Exhibitions in Madrid

CaixaForum MadridFreePast

The first joint show by brothers Javier and Rafa Forteza pairs paintings and sculpture that resist easy recognition, exploring the enigma of the face and the limits of figuration.

Museo Cerralbo

A portrait of writer Emilia Pardo Bazán, on loan from A Coruña, spotlighting women who championed heritage preservation alongside the Marquis of Cerralbo.

Museo Lázaro GaldianoFree

An outdoor sculpture exhibition in the museum gardens, staged with Arte Madrid for the Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend festival.

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.

Matadero MadridFree

Carlos Aires transforms Nave 0, the slaughterhouse's fire-scarred former cold room, into a haunted dance floor of shored-up metal supports and some twenty screens, part of the Abierto x Obras site-specific series.

Matadero MadridPast

A four-screen immersive audiovisual installation by Riccardo Giovinetto, weaving manipulated satellite imagery of dense urban regions with field recordings into shifting, imagined geographies.

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.

Fundación MAPFRE – Sala Recoletos

The first European retrospective of American photographer Minor White, marking 50 years since his death, covering nature, portraiture and his innovative photographic sequences.

Fundación MAPFRE – Sala Recoletos

A survey of over forty women artists linked to the Pre-Raphaelite movement, tracing their careers and creative paths through the Victorian era.

Fundación MAPFRE – Sala Recoletos

Traces how Hans Prinzhorn's collection of psychiatric-patient artwork influenced Expressionist, Dadaist and Surrealist artists, and its later revival as Art Brut by Jean Dubuffet.

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San FernandoFree

Habsburg Madrid in the 16th and 17th centuries, when the court drew Velázquez, Cervantes, Lope de Vega and Vesalius to the heart of a global empire.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

Retrospective of the East Village artist and urban art pioneer, with paintings, sculptures, installations and murals blending pop culture and surrealism.

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 TrajeFreePast

Final projects by teenagers from the museum's DiseñAR-T fashion education programme, each design built around a material or an emotion.

Galería de las Colecciones RealesPast

Contemporary artists intervene in the Gallery's permanent display with photography-based works exploring memory, landscape and historical narrative.

Museo Thyssen-BornemiszaPast

A focused display on the technical study and restoration of Rubens Venus and Cupid, revealing his materials, methods and restored chromatic balance.

Museo Arqueológico NacionalFreePast

Medieval-era artifacts and images from the royal court of Toledo, organised with Castilla-La Mancha's regional museums, in the free Sala de Novedades Arqueológicas.

Museo del PradoPast

Traces the rise and fall of José Aparicio's The Year of the Famine in Madrid (1818), once the Prado's most admired painting, now largely forgotten.

Museo del RomanticismoFreePast

PhotoEspaña 2026 installation by Laia Abril using fragmented bodies to confront the historic medical dismissal of endometriosis and women's pain.

Museo del PradoPast

A collection itinerary of thirteen portraits, from Titian's Charles V to Goya's Jovellanos, marking the fifth centenary of Spain's Council of State.

Museo del PradoPast

Over 100 works from 56 institutions reassess how Italian Trecento art reshaped Gothic painting, sculpture and textiles in the Spanish kingdoms.

Museo Arqueológico NacionalFreePast

Contemporary photographer Linarejos Moreno's river-themed work fills the museum's entrance hall, part of the PHotoESPAÑA 2026 festival.

Museo de Historia de MadridFreePast

The complete six-panel Juegos de niños series by Goya, shown with Flemish and Italian masters from the Santamarca-González philanthropic collection.

Museo del PradoPast

A reflection on the Prado's contemporary identity through 98 works acquired for the collection since the year 2000.

Galería de las Colecciones RealesPast

Fine clocks acquired by Ferdinand VII and Isabella II, tracing technical innovation and changing taste in 19th-century clockmaking.

Museo de AméricaFreePast

Artists Ángela Bonadies and Cristian Guardia install works from the museum's Venezuela collection to reflect on the country's political and geopolitical "void".

Museo Nacional de Ciencias NaturalesPast

Forty award-winning works from the 13th international Illustraciencia prize for scientific and nature illustration, with tactile and braille versions for visually impaired visitors.

Museo de AméricaFreePast

Portraits by Argentine artist Eulogia Merle giving presence to Latin American migrant women working as live-in domestic carers in Spain and Argentina.

Museo del TrajeFreePast

A retrospective marking designer Teresa Helbig's 30-year career, tracing her craftsmanship through iconic dresses, fashion films and interviews.

Museo Thyssen-BornemiszaPast

Major retrospective of 77 works by Sevillian painter Carmen Laffon, tracing still life, landscape and sculpture across her 60-year career.

Casa de AméricaFreePast

PSJM collective's two-part show using 'social geometry' to visualize US demographic data and 59 geometric paintings charting the history of presidential elections.

Casa de AméricaFreePast

Bernardo Medina's 'jíbaro pop' works, using Puerto Rican flag colours, plantains and reimagined soup cans to explore identity and cultural dependence with the US.

Casa de AméricaFreePast

Bego Antón's PHotoEspaña photographs of women and their dogs performing Musical Canine Freestyle across the US, part of Casa de América's US 250th-anniversary programme.

Casa de AméricaFreePast

Around 300 Library of Congress portraits of Hispanic communities in the 1930s-40s US, curated by Alberto Ferreras with photos by Dorothea Lange, Jack Delano and others.

Museo del PradoPast

A reassessment of the genre paintings of Valeriano Bécquer, brother of the poet Gustavo Adolfo, chronicling Andalusian daily life and popular customs.

CaixaForum MadridPast

Assyrian antiquities from the British Museum trace the life and legacy of Ashurbanipal, the 7th-century BCE king of Assyria: warrior, scholar and empire-builder.

Museo Reina SofíaFreePast

An exploration of curator and artist Blanca Sánchez Berciano (1948-2007) through collage, Camp aesthetics and archive materials that trace Madrid's cultural movements.

Espacio Fundación TelefónicaFreePast

Over 120 objects, installations and interactive displays trace quantum physics from early 20th-century discoveries to lasers, semiconductors and quantum computing.

Museo Arqueológico NacionalPast

An exhibition and historic-garden itinerary tracing botany, art and Andalusi memory, running through the museum's al-Andalus galleries and garden.

Galería de las Colecciones RealesPast

Exceptional royal textiles and embroideries, many never before displayed, showing the palace workshops behind centuries of courtly furnishings.

Museo Reina SofíaPast

A major exhibition of Cuban-American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996), whose candy spills, paper stacks and light installations addressed loss, love and identity during the AIDS crisis.

Galería de las Colecciones RealesPast

Ninety-five oil paintings of Spain's Royal Sites commissioned by Ferdinand VII, by topographical landscape painter Fernando Brambila (1763–1834).

Museo de AméricaFreePast

An exceptional collection of lacquered wooden bateas from colonial Mexico, tracing production centres from Uruapan to Yucatán and Indigenous-Asian-European artistic exchange.

Museo de Historia de MadridFreePast

Refotography exhibition pairing 40 historical and present-day photographs of the same Madrid street corners, on show in the Patio Dorado.

Museo del RomanticismoFreePast

Drawings by Federico de Madrazo, Luis de Madrazo and Vicente Palmaroli trace the artistic study trips to Italy that shaped 19th-century Spanish Romantic painters.

Museo del TrajeFreePast

An evolving, playful exhibition built around the Museo del Traje's own collections, revealing how the museum catalogues and cares for its holdings.

Museo Arqueológico NacionalPast

A rotating showcase near the permanent exhibition entrance exploring classical theatre, from Greek tragedy to Roman comedy.

Museo Arqueológico NacionalFreePast

Scientific analysis techniques, from metallurgy to imaging, reveal how MAN conservators study and preserve archaeological materials, developed with CSIC's national metallurgical research centre.

Museo Arqueológico NacionalPast

A Roman-era bronze sculptural group recovered by Spain's National Police, displayed intact with its original bases in the Hispania Romana galleries.

Museo CerralboFreePast

Tanit Plana's site-specific installation of large-format printed fabrics, a critical look at the museum professionals who research, collect and exhibit heritage, shown in the Ferraz Room.

Espacio Fundación TelefónicaFreePast

The complete 83-image photographic series from Robert Frank's landmark 1958 project documenting inequality, consumerism and racial division in 1950s America.

Museo Nacional de Artes DecorativasFree

Textile artist Gema Polanco turns the museum's second floor into a site-specific, ritual-charged domestic space, part of PHotoESPAÑA 2026.

Museo Arqueológico Nacional

Contemporary weaver Teresa Lanceta's textile works enter dialogue with the museum's Iberian collection in the Patio Ibérico galleries.

Museo de América

A photographic project on the colonial roots of discrimination against Indigenous trans women in the Americas, extended through 22 November after strong public interest.

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

Twelve works by brothers Mariano and Vicente Moreno, pioneering Spanish art photographers whose Madrid studio left an archive of over 60,000 negatives.

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

Marks the 250th anniversary of the United States with a rare 1796 portrait of George Washington by Josef Perovani, shown beside Goya's portrait of Manuel Godoy.

Palacio de CristalFree

A printed tarp wrapping the Palacio de Cristal's glass facade during restoration, inspired by pre-Columbian Paracas funerary textile bundles.

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

An interdisciplinary look at feathers as cultural and symbolic material across world cultures, from historic featherwork to contemporary art by Henar Iglesias.

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.

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.