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There will be nine exhibitions that the Reina Sofía Museum will open in 2025, a program in which the presence of Spanish artists, a common demand for this center, and women stands out: its protagonists will be Huguette Caland, Laia Estruch, Marisa González, Maruja Mallo, Marta Minujín, Néstor Fernández de la Torre, Naufus Ramírez Figueroa, Oliver Laxe and Juan Uslé. Furthermore, until March of next year we will be able to visit there the already well-known exhibitions dedicated to Soledad Sevilla, the grotesque, the Lorca duende according to Huberman and Grada Kilomba.
Starting February 19, we will see at MNCARS “Huguette Caland. A life in a few lines”, the first major retrospective in Europe of the Lebanese artist; Both his life and his work – drawings and paintings, textiles and collages – challenged the aesthetic, social and sexual conventions of the last half of the 20th century. A week later, “Hello Everyone” will open, a proposal that will bring together all the projects that Barcelona-born Laia Estruch has developed for three years, presented together as a new installation.
The third exhibition to open in 2015 at the Reina Sofía will be “Néstor Reencontrado”, which, starting on May 14, will address the almost forgotten figure of this Canarian creator, who died in 1938, who carried out paintings, mural paintings or set designs theatrical works for authors such as Manuel de Falla or Antonia Mercé.
Starting on the same dates, Bilbao-born Marisa González, pioneer of our video art and Velázquez Prize winner in 2023, will have a retrospective in Santa Isabel. Since the seventies, this author has been delving into the intersections between artistic creation and communication and image reproduction technologies. . And in that same month of May, an exhibition will open by the Guatemalan Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, who works in the creation of sculptural objects, performances, film and sound recordings.
After the summer, in October, the Reina Sofía Museum will give space in its programming to the seventh art by the Frenchman Oliver Laxe: it will offer HU/هُوَ. Dance like nobody’s watchinghis study of the experience of rave. This piece will be the first of a series of productions that will link exhibition cinema (in EspacioUno) with traditional cinema (in the updated Sabatini Auditorium).
One of the most anticipated exhibitions of the year at the MNCARS will begin that same month: it will be an anthology by Maruja Mallo, fundamental author of the Generation of ’27 and the group of artists who, for the first time, displayed a worldview from a feminine perspective. Nearly eighty paintings, drawings, writings, documents and videos representative of his life and ideas will be gathered.
Finally, from October 22 we will be able to visit a great anthology by Juan Uslé, the meticulous author who puts graduated touches on insomnia, and from November 5, “La Menesunda according to Marta Minujín”, an immersive and participatory project that will have as center that installation, created in 1965 by the Argentine artist, Velázquez Prize in 2016, and Rubén Santantonín.
