Visit the Mapfre Foundation in Madrid, and discover a space for avant-garde culture as well as artistic and documentary photography.
Housed in a building designed by architect Agustín Ortiz de Villajos for the Duchess of Medina de las Torres. Following a series of restructuring and upgrading works the exhibition area now covers an area of around 1000 m2, divided into three rooms which are mainly used for exhibiting the plastic arts from the last third of the 19th century through to just after the Second World War. The exhibition rooms opened in the autumn of 2008, coinciding with a new international perspective in our programming following an in-depth review of the modernization of Spanish art between the last third of the 19th century to the Spanish Civil War.
From February 6 to May 11, 2025 you will be able to visit two temporary exhibitions:
- 1924. Other Surrealisms: On 15 October 1924, André Breton published the ‘First Manifesto of Surrealism'. One hundred years later, 1924. Other Surrealisms analyzes the reception and influence in Spain of that text and the Surrealist movement as a whole.
- Sakiko Nomura. Tender is the night: Best known for her photographs of male nudes, which have represented a defiant break with some of the taboos and traditional stereotypes of Japanese culture, Sakiko Nomura (1967) is one of the most outstanding photographers of her generation.
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