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A museum's permanent collection is like its nerve centre, out of which all other messages emanate. The Reina Sofía Museum's permanent collection has been developing since 1894 and the foundation of the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, bringing together, almost a century later, all the state's various collections of modern and contemporary art.
The museum's permanent collection now comprises almost 25,000 pieces and spans the last decades of the 19th century through to the present day. The principal focus is the history of Spanish art but there is international work too, with a particular emphasis on Latin America.
Samantha Hudson on Marcia Schvartz’s Doña Concha
La Favorita
This interview sees singer and actress Samantha Hudson (Mallorca, 1999) reflect on the installation Doña Concha (Mrs. Concha, 1981) by Argentinian artist Marcia Schvartz (Buenos Aires, 1955), highlighting how it resonates in different ways with the trajectory of her own life and art.
In the central figure of Doña Concha, Hudson explains how it chimes with the aesthetic which, inspired by the figure of her much-admired grandmother Priscila, defined not only the early years of her artistic awakening but was also pivotal in the construction of her identity. Hudson also connects Schvartz’s experience as an exile in Barcelona with her own search for a territory of freedom, a place to explore femininity and gender dissidence.
This interview is part of La Favorita, a project which invites public figures to choose their favourite work from the Museo Reina Sofía Collections and share their personal history around it.
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Guided visit to the Collection led by mediator Koumba as part of the Neighborhood Picnic, Museo Reina Sofía, June 10, 2023
Photograph: Paula Lorenzino
The Museo Reina Sofía's main headquarters has two buildings, Sabatini and Nouvel, where you can visit the Collections, ranging from the earliest avant-garde movements to the present day, as well as temporary exhibitions, activities, and events for all audiences. Find out how to get there.
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