Elly Strik about her exhibition Ghosts, Brides and other Companions January, 2014 Artist Elly Strik talks in this video about the influence of Goya and Freud in her work, as well as the personal connection between her artistic production, her memories and her body. The exhibition Elly Strik. Ghosts, Brides and other Companions, conceived specifically for the galleries of Museo Reina Sofía explores, through drawings on paper with graphite and oil, the potential of physical metamorphosis processes in parallel with the artistic creation process. Exhibitions
What is the Anthropology of Images? Interview with Hans Belting October, 2013 Author of some key studies in recent years in the field of art theory and visual culture, Hans Belting introduces in this video his influential anthropology of images project. It is defined as a methodology that takes part while distances itself from art history, while opening the discipline into the field of the analysis of images. The video of his interview, that includes related works in the Museo Reina Sofía Collection, was made on with the occasion of the fourth installment of the Master Lectures series. Seminars and conferences
The Biographies of Amos Gitai: an Interview February, 2014 For Amos Gitai, the documentary is human archaeology, whereas fiction is architecture. In this exhibition, the Middle East, his parents, and his family memories intermingle with his oeuvre, transcending into physical, audiovisual space, as well as dealing with the multilayered reality which conforms the current sociopolitical landscape. Exhibitions
Wols: Cosmos and Street, interview with Guy Brett February, 2014 Guy Brett, the curator of the show Wols: Cosmos and Street, talks about this new approach to the work of the German artist, not only about his drawings and paintings, but also about his lesser known photographs. Exhibitions Centro de estudios
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
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
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
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
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
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
Museo Reina Sofía - Introduction 2014 July 2014 The Museo Reina Sofía wishes to embody the concept of an expanded museum, where the experience of contemporary art is both a source of enjoyment and knowledge. Its Collection, made up of over 20,000 works, avoids representing one sole and closed interpretation of art history, opting instead for multiple histories. A museum that is a catalyst for ideas, discourses and poetics in its temporary exhibitions and intensive programme of audiovisuals and live arts, as well as a continual forum for thought, debate and education designed for all ages through courses, conferences and workshops in which visitors take centre stage. The Museum
Juan Luis Moraza republic October 2014 republic is an exhibition by Juan Luis Moraza (Vitoria, 1960), assembling a broad selection of his works and structuring them in areas that examine the museum as a system of conventions and possibilities of citizenship. Moraza has always constructed, in a mutual interaction with his artistic output, a conceptual discourse, where language and ideas also denote a place inhabited by the artist, along with the forms and characteristics of objects and situations put forward in each project. Exhibitions
The return of the snake Interview with Francisco Reyes Palma November 2014 The exhibition analyse Goeritz’s stints in Spain and North Africa in the 1940s, along with the international expansion of his career, which, in a Cold War context, occurred in the wake of his return to Mexico and which saw him become one of the key figures in the cultural landscape of that country. Exhibitions
Luciano Fabro Interview with João Fernandes November 2014 A generation of artists, grouped together under the term "Arte Povera", emerged in Italy in the second half of the 20th century who, influenced by Piero Manzoni and Lucio Fontana’s artwork, and turning to the use of simple, everyday materials, realised a series of works that, without relinquishing a kind of poetic awareness of the world, were profoundly critical of industrialisation and consumer society. Of these artists, Luciano Fabro was the one with a more emphatic connection to the emergence of a new and revised approach located in the tradition. Thus he explored the creative possibilities and perspectives that, in a country like Italy, continued to open the ruins of the past. Exhibitions
Patricia Gadea Atomic-Circus November 2014 Virginia Torrente, curator of the exhibition Patricia Gadea. Atomic- Circus, talks about the work of a key artist to understand the cultural situation of our country during the eighties and nineties. The core of this exhibition revolves around the most productive period of Patricia Gadea's work, on his return from New York, where he formed the group Estrujenbank with the painter Juan Ugalde and the poet Dionisio Cañas. At this stage emphasizes the Circus Series (1991-1996), which summarizes the events of that decade in Spain as a clairvoyant messages of great forcefulness. Imbued with irony, like the rest of her work, to date they still have an overwhelming clarity and modernity. Exhibitions