Exhibition. David Wojnarowicz. History Keeps Me Awake at Night

David Wojnarowicz with Tom Warren, Self-Portrait of David Wojnarowicz, 1983–84, Acrylic and collaged paper on gelatin silver print, 148.6 × 99.1 cm. Collection of Brooke Garber Neidich and Daniel Neidich. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

From the late 1970s until his untimely death in 1992 through AIDS-related complications, David Wojnarowicz (New Jersey, USA, 1954 — New York, USA, 1992) produced a body of work that was as conceptually rigorous as it was stylistically diverse. His artistic career fused a broad array of forms, mediums and devices, for instance the use of photography as a narrative tool; collage as a resource for critique and political statements, stressed through the poverty of the medium; painting adopted to explore different allegorical processes; and photomontage and text employed as an approach to the queer and identity politics that also shaped his role as an activist.

Coming to prominence in the socially and culturally vibrant East Village scene in New York in the 1980s, Wojnarowicz’s work is also testament to the end of the art collectives forged in the preceding decades and defined by their members’ financial precariousness and their anti-establishment, collaborative and experimental spirit.

Date: From 29 May to 30 September, 2019
Location: Sabatini Building, Floor 1
Organized by: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in collaboration with the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, and the Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Curatorship: David Breslin and David Kiehl

Encounter and screening centred on David Wojnarowicz

Marion Scemama, Self-Portrait in 23 Rounds: a Chapter in David Wojnarowicz’s Life, 1989–1991. Film, 2018

In conjunction with the solo exhibition David Wojnarowicz. History Keeps Me Awake at Night (running until 30 September 2019), an exhibition staged by the Museo Reina Sofía on artist David Wojnarowicz (New Jersey, USA, 1954 – New York, USA, 1992), Marion Scemama’s film Self-Portrait in 23 Rounds: a Chapter in David Wojnarowicz’s Life, 1989–1991 will be shown for the first time in Spain. The encounter, a conversation between the film-maker, who will present the film, and David Kiehl and David Breslin, the show’s curators, will take place after the screening.

Date: Wednesday 29 May, 2019
Hour: 7pm
Location: Sabatini Building, Auditorium
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía
In collaboration with: illycaffé
Admission: Free, until full capacity is reached

A dance lecture by Ana Pi, in collaboration with Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud. A World Tour of Urban Dance in Ten Cities

Ana Pi; photo: © Pierre Ricci

As part of a performing arts series, in collaboration with the Community of Madrid’s Teatros del Canal, the Museo Reina Sofía presents Le tour du monde des danses urbaines en dix villes (A World Tour of Urban Dance in Ten Cities), by choreographer and dancer Ana Pi.

This ten-city urban dance world tour, devised in 2014 by Ana Pi, along with Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud, takes on the form of a dance lecture centred on different styles of urban dance in different cities around the world. As a performance and didactic project, it seeks to broaden the perception of street dance styles performed in non-theatre settings, dismantling, whenever possible, the general perception equating urban dance with hip-hop.

Date: Friday 31 May, 2019
Hour: 7pm
Location: Nouvel Building, Protocol Room
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía
In collaboration with: Teatros del Canal, Community of Madrid
Admission: Free, until full capacity is reached