Exhibitions in Madrid
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The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao presents Kandinsky
The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao presents Kandinsky, a comprehensive exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Vasilij Kandinsky (Moscow 1866 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1944), mainly from the ext...
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17 Oct-21 Jan. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid contrasts the works of Pablo Picasso and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec in an unprecedented exhibition.
The show, which features more than 100 works fro...
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Giorgio de Chirico: Sueño o realidad
23 Nov-18 Feb. CaixaForum pays tribute to the Italian master and founder of the metaphysical art movement Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) with a retrospective of his work. The exhibition spans de Chiri...
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Krazy Kat is Krazy Kat is Krazy Kat
18 Oct-26 Feb. The Reina Sofia dedicates an exhibition to the pioneering American cartoonist George Herriman, whose work developed in the new comic strip medium of US newspapers around the turn of the...
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William Kentridge: Enough and more than enough
1 Nov-19 March. The Reina Sofía Museum focuses on the stage work, including theatre, opera and performance, of celebrated South African artist William Kentridge.
The exhibition also examines the sc...
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17 Oct-21 Jan. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum examines the affinities between the artists Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973).
Although their paths never crossed, Pic...
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Sonia Delaunay. Art, design and fashion
4 July-15 Oct. The Ukrainian artist Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) was an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde and her multi-disciplinary artistic practice extended to painting, textile design and...
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NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst
28 June-8 Jan. The Reina Sofía presents Spain's first retrospective dedicated to the artist group NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst), which was to the cultural forefront in 1980s Yugoslavia, during the Cold...
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Renaissance Venice: The Triumph of Beauty and the Destruction of Painting
20 June-24 Sept. This exhibition is dedicated to the central themes that underpinned 16th-century Venetian painting.
Comprising portraits alongside mythological and religious works, the display foc...
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The Other’s Gaze: Spaces of difference
14 June-10 Sept. The Prado has devised a thematic itinerary of works that reflect upon the historical reality of same-sex relationships, inviting viewers to search for a deeper meaning in the museum's...
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20 June-24 Sept. This exhibition of 16th-century Venetian painting features masterpieces by artists such as Titian, and Veronese, on loan from international collections and museums.
The show exami...
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Mário Pedrosa: On the Affective Nature of Form
28 April-16 Oct. The Reina Sofia pays tribute to Mário Pedrosa (1900–1981), Brazil’s foremost critic of art, culture and politics and one of Latin America’s most frequently cited intellectuals.
Th...
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3 Feb-11 March. The first solo exhibition in Spain by internationally-known Roman street artist Alice Pasquini.
The show highlights former projects, such as the 3D Underlayers installation, as wel...
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1 Feb-25 June. Exhibition featuring 200 works by the Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelius Escher (898-1972).
Escher is best known for his mathematically-inspired woodcuts, lithographs and mezzot...
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18 Oct-22 Jan. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum focuses on the "tactile sensations" that played a central role in the work of Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919).
Examining a rang...
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Territories and Fictions: Thinking a New Way of the World
26 Oct-13 March. Exhibition focusing on the language and artistic practice that influenced art production between the end of the 1990s and 2007 in Spain and internationally.
Drawing on the Museo R...
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Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective
5 Oct-9 Jan. The Reina Sofía Museum dedicates a retrospective to Marcel Broodthaers, who was revered as Belgium's greatest modern artist.
Broodthaers (1924-1976) was a poet, filmmaker and anti-aut...
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Txomin Badiola: Another Family Plot
23 Sept-26 Feb. Retrospective by Spanish visual artist Txomin Badiola presents a broad selection of his photographic works, drawings, sculptures and multimedia installations, spanning from the 1980s t...
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Campo Cerrado: Spanish Art 1939–1953
26 April-26 Sept. The Reina Sofia examines Spanish art in the 1940s, with a display of paintings and sculpture.
A complex, contrasting and difficult decade in Spanish history, the 1940s was marked...
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Caravaggio and the Painters of the North
21 June-18 Sept. Exhibition focusing on Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) and his influence on the northern European artists that followed him.
The 53 paintings include 12 pieces by Ca...
