Art Madrid'24 – Blog

Art Madrid celebrates 20 years of contemporary art in 2025, reaffirming its role as a key legitimizing event in Spain's visual arts sector. As the contemporary art fair that paved the way for other fairs and events now coinciding on the same dates, it once again welcomes national and international galleries during Madrid Art Week. This edition promises to lay the foundation for the new directions the fair will take in the future.

Art Madrid celebrates 20 years of contemporary art with a new visual identity that reflects its evolution, energy, and commitment to creativity and cultural exchange.

Art Madrid opens the application period for its 20th edition, which will take place from March 5 to 9, 2025 at the Galería de Cristal del Palacio de Cibeles. If you are a contemporary art gallery and would like to participate in Art Madrid'25, you have until October 7, 2024 to submit your application.

We invite you to enjoy the experience of living ART MADRID'24 with our 360º VIRTUAL TOUR. Move around every corner of the fair, recover those works of art that you didn't have time to enjoy and discover an art fair in broad daylight from the proximity of a click.

Ana Malta (Lisbon, 1996) is a Portuguese visual artist and freelance designer. She participates for the first time in Art Madrid'24, represented by Galeria São Mamede ( Booth B3). And she has been the revelation artist selected by X Cultura Inquieta, who collaborates as media partner with Art Madrid in a new edition.

Art Madrid closed its 2024 edition with nearly 20,000 visitors and a positive sales balance, consolidating its presence in Madrid Art Week. The Galería de Cristal of the Palacio de Cibeles hosted this contemporary art event between March 6 and 10.

Conoce toda la información de los artistas y galerías participantes en la 19º edición de Art Madrid.

Lexus joins for the first time Art Madrid'24, one of the most important appointments in the capital's Art Week, which celebrates its nineteenth edition this year. From March 6 to 10 in the Galeria de Cristal of the Palacio de Cibeles , the public will have the opportunity to witness an extraordinary fusion between artistic creativity and the most innovative technology, with the exclusive presentation of the NX Art Madrid.

The site specific "Reunión de gente importantísima", conceived especially for Art Madrid, proposes a subversive look at the context of social relations established in the art world. With a touch of humor, a naive aesthetic, and an intentionality that could seem candid, the work represents a meeting of people in a VIP area as a satire or comic strip.

Safe Creative, the largest electronic registry of intellectual property online, renews its collaboration with Art Madrid. This time with Arte & Palabra. Conversations with Carlos del Amor, a series of interviews with artists that is part of the Parallel Programme of Art Madrid'24.Safe Creative, the largest electronic registry of intellectual property online, renews its collaboration with Art Madrid. This time with Arte & Palabra. Conversations with Carlos del Amor, a series of interviews with artists that is part of the Parallel Programme of Art Madrid'24.

This 19th edition of Art Madrid stands out for the presence of around two hundred artists and more than a thousand works in a variety of media, a characteristic feature of the exhibition proposals presented by the participating galleries. All of them stand out for their originality, formal quality and correspondence with current artistic trends.

They say that in order to succeed, a stand has to be well located, innovative, tidy, have a good, clean and clear image, we can't let it go unnoticed, it has to stand out from the competition, generate curiosity and space for personal interaction. Well, after 19 years, the perfect stand has arrived, he doesn't know it yet, but it has been an exclusive creation to stand out at the fair.

This work invites us to witness the beauty of the maternal experience as a source of creativity in the intercession of life and production as interconnected forces in the human experience. In this piece, Teresa Búa presents numerical poetry as a self-affirmation of the state of being. To raise is the highest expression of creating, to give life is the superlative production.

Chance is a constant in our life and the context in which an artist is born or develops is essential to determine his position in the market or his mere recognition. The idea of play and the models that revolve around it - as Allan Kaprow proposed - produce a change of roles and the artist then becomes a player.

This project aims to give visibility to this social problem and create a space for debate to talk about an issue that affects thousands of people. We must ask what is the origin of the desire to be connected to what others are doing at all times, and what are its effects at the individual level, from a neuroscientific and psychological point of view; and what are its effects at the social level, from an anthropological and philosophical point of view.

Among its many virtues, thread has its meaning, both real and imagined. It is a word that oozes poetry and makes us think of following a trail, sometimes infinite. Francesca Poza (Mataró, 1965) adds the written word to the many virtues of thread, giving her works a firmness that is always delicate but almost impossible to break. She weaves between letters and memory, pieces that seek to establish what has been lived, to leave a trace in a world that is increasingly ephemeral, more fleeting, more liquid, more elusive. In his work, poetry, literature and time intertwine in a harmonious way, resulting in creations of beautiful originality that are as subtle as they are powerful.

Juan Miguel Quiñones, self-taught, carves these memories in stone so that neither air nor maturity can take them away. He works and studies with vehemence the materials with which to recreate them, and with that ingenuity that can only be achieved by mastering the language and the technique, he manages to make anyone who comes across his creations breathe a sigh of nostalgia.

Intercessions is a cycle of performances X Tara for Women, part of the Parallel Program of Art Madrid'24, with the participation of the artists Estel Boada (Mataró, Barcelona, 1991), Teresa Búa (Muxía, A Coruña, 1991), Sara Domínguez (Málaga, 1993) and Mónica Egido (Salamanca, 1994).

It is always difficult to create one's own universe, this complication increases when this universe is populated by characters known and recognized by all, who are part of the imagination of many, inventing on what already exists is doubly difficult. Suncityboy (Tver, Russia, 1984) has invented a world inhabited by fairy tale characters and cultural icons who share a common denominator: they are formed by small balls that assemble an impossible body with an emoji face and, despite the initial strangeness, immediately evoke empathy and familiarity.

Lecturas: Curated Walkthroughs X Art Madrid is one of the initiatives that is part of the Parallel Program of the 19th edition of Art Madrid. For the occasion, we have invited two curators and cultural mediators to accompany the exhibition proposals of this edition; from their places of enunciation, both curators propose two thematic tours that dialogue in a unique way with the reality of our social context. The guest curators will select ten works from the broad spectrum of artistic proposals presented by the galleries participating in this edition to show, from a critical perspective, how alternative discourses can be constructed around the issues that currently permeate the invisible line that separates art from life.