Art Madrid'25 – Blog

From 5 to 9 March, the fair opened its doors to artists, galleries, collectors, art lovers and professionals to welcome us to an edition marked by a greater presence of women artists, more than 50% of debuts, the presence of 34 galleries and more than 1,300 works produced between 2022 and 2025.

Discover all the information about the artists and galleries participating in the 20th edition of Art Madrid. The catalog includes a selection of the works featured in this edition and all the event details, making it an excellent way to get to know its key figures.

This year, Art Madrid reinforces its support for artistic creation through its Patronage Program. This initiative aims to give greater visibility to artists and strengthen collecting through three lines of action: Acquisition Awards, Emerging Artist Award, and Residency Award.

Lexus Spain reaffirms its commitment to art and design by participating for the second time in the 20th edition of Art Madrid, which will take place from March 5 to 9, 2025, at the galería de Cristal of the Palacio de Cibeles. On this occasion, the premium brand presents an innovative art installation featuring its 100% electric vehicle, the Lexus RZ, in collaboration with renowned artist Marta de la Fuente.

From March 5 to 9, Montalbán Street will transform into an immersive digital environment with Ciudad Sutil, an innovative augmented reality experience led by multimedia artist Susi Vetter. This project is curated in collaboration with CRU and is part of the parallel program of Art Madrid'25. The proposal invites the public to explore an alternative layer of reality through technology, offering a sublimated vision of the urban environment and the city's landscape.

Art Madrid'25 presents Lecturas. Curated Walkthroughs X Art Madrid'25, a cultural mediation initiative aimed at bringing the public closer to the artworks displayed at the fair. Through guided tours led by art historians and cultural communicators Eugenia Tenenbaum and Clara González Freyre de Andrade, different perspectives on contemporary creation and its relevance in today's society will be explored.

Dialoga Ciudad es una actividad que forma parte del Programa paralelo de Art Madrid’25. Es un proyecto de acciones poéticas en la ciudad, comisariado en colaboración con CRU, que propone convertir el entorno urbano en un escenario artístico, integrando la poesía itinerante como vehículo que transforma los espacios públicos en plataformas de reflexión e interacción. A través de intervenciones efímeras en puntos estratégicos de la ciudad, los participantes explorarán el potencial de la poesía como herramienta de comunicación emocional y social. Este proyecto destaca el rol del arte como catalizador de diálogos sensibles en el tejido urbano, redefiniendo la relación entre los ciudadanos y su entorno.

Ana Matey, Dómix Garrido, Araceli López and Andrés Montes Four artists have been invited to intervene in various stations of two of the busiest subway lines in Madrid, with the aim of transforming these subway spaces through different aesthetic languages. The main challenge will be to develop projects that connect in a meaningful way with travelers, turning these stations into inspiring places full of beauty.

To celebrate our twenty years of contemporary art, we have organized a parallel program of activities under the theme "City Territory," which focuses on public space, the city, and territory as central elements of artistic practices. This program will include events throughout February and during Madrid Art Week at the Galería de Cristal of the Cibeles Palace. Together with PROYECTOR's Moving Image platform, we have organized the second edition of #LaQuedada on March 1st and 2nd, a circuit of artist studio tours. Have you ever wondered what an artist’s workspace looks like? Or where an artist creates their work, for example, when preparing for an art fair? The event is open to both professionals and the general public. During the sessions, we will explore five spaces dedicated to artistic creation and architectural project development, all connected by the concept of utopia, a concept that unites utopian architectures, spaces for care, and decentralized actions that can be built between centers and peripheries.

Once again, Liquitex, the world's leading brand in professional acrylics, joins Art Madrid as a sponsor for its 20th edition.

The current urban landscape represents an environment saturated with symbols of modernity and technological “progress.” The television and radio antennas, which hover over rooftops, embody much more than their technical function. They emerge as markers of change, connecting generations to a global world, transforming urban life into a web of communication and entertainment.

Ese entorno endurece mi pielis a performance that takes place through sculptural pieces made of oxidized corten steel and seawater. These bodily extensions function as second skins. They are activated through touch, generating sounds. Together, they form a kind of poetic cartography. These pieces have been created from the imprints of various watery bodies, and through this process, they transform into maps of water.

voy raspando la hoja y la voz is a piece that merges image, text, and sound to create a sensory and conceptual journey through the memory of the landscape. Here, the voice becomes a fragmented narrative, a thread weaving together personal memories while reflecting on how landscapes shift, transform, and reconfigure over time and space. The journey, far from being linear, unfolds as a passage between the tangible and the symbolic, blurring the boundaries between the physical place and the language that describes it. The work also explores how certain territories are represented, described, or distorted from different perspectives, questioning dominant narratives. The space being explored is not just a territory, a garden, a park, or a forest—it is also a linguistic construction, a space reimagined through language. The piece invites us to reconsider the borders between the physical and the symbolic, between the real and the narrated.

Las fronteras siempre tienen dos lados is a work that invites us to reflect on the invisible borders that are part of our daily lives. Through the words "sorry" and "thank you," the artist proposes a dialogue about how, in our everyday interactions, we are constantly confronted with boundaries and distances, both physical and emotional. Every time we use these words, we are acknowledging a separation, whether when giving way to someone or asking for help in moments of discomfort. The piece highlights how these small phrases, often repeated without much thought, serve as a way to negotiate our relationships with the world and those around us. In this context, the borders explored in the work are not just geographical, but also social and personal. The barriers that separate us from others can be subtle, yet they significantly affect our daily lives. Through these gestures, we are constantly constructing, breaking down, or accepting limits that define our relationship with others. Las fronteras siempre tienen dos lados challenges us to question how we perceive these boundaries and how words, which seem simple, reflect the complex dynamics of our existence.

The project is framed within the artist's research on her relationship with her twin sister, a theme she has been exploring since 2018. Over this time, a series of live actions and visual experiences have been developed, linked to sculptural concepts such as weight, gravity, form, and space—all in tension with the notion of duplicity. This research examines how two twin bodies connect and interact with each other, as well as with the spaces/territories they inhabit. Within this context, "taking root" is approached through the displacement of bodies, exploring the theme of connection and its relationship with distance and territory.

Art Madrid, committed to creating a space of enunciation for artists working around the performing arts, presents Raíces Afuera, a performance cycle that takes as its starting point Simone Weil's book, “Echar raíces” (Editorial Trotta, 2014), to explore the notion of belonging and the need for rootedness in a contemporary world characterized by fragmentation, displacement and disconnection. The project is situated in the context of the fair as a critical and reflexive space that challenges the relationship of the individual with his environment, his community and his sense of identity. Within this framework, some thought-provoking questions are posed: What does it mean to put down roots? Is uprooting an experience linked exclusively to a physical place? Is it possible to uproot oneself? Simone Weil defines rootedness as a vital need of the human soul, as important as food or shelter. An intrinsic and individual instinct to recognize and restore the ties that connect us to other people and our roots, be they cultural, familial, spiritual or territorial. Based on this premise, Raíces Afuera proposes a space where performance acts as a means to reconnect, make visible and confront the processes of uprooting, recognizing how it impacts the lives of millions of people today.

Under the name Cartographies of Perception, Espacio Tectónica hosts this section, curated by the Image in Motion platform of PROYECTOR, during the fair week. It presents a selection of international video art works that address themes such as migration, territoriality, and the relationship between peripheries and urban centers from contemporary and analytical perspectives. From semiconductor production in Taiwan to the mutation of landscapes in Brazil, video art becomes a critical tool that unravels the interactions between urban space, nature, the climate crisis, and the contemporary perception of the environment.

Art Madrid, in its 20th edition, presents a Parallel Program dedicated to the conceptual theme City Territory. The city, understood as a permeable organism and a topography of shared meanings, serves as the stage for a thoughtful exploration of the impact of art on the spaces we inhabit.

As part of the Parallel Programme, Espacio Tectónica will be the container for the Cycle of Interventions: 20 Grados. The investigations of the artists and managers presented in this section focus on the dialogue between art and urban spaces, using different artistic practices to question the social structure of the cities we inhabit and the way we relate to their architectures and territories. These actions will build bridges between disciplines and different points of view, broadening the understanding of how art feeds back into the urban fabric and how public space is a natural environment for artistic creation.The Cycle of Interventions: 20 Grados. presents the work of 10 leading contemporary artists in an open, dynamic, and interactive space.

Art Madrid’25 presents One Shot Collectors, a program sponsored by One Shot Hotels that returns to the fair for the fifth consecutive edition with the mission of democratizing and promoting art collecting. Aimed at collectors, professionals in the sector, and new art lovers, the program seeks to bring the public closer to the works by offering an accessible approach supported by experts.