Art Madrid'20 has in this edition 41 galleries and more than 200 artists coming from all over the world will exhibit their work during five days in the Crystal Gallery of the Cibeles Palace.

With a wide and varied exhibition proposal, this edition has a thousand works among painting, photography, sculpture, installation and video art.

Art Madrid hosts works by emerging and mid-career artists as well as consolidated professionals with an outstanding international career, which allows us to observe a varied and broad proposal of contemporary art as a whole.

We have made a selection of the essential ones of Art Madrid so that you do not miss the must of this edition in your visit:

The metaphysical and ethereal photographs of Aqua Aura in the Luisa Catucci Gallery. The artist's personal training continues with trips inside museums, in research laboratories and through enormous spaces in the natural environment. His studies range from the field of astrophysics to particle physics, biogenetics, philosophy and psychology of perception. Thanks to the participation for the first time of the Berlin gallery Luisa Catucci we will be able to enjoy the work of this artist.

Aqua Aura

Museum Highlight The Basement, 2018

Impresión

153 x 96cm

Aqua Aura

Museum Highlights The Great White Hall, 2019

Impresión

153 x 96cm

Marta Fábregas and her series of "Colonized" women in the booth of Pigment Gallery. Her main talent is knowing how to capture in a quick and natural way the beauty that is in the things that surround us, that is why her works are so powerful. Putting the spotlight and the spark to everything that passes through her lens. Without a doubt, his empathy, involvement and creativity make each project he works on have a strength and character that makes it special and unique. We bet because his series of "Colonized" women will not leave the public indifferent with such a mixture of elegance, beauty and character.

Marta Fàbregas

Colonitzada nº52, 2019

Fotografía antigua, mix media sobre papel de acuarela sobre tela

130 x 100cm

Marta Fàbregas

Colonitzada nº61, 2019

Fotografía antigua, mix media sobre papel de acuarela sobre tela

130 x 100cm

Hendrik Czakainski's post-architectural panels with the Urban Spree gallery. The artist becomes a forensic architect, collecting evidence of disasters, past, present and future, incorporating them into large scale surrealistic compositions, creating three-dimensional landscapes that have become both empty of human presence and beautiful at the same time. His creations bring us to a state of contemplation by asking us if humanity is still part of the global equation or if the tipping point has already been reached; if a reversal is even possible.

Hendrik Czakainski

26390, 2019

Cartón y pintura sobre MDF

250 x 150cm

Hendrik Czakainski

Circle Crash, 2019

Cartón y pintura sobre MDF

156 x 88cm

The colorful works of Misterpiro in Galería Kreisler. After his beginnings in graffiti in his adopted city, he evolved in his studio towards watercolors, acrylics and water-based techniques. His technique is based on improvisation, where the aggressiveness of spray paint and the delicacy of watercolor are mixed in all types of support, creating a world that makes us travel from complete abstraction to the figurative.

Misterpiro

Meanwhile, 2019

Esmalte acrílico y spray sobre panel de madera

120 x 120cm

Misterpiro

Meanwhile, 2019

Esmalte acrílico y spray sobre panel de madera

120 x 120cm

Patricia Escutia's wire technique with the gallery Bea Villamarín. The artist participates with her work for the first time in Art Madrid. With a very personal technique where the wires resemble the lost words, "Transcriptions", she collects the lost messages of what has passed through our lives without leaving a trace; texts, notes, paintings, words... highlighting the lack of communication between individuals, when these belong to different realities. To highlight this fact, the artist creates a form of non-language that abstracts the system of signs used by human beings to communicate, which is materialized in an abstract, three-dimensional writing that turns these messages into a succession of empty lines of content.

Patricia Escutia

Page 53-54, 2018

Alambre e hilo de caucho sobre lienzo

81 x 124cm

Patricia Escutia

Page 50, 2018

Alambre e hilo de caucho sobre lienzo

73 x 60cm

Jorg Karg's photo collages at BAT Alberto Cornejo Gallery. The German artist has lived throughout his life an obsession with images. He takes, reorganizes and abstracts the photographic material, using an editing software, resulting in images full of surrealism and delicacy. His images, which are based on photographs of himself and others, are fragmented, superimposed and mutilated so that our eyes do the remaining work and compose a new picture full of beauty and sensuality.

Jorg Karg

Slow Rain, 2018

Impresión por pigmento bajo vidrio acrílico sobre dibond de aluminio, MÁS TAMAÑOS DISPONIBLES

80 x 58cm

Jorg Karg

One mile light, 2019

Printing by pigment under acrylic glass on aluminum dibond

80 x 76cm

Mari Quiñonero and her pastels on paper with the Taiwanese gallery Yiri Arts. The artist has created her own creative universe through different techniques that go from watercolor and acrylic to drawing and collage, to achieve her own quiet style where calm and order direct the look.

Mari Quiñonero

No.130, 2018

Pastel sobre papel

60 x 42cm

Mari Quiñonero

No.151, 2018

Pastel sobre papel

60 x 42cm

Luciano Ventrone and his extreme realism at the Italian Stefano Forni Gallery. Despite the fact that Luciano Ventrone is internationally recognized as one of the master realistic painters of his generation, he considers that his works are really about optics: "Painting is not about the mere representation of an object, but about its color and light". For each of his works, Ventrone carefully stages a theme under studio lights. Luciano's paintings "invite the viewer to an atmosphere of pure contemplation"; they are works of great skill and supreme aesthetic beauty. Ventrone shows things more clearly and distinctly than they appear to us in reality; everything is focused, everything is examined.

Luciano Ventrone

Profondo rosso, 2013

Oil on canvas

60 x 70cm

The sculpture by Nicolas Laiz with his series "Nopalia". The artist unifies the natural and the artificial, what is desired and what is imposed. He works on the reflection, through different techniques, of concepts such as landscape, exoticism and the construction of nature as a cultural, social and economic concept.

Nicolás Laiz

Nopalia III, 2019

polvo de mármol, resina, hierro y laca

95 x 43cm

Nicolás Laiz

Política Natural I, 2018

Resina, fibra de vidrio, aridos y pintura doble componente

80 x 30cm

Samuel Salcedo's amazing heads, 3 Punts Galeria. His sculptures and characters always question the viewer with their subtle irony and vulnerability. Salcedo's sculptural work is characterized by technical excellence. One can see his mastery in the diversity of the materials he uses (resin, wood, aluminum, bronze) and which he integrates into the painting.

Samuel Salcedo

Pinball Wizard 1, 2019

Aluminum

95 x 95cm

Samuel Salcedo

Toy Land - Mirror Mirror, 2019

Resina poliuretano policromada

27 x 10cm

Art Madrid celebrates its twenty years of contemporary art in 2025, establishing itself as a key event within the cultural sector in Spain. For its 20th edition, the fair will feature a Gallery Program with thirty-four national and international exhibitors, along with an extensive Parallel Program focused on the conceptual theme: City Territory. Here, we share all the details we've prepared for our upcoming encounter with contemporary art.

The public space, the city, and territory will be the concepts around which the different specialized agents in the sector will present their visions on how artistic practices impact the urban environment. The sensory experience will be fundamental in shaping the work that explores the connections between art, territory as a liminal space, and the city as a sensitive social agora. The activities developed in the Parallel Program will serve as a bridge to practices emerging from shifting identities and spatial imaginaries that revitalize the cultural geography of Madrid. The city, understood as a permeable organism and a topography of shared meanings, becomes the stage for a sensitive exploration of the impact of art on the spaces we inhabit.

CHOU Ching Hui. A Promised Land. The Planet of Angels No.5. Photography. 2024.

The concept of territory, a blurred boundary between the public and the private, takes on new meanings when artistic practices address the invisible traces of everyday life. The streets, squares, and corners of Madrid are reimagined as symbolic landscapes that challenge the familiar gaze. Here, the city is a palimpsest where the gestures of the past engage in conversation with visions of a future still under construction. In this setting, the sensory experience becomes a bridge connecting the ephemeral with the enduring, the intimate with the collective.

The activities of the Parallel Program not only offer a physical journey through spaces transformed by art but also invite deep reflection on the shifting identities that emerge within the urban fabric. From performances that reimagine the boundaries of civic experience to installations that revitalize spatial imaginaries, each proposal challenges us with essential questions: What does it mean to inhabit? How do we reinterpret common spaces?

The dialogue between art and the city that takes place in Art Madrid is also an invitation to rethink the cultural geography of the capital. Madrid, in its heterogeneity, is a map in constant flux, where memory and invention intertwine. In this context, art acts as a cartographer, tracing new paths of meaning that enrich the experience of those who walk through them. On every corner, on every wall that speaks through an artistic intervention, the city reinvents itself as a sensitive space, a territory where creativity becomes the common language of its citizens.

TENG Pu Chun.The red bridge beyond a glass panel. Mixed media on canvas. 2024.

It happens with cities as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a riddle that hides a desire, or its inverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are built of desires and fears, although the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules absurd, their perspectives misleading, and everything hides another. — I have neither desires nor fears —declared the Khan—, and my dreams are composed either by the mind or by chance. — Cities, too, believe they are the work of the mind or of chance, but neither one nor the other is enough to keep their walls standing. Of a city, you do not enjoy the seven or the seventy-seven wonders, but the answer it gives to a question of yours. (Italo Calvino. Invisible Cities)

Federico Uribe. Still life. Bullet casings. 2020.

The Parallel Program of Art Madrid'25 reaffirms its commitment to accessibility and bringing contemporary art closer to all audiences. It fosters institutional collaboration as a driver of positive change in the art scene and renews its presence as a key event during Madrid's Art Week. On this occasion, some of the activities of the Parallel Program are curated by Mario Gutiérrez Cru, a collaboration between Art Madrid, KREAE, and Proyector.

The Parallel Program of Art Madrid'25 features a variety of proposals that will take place in the days leading up to the fair and during the event itself at the Galería de Cristal in the Palacio de Cibeles:

Before the fair (February 28 / March 1 and 2)

Dialoga Ciudad (February 28):

Poetry in motion. Poetic actions that turn public space into a stage where the everyday meets the sublime. In various parts of the city, itinerant poetry will mediate the interactions that pedestrians establish in the public space. Through ephemeral interventions in strategic points around the city, participants explore the potential of poetry as a tool for emotional and social communication that disrupts the urban landscape.

Invited artists: Ajo y Peru; Helena Mariño y Enri La Forêt.

Iyán Castaño Circular currents in time. Mixed media on canvas. 2024.

Arquitecturas Imaginadas (February 28):

Metro stations are reinvented through interventions by artists who invite us to engage in a dialogue about urban movement interactions. These actions seek to redefine the traveler's experience, promoting the perception of the metro not just as functional infrastructure, but as a cultural space and site for social interaction. This approach aims to spark a deep reflection on public mobility and the value of shared spaces, emphasizing the role of art in transforming urban sensibilities, within an educational initiative aimed at raising citizen awareness about the shared use of territory.

Invited artists: Ana Matey; Domix Garrido; Araceli López y Andrés Montes.

La Quedada (March 1 - 2):

Professional visits to artist studios and creative spaces. A circuit of professional visits to artist studios and creative spaces, exploring territories of care and connections between the center and the periphery. This tour invites participants to discover the environments where projects imagining alternative futures are conceived, fostering dialogue and creative exchange. It's an opportunity to explore the creative processes of invited artists firsthand.

Invited artists: Boa Mistura; Todoporlapraxis; Mateo Maté; C.A.R.y Laura Lío.

Veljko Vuckovic. Subordination. Oil on canvas. 2022.

During the fair (March 5 - 9)

Ciudad Sutil:

Susi Vetter leads this augmented reality experience on Montalbán street, designed to intervene on Montalbán street, the main entrance to the fair, with the goal of offering a sublimated vision of the urban environment and the city's landscape. The proposal invites the public to discover an alternative layer of reality through technology.

Invited artist: Susi Vetter.

Open Booth:

In collaboration with Nebrija University, it offers a space dedicated to emerging artists to exhibit their works within the professional contemporary art circuit. This will be the second edition of the initiative with which Art Madrid renews its commitment to emerging creation, providing a white cube for an artistic intervention inspired by the key concepts of the Parallel Program of the fair. This year, the project Bajotierras/Sobrenubes. (DEL OSO, UN PELO), curated by Luis Gárciga, will be a collective exhibition that will enhance the dialogue between different emerging artists.

Raíces Afuera. Performance Program:

Five women artists address migration, uprooting, and the weight of alienation in a performance program that takes as its starting point Simone Weil's book "Rooting" (Trotta, 2014), to explore the notion of belonging and the need for rooting in a contemporary world characterized by fragmentation, displacement, and disconnection. The project is set within the fair's context as a critical and reflective space that challenges the relationship between the individual and their environment, community, and sense of identity.

Invited artists: Josefina Bardi; Eléonore Ozanne; Valentina Alvarado Matos; Ra Asensi y Agustina Palazzo.

Lecturas. Recorridos comisariados:

A cultural mediation project designed to bring the public closer to the works that will be displayed in the galleries participating in Art Madrid'25. For this occasion, Eugenia Tenenbaum and Clara González Freyre de Andrade invite us to discover new perspectives on contemporary art through carefully designed itineraries to bring us closer to the exhibition proposals of this edition.

Tiffany Alfonseca. The Trinity (Bochinche). Acrylic, pencils, rhinestones on canvas. 2024.

Espacio Tectónica:

A versatile space within the fair that will host an international video art cycle curated by Mario Gutiérrez Cru, featuring international audiovisual artists. This cycle will address key themes such as migration, territoriality, and the dynamics between centers and peripheries, reflecting on the city as a labyrinth or Tower of Babel, as well as on the role of the individual in relation to new architectural icons. Through video pieces, the artists explore how the relationships between peripheries and urban centers are interrelated in a globalized context, reflecting technological and social phenomena, such as semiconductor production in Taiwan or landscape transformation in Brazil. The pieces, combining moving images and sound, aim to generate deep reflection on the interaction between urban spaces, nature, climate disasters, and the contemporary perception of the environment.

Invited artists: lololol - Xia Lin & Sheryl Cheung; Tezi Gabundia; Ilaria Di Carlo; Magda Gebhardt; Yuchi Hsiao; Juan Carlos Bracho y Lukas Marxt.

Sección 20 Grados:

A cycle of interventions to be held in the Tectonics Space. For this occasion, ten artists will be invited whose research focuses on the dialogue between art and urban spaces. The proposals will explore how artistic practices can question the social structure of cities and the ways individuals relate to urban architecture and territories. The selected projects will materialize into ephemeral interventions and presentations reflecting on these themes.

Invited artists: Susi Vetter; Helena Goñi; Paula Lafuente; Amaya Hernández; Elena Arroyo; Olga Mesa ; Deneb Martos; Guillermo G. Peydró & Jeanne de Petricomi; Sergio Muro y Javier Olivera.

Carolina Bazo. Selva Roja Photo performance, printed on cotton paper. 2022.

In this edition, Art Madrid celebrates two decades of support and promotion of contemporary art, reaffirming its role as a catalyst for change, reflection, and artistic creation. The Parallel Program, presented as the most ambitious initiative of this edition, embodies our commitment to innovation and collaboration. With the participation of more than thirty artists, it becomes an enriching space for exchange that goes beyond the conventional boundaries of the market, expanding the frontiers of art, exploring new dynamics, and opening space for social critique and the most radical creativity.

This program would not be possible without the active collaboration of galleries, institutions, and artists who, year after year, have believed in Art Madrid's ability to make a real impact on the art scene. Through this program, we reaffirm our belief that art is a means to question, transform, and connect, beyond commercial dynamics and in tune with the social and cultural changes that define our era.

Aware of the challenge of maintaining the relevance of an event like ours, this edition presents a true reflection of our ability to adapt and be proactive in creating an inclusive, accessible space open to the new voices that are charting the course of contemporary art. Thus, Art Madrid reaffirms itself as an indisputable benchmark in the cultural scene, committed to innovation and the promotion of an artistic practice that continues to evolve relentlessly.