Art Madrid Contemporary Art Fair announces the application for its 19th edition to be celebrates from March 6th to 10th, 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.

In a privileged location such as the Galería de Cristal of the Palacio de Cibeles, Art Madrid consolidates every year a greater number of public (more than 20,000 visitors in each of its last six editions) and new collectors interested in participating in such a long-awaited appointment with contemporary art.

Partial view of Art Madrid. Contemporary Art Fair. 18th Edition. 2023

Art Madrid is a fair that defines itself as a proposal close to the public and the reality of the contemporary art world; aware of the future challenges and the positive impact of initiatives like its own, it returns in each of its editions, betting on the most current artistic production. With this commitment, Art Madrid develops a program of activities that takes place throughout the month of February, designed for all audiences, with the purpose of contributing to the dissemination, reflection and enhancement of contemporary art with a broad participation of institutions and cultural agents. A key mission for Art Madrid is to continue generating a market and promoting national and international collecting in the context of Madrid's art week.

Art Madrid is a multidisciplinary fair model with the participation of around 40 national and international galleries that work with painting, sculpture, graphic art, photography, digital art and video art of recent production (21st century). Art Madrid'24 presents a general program for galleries specialized in contemporary art and a parallel program of activities that will remain active throughout the month of February.

Partial view of Art Madrid. Contemporary Art Fair. 18th Edition. 2023. Photo courtesy of Paola Becerra. Too Many Flash.

Programs

General Program

The general program of Art Madrid'24 continues to be the main focus of the fair and is starred by the national and international galleries that participate in each edition of the fair, a number that ranges between 35 and 40 exhibitors. The proposal of galleries that make up the fair's general program has its own distinctive stamp; it is versatile, risky and covers a wide spectrum that includes both young and established galleries.

Special Program

The parallel program of Art Madrid'24 will once again be the be a special section. that accompanies our event with the intention of reflecting and putting art in function of the problems that define our most immediate context. Our next edition will be structured around a Call for Entries and Performance Program; a Program of Artistic Residencies; the Lecturas Program: Tours curated by Art Madrid. And the Special Section: OPEN BOOTH X ART MADRID dedicated to digital art projects.

Collectors Program

Art Madrid'24 collector's program returns in the next edition of the fair with the commitment to continue building bridges to bring the public closer to contemporary art and to promote collecting at a national and international level. With the collaboration of Ana Suarez Gisbert as Art Advisor, Art Madrid will offer an advisory service for galleries, with special attention to newly incorporated galleries. The advisory service is also aimed at the public who visit our fair with the intention of starting in the world of art collections or those interested in receiving professional advice to expand their collections with the acquisition of artworks in Art Madrid.

New Entries Program

Art Madrid'24's new exhibitor support program will be aimed at the new galleries that will participate in our 19th edition. Through a tailor-made communication pack, new entries to the fair will be presented and given special visibility.

Partial view of Art Madrid. Contemporary Art Fair. 18th Edition. 2023. Photo courtesy of Paola Becerra. Too Many Flash.

Awards

Art Madrid joins forces with institutions, companies and firms to support artistic creation and gallery work at the fair itself through the awarding of various prizes. For the 19th edition of Art Madrid, the following awards have been granted to both galleries and artists:

Best Booth Award Award that will be articulated around the gallery with the best stand set up at the fair.

Revelation Artist Award Our sponsors, within their line of action to promote contemporary art, will provide a prize to one of the revelation artists participating in the fair.

Relevant Information:

Applications to participate in the fair will be sent to the following email address: info@art-madrid.com

Applications will be received by the Art Madrid organization until September 29th, 2023.

In the year 2020 in the heart of Barcelona a wandering gallery was born, the same one that in February 2021 would debut at Art Madrid with an exhibition proposal focused on contemporary portraits; with this subject matter it would manage to create a powerful dialogue between artwork and audience and make the seal Inéditad remain in the history of the event that contained it.

Jean Carlos Puerto. Protección. Oil and copper leaf on wood. 60 x 48. 2021. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Since that first time and until today, the wandering gallery has managed to build projects on otherness, has repositioned in the spotlight the discourses on the LGTBIQ+ collective, has consolidated a group of artists who share its principles of resilience and empathy and the best thing is that it continues to bet from the professionalism and commitment to give voice to the difference.

Claudio Petit-Laurent.. El Joven de la Perla. Oil on wood. 30 x 30 cm. 2023. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Inéditad Gallery, thanks to its founder Luis López, its collaborators and the infinite possibilities manifested in the works of the artists it represents, is a gallery that has demonstrated its capacity and courage to stimulate the sensibility of the public through art and seduce a generation that moves between the glass window and the analogical story. Inéditad is a nomadic gallery that has gathered around it a community of artists and has moved the context with exhibition projects that think about LGTBIQ+ art without prejudices.

Pepa Salas Vilar. Las marcas del arcoiris. Oil on canvas. 40 x 50 cm. 2022. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Pride and Prejudice was inaugurated. An exhibition that brings together the works of sixteen artists: Abel Carrillo, Alex Domènech, Carlos Enfedaque, Silvia Flechoso, Jamalajama, Daniel Jaén, Claudio Petit-Laurent, Jean Carlos Puerto, Fernando Romero, Pablo Rodríguez, Pepa Salas Vilar, Jack Smith, Pablo Sola, Bran Sólo, Elia Tomás and Utürüo. Painting, illustration, photography and digital art are the manifestations that bring into dialogue around fifty neatly threaded pieces, in a discursive line that discusses such a latent phenomenon as discrimination. To achieve this, the artists invited to the exhibition question themselves whether: Does discrimination exist within the LGTBIQ+ collective?

Pride and Prejudice Official Poster. Image courtesy of the gallery.

With approaches on and from the body, the proposal invites to celebrate diversity, proposes to question and self-question the prejudices and attitudes of society against the collective. Pride and Prejudice is a space for dialogue about the constructs imposed on us by society. It is also an oasis in which to deconstruct with tolerance and respect the subjectivities that sometimes prevent us from approaching the production of the participating artists, simply because "the beautiful" does not fit in an androgynous body. The subjugation of stereotypes are pressed with determination to find the beauty of diversity in other palpable facets of reality.

Pablo Sola. All men are dogs. Photography. 2014. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Throughout these three years Inéditad has stimulated the vindictive projection towards bad practices, has questioned estates around the LGTBIQ+ body and the most admirable thing, is that these capacities have resurfaced around the dialogue and the visual narrative of the stories that are told from the visual: Artworks that are people, art that is, per se, humanity. Overcome impositions and accept what is different in order to continue fighting against homophobia, biphobia, lesbophobia or transphobia and defend the equal rights that all the acronyms of the collective deserve in our community.

That's Pride and Prejudice: One creature, the happiest in the world. And maybe other projects and other people have said it - or felt it - before, but none so fairly.

Silvia Flechoso. Hola, soy maricón. Oil on canvas. 73 x 54 cm. 2023. Image courtesy of the gallery.

From June 8th until June 22nd you can visit Pride and Prejudice. Carrer de Palau núm. 4. Canal Gallery space. Barcelona.