This presentation of holdings from the Museo Reina Sofía Collection, largely made up of recent acquisitions, approaches the languages and artistic practices that defined the period between the end of the 1990s and 2007 – both in Spain and internationally - by way of a series of shared questions that heralded the start of the century and run up to the present time.
The way in which artists tackled the effects of globalisation and new geopolitical configurations marks the starting point of this exhibition via works by Zoe Leonard and Allan Sekula. Another line of research is concerned with the examination of languages of modernity and their ties to colonial processes; therefore, works by Leonor Antunes, Ines Doujak and Adrià Julià appropriate images and historical accounts in order to carry out a critical reading of them. Moreover, the Nation-State crisis and theatrical strategies throughout history are put forward in this show in the form of “political fictions” through artists such as Ibon Aranberri and Peter Friedl. In a closer setting, there are also case studies related to processes of transformation in the industrial outskirts of Barcelona and gentrification in cities such as Madrid, present in projects by María Ruido, Patrick Faigenbaum and Manolo Laguillo, among others.
Furthermore, the exhibition will be accompanied by a publication featuring specific essays and texts which have been pivotal in approaching and exploring this point in history.
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Current exhibitions
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15 December 2020 – 12 April 2021
The Kind Cruelty
León Ferrari, 100 Years
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11 November, 2020 - 1 March, 2021
Mondrian and De Stijl
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Exhibition temporarily closed
Anna-Eva Bergman
From North to South, Rhythms
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7 October, 2020 - 26 April, 2021
Niño de Elche
Invisible Auto Sacramental: A Sonic Representation from Val del Omar
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23 September, 2020 - 1 March, 2021
Disonata
Art in Sound up to 1980
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25 September 2020 – 5 March 2021
What Are We Doing Here?
Alternative Spaces in Madrid at the Turn of the Century
Muestras documentales, Biblioteca y Centro de Documentación