Sound familiar? Itinerary through the Collection for children and adults Guided tour for children and adults to the Collection From 16 October 2011 to 27 May 2012 El programa educativo ¿Te suena?, para niños acompañados de adultos, consiste en un recorrido interactivo y musical por algunas salas de la Colección. Education
Daina Augaitis and Antoni Muntadas on Entre/Between December 2011 Conversation with Daina Augatis, curator of the exhibition, and the artist Antoni Muntadas on Entre/Between. This exhibition, structured into nine blocks or "thematic constellations" is a complex, non-linear reading of Muntadas' work. In it numerous collaborative and multi-disciplinary projects are shown, from the early years to the piece Situación 2011, created especially for this exhibition. Exhibitions
Soledad Sevilla. Written in the celestial bodies November 2011 Conversation with the artist Soledad Sevilla about her exhibition in the Palacio de Cristal, in Madrid's Parque del Retiro, where she created an installation specifically for this site. Language, geometry, light and the spectator's experience are some of the elements that contribute to this exhibition. A large aluminum structure and a series of polycarbonate panels recreate a night sky dotted with linguistic signs. Exhibitions
João Fernandes and François Piron on the exhibition Locus Solus. Impressions of Raymond Roussel November 2011 João Fernandes and François Piron, the exhibition curators, analyse the influence of Raymond Roussel, an essential figure in the history of literature and a source of inspiration for visual artists and authors from other disciplines. The legacy of Roussel's poetic-literary universe permits a transversal reading of the history of 20th century art. Exhibitions
Manuel J. Borja-Villel and Elena Asins on the exhibition Fragments of memory October 2011 Manuel J. Borja-Villel, the exhibition curator, presents the artist Elena Asins' work and discusses the key elements of her role and her contributions to the history of art. In addition, the artist herself contextualizes her work following her collaboration with the Computation Centre, and analyses the multiple media and formats used in her artwork (concrete poetry, drawing, video...). Exhibitions
René Daniëls An exhibition is always part of a greater whole October 2011 Roland Groenenboom, curator of the exhibition, and Dominic van den Boogerd, art critic and director of De Ateliers, present in this video the ironic and imaginative work of René Daniëls. Along with his pictorial works, other materials and documents reflect the complex and conceptual work of this Dutch artist, who makes constant references to literature and daily life. Exhibitions
alighiero boetti game plan October 2011 In this video Lynne Cooke and Christian Rattemeyer, the curators of the exhibition, present the largest retrospective show to date on the Italian artist Alighiero Boetti. Initially linked to the Arte Povera movement, Boetti soon began to develop conceptual work, based on ideas concerning duality, the sensory and time, examined with the subjectivity of the artist. Exhibitions
Workshop for children: Reinventing Space with Almudena Lobera From 4 July to 8 July, 2011 Reinventing Space marks the inauguration of a new initiative in which young artists collaborate with the Museum in creating workshops designed for children. Exhibitions by Yayoi Kusama, Lygia Pape and Elena Asins serve as the context and material for the workshop. Education
Maja Bajevic To Be Continued June 2011 Conversation with the artist Maja Bajevic (Sarajevo, 1967) about her exhibition at Palacio de Cristal, in Madrid's Parque del Retiro. In this project, the artist analyses the consequences of historical and political conflicts and the impact they have on society. Exhibitions
Interview with Lynne Cooke: James Castle. Show and Store June 2011 Lynne Cooke, curator of the exhibition, presents the work of this singular, self-taught artist who was born completely deaf in Idaho. The exhibition offers a panoramic vision of the work of James Castle, an artist who invented his own way of showing and telling. Because of his deafness, he never learned to speak but he developed an imaginary all his own, nowadays described in terms such as primitive, marginal or visionary, in an attempt to unravel the complexity of his production. Exhibitions
Interview with Teresa Velázquez: Lygia Pape. Magnetized Space June 2011 Teresa Velázquez, curator of the exhibition, presents the work of the Brazilian Lygia Pape, an artist closely linked to the Neo-Concrete movement, which appeared as part of the strong current of renovation and modernism that swept Brazil in the 1950s. This exhibition shows the multidisciplinary nature of the artist's work, in terms of both themes and formats, which range from film to performance art and from painting to books, among others. Exhibitions
Interview with Frances Morris: Yayoi Kusama May 2011 In this retrospective, Frances Morris, head of international collections at Tate Modern and curator of the exhibition, presents the work of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, an essential figure in contemporary, post-war art. The exhibition allows visitors to get to know her multiple facets, from her contacts with Pop art, to her art installations and interventions in public spaces. Exhibitions
Video Era. Setting and potential (80-00) May 2011 What is the role of video in relation to the art institution? What paths and currents has video followed between its arrival and the current situation in Spain? This video comments on the program Video era. Setting and potential (80-00), held at the end of May 2011, which seeks to answer such questions, with a combined format of debate and screenings on four different dates. Cinema and video
Interview with Jon Bird: Leon Golub May 2011 Jon Bird, curator of the Leon Golub exhibition, explores the contemporary relevance of the artist's painting from various perspectives. First of all, how it brings historical painting up to date; secondly, how it conceives of the body; and thirdly, what the role of the viewer is. Exhibitions
Interview with Jorge Ribalta, A hard, merciless light. The worker-photography movement, 1926-1939 April 2011 In this interview Jorge Ribalta, the curator of the exhibition A hard, merciless light. The worker-photography movement, 1926-1939, proposes a journey through the documentary practices of the worker movements of the interwar period, emphasizing the appearance of a new notion of photographic modernism, one linked to social movements and the document Exhibitions
La tertulia del café de Pombo. Findings of the restoration March 2011 José Gutiérrez Solana painted La tertulia del café de Pombo in 1920, at the request of his friend Ramón Gómez de la Serna, a writer linked to the avant-garde movement in Spain. The painting captures a singular moment in Spanish intellectual life during the 1920s, between the dark connotations of España Negra and the renewal brought by the Generation of '98. A recent conservation analysis has revealed previously unknown details about the painting, leading to new interpretations. The Collection
Interview with Andreas Huyssen March 2011 Structured around various core ideas, this interview with the author of the book Modernismo después de la postmodernidad (2011) shows the dilemmas arising between a revision of the melancholic and contemplative past, returned in the form of the architectural memorial, and a critical reading from the museum, in which history and memory are confronted. Huyssen discusses the foundations of a new modernism, which has future prospects and projects but lacks a geographical centre and power hierarchies. The Collection Centro de estudios
Roberto Jacoby and Ana Longoni on Desire rises from Collapse March 2011 Roberto Jacoby is an artist who, through his multiple abandonments of art, nourishes the artistic practice of possibility, moments of tension and new agents. His work begins in the realm of Instituto Di Tella and, in a series of radical episodes, becomes Tucumán Arde (1968). Far from ending there, his subsequent career has dealt with networks, memory and its activations (or obliterations) in the archive. Exhibitions
Efrén Álvarez. Económicos March 2011 Económicos, the exhibition by the artist Efrén Álvarez (Barcelona, 1980), outlines a global vision of today's economy as a discipline that caricaturizes itself. Forty drawings and texts by different authors show relationship systems in which the apparent pedagogical intention of the exhibition entails, in practice, looking at what is unproductive, decayed and alienated through work and consumption Exhibitions
Ricardo Piglia, on Roberto Jacoby February 2011 The novelist Ricardo Piglia talks about the work of the Argentine artist Roberto Jacoby, in connection with the exhibition Roberto Jacoby, Desire rises from Collapse (Museo Reina Sofía, 25 February to 30 May, 2011). Jacoby's work, explains Piglia, contributes to the formation of two of today's key ideas: the creation of networks, through what Jacoby calls technologies of friendship, and the notion of immateriality as a fundamental aspect of contemporary society. Exhibitions
Asier Mendizabal January 2011 In much of the work by Asier Mendizabal (Ordizia, 1973) history ceases to be a practice linked to the past and instead reveals the cracks through which it becomes an activity intimately connected to the present. In this interview he comments on some of his work, hermetic and complex, where the resource of narration becomes something that updates both history and its visual forms. The ideas of monument, public sculpture and photomontage are modern archetypes that Mendizabal uses as a possibility of that which is collective. Exhibitions
Museo Reina Sofía. Presentation December 2010 This video introduces an overall vision of Museo Reina Sofía, conceived as an expanded museum with different venues (Sabatini Building, Nouvel Building, Palacio de Cristal and Palacio de Velázquez), and different experiences and audiences. Along with this concept of site, the collection, exhibitions and public activities are shown as a new way of interacting with the program and function of the Museum. The Museum
Serge Guilbaut. Is the war over? November 2010 The author of the book De cómo Nueva York robó a París la idea de arte moderno (Madrid, 1990) and the curator of the exhibitionBajo la bomba: el jazz de la guerra de imágenes transatlántica, 1946-1956 (MACBA and Museo Reina Sofía, 2007) talks about the new post-war scenario in dispute, in which there is a convergence of realism, abstraction and traces of an historical avant-garde that shows clear signs of exhaustion. The Collection
ATLAS. Interview with Georges Didi-Huberman December 2010 In this interview, Georges Didi-Huberman, the curator of the exhibition ATLAS. How to carry the world on one's back? contemplates the model of the atlas as a mechanism by which to reshape the sensory order of the world and the relationships that are established in the creation of knowledge. Taking the work of Aby Warburg as a point of departure, artistic production is contemplated as a montage, in which things, places and time can be reconfigured. Exhibitions Centro de estudios
: VAL DEL OMAR overflow. Conversation with Eugeni Bonet and Javier Ortiz Echagüe October 2010 The work of José Val del Omar (Granada, 1904-Madrid, 1982) goes beyond the usual limits of cinema and technique. The artist developed a particular relationship with poetry, mysticism, experience and moving images throughout his entire career. In contrast with cinema as a spectacle that is merely for contemplation, Val del Omar theorizes on and puts into practice an expanded and physical cinema, which can be summarized in concepts such as apanoramic overflow and diaphonic sound. A video of a conversation with Eugeni Bonet, curator of the exhibition, and Javier Ortiz-Echagüe, assistant curator of the exhibition, at Museo Reina Sofía. Exhibitions
Hans-Peter Feldmann. An art exhibition September 2010 The work of Hans-Peter Feldmann (Düsseldorf, 1941) focuses several decades of careful classification and reordering of the sensible world through the image. With systematic thoroughness, Feldmann classified traces of the society through trivial and banal images and objects, recovering the subjective and narrative power of the image in the viewer. The curator, Helena Tatay, introduces the exhibition, held at the Museo Reina Sofia (September 22, 2010 to February 28, 2011). Exhibitions
For Those Of Us Who Enjoy Working. Emmanuel Rodríguez (Traficantes de Sueños) From 2 to 3 July, 2010 Interview produced during "For Those Of Us Who Enjoy Working". Workshops on precariousness and self-organization in "creative" work, organized by Traficantes de Sueños, YProductions, Casa Invisible, Universidad Nómada and Museo Reina Sofía. Emmanuel Rodríguez is a historian, sociologist, and co-founder of Universidad Nómada and Traficantes de Sueños, a militant project consisting in a bookshop association and an independent distribution chain in Madrid. Seminars and conferences
For Those Of Us Who Enjoy Working. María PTQK From 2 to 3 July, 2010 Interview produced during "For Those Of Us Who Enjoy Working". Workshops on precariousness and self-organization in "creative" work, organized by Traficantes de Sueños, YProductions, Casa Invisible, Universidad Nómada and Museo Reina Sofía. María PTQK is a cultural producer, independent researcher, a consultant at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and coordinator of projects with the collective Amasté. Seminars and conferences
For Those Of Us Who Enjoy Working. Felipe G.Gil (Zemos 98) From 2 to 3 July, 2010 Interview produced during "For Those Of Us Who Enjoy Working". Workshops on precariousness and self-organization in "creative" work, organized by Traficantes de Sueños, YProductions, Casa Invisible, Universidad Nómada and Museo Reina Sofía. Felipe G. Gil is a member of Zemos98, a cultural management collective that works in the fields of networked society, remix culture, and experimentation with formats. Seminars and conferences
For Those Of Us Who Enjoy Working. Jara Rocha (MediaLab Prado) From 2 to 3 July, 2010 Interview produced during "For Those Of Us Who Enjoy Working". Workshops on precariousness and self-organization in "creative" work, organized by Traficantes de Sueños, YProductions, Casa Invisible, Universidad Nómada and Museo Reina Sofía. Jara Rocha is coordinator of special projects at Medialab-Prado, a space oriented towards production, research and dissemination of digital culture and of the area of confluence between art, science, technology and society. Seminars and conferences