Art Madrid'23 – Blog

Pride and Prejudice: A Queer Art Exhibition organized by Inéditad Gallery.

Art Madrid Contemporary Art Fair announces the application for its 19th edition to be held from March 6 to 10, 2024, as part of the already consolidated Madrid Contemporary Art Week, at the Galería de Cristal of the Palacio de Cibeles. Galleries interested in participating can send their applications until September 29th, 2023.

Fight of Giants returns with its most ambitious project to date: Thirty artists challenge each other to pay tribute to the PINK PANTHER on her SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY.

The turn of the millennium seemed one of the main milestones that would mark the future of many economic sectors. The horizon was encouraging and full of thrilling challenges. After the threshold of 2000, we all had to face a strong economic crisis in 2008, which had a decisive influence on numerous business models, and we are now immersed in the recovery from the greatest health crisis ever experienced worldwide over the last hundred years.

When we talk of ephemeral art we think of works that are produced at a certain time and place, therefore, we tend to identify them with performance or happening. Artistic events are a very interesting facet of the new contemporaneity which thrill artists. One wants to overcome the traditional vision of static art, embodied in tangible support, to transform it into an experience. Installation art responds to this same idea.

The uses of artificial intelligence extend to many aspects of our reality with potential applications ranging from the design of patterns of social behaviour, the prediction of economic fluctuations or the treatment of data for the development of political measures in times of crisis. All this shows us a futuristic situation that we still see as science fiction, perhaps due to the abundance of explanations and the use of terms that our minds are not yet capable of transferring to a tangible plane.

ART MADRID has proved in its coming-of-age edition that it is a fair without labels, generalist but alive. Celebrated at the Galería de Cristal del Palacio de Cibeles from February the 22nd to the 26th, the contemporary art event has returned renovated, committed to new models of galleries, launching reception platforms for young voices to find their place in the current scene, and interested in approaching new audiences to the project.

All the information of the participating artists and galleries. The catalogue includes a selection of the artworks present at the fair and much more information about the event so that it becomes a good memory of the last edition 2023.

TOO MANY FLASH, will be present one more year, giving photographic coverage to Art Madrid and supporting contemporary creation. If you don't know, the School of Photographic Entrepreneurship promotes the individual style and the genuine voice of each artist, bringing its students closer to the market and encouraging interaction and connection with the primary agents of the sector.

For the second consecutive year, Liquitex, a world reference brand in professional acrylic, joins Art Madrid as a sponsor, and in its desire to empower the artist and support contemporary creation,

Natalia Alonso Arduengo will be the curator in charge of organizing the Curatorial Program, focusing on the subject of IDENTITY, taking as a starting point the verses of Otherness, a poem by Mario Benedetti.

For another edition, Natalia Alonso Arduengo (Madrid, 1984) will be the curator in charge of carrying out the program, which will revolve around the theme of IDENTITY.

Art Madrid, sponsored by One Shot Hotels, launches: "One Shot Collectors", a Collectors Program integrated into the heart of the fair with the commitment to continue building bridges to bring the public closer to contemporary art. One Shot Hotels is a young chain of boutique hotels with meticulous design and an unbeatable location in the center of the leading Spanish cities.

Looking back, eighteen years is a vast and fleeting period. A time in which Art Madrid has been building its path as a reference event for the visual arts and the market in Spain and Europe.

ArtMadrid'23 presents the section of interviews conducted by the art critic and curator Alfonso de la Torre in which he discovers, in greater depth, the artistic universe of the eight most outstanding creators of the following Art Madrid edition. The section, which presents the artists from private conversations and with its own content, will be included in a common theme around the figure of the artist and their practices in the national art market.

The artists and their works move narrative discourses presented before us with an expansive effect. Although inhabiting a geographical space, belonging to a specific social class, and having specialized training... are factors that define their work.

The network in which contemporary artistic practices are produced is a time and a place frenzied, something like an ever-expanding entropy. However, in such a "disorder", valuable intentions are appreciated for those who consume the search for the multifaceted and not circumscribed to a finite space such as geography.

For the second time, Art Madrid presents the online sales campaign Art&Collect: your work in one click. From December 14th to January 5th, the public will have a selection of available artworks by the artists participating in the fair's next edition.

Art Madrid will celebrate its 18th edition from February 22nd to 26th of 2023 at Palacio de Cibeles' Galería de Cristal, a privileged space in which every year the public can appreciate the most current Spanish and international contemporary art. To celebrate this new meeting, Art Madrid returns to the art week scene with the firm intention of maintaining its work as a reference event within the cultural sector committed to becoming a vehicle for approaching new audiences.

The seventeenth edition of Art Madrid, which was held in the Galería de Cristal of the Palacio de Cibeles from 23 to 27 February, closed its 17th edition with more than 16,000 visitors, a similar figure prior to the pandemic.