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25 febrero, 2015 ARCOmadrid, Sala A9.8, A9.9, Planta 1, Pabellón 9
Group 1: Latin American and Iberian Exhibitions: From Metropolitan Exhibitions to Circuits’ Decentralization
This group aims to stablish a discussion on how itinerary exhibitions have served as a platform to write Art History in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal. It is proposed to reflect on the practical, political and conceptual limitations of panoramic and historical exhibitions, and seeking alternatives to the dichotomy between national exhibitions generated in the south and those produced in other geographies.
How the notions of "Latin American art", "Spanish art" or "Portuguese art" are useful in programming and making circulate exhibitions in our institutions? Is this regional perspective a framework that allows an effective artistic circulation? How to transform or revise this perspective?
Participants
Moacir dos Anjos, Curator at the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, Recife
Antonio Franco, Director of Iberoamerican Museum of Contemporary Art of Extremadura (MEIAC), Badajoz
Ann Gallagher, Head of Collections (British Art) at TATE, London
José Miguel G. Cortés, Director of Valencia Institute of Modern Art (IVAM), Valencia
Chema González, Head of Cultural Activities at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
Lola Hinojosa, Curator of Permorming Arts and Intermedia at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
Sharon Lerner, Curator at the Museum of Art of Lima (MALI), Lima
Fionn Meade, Senior Curator of Cross-Disciplinary Platforms at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Fernando López, Coordinator of Travelling Exhibitions at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
Manuel Olveira, Director of Museum Contemporary Art of Castilla y León, León
Dirk Snauwaert, Director of WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Bruselas
Diana B. Wechsler, Deputy Director of the MUNTREF, Buenos Aires
Benjamin Weil, Director of Centro Botín, Santander
Moderator
João Fernandes, Deputy Director at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid -
February 25, 2015 ARCOmadrid, Sala A9.8, A9.9, Planta 1, Pabellón 9
Group 2: Travelling exhibitons: Projects’ Circulation and Collaboration Opportunities
This group has the purpose to share institutional experiences form the participants related to travelling contemporary art exhibitions and to analyze how institutions collaborate to produce their programs and put them into circulation. We will discuss the advantages and practical and organizational difficulties of these kind of projects, as well as their political and conceptual implications from the inside of institutions, their local interactions, and possible alternatives to make this projects’ flow more active and plural. What kind of networks have we developed between our programs? To what extent these shared programs have also produced a shared narration of artistic character?
Participants
Carlota Álvarez Basso, Director of Matadero Madrid, Contemporary Art Center
Nekane Aramburu, Director of Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca
Ferrán Barenblit, Director of Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo (Ca2M), Móstoles
Francisco Brugnoli, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago de Chile
Cristina Cámara, Curator of Film and Video at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
Daniel Castillejo, Director of Artium, Contemporary Art Museum-Center, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Marta Gili, Director of Jeu du Paume, Paris
María Mercedes González, Director of the Museum of Modern Art of Medellin (MAMM), Medellin.
Bartomeu Marí, Director of Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona
Natalia Guaza, Exhibitions management manager at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
José Luis Paredes Pacho, Director of Chopo University Museum, Mexico D.F.
María Belén Sáez de Ibarra, Director of Museum of Contemporary Art of the National University, Bogotá
Claudia Zaldivar, Director of the Solidarity Museum, Santiago de Chile
Moderator
Cuauhtémoc Medina, Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art of México (MUAC), México D.F. -
February 26, 2015 ARCOmadrid, Sala A9.8, A9.9, Planta 1, Pabellón 9
Forum ARCO. Public conversation between João Fernandes and Cuauhtémoc Medina on the conclusions of the meeting
4th Meeting of European and Latin American Museums
Travelling Exhibitions: The Production of Circuits, Routes and Collaborative Networks
Held on 25 feb 2015
In recent years, the close collaboration between museums and art spaces in the circulation of exhibitions has been fostered by the geographical extension of cultural representation, the development of increasingly ambitious international platforms and the globalization of audiences’ cultural background.
This process does not only allow for publics from different cities to share referents and experiences, but it is also transforming the orientation of cultural exchange itself—growingly understood as the product of a complex fabric challenging the center vs. periphery division. The task of creating institutional networks, planning collaborative programmes and producing a migrating flow of exhibitions nevertheless poses organizational, conceptual and practical challenges. The meeting gathers speakers from leading institutions with the aim to discuss these challenges as well as exploring the limits, both conceptual and geopolitical, of the local narratives coexisting in these emerging circuits. Museum directors and curators will share and debate the strategies they deploy in their own institutions in order to address the new regional and global logics of consumption.
The aim of the meeting is to provide a space for reflection where art professionals working in museums and contemporary art centres can exchange ideas about the possibilities that this exhibition format offers to their institutions.
Curatorship
João Fernandes and Cuauhtémoc Medina
Organised by
ARCO Madrid 2015 and Museo Reina Sofía
![Miguel Brieva, ilustración de la novela infantil Manuela y los Cakirukos (Reservoir Books, 2022) [izquierda] y Cibeles no conduzcas, 2023 [derecha]. Cortesía del artista](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/ecologias_del_deseo_utopico.jpg.webp)
![Ángel Alonso, Charbon [Carbón], 1964. Museo Reina Sofía](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/perspectivas_ecoambientales.jpg.webp)
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The aim of the encounter is twofold: to explore in greater depth the different forms in which women comic book artists have contributed to developing a counterculture; namely, the appearance of ruptures, reformulations and new genres within the ninth art. And to set up a dialogue which ignites an exploration of genealogies linking different generations of artists.
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In redefining the visual narratives of the comic book and questioning gender stereotypes in a male-dominated world, women comic book writers and artists have impelled greater visibility and a more prominent role for women in this sphere. The study of intergenerational dialogue between female artists past and present enables an analysis of the way in which these voices reinterpret and carry the legacy of their predecessors, contributing new perspectives, forms of artistic expression and a gender-based hybridisation which enhances the world of comics.
The conference, organised jointly by the Museo Reina Sofía and Université Clermont Auvergne/CELIS (UR4280), is the outcome of the following projects: The Spanish Artistic Canon. Between Critical Literature and Popular Culture: Propaganda, Debates, Advertising (1959–1992), Casa de Velázquez (CALC); Horizon Europa COST Actions iCOn-MICs (Comics and Graphic Novels from the Iberian Cultural Area); and COS-MICs (Comics and Sciences).
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Museo Reina Sofía and MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) invite applications for the 2025 iteration of the School of Common Knowledge, which will take place from November 11th to 16th in Madrid and Barcelona.
The School of Common Knowledge (SCK) draws on the network, knowledge and experience of L’Internationale, a confederation of museums, art organizations and universities that strives to reimagine and practice internationalism, solidarity and communality within the cultural field. This year, the SCK program focuses on the contested and dynamic notions of rooting and uprooting in the framework of present —colonial, migrant, situated, and ecological— complexities.
Building on the legacy of the Glossary of Common Knowledge and the current European program Museum of the Commons, the SCK invites participants to reflect on the power of language to shape our understanding of art and society through a co-learning methodology. Its ambition is to be both nomadic and situated, looking at specific cultural and geopolitical situations while exploring their relations and interdependencies with the rest of the world.
In the current context fraught with war and genocide, the criminalization of migration and hyper-identitarianism, concepts such as un/belonging become unstable and in need of collective rethinking:
How can we reframe the sense and practice of belonging away from reductive nationalist paradigms or the violence of displacement? How to critically hold the entanglement of the colonial routes and the cultural roots we are part of? What do we do with the toxic legacies we inherit? And with the emancipatory genealogies and practices that we choose to align with? Can a renewed practice of belonging and coalition-making through affinity be part of a process of dis/identification? What geographies —cultural, artistic, political— do these practices of de/centering, up/rooting, un/belonging and dis/alignment designate?
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The Joaquim Jordà Residences programme for film-makers and artists was set in motion by the Museo Reina Sofía in 2022. The initiative comprises a grant for writing a film project rooted in experimentation and essay, as well as two subsequent residencies in FIDMarseille and Doclisboa, international film festivals devoted to exploring non-fictional film and new forms of audiovisual expression.
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