LECTURAS CURATED WALKTHROUGHS X ART MADRID'25

FROM THE MARGINS. TOWARD THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ART HISTORY. CURATED WALKTHROUGHS BY CLARA GONZÁLEZ FREYRE DE ANDRADE

Galería de Cristal of the Palacio de Cibeles. C/ Montalbán, 1.

Saturday | March 8, 18:00h

Art history is also the history of its absences. For centuries, the official artistic narrative was built upon a canon that determined which artists, styles, and discourses deserved to be remembered. In this way, women, racialized individuals, and artists whose creative concepts challenged this discourse were systematically excluded from the official narrative. Their art, however, never ceased to exist on the margins.

Today, those voices no longer only inhabit the edges but claim the spaces they should have historically occupied. This tour proposes to explore those who, from this historical periphery – whether geographical, social, and/or conceptual – redefine traditional artistic creation, looking toward the future. A tour made up of works that question the boundaries between the political and the aesthetic, addressing issues such as gender, identity, and memory. Beyond being “beautiful” (an adjective historically linked to art), the selected works are presented as tools for change, capable of opening dialogues, challenging preconceived notions, and proposing alternative ways of inhabiting the world.

Selection of artists and galleries:

Albert Bonet — Inéditad Gallery. Veljko Vučković — Aria Art Gallery. Tiffany Alfonseca — OOA Gallery. Khalid El Bekai — Galería Espiral. Brenda Cabrera — Collage Habana. Lara Padilla — 3 Punts Galería. Katharina Arndt — Ting Ting Art Space. Antonio Ovejero — CLC Arte. Gemma Alpuente — Canal Gallery. Carolina Bazo — O Art Project.