After knowing the purchases in Arcomadrid 2025 of the Reina Sofía Museum, the Fair has announced the acquisitions made in its stands by other institutions. The Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge and the Ministry of Culture have been made with pieces worth 188,000 euros: seven works by as many authors who will be part of the first edition of the Climate Biennial. They correspond to Irene Grau, Jorge Yeregui, Laura Palau, Sonia Navarro, Asunción Molinos Gordo, Belén Rodríguez and Abelardo Gil-Fournier.
Likewise, the ARCO Foundation has expanded its collection with a dozen projects suffered with the collection of the traditional Arc Foundation, held on March 4. Selected with the advice of Tania Pardo, director of the CA2M of Móstoles and Francesco Stocchi, artistic director of the Roman Maxxi, are due to Pauline Counier (Chertlüdde), Karlos Martínez (formatocomodo), Julia Montilla (Ethall), Damaris Pan (Fermay), Camila Rodríguez (Casas Riegner) and Mariela Scafati (Isla Floating). They must add works of joy and piñero (Alarcón raised); Leonor Serrano Rivas (Carlier | Gebauer), acquired with the support of the International Council of the Arco Foundation; Ana Buenaventura (José by hand), from the donation of Mia Art Collection; and David I kissed (Ehrhardt Flórez), Donation of Frèderic Malle.
For its part, the Community of Madrid has awarded its 2025 arc prize to Mónica Mays for its pieces Exhausted Disbelief and Hermeswhich can be seen in the space of the Pedro Cera gallery, Portuguese Sala with subsidiary in the capital. They will become part of the funds of the aforementioned Art Center Dos de Mayo, in Móstoles; Queen Sofia has also noticed the fair in another of her sculptures.
As for the Madrid City Council, it has acquired two new works for the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC): a piece by the Valencian artist Victoria Civera and another from the Galician Irma Álvarez-Laviada. The Junta de Andalucía has bought for 100,000 euros proposals from a dozen authors from that region in eight galleries participating in Arco: Alegría and Piñero, Fatima Moreno, Cachito Vallés, Miguel Benlloch, Manuel M. Romero, Álvaro Albaladejo, Hodei Herreros, Curro González and Timesam Harding, in Alarcón Criado, Rafael Ortiz, Ehrhardt Flórez, Olga Advance, The Ryder, Barbel, T20 and Artnueve. All of them will be integrated into the collection of the Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art, based in Córdoba.
The María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation, meanwhile, has been made with creations of Miller Lagos (Max Estrella), Inés Figaredo (Cayón), Alicia Vogel (Mayoral), Claire de Santa Coloma (3+1 contemporary art), Diana Fonseca (the apartment), Sheila Hicks (Meyer Riegger), Ai Weiwei (Elvira Gonzáz) Grau Garriga (Sabrina Amrani) and Teresa Lanceta (1 Mira Madrid).
In the case of the Sorigué Foundation, it has acquired pieces of Pere Llobera (Bombon Projects), Fernanda Fragateiro (Elba Benítez), Thomas Demand and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (Esther Schipper), Pipo Hernández Rivero (NF/Nieves Fernández) and Christian Lagata (Artenueve).
The latest institutions that have made public their purchases are the María José Jove Foundation Center, which incorporates their funds Neutral surface (2023) of Mercedes Pepper and Primal life #2 by Patricia Dauder, and the Rucandio collection, which has awarded its acquisition award to the work Young, go to actionby Miguel Ángel Tornero, represented by the Juan Silió gallery.
