Exhibition. Jörg Immendorff. The Task of the Painter

Jörg Immendorff. Naht, 1981. Oil on canvas, 180 x 400 cm. Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf. © The Estate of Jörg Immendorff, courtesy of Galerie Michael Werner Märkisch Wilmersdorf, Cologne and New York

This retrospective exhibition devoted to the work of Jörg Immendorff (Bleckede, Germany, 1945 –Düsseldorf, Germany, 2007) surveys a career spanning more than four decades, setting forth the key stages and transformations in the artist’s work: from the sociopolitical and political upheaval works he conceived between the 1960s and early 1980s, to the encoded paintings in the latter stages of his output.

Rather than follow a strict chronology, the show, which welcomes in the region of one hundred works by the artist in an array of mediums — painting, sculpture, drawings — is organised around different themed chapters, threaded together with the evolution and processes of change in Immendorff’s art.

Dates: From 30 October, 2019 to 13 April, 2020
Location: Sabatini Building, Floor 1

Organized by: Haus der Kunst, Munich, in collaboration with the Museo Reina Sofía
Curatorship: Ulrich Wilmes

Encounter centred on Jörg Immendorff. Ulrich Wilmes

This encounter/guided tour sees Ulrich Wilmes, art historian and curator of the exhibition Jörg Immendorff. The Task of the Painter (Museo Reina Sofía, 30 October 2019 – 13 April 2020), shine a light on the career of the German artist from multiple perspectives and with a direct connection to the works on display. The aforementioned retrospective commences with the first stages of sociopolitical upheaval at the end of the 1960s and concludes with the hermetic paintings and allegories from the artist’s mature period — essentially, four decades of activity by a chronicler of tumultuous times. In this tour, Wilmes highlights Immendorff’s particular view of art and his own existence as an artist.

Date: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
Hour: 7pm
Location: Sabatini Building, Floor 1, exhibition rooms
Language: English, with simultaneous interpretation
Capacity: 30 people
Admission: free with prior registration via email at actividades.culturales@museoreinasofia.es

Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía
In collaboration with: illycaffé

Tours around the work of Mario Merz. Art, Nature and Degrowth

Mario Merz. Iglú de Giap. Installation, 1968. Musée national d´art moderne/Centre de creation industrielle. Image courtesy of Fondazione Merz, Turin

This series of tours around the exhibition Mario Merz. Time is Mute takes a closer look at the relationship between the ideas underpinning the work of the Italian artist and contemporary thought on nature. The view of nature, from Romanticism to Arte Povera; the origins of architecture in nature and the meaning of dwelling linked to existence; contemporary eco-social philosophy; and the correspondence between object and language are the themes that make up these visits.

Based on the principles of the exhibition, the four tours converse from different viewpoints, seeking to frame the artist in a broader system of relationships. 

Dates: Monday, 28 October and Tuesday, 5, 12 and 19 November 2019
Hour: 5pm
Location: Palacio de Velázquez, exhibitions rooms
Duration: 1 hour
Capacity: 30 people / tour
Admission: free with prior registration via email at actividades.culturales@museoreinasofia.es

Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía

Dance. Jorge Dutor and Guillem Mont de Palol. #LOSMICRÓFONOS

Jorge Dutor and Guillem Mont de Palol in #LOSMICRÓFONOS, 2013. Photograph: © Itaria Costanzo, 2013

As part of the series of performing arts staged in collaboration with the Community of Madrid’s Teatros del Canal, the Museo Reina Sofía presents #LOSMICRÓFONOS (#THEMICROPHONES) by Jorge Dutor and Guillem Mont de Palol. 

In the piece we sit in on a conversation in which those speaking only do so through the names of famous stars, well-known lines from mainstream films or melodies learnt from themed radio and the background music of stores and transportation. These references are all tied to particular pop stars or, more specifically, to the names of particular stars or, more specifically, to the sound made from pronouncing such names.

Upon its conclusion, the performance will be followed by an encounter with the artists, presented and moderated by Isabel de Naverán.

Date: Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Hour: 7pm
Location: Nouvel Building, Auditorium 400
Admission: free, until full capacity is reached

Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía
In collaboration with: Teatros del Canal de la Comunidad de Madrid
Curatorship: Isabel de Naverán

Concert. Susy Shock and Bandada de Colibríes. Traviarca

European tour Traviarca, 2019

As part of her European tour, trans sudaca activist Susy Shock and her group Bandada de Colibríes (Flock of Hummingbirds) will perform a concert in the Museo Reina Sofía, coinciding with the release of their latest album Traviarca. This is a neologism alluding to that transvestite which, due to their experience and wisdom, is respected by their equals and community. More specifically, Traviarca pays homage to Lohana Berkins — and, through her, to many others with “no name”.

This concert is articulated inside the Museo’s force line “Action and radical imagination”, which champions public activities and spaces of thought and research from feminist and LGTBIQ+ perspectives.

Date: jueves 31 de octubre, Thursday, 31 October 2019
Hour: 8:30pm
Location: Sabatini Building, Auditorium Edificio Sabatini, Auditorio
Capacity: 144 people
Admission: free, with prior ticket collection at the Museo Ticket Offices or on the Museo Reina Sofía website from 30 October

Force line: Action and radical imagination
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía
With the support of: Embassy of the Argentine Republic
With the sponsorship of: Estrella Damm

Screening. Interval 27. J.P. Sniadecki and Joshua Bonnetta. El mar la mar

J.P. Sniadecki and Joshua Bonnetta. El mar la mar. Film, USA, 2017

This new edition of Intervals, a screening series centred on recent film work, presents the latest film by J.P. Sniadecki (USA, 1979), made in collaboration with Joshua Bonnetta (Canada, 1979). As a member of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, J.P. Sniadecki melds experimental film with ethnographic research, analyses of the film medium and immersive experiences. El mar la mar is a topographical and existential exploration around the Sonoran Desert, one of the most unforgiving areas on the US-Mexico border. 

On this occasion, the film-maker will present the first screening session, before participating in a talk moderated by Gonzalo E. Veloso.

Dates: Thursday, 31 October and Saturday, 2 November 2019
Hora: 6pm and 7pm
Location: Sabatini Building, Auditorium
Admission: free admission, until full capacity is reached

Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía
In collaboration with: Cineteca Madrid
Acknowledgments: Intersección-Festival audiovisual de arte contemporáneo