Held on 14 oct 2022
ESTUDIO IV in Conversation is an encounter which accompanies ESTUDIO IV Second Skin. Subcutaneous, the fourth edition of a programme which brings together investigations by artists and researchers whose art-making is linked, directly or dialogically, to the sphere of choreography and performances, voice and word.
This activity looks to bring the audience closer to the different performance pieces by approaching research fields which explore the different projects. Thus, it constitutes a common learning space in the form of a conversation between speakers in collaboration with the artists participating in this fourth edition. Set out around three conversations, the encounter prompts a reflection, questions and shared references as well as detecting and revealing common interests, connections and potential.
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Ángela Bonadies is an artist whose work explores time and memory, that which resists, fades and which is out of place. Her practice sets out from photography, expanding towards mediums such as writing and drawing. She has participated in exhibitions that include A Universal History of Infamy (LACMA, Los Angeles and 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, 2017), La pesca (Galería Freijo, Madrid, 2019), Cruzando la línea (Cinemateca Distrital de Bogotá, 2019), De confines y confinamientos (Fundación Municipal Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador, 2020) and En las entrañas de la bestia (La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, 2022).
Ángel Calvo Ulloa is an exhibition curator and art critic with a degree in Art History from the University of Santiago Compostela and an MA in Contemporary Art from the University of Vigo. He has curated exhibitions such as Complexo Colosso (Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães [CIAJG], 2021) and Habitación. Archivo F.X. (Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo [CA2M], Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya [MNAC] and La Nau, 2018–2019). Moreover, he has carried out projects for other institutions such as Artium Museoa in Vitoria-Gasteiz, the Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo (MARCO), the Centro de Cultura de España in Mexico (CCEMX) and La Casa Encendida in Madrid, among others. Together with Juan Canela, he has published Desde lo curatorial. Conversaciones, experiencias y afectos (consonni, 2020).
Javiera de la Fuente is an artist and flamenco dancer who explores languages in close proximity to performance in unconventional stage spaces, combining critical reflection and dance in hybrid formats such as the performance lecture. She has performed with this format in the following spaces: Bergen Assembly (Aire del Mar. Canciones de la guerra social contemporánea, 2019), the European Forum For Advanced Practices at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Móstoles (El drama de una realidad Sur, 2019) and the Federico García Lorca Foundation in Granada (Una niebla invisible, 2022).
Kike García is a dancer, choreographer and embroiderer. He began learning taekwondo at the age of four and continued towards contemporary dance, butoh and flamenco, bringing together all of these languages of movement. A graduate from the HZT-UdK Inter-University Centre for Dance in Berlin, he has presented his work with different choreographers in Reykjavik, Madrid, Casablanca, Athens and Berlin. Furthermore, he has transferred his investigations in the field of movement, dance and performance over to embroidery.
Pablo Marte is an artist, writer and researcher who has made audiovisual and film pieces such as Imperial Eyes (2015), Mañana Goodbye (with Marion Cruza Le Bihan, 2016) and Venceremos (with Taxio Ardanaz, 2021). With consonni, he carried out the project El problema está en el medio (2013), the theatre work Again Again(st) (2013) and Pretty Woman (2014), a fictional essay in book format and a curatorial work featuring ten interventions by other artists. Moreover, he has collaborated with researchers like Isabel de Naverán, Aimar Arriola and Idoia Zabaleta. In 2021, he was involved in founding Basilika, a space of cultural critique podcasts, where he produces the programmes Sector Conflictivo and Informe Infame.
Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca is a composer, sound artist and music teacher. He has premiered instrumental, electronic and performance pieces at various national and international festivals, and as a composer and performer he has participated in the stage pieces La Casa, by Aitana Cordero, and ECLIPSE : MUNDO, by Paz Rojo. His audiovisual work has led to his involvement with the ZEMOS98 collective. Since 2012, he has worked closely with the poet María Salgado, most notably on the trilogy of audio-textile works Jinete Último Reino Frag.1-3 (2017–2021). As a performer, he is currently an active part of Fanfarria Transfeminista (Tansfeminist Fanfare) in Madrid.
Alejandra Pombo Su is an artist with a degree in Visual Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, broadening her studies with the MA in Digital Arts from the Pompeu Fabra University and the Independent Studies Programme at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). Her work moves between the visual arts, film and performance arts, and she has participated in projects such as What is Third (La Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2015) and Mugatxoan (LABoral, in Gijón, Fundação de Serralves, in Porto, and Arteleku de Donostia, 2004–2009). She has also carried out residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida, USA) and the PACT Zollverein (Essen, Germany), among others.
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Programa
10am - 10:15am Presentation
10:15am - 11am Ángela Bonadies in conversation with Javiera de la Fuente to discuss Envioletá / un estudio
11am - 11:45am Ángel Calvo Ulloa in conversation with Alejandra Pombo Su to discuss Doble muda
11:45am - 12:30pm Pablo Marte in conversation with Kike García and Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca to discuss duet
12:30pm – 1pm Debate and conclusion
Curator
Isabel de Naverán (ARTEA)
Organised by
Museo Reina Sofía
Participants
Participants
![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)
Más actividades
27th Contemporary Art Conservation Conference
Wednesday, 4, and Thursday, 5 March 2026
The 27th Contemporary Art Conservation Conference, organised by the Museo Reina Sofía’s Department of Conservation and Restoration, with the sponsorship of the MAPFRE Foundation, is held on 4 and 5 March 2026. This international encounter sets out to share and debate experience and research, open new channels of study and reflect on conservation and the professional practice of restorers.
This edition will be held with in-person and online attendance formats, occurring simultaneously, via twenty-minute interventions followed by a five-minute Q&A.
Submitting Proposals
The deadline for presenting proposals ends on 28 September 2025. Those interested must send an email to jornada.conservacion@museoreinasofia.es, submitting the following documents:
- An unpublished proposal related to the conservation or restoration of contemporary art.
- A 1,700-word summary, written in Word, on the theme addressed. Please indicate the topic at the top of the document with five keywords and the presentation format (in-person or virtual). Preference will be given to the in-person format.
- CV and contact details.
- Only one proposal per person will be accepted.
- Proposals related to talks given in the last three conferences will not be accepted.
Proposals may be submitted in Spanish, French or English and will be evaluated by a Scientific Committee, which will select the submissions to be presented during these conference days and will determine their possible participation in a subsequent publication, the inclusion of which will undergo a second and definitive evaluation by the Editorial Committee.
For submissions in a virtual format, participants must send a recording following certain technical requirements they will receive once participation is confirmed.
The programme of sessions will be published in the coming days.
Rethinking Guernica
Monday and Sunday - Check times
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.
UP/ROOTING
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 NOV 2025
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?
Departing from these questions, the program consists of a series of visits to situated initiatives (including Museo Situado, Paisanaje and MACBA's Kitchen, to name a few), engagements with the exhibitions and projects on view (Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture from Panafrica), a keynote lecture by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, as well as daily reading and discussion gatherings, editorial harvest sessions, and conviviality moments.
Ylia and Marta Pang
Thursday, 6 November - 8pm
The encounter between Spanish DJ and producer Ylia and visual artist Marta Pang is presented in the form of a premiere in the Museo Reina Sofía. Both artists converge from divergent trajectories to give form to a new project conceived specifically for this series, which aims to create new stage projects by setting out from the friction between artists and dialogue between disciplines.
Situated Voices 36
Thursday, 16 October 2025 – 7pm
Territorio Doméstico is a feminist collective made up of female domestic and care workers who live in the Community of Madrid. They form a cross-border space which responds to a number of urgent problems: defending labour rights for female domestic workers and demanding the regularisation of migrant workers, as well as the right to family reunification, social recognition and the reparation of care debt by institutions.
The collective will provide accompaniment in this encounter by putting forward a cross-sectional round-table discussion centred on professional illnesses suffered by specific collectives of women doing jobs that are predominantly physical, such as care and domestic work and farm work. The aim is to shine a light on the physical and psychological tolls these body-oriented jobs take on the people that do them, in addition to the scant social, legal and healthcare recognition they receive.
Professional illnesses for women are often not recognised as such and are diagnosed simply as common illnesses, and with everything that entails on a legal and administrative level. Furthermore, obtaining sick leave can often become a huge struggle, thereby breaching labour rights.
The Museo Situado assembly convenes to discuss this reality, granting it the space it deserves to collectively call for solutions which respect the rights of all female worker.