Held on 22, 23 Jun 2023
The Museo’s Study Centre organises two public sessions based on the first edition of Connective Tissue, the Museo Reina Sofía’s Programme of Critical Museology, Artistic Research Practices and Cultural Studies. During the encounter, the team of mobilisers — researchers who drive forward and coordinate, from their different fields, the Programme’s different Seminars and Critical Nodes — share the works developed up to this point and reflect on their predictions. Equally, the group of Resident Student Researchers present their work on posters and in installations and talks with people interested.
The aim of the activity is to share knowledge, learning and projects carried out to date in the different Seminars and Critical Nodes, fibres of a shared research fabric which looks to be projected towards different outlying social, academic and cultural places.
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Juan Andrade is a professor of Contemporary History at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
Raquel Arias Careaga is a professor in the Department of Hispano-American Literature at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).
David Becerra Mayor is a professor of Spanish Literature at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).
Kira Bermúdez is a cultural mediator, social pedagogue, translator and occasional writer.
Carme Bernat Mateu is a student researcher who is writing her doctoral thesis at the University Institute of Women’s Studies and in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at Universitat de València (UV).
Alberto Berzosa is a researcher with the “Fossil Aesthetics” group from the Spanish National Research Council.
Rubén Blanco Merlo is a professor at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and a member of the Sociología Ordinaria (Ordinary Sociology) research group.
Jesús Carrillo is a professor in the Art History and Theory Department at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).
Florencia Claes is the president of the Wikimedia España association.
Claudia Delso is a cultural manager and mediator.
Xavier Domènech is a professor of Contemporary History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).
Ntone Edjabe is a Cameroonian writer, journalist, DJ and founding editor of the Chimurenga magazine.
Yinka Esi Graves is a dancer and choreographer
José Luis Espejo is a researcher, curator and teacher.
Patricia Esquivias is a storyteller and narrator of events, characters and cultural objects through videos and installations.
Oier Etxeberria is the head of the Contemporary Art Department at the Tabakalera International Centre of Contemporary Culture (Donostia-San Sebastián).
Carolina Fernández Cordero is a professor in the Spanish Literature Department at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).
Maite Garbayo-Maeztu is a Serra Hunter professor in the Art History Department at the University of Barcelona (UB).
Antonio García García is a professor of Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
Jorge Gaupp is an adviser in the Study Centre from the Public Activities Department at Museo Reina Sofía.
Pablo Jarauta is a professor of Design Theory and Culture at the Instituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Madrid.
Germán Labrador is the director of the Public Activities Department at Museo Reina Sofía.
Matteo Locci is a multimedia artist and architectural researcher.
Luisa Martín Rojo is a linguistics lecturer at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and the director of the international interdisciplinary research centre MIRCo (Multilingualism, Discourse and Communication).
Javier Maseda works in the design and development of digital products, and is a lecturer at the Instituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Madrid and at the University of Castilla la Mancha.
Pedro Medina Reinón is a curator and contemporary art critic.
Pedro Oliver Olmo is a head professor of Contemporary History at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM).
Jaume Peris Blanes is a professor of Latin American Culture at Universitat de València (UV).
Julia Ramírez-Blanco is a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
María Rosón is a professor of Contemporary Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
María L. Ruido is a film producer, visual artist, researcher and teacher.
Tania Safura Adam is a journalist, cultural critic and the founder of Radio África Magazine.
Mabel Tapia is the deputy artistic director of Museo Reina Sofía.
Ana Teixeira Pinto is a writer, cultural theorist and professor at the Braunschweig University of Art and a Theory tutor at the Dutch Art Institute.
Laura Villa is a contract researcher on the Tomás y Valiente programme at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).
Jaime Vindel is a head researcher in the “Fossil Aesthetics” and “Energy Humanities” groups at the Spanish National Research Council.
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Thursday, 22 June 2023
9am Presentation
10am First Research Fabric Workshop
12:30pm Second Research Fabric Workshop
4:30pm Activation of Panels and Discussions
Friday, 23 June 2023
9:30am Third Research Fabric Workshop
12:30pm Fourth Research Fabric Workshop
4:30pm Activation of Panels and Discussions
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This guided tour activates the microsite Rethinking Guernica, a research project developed by the Museo Reina Sofía’s Collections Area, Conservation and Restoration Department and the Digital Projects Area of the Editorial Activities Department, assembling around 2,000 documents, interviews and counter-archives related to Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica (1937).
The visit sets out an in-situ dialogue between the works hung around the painting and a selection of key documents, selected by the Museo’s Education Team and essential to gaining an idea of the picture’s historical background. Therefore, the tour looks to contribute to activating critical thought around this iconic and perpetually represented work and seeks to foster an approach which refreshes our gaze before the painting, thereby establishing a link with the present. Essentially revisiting to rethink Guernica.
Dear Felix:
Saturdays at 6pm
The immediately recognisable art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, which is on display, from May to October 2026, in the show Sweet Revenge, moves beyond the transmission of messages laden with poetic evocation, vital or biographical reflection, or even a clear political or ethical positioning. Rather, it seeks an active response by visitors to the exhibition. His work invites engagement with these messages so that, whether delighting, moving or challenging, it still prompts viewers to participate in the dialogue and complete the artistic undertaking with their own actions.
Thus, the guided tour Dear Felix: offers a shared, dialogue-inflected tour through the show, with the aim of collectively thinking and feeling the gestures the artist’s work puts forward. Ostensibly simple actions such as crossing through a beaded curtain to take a sweet and eat it, taking a poster from a stack of paper or simply observing a billboard closely, all contain ways of understanding life, loss, love, injustice or the passing — never linear — of time. The tour’s ultimate aim is not to set meanings or create an overload of interpretations of the work, nor does it seek to crystallise an image of the artist and his life in a response to questions which are not there. It looks instead to provide a space to open shared meaning in these apparently simple objects and to attempt a possible correspondence of return from the here and now. A lumbering attempt at responding which starts with a simple Dear Felix:
1926–2026: One Hundred Years of the Lyceum Club Femenino
Thursday, 2 July 2026
The Lyceum Club Femenino (Lyceum Women’s Club) was established in Madrid in 1926, constituting a space which opened new pathways for women to participate in Spain’s intellectual, artistic and political life in the first third of the twentieth century, and for figures such as designer Victorina Durán, pedagogue María de Maeztu, lawyer and politician Victoria Kent and artist Ángeles Santos, to name but a few. To mark the Madrid Club’s one hundredth anniversary, this research symposium examines its role as a key place for studying women’s and feminist culture in Spain’s Silver Age by analysing and vindicating the different agencies, trajectories and cultural projects that structured the space.
By way of three lectures and two round-table discussions, the symposium sets forth a journey through the Lyceum Club Femenino and the cultural context from which it emerged, from its standing as a pioneering institution to the study of cultural material from the period and the process of constructing the figure of the “modern woman”. These talks and discussions look to shed light on how new ways of thinking, creating and occupying public space were shaped, expanding the gaze on cultural, educational and social networks linked to the Lyceum — as much concerning its ties with other intellectual and artistic circles as the continuity and transformation of these networks during Republican exile. Finally, the symposium features three artistic interventions conceived to recover the artistic legacy of this space in Madrid.
The Museo Reina Sofia joins the Ministry of Culture’s cultural programme focused on the centenary of the Lyceum Club Femenino via these sessions, co-organised with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
Robert Capa
Friday, 26 June 2026 – 6pm
This international encounter centred on the figure of Robert Capa (Budapest, 1913 — Thai Binh, Vietnam, 1954), one of photojournalism’s pre-eminent figures, is held within the framework of the government initiative Spain and Freedom. Fifty Years and in conjunction with a cluster of three locations — the building on number 10 Calle Peironcely, the Plaza del Fotógrafo Robert Capa and the San Carlos Borromeo Parish in Vallecas — declared as a Place of Democratic Memory.
The emblematic photo Robert Capa took in 1936 of this area of Republican Madrid, featuring anonymous children talking in front of a bullet-riddled building attacked by Nazi-fascist air forces, has, in recent years, become a catalyst for impassioned collective action vindicating memory and denouncing the horrors and brutality of wars, past and present.
Within this context, representatives from cultural and academic spheres and civil society organisations from Germany, the USA and Spain discuss the legacy of Capa and photojournalism in European democratic memory, exploring in greater depth two citizen initiatives constructed by Europe from its shared memory: #SalvaPeironcely10 (#SavePeironcely10), in Entrevías (Puente de Vallecas), and the Capa Haus Initiative in the Lindenau neighbourhood of Leipzig, both united by the protection and conservation of historical heritage and by the defence of peace.
The round-table discussion features the participation of Cynthia Young, Juan Miguel Sánchez Vigil, Ulf-Dietrich Brumann and José María Uría Fernández and is moderated by Myriam Soto Lucas. Carmina Gustrán Loscos, the commissioner of Spain and Freedom. Fifty Years, will also join the discussion.
equipoMotor
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El programa equipoMotor regresa en su edición 25-26 con un aire espectral y mutante para lanzar la pregunta: ¿y si el Museo fuera «un poco más Frankenstein»? Inspirándose en dicho monstruo y en todas aquellas criaturas que desafían la norma desde los márgenes, el proyecto de mediación cultural Galaxxia diseña y acompaña una edición incisiva, intergeneracional y descentralizadora, donde saberes invisibilizados, cuerpos raros y deseos molestos se entrelazan para generar nuevas formas de imaginación crítica y radical. En los sótanos y corredores del Museo —un particular laboratorio— las dudas no se esconden: son materia prima.
Así, para este curso el equipoMotor convoca a personas de todas las edades que hayan participado en ediciones anteriores de los distintos equipos del Área de Educación a recorrer el Museo como quien manipula un cuerpo abierto: descoyuntando algunas de sus categorías teóricas y artísticas —la necropolítica, lo crip-cuir, la lucha de clases, las políticas del malestar, la decolonialidad, la temporalidad cuir, la descentralización institucional o el feísmo— para articular un relato díscolo, remendado y palpitante.
El programa se estructura en bloques temáticos sobre lo freak como metodología, el trabajo cultural, la intergeneracionalidad y la diversidad territorial. Cada bloque a su vez se despliega en sesiones que combinan disparadores teóricos y estéticos, visitas a exposiciones y espacios liminales del Museo, talleres artísticos con artistas, ejercicios de curaduría audiovisual colectiva y de relatoría radiofónica, así como instancias de activación pública, mediante proyecciones de cine experimental y coloquios compartidos con el público, en complicidad con el archivo Hamaca y el Área de Cine y Nuevos Medios del Museo.
De este modo, la presente edición incorpora una particularidad: el grupo de participantes irá transformándose en un «colectivo curatorial audiovisual temporalmente autónomo», con capacidad de incidir en la programación del Museo y de abrir la conversación de equipoMotor al público general, cuestionando y expandiendo así los límites entre las cabezas que deciden, las manos que producen y los cuerpos y presencias que habitan la institución. Las personas seleccionadas en la modalidad oyente serán invitadas a las proyecciones públicas, así como a otras activaciones y momentos de apertura del equipoMotor.
Frente al relato de un museo homogéneo, pulcro y lineal, apostamos por un Museo disidente, contradictorio y lleno de vida residual. Un Museo que no tema hacerse preguntas incómodas ni mostrar sus cicatrices. equipoMotor. Un poco más Frankenstein no busca repensar el cuerpo de la institución, sino habitarlo en sus desgarros, tal como es: híbrido, inacabado, infecto, fantasmagórico… y cargado de esporas y chispas por venir.