 What would the bottom of the ocean tell us tomorrow, if emptied of water today? The solo exhibition
Opera to a Black Venus
, devoted to the Berlin based Portuguese artist Grada Kilomba (Lisbon, 1968), assembles a selection of artworks, denoting the most complete presentation of her works to date in Spain.
Kilomba is best known for her unique practice of storytelling, in which she gives body, voice, form and movement to h… moreHistorical Photobooks by Women, 1843-1999 This anthological exhibition devoted to Ibon Aranberri (Itziar-Deba, Gipuzkoa, 1969) assembles a selection of works spanning from the 1990s to the present, revisiting different projects from the artist’s vision today and placing the stress primarily on the evolution of the artistic language he has employed across his career.
The starting nucleus of the show is made up of Aranberri’s most representative works, in which he allows his ongoing concern with resignification to be discerned throug… more Photography 1848–1917Documentary Genealogies.
Photography 1848-1917
starts from Walter Benjamin’s remark in his essay
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility
(1936) on the parallel emergence of photography and of socialism. Following such parallel allows the hypothesis that the … moreDelphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France in the 1970s and 1980sYendo leyendo, dando lugar Bruce Conner (1933, McPherson, Kansas - 2008, San Francisco) is one of the most pre-eminent American artists from the second half of the twentieth century. This exhibition, the first to present his work in Spain, brings together more than 250 works which span his fifty-year career.
Conner’s work emerged from the California art scene and addressed wide-ranging questions concerning American society in the post-war era: from the burgeoning consumer culture to the dread of nuclear apocalypse.… more Official section PHotoEspaña 2016An exhibition featuring the work of the collective Afal, a group of photographers whose work was inspired by neorealist documentaries and humanist journalism
A comprehensive testimonial, from the museum’s own archives, offering a vision of Spanish photography in the 50s, with work by artists such as Ramón Masats, Francisco Gómez, Leonardo Cantero and Oriol Maspons.
In the early nineteen fifties, in Spain there began to be the development of a photography inspired by the int… moreOn the Reinvention of Documentary and the Critique of ModernismConstruction and individual mythologyBetween late modernism and globalisation: artistic practices during the 80s and 90s A Retrospective Selection of Photographsnew cinema and contemporary art A selection of photographs, videos, installations and a sculpture of the artistic project performed by Walid Raad to document the recent history of Lebanon
The Atlas Group (1982-2004) is a project that promotes a reflection on how history can be not only told and organised but also constructed and fabricated
At Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía from 2nd June till 31 August
The proyect presented by Walid Raad plays with authorship, date and authenticity of documents. They are always i… moreAudiovisual en Latinoamérica Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation89 seconds at Alcazar, a project by film/video artist Eve Sussman brings Velazquez' 1658 painting Las Meninas to life in High Definition 24p video. The video installation (a 12 minute loop) will be shown at the Reina Sofia from May 9th through July 16th, 2006. Along with the piece, The Making of 89 Seconds at Alcazar will be shown on the museum's first floor. 89 Seconds originally premiered at the Whitney Biennial in March 2004. Imagined, paradoxically, as a 'cinema-verite costume choreograph… moreJosé Manuel Aizpúrua fotógrafo (1902-1936)World Wide Video Festival ’95 |
