Madrid,
Starting tomorrow, October 9, and until next Sunday, the sixth pavilion of IFEMA will become the headquarters of a new edition of ESTAMPA, a fair that began its journey focusing on engraving and multiple art to finally host demonstrations in all areas of the plastic arts.
More than a thousand artists and ninety galleries, most of them national, will participate in this event, whose 33rd edition will feature curated projects, activities aimed at promoting collecting in contemporary creation and with the Argentine Liliana Porter as a guest author.
In the General Program they will exhibit proposals from their represented established venues that are already regular in this exhibition, such as the Madrid Espacio Mínimo, 1 MiraMadrid, Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, Max Estrella, Ponce + Robles, Álvaro Alcázar, Rafael Pérez Hernando, Fernández-Braso, Blanca Berlin or Twin Gallery; the Barcelona companies Polígrafa, PalmaDotze and Mayoral; the Murcian Art Nueve and T20; the Cantabrian Siboney and Juan Silió; or Pep Llabrés (Pala de Mallorca), Leyendecker (Tenerife) and Llamazares (Gijón).
Among the most recent galleries opening at IFEMA, we can highlight Proyecto Reme (Palma de Mallorca), Memoria (Madrid), VETA (Madrid), Rio & Meñaka (Madrid), Espacio Derivado (Seville), Vangar (Valencia), Arniches 26 (Madrid), Lavio (Murcia), Artizar (Tenerife), Lariot Collective (Madrid), Marquesa Gallery (Madrid), Victor Lope (Barcelona), Nuno Sacramento (Ílhavo), Sala Sola (Gijón), Gärna (Madrid), Tönnheim Gallery (Madrid), Di Gallery (Seville) or Manuel Ojeda/Art As Experience, the new project curated by the PSJM collective that pays tribute to the Canarian gallery owner.
The last spaces will also star in ESTAMPA 2025 in a section curated by Jesús Alcaide. will be called Future Essaywas created to support emerging market initiatives and will be joined by Pradiauto (Madrid), Marc Bibiloni (Madrid), La Oficina (Madrid), Enhorabuena Espacio (Madrid), E Ciento Veinte (Madrid), Garage Bonilla (Madrid), Picnic (Madrid), El Chico (Madrid) and Stain Projects (Palma de Mallorca).
We will also be able to listen to the contributions of the curators on the ways of making and disseminating art typical of our time: in a debate section, called Interferenceorganized with the support of the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Community of Madrid.
Last February we learned, as we advanced, that the guest artist at ESTAMPA would be Liliana Porter, represented by one of the participating venues: Espacio Mínimo. The Argentine has developed her career in a wide variety of media, such as engraving, painting, drawing, photography, video, installation, theater and public art. In his creations, he investigates the performative power of the gesture, the first formulation of geometry, the circular nature of time and the consequences of chaos in the individual’s experiences in the face of social conventions and nature, from the desire to challenge the viewer as the protagonist of their daily world.
The mark that a movement leaves when it is produced has been the artist’s starting point when playing with the meanings given off by the materials, the poetic value of simple action and its theatrical potential. The characters that appear in her proposals are directed by her as if they were actors in a cast in a film; Through them, he tells us stories that investigate the relationship, sometimes not obvious, between reality and fiction, the paradoxes of the passage of time and the demands of humanist values.
For the fair, Porter will create a specific mural and a book dedicated to his journey will be presented with texts by Cuauhtémoc Medina and Inés Katzenstein. And Miss Lylo, with the support of Cervezas Alhambra, will deploy the installation The garden of time. Bloom without hasteanother five-meter mural with 3D embroidered flowers that represent the cycle of life and is inspired by the Generalife of Granada.
On the other hand, the usual ESTAMPA Collectors Program will offer an agenda of activities for potential buyers, including private visits to exhibitions, exclusive receptions and guided tours of the fair. Likewise, the COLECCIONA Forum will host debates, presentations and meetings in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture; They will bring together artists, curators, collectors and other professionals in the sector.
We will inform you of the winners of the awards at IFEMA in the coming days. This year the Community of Madrid/Estampa Collection Award, the Studiolo Collection Award, the Navacerrada Collection Award, the Campocerrado Foundation, the Kells Collection Award, the Aldebarán Collection Award, the BeArt Madnum Colonial awards, the Julián Castilla Collection Award, the SERO Art Collection, the Madrid City Council acquisition award for the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, the Cervezas Alhambra Award and the Best Estampa Stand Award 2025. This time, residencies are also added at the Antonio Pérez Foundation (Cuenca), the Antonio Gala Foundation (Córdoba) and ATMA Art House (Budapest, Hungary).
