Exhibitions in Madrid

Museo Reina Sofía

Retrospective of the American sculptor Anne Truitt (1921-2004): sculptures, paintings, drawings, photographs of her installations, diaries and a studio-interview film.

Espacio Fundación Telefónica

Iñárritu's Oscar-honoured virtual reality installation: a solo, roughly 20-minute immersive walk through part of the journey of Mexican and Central American migrants.

Museo Reina Sofía

A centenary retrospective built around the visceral mixed-media works of Spanish Informalist painter Manolo Millares (1926-1972), exploring repression and human suffering through torn hessian and abstraction.

Museo del Prado

An itinerary of 30 works across the Villanueva building on civil engineering in the Prado's paintings, such as bridges, made with Fundación FHECOR.

Galería de las Colecciones Reales

Chests, caskets, coffers, trunks and cases from Patrimonio Nacional's royal palaces, monasteries and convents: centuries of furniture made to safeguard its contents.

Museo Arqueológico NacionalFree

Rare 15th-century arms and armour from a sealed room at Monreal de Ariza castle (Zaragoza): helmets, crossbows, a breastplate, a bell and artillery chambers.

Museo de Historia de MadridFree

The 40 winning photos of the museum's sixth photography contest, run with the Planetario de Madrid on the theme of Madrid's sky, in the Patio Dorado.

Museo del Prado

Marking the centenary of Rainer Maria Rilke's death, this show explores the poet's deep engagement with El Greco, Velázquez and Goya.

Museo del Prado

Two late Prado panels, Harmony (The Three Graces?) and The Ages of Woman and Death, set in the context of German Renaissance art and Cranach, with recent restoration findings.

CaixaForum Madrid

A 70-minute immersive audiovisual journey through biodiversity, produced with National Geographic and OASIS Immersive Studios, urging action to protect the natural world.

Museo Reina Sofía

Eli Cortiñas revisits her 2016 work on cinema, museums and colonial imagery, adding new AI-generated installations that critique how algorithms and institutions perpetuate power imbalances.

Museo Reina Sofía

A full-scale reconstruction of Marta Minujín and Rubén Santantonín 1965 immersive installation, alongside a survey of Minujín happenings and participatory actions from 1963-1985.

Palacio de VelázquezFree

A retrospective of over 200 works by Fernando Sánchez Castillo dismantling monuments and symbols of power, framed around the legend of a lost royal pearl.

Museo de América

Eva Lootz's video project on thread and weaving, from pre-Columbian textile cultures to the loom as forerunner of computing, with dancer Kike García Gil.

Museo Reina Sofía

Five decades of work by Colombian artist Miguel Ángel Rojas, spanning early installations on rural migration to contemporary pieces addressing narco-trafficking and Amazon exploitation.

Museo de América

Eduardo Longoni's photographs of Argentina from the 1976 military coup to 2003, marking 50 years since the coup, in the first-floor cloister.

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

Wildlife photography from the Spanish Society for Evolutionary Biology (SESBE) on habitat, coevolution, sexual selection, social evolution and the Anthropocene.

Museo del Prado

The Prado's first show on an art patron: around 100 paintings, sculptures, medals, textiles, illuminated manuscripts and prints around Queen Mariana of Austria.

CaixaForum Madrid

An intimate, immersive look at filmmaker Luis Garcia-Berlanga (1921-2010), drawing on his newly catalogued personal archive of film, life and humour.