Exhibitions in Madrid
March 2027
March at a glance: 3 exhibitions opening, 11 closing, and 2 more on view across the city.
Opening in March
Fernanda Laguna: My Heart Is a Magnet (1992-2026)3 Mar 2027Museo Reina Sofía
The most complete survey yet of Argentine artist Fernanda Laguna: paintings, collages, embroidery, installations, videos and writing since 1992, with MALBA Buenos Aires.
Roberto Burle Marx5 Mar 2027Fundación Juan MarchFree
A retrospective of Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, with drawings, models, paintings and textiles, co-organised with the Zentrum Paul Klee.
- History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme. Edition II: Hannah Ryggen17 Mar 2027
Museo Reina Sofía
Hannah Ryggen's anti-fascist tapestry Ethiopia (1935), shown at the 1937 Paris World's Fair next to Guernica's pavilion, set in dialogue with Picasso's Guernica.
Closing in March
Rilke and Spanish Art7 Mar 2027Museo 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.
- Hans Baldung Grien7 Mar 2027
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.
We Are Nature: An Immersive Audiovisual Experience7 Mar 2027CaixaForum Madrid
A 70-minute immersive audiovisual journey through biodiversity, produced with National Geographic and OASIS Immersive Studios, urging action to protect the natural world.
Eli Cortiñas: The Machine Dreams of Smoke8 Mar 2027Museo 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.
La Menesunda According to Marta Minujín8 Mar 2027Museo 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.
Fernando Sánchez Castillo: The Wayward Pearl8 Mar 2027Palacio 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.
- "Hilos que bailan", an exhibition by Eva Lootz14 Mar 2027
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.
Miguel Ángel Rojas: The Night15 Mar 2027Museo 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.
Image and Memory: Argentina 1976–2003. Photographs by Eduardo Longoni21 Mar 2027Museo 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.
Evolución28 Mar 2027Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
Wildlife photography from the Spanish Society for Evolutionary Biology (SESBE) on habitat, coevolution, sexual selection, social evolution and the Anthropocene.
- Mariana of Austria28 Mar 2027
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.
Also on through March
Interior Berlanga: Film, Life and Humourto 23 May 2027CaixaForum Madrid
An intimate, immersive look at filmmaker Luis Garcia-Berlanga (1921-2010), drawing on his newly catalogued personal archive of film, life and humour.
- Anne Truitt. Pioneer of Minimal Artto 14 Jun 2027
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.
Opening in April 2027
Image credits
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- Fernanda Laguna: My Heart Is a Magnet (1992-2026)Courtesy of Museo Reina Sofía
- Roberto Burle MarxCourtesy of Fundación Juan March
- Rilke and Spanish ArtCourtesy of Museo del Prado
- We Are Nature: An Immersive Audiovisual ExperienceCourtesy of CaixaForum Madrid
- Eli Cortiñas: The Machine Dreams of SmokeMuseo Reina Sofía © Eli Cortiñas, VEGAP, Madrid, 2026
- La Menesunda According to Marta MinujínPhotograph: Shunk-Kender © J. Paul Getty Trust
- Fernando Sánchez Castillo: The Wayward PearlMuseo Reina Sofía
- Miguel Ángel Rojas: The NightCourtesy Galería La Cometa
- Image and Memory: Argentina 1976–2003. Photographs by Eduardo LongoniCourtesy of Museo de América
- EvoluciónCourtesy of Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
- Interior Berlanga: Film, Life and HumourCourtesy of CaixaForum Madrid
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