Madrid,
Julieta de Haro, new director of CentroCentro, announced this morning the programming she has designed for the Madrid institution, which she joined last June. Its proposal aims to give visibility and consolidate the career of contemporary Spanish artists and special attention will be paid to the creative fabric of the city.
Thus, throughout 2025 we will be able to see individual exhibitions at CentroCentro that will revisit the work of active artists with a recognized career, whose work has not been widely seen in Madrid in recent decades, such as Rafael Canogar or Juan Navarro Baldeweg, and exhibitions dedicated to mid-career authors, who will have the opportunity to have their first individual exhibition in a public institution in the city, thus giving visibility from the center to the work of new creators. On the other hand, there will also be group exhibitions made up of three or four artists, incipient or mid-career.
The new programming will begin on January 30 with “(I)Realidades.(Works 1949-2024)”, by Rafael Canogar, a tribute exhibition curated by Alfonso de la Torre that will cover the career of one of the most significant creators of the Spanish art, founding member and last representative of the El Paso group.
Already in February, “Secuencia Plano Secuencia” will be presented, in which the artist Almudena Lobera will transform the CentroCentro space by reconfiguring its structure through a site specific and a sensory intervention. Curated by Tiago de Abreu, the exhibition is a dialogue between the superficial and the deep that proposes a constant game with the viewer’s perceptions.
Coinciding in time, you will be able to see “Trópico sin cliche: Amazonas”, curated by Halim Badawi. It is a collective exhibition with works by 24 artists from Ibero-American countries that seeks a change in the way in which the indigenous legacy and its relationship with the contemporary world is understood.
Also in February the “Free Buffet” will be inaugurated. (Almost) a decade of Fueradcarta”, dedicated to the Fueradcarta editorial project and curated by Javier Díaz Guardiola, and “Pasajeras en CentroCentro”, a sample of the photographic work of Mª Antonia García de la Vega who has been photographing the women of the culture in Spain and will bring together more than a hundred of these portraits, coinciding with the celebration of International Women’s Day in March.
Closing the month, it will be the turn of the Madrid artist Mar Solís, who will present “Origen”, a macro sculptural installation made specifically for the space on the 4th floor of CentroCentro.
In June another historic figure of contemporary Spanish art will be welcomed: Juan Navarro Baldeweg. Recent works can be seen in dialogue with other significant works of his career. Although it will be a fairly installation exhibition, it will also be a small tribute to painting.
Miguel Cereceda curated the collective “Three Formal Experiences,” which brings together pieces by three contemporary sculptors: Nuria Fuster, Clara Montoya and Sandra Val. And, already in July, Lola Durán Úcar will present “Eternal Instant in the Garden”, with works by Cristina Almodóvar, Chus García Fraile and Daniel Verbis.
The artists FOD, Javier Garcerá and the cartoonist and illustrator Ana Juan will be the protagonists, starting in November, with individual exhibitions.
MORE THAN AN EXHIBITION CENTER
In this new stage, multigenerational and multidisciplinary, CentroCentro will not only be an exhibition space but will also be a production center, offering 5 international artistic residencies for mid- and long-career authors.
Likewise, the programming will include other innovative proposals such as the program Madrid Wake Upopen to the public, to publicize artists’ projects, and will once again have the Experimentation and artistic creation workshopsby Telaraña, in dialogue with the exhibition programming. Also linked to this, a cycle of performances.
Music will continue to have its space in the CentroCentro auditorium with a new musical cycle, Music without labelsdirected by the musician and multidisciplinary artist Andreas Prittwitz, with nine concerts scheduled for the second half of 2025. As a great novelty, the center will delve into microtheater for the first time; It will be an initiative directed by the actress and playwright Alexandra Nicod.
Thus begins a new stage in this unique space of the Culture, Tourism and Sports Area of the Madrid City Council, which has a prominent location in the heart of the so-called Paseo del Arte. De Haro, who assumed the direction of CentroCentro for an initial period of two years, extendable for another two years, has pointed out the vocation for continuity of this project that focuses on contemporary creation and Madrid’s artistic talent.
