist artists who have also used numerical progressions, such as Sol LeWitt. In this exhibition we are going to find a set of series related to Darboven's everyday life, at home and at work. Exhibitions
Poetry Lecture by Ben Okri January, 2014 Poetry lecture by Ben Okri on the opening of Elly Strik. Ghosts, Brides and other Companions, on January 22, 2014. Exhibitions Live Arts
Splendide Hotel, conversation with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster March, 2014 The year of construction of the Palacio de Cristal, 1887, is also the year of many events such as the construction of the Eiffel Tower, the birth of Le Corbusier, the invention of the gramophone ... a century in which the production conditions change, industrial production starts, and objects, that start losing their specificity because of the mass production, led to the emerge of some ideas like inner monologue, free verse or more open forms of theater. Exhibitions