Exhibition. Tetsuya Ishida. Self-portrait of Other

Tetsuya Ishida, Kiro [Viaje de regreso], 2003. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 45,5 x 38 cm. Private collection. Photography: Takemi Art Photos, courtesy of Kyuryudo Art Publishing Co., Ltd.

The work of Japanese artist Tetsuya Ishida (Yaizu, Shizuoka, 1973 – Tokyo, 2005) gives the experience of the contemporary subject a face as it explores the uncertainty and desolation of Japanese society, drastically altered by the technological advances and successive crises that have affected economies and politics the world over. More specifically, Ishida portrays, with descriptive precision, the mood of his generation, defined by the bursting bubble of finance and real estate and the mass lay-offs that plunged the country into a deep recession in 1991.

Dates: From 12 April to 8 September, 2019 
Location: Palacio de Velázquez, Retiro Park
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía

Seminar. Ecologies of Care in the Crisis of the Welfare State. A Critical Dialogue Between Madrid and Trieste

Entrar afuera. Anonymous photograph, 1973

The Museo Reina Sofía organises two round-table discussions, over two sessions held on consecutive days, focusing on the experiences of community healthcare in Madrid and Trieste in relation to the work of Franco Basaglia and anti-psychiatry. The encounters are framed inside the project Entrar afuera (Enter Outside), an analysis of institutional ecologies and crisis, started in 2016 by Marta Pérez and Pantxo Ramas in the Museo Reina Sofía Study Centre’s Research Residencies programme.

In addition to sharing the results of the research, these encounters look to bring us closer to the current vitality in the Basaglian institutional critique movement through conversations with some of its leading figures.  

Dates: Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 April, 2019 
Hour: 19:00 h 
Location: Sabatini Building, Auditorium; Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200 
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía 
Admission: free, until the full capacity is reached

Encounter. Documents 10. Examining the José Carlos Mariátegui Archive and the Journal Amauta

Amauta. Journal, cover of the numbers 10 (1927) and 17 (1928). José Carlos Mariátegui Archive

The Museo Reina Sofía’s programme Documents looks at artists’ publications, platforms, networks and independent publishing spaces, in addition to the potential of archive to reinvent narratives of art and its ecosystem. Its tenth edition examines the archive of José Carlos Mariátegui (1894–1930), the founder of Amauta, one of the twentieth century’s most influential cultural journals and the focal point of the exhibition The Avant-garde Networks of Amauta: Argentina, Mexico, and Peru in the 1920s (Museo Reina Sofía, 20 February to 27 May 2019).

The presentation of the archive by its director José-Carlos Mariátegui, a theorist and curator of art and technology, and Jaume Nualart, an open-source software programmer, will take place in the galleries housing the exhibition, thereby generating correspondence between the exhibition’s narrative threads and the content of the repository.  

Dates: Thursday 11 April, 2019 
Hour: 18:00 h 
Location: Sabatini Building, Floor 3, exhibition rooms 
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía 
Programme: Documents 
Admission: free prior registration via programasculturales3@museoreinasofia.es (limited places)

Film series. Me Too. Desire and Crime. Albert Serra’s Carte Blanche

Ulrich Seidl. Models. Película, 1999

In Me Too. Desire and Crime the Museo Reina Sofía invites Albert Serra to curate, for the first time in his career, a series of screenings which run alongside his new film installation, Personalien, made for the Museo’s Fissures programme. The cycle ends on Friday 12 April with the screening of Models by Ulrich Seidl, the last of this five screened films that have been alluding to the film-maker’s cinematic references, developing a key theme in his recent films and audiovisual installations: the struggle between desire and morals, between emancipation and ethics, between impulse and duty, between a world of debauchery and other moral limits.

Dates: Friday 12 April, 2019 
Hour: 19:00 h 
Location: Sabatini Building, Auditorium
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía 
Curatorship: Albert Serra
Admission: free, until the full capacity is reached