Thought and Debate

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía implements different lines of work in thought and debate from its dual role as a vehicle for knowledge and critical reflection, and a driving force for new spaces of experimentation, creation and the advancement of contemporary art:

• Developing frameworks for research, analysis and debate
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  that endow the exhibition program and the Collection’s narrative threads with an added dimension.
• Implementing discussion forums on key questions in contemporary debates that concern the museum as an institution aiming to endow citizens with critical frameworks for analyzing culture.
• Implementing projects that involve collaborative work and networking with cultural entities from highly diverse backgrounds—from international institutions to small collectives—thereby aiming to fuse networks together and catalyze initiatives and projects on different levels, both within and beyond national borders.
• Experimenting with alternative methods of mediation between citizens and the museum’s proposals, taking the experience of artists and collaborating entities as a point of departure.

Pierre Huyghe. La estación de las fiestas

Pierre Huyghe, The Season of Celebrations. Conversation

Fecha:March 17 2010

The season of celebrations is a site-specific installation by Pierre Huyghe in the Palacio de Cristal, Retiro, Madrid, where, on the basis of a number of vegetables planted in a circle, the artist reviews the relationship between nature and tradition, myth and celebratiopn. In parallel to the exhibition, we will also hold this encounter with Pierre Huyghe, Javier Montes, writer and art critic, and Lynne Cooke, curator of the exhibition and deputy director of the Reina Sofía Museum.
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Virginia Villaplana. Moments in Memory.
Fragments of the book, photographies and
project documentary, 2006-2009.

The Moment in Memory. Narrating History

Date: February 27 –March 20, 2010

Exhibition, documentary, workshop and cycle of videos in collaboration with the independent space Off Limits which analyzes memory’s permanence in the processes of negotiation and representation of Spain’s most recent past.
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Past activities

March 9, 1010. Conference. "Anti-Museum and Nomadic Public. The Portable Centre of Contemporary Art.

February 17, 2010. Encounter. Encuentro con Thomas Schütte.

January 7 - February 12, 2010. Audiovisual Program: El cine en los Encuentros de Pamplona.

February 10, 2010. Workshop. Tan falso como el original. Taller con 0100101110101101.org.

February 4 - 5, 2010. Seminar. Principio Potosí. Modernidad y la llamada acumulación originaria.

November 11, 2009 - February 3, 2010. Lectures Program. Arte/Tiempo. Teoría y crítica de las prácticas performativas.

January 30, 2010. Lecture. (Re)Leyendo a Juan Antonio Ramírez.

january 21, 2010 - January 23, 2010. Seminar. El movimiento de la fotografía obrera. Hacia una historia política del origen de la modernidad fotográfica.

September 25, 2009 - January 13, 2010. Lectures. Un acontecimiento menor. Arte conceptual y experiencia histórica.

November 28, 2009. Encounter. Homenaje a Juan Antonio Ramírez.

November 5 - 7, 2009. Internacional Conference. Former West.

November 2, 2009. Lecture. Usos de la cultura. El museo y las instituciones de lo común.

July 23 - 25, 2009. Seminar: Tercera reunión de la Red Conceptualismos del Sur.

June 29, 2009. Seminar with Robert Pollin: Crisis financiera, mercado de trabajo y distribución de la renta.

June 24, 2009. Seminar: Former West.

June 17 - 20, 2009. Encounter: Governance Cultural vs Instituciones de lo Común.

June 3, 2009. Book Presentation: El objeto y el aura de Juan Antonio Ramírez.

May 25 - 29, 2009. International Conference: Dinámica de la crisis global, movimientos antisistémicos y nuevos modelos de hegemonía.

April 29, 2009. Book Presentation: Banquete_nodos y redes.

April 23, 2009. Encounter: Un truco de salón.

April 23, 2009. Encounter: Un truco de salón (vídeo).

April 22, 2009. Seminar-Lecture: Robert Wade, Vicenç Navarro y John Schmidt.

April 17, 2009. Seminar: Máquinas de afectos. Relaciones, sujetos y dispositivos en Eulalia Valldosera.

April 16 - June 18, 2009. Lectures: Ciclo: Objetos de discordia, territorios en disputa.

March 23 y 24, 2009. Seminar: Andrea Fumagalli, Maurizio Lazzarato y Gerald Raunig.

March 9 and 11, 2009. Seminar: Red Conceptualismos del Sur. Reactivaciones poéticas políticas.

March 6, 2009. Book Presentation: Memoria ciudadana y movimiento vecinal. Madrid 1968 - 2008.

February 27 and 28, 2009. Seminar: Christian Marazzi y Yann Moulier Boutang.

February 11, 2009. Book Presentation: Paisaje y Esfera Pública.

February 6, 2009. Seminar: Paul Thek.

January 30 and 31, 2009. Conference: Carl Einstein y su legado en la historia del arte contemporáneo.

January 29, 2009. Seminar: Immanuel Wallerstein.

December 4, 2008. Seminar: Mike Davis.

November 27, 2008. Book Presentation: Un lugar bajo el sol, revisitado en Madrid.

November 6 - December 4, 2008. Seminar: Nancy Spero, en contexto.

May 5 – 21, 2008. Conference: Arte digital y nuevos medios.