-
April 28, 2016 Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200
Both the Big and the Small
An encounter with Antonio Tagliarini
Free ticket until full capacity is reached
The work of Antonio Tagliarini draws inspiration from countless references, yet his practice does not only involve sliding across the copious amounts of information available in modern times but articulates preferences and relationships. It sets out from his searches with curiously calm, at times obsessive, observation: his glance can simultaneously fall on the minutest detail and the biggest revelation.
In this encounter with Jaime Conde-Salazar, Tagliarini will render an account of his interests and share his personal vision with the audience.
Antonio Tagliarini. Performer, artistic director and choreographer. He has worked as a dancer and actor with major directors such as Miguel Pereira, Raffaella Giordano, Giorgio Rossi and Marco Baliani, to name but a few. Since 2008 he has worked on a number of co-creations that include Rewind – homage to Café Müller by Pina Bausch (Festival Short Theatre di Roma), “From a to b” by Andy Warhol (2010), Reality and rzeczy/cose (2012) and We decided to go because we don’t want to be a burden to you (2014).
Jaime Conde-Salazar holds a degree in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid. Between 2003 and 2006 he directed the Estrella Casero Dance School at the University of Alcalá of Henares, and as a dance critic and dramaturgist he has regularly collaborated with Marsha Gall, Pablo Assumpçao, Rodrigo Tisi, Claudia Faci, Martín Padrón, Ben Benauisse, I-Chen Zuffelato, Gregorye Auger, Filipe Viegas, Idoia Zabaleta, Antonio Taglairini and Miguel Pereira, accompanying them in diverse processes of creation. He is currently working on the project to disseminate and critique live arts, Continuumlivearts, and he regularly collaborates with El Graner (Barcelona) and Azala Espacio de Creación (Vitoria).
-
April 29, 2016 sabatini Building, Floor 1. Room 102
La Veronal
Equal Elevations
Prior registration required at: programasculturales2@museoreinasofia.es
La Veronal engages in an exercise of dialogue with Richard Serra’s sculpture Equal-Parallel: Guernica-Bengasi (1986), conceived by the artist not as a reference to historical memory but as a form of spatial experimentation and a temporary analogy of two historical events: the bombings of Guernica (1937) and the Benghazi attack (1986). This interaction between two disciplines, dance and sculpture, and two forms of expression, movement and weight, looks to reflect on the possibility of encounter and cooperation between them, thus highlighting the role of gravity.
Before and between Serra’s sculptures, interwoven in space with the orthogonal distribution of weight parameters, elevation and extension, the company unfurls Kova, a language they use to build a maze with meaningful complexity. Steve Reich, a collaborating musician and friend of Richard Serra, will also participate in the piece, bolstering the contact between these languages in the process.
Two sessions will be held: the first at 12:00 p.m. and the second at 6:00 p.m.
La Veronal. Created by Marcos Morau in 2005, La Veronal is one of the strongest young companies in Spain, and one with the greatest national and international renown. Morau has created different performances, all with the names of cities around the world, and received numerous awards, thus reaffirming the company’s irrepressible creative path.
-
April 29, 2016 Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200
Dancing Museums
Encounter with Elisabetta Bisaro
Free ticket until full capacity is reached
Elisabetta Bisaro presents the Dancing Museums European initiative. This programme seeks to create spaces for artists to develop their work in dialogue with other art forms, sharing knowledge with a range of organisations, audiences, practices and specific contexts. The organisations participating in this European project include: La Briqueterie – Centre de développement chorégraphique du Val de Marne (France), Comune di Bassano del Grappa (Italy), D.ID Dance Identity (Austria), Dansateliers (Netherlands) and Siobhan Davies Dance (UK); and the museums and galleries: Arte Sella (Italy), Boymans van Beuningen (Netherlands), Gemäldegalerie Wien (Austria), Le Louvre (France), Mac/Val (France), Museo Civico (Italy), Museo di Palazzo Sturm (Italy) and The National Gallery (UK).
Dancing Museums is co-founded by the Creative Europe programme.
Elisabetta Bisaro has worked as a programme manager in the field of dance and performing arts in three countries: after the first steps she took in Italy, she worked as a programme manager at Dance Ireland in Dublin for six years, running the entire range of projects (Modul-dance, Tour d’Europe des choréographes, E-Motional Bodies & Cities, Léim, etc.) and the programme Made in Dublin in 2012. Since 2013 she has overseen the international relations of La Briqueterie – CDC du Val-de-Marne. She is also president of PlanTS, an organisation made up entirely of women from the arts and based in Trieste.
Held on 28, 29 Apr 2016
The Museo Reina Sofía once again takes part in the activities that mark International Dance Day, organising two sessions that aim to grant visibility to and assimilate inside its spaces an artistic practice that is becoming increasingly prominent in the Museo’s programming, lines of research and Collection.
On 28 April, in collaboration with the Italian Institute of culture and the Corral de Comedias (Theatrical Courtyard) of Alcalá de Henares, the Museo welcomes a conversation between art historian Jaime Conde-Salaza and choreographer and performer Antonio Taglarini. The dance artist will share some of his favourite references with spectators, involving the audience in the central components across his artistic practice.
Over the course of the second day, 29 April, the Museo will programme a series of activities that explore the link between dance and museums.
On one side, the company La Veronal premieres a piece devised solely for the institution. Entitled Equal Elevations, it enters into dialogue with Richard Serra’s work Equal-Parallel: Guernica-Bengasi (1986), with the choice of this sculpture a starting point bearing relevance to how it was conceived by the artist: not as a reference to historical memory but as a form of spatial experimentation and a temporary analogy of historical events – the Guernica bombings (1937) and the Benghazi attack (1986). The ensuing conversation addresses the spatial juxtaposition between dance and sculpture, movement and weight, and lightness and gravity.
By the same token, the European partnership Dancing Museum, which commenced in June 2015 and runs until March 2017, will be presented. Its aim, to be outlined by one of its members, Elisabetta Bisarro, is to define and incorporate new methods for bringing audiences closer to contemporary dance by way of inclusive and communicative strategies, such as the production of choreographed works, guided tours, participatory workshops and online platforms in which both the artists and the audience take centre stage.
In collaboration with
Instituto Italiano de Cultura and Corral de Comedias from Alcalá de Henares
Related links
Organised by
Museo Reina Sofía
Más actividades
Institutional Decentralisation
Thursday, 21 May 2026 – 5:30pm
This series is organised by equipoMotor, a group of teenagers, young people and older people who have participated in the Museo Reina Sofía’s previous community education projects, and is structured around four themed blocks that pivot on the monstrous.
This fourth and final session centres on films that take the museum away from its axis and make it gaze from the edges. Pieces that work with that which is normally left out: peripheral territories, unpolished aesthetics, clumsy gestures full of intent. Instead of possessing an institutional lustre, here they are rough, precarious and strange in appearance, legitimate forms of making and showing culture. The idea is to think about what happens when central authority is displaced, when the ugly and the uncomfortable are not hidden, when they are recognised as part of the commons. Film that does not seek to be to one’s liking, but to open space and allow other ways of seeing and inhabiting the museum to enter stage.
Ordinary, Common and Public. Common Fixes for Ordinary Communities
Tuesday, 26, and Wednesday, 27 May 2026 – Check programme
Ordinary, Common and Public. Common Fixes for Ordinary Communities is the title of the fourteenth encounter run by Sociología Ordinaria, a transdisciplinary research group that explores daily knowledge deemed ordinary, superficial or frivolous from a traditional academic and intellectual viewpoint.
This latest edition seeks to approach and map connections between concepts of the commons and the public realm — remembering that the ordinary is also the commons — and to ensure affects and moods of discontent are mobilised towards hope.
By way of its multiple declinations — community, community-based practices, the commons, the communal — the encounter seeks to reflect on different ways of creating, (re)configuring, maintaining, fixing, arranging, caring for and defending the public realm and the commons. Furthermore, it explores forms of invocation and experimentation as tools opposite the helplessness of an uncertain present, in addition to resistance against attempts of expropriation, distortion, privatisation and touristification.
International Museum Day 2026 with Radio 3
22 MAY 2026
On Friday, 22 May 2026 the Museo Reina Sofía celebrates International Museum Day by way of a vibrant music programme conducted by Radio 3.
From 9am to 11pm, the Museo’s Nouvel Courtyard will host the live broadcast of Radio 3’s day-long programme —also available on a video streaming on the Radio3 website and app, on RTVEPlay and on the Museo’s social media accounts. The programme comprises more than twenty live acts, including artists such as Carlangas, Shego, Soleá Morente, Kokoshca, La Tania, La Pegatina, Pipiolas, Ángel Stanich, Triángulo de Amor Bizarro and Zahara, and many others.
With this programme the Museo Reina Sofía concludes its celebration of International Museum Day, which takes place on Monday, 18 May. Both on 18 May, from 10am to 9pm, and 22 May admission to the Museo will be free of charge.
Gerardo Mosquera: Island Thinker, Global Curator
19 MAY 2026
This encounter pays homage to Gerardo Mosquera (Havana, 1945), a pre-eminent curator, an essayist who has been part of key debates on decolonisation and the drifts of globalisation, a communicator and, primarily, an art critic who has managed to radically situate discourses and practices, while still taking on risks and perpetually upholding committed ethical positions.
Mosquera is one of the foremost curators internationally and was involved with the Havana Biennial from its foundation in 1984 to 1989, as well as curating pivotal shows in museums and art centres around the globe. Notable among his curatorial work is as adjunct curator at the New Museum in New York (1995–2009), the Liverpool Biennial (2006) and the exhibition It’s Not Just What You See. Perverting Minimalism (Museo Reina Sofía, 2000).
This round-table discussion, which features the participation of Gerardo Mosquerahimself and an ensemble of art critics, thinkers and artists, for instance Fernando Castro Flórez, Diana Cuéllar, Lillebit Fadraga and René Francisco Rodríguez, will approach the multifaceted and extremely fertile work of Mosquera as a renowned master curator.
Miguel Falomir, Director of the Museo Nacional del Prado, in Conversation with Museo Reina Sofía Director Manuel Segade
18 MAY 2026
Museo del Prado and Museo Reina Sofía directors, Miguel Falomir and Manuel Segade, respectively,engage in conversation on Monday, 18 May in the Museo Reina Sofía’s Auditorium 400, in conjunction with International Museum Day 2026, the theme of which is “Museums Uniting a Dividing World”. The discussion, moderated by journalist and poet Antonio Lucas, will see the two heads of these major cultural institutions share their reflections on the role they play in today’s society.
In addition to addressing the management of art, the conversation seeks to explore in greater depth museums’ potential as meeting points to face today’s social tensions, thereby fulfilling the international mandate of this year’s edition.
The activity will be live-streamed and is available at this link.