Featured Events in Madrid in March, 2025(December Updated)

In January 1986, in the basement of a block of flats in the Madrid neighbourhood of Chamberí, Maite Arratibel, Celia García Bravo, Nacho Pérez de la Paz and Pedro Roldán founded an alternative art space christened, ironically, Galería Nacional. At the same time, in January of that same year, Manuel Saiz launched the Postal Service for Multiple Exhibitions and Propaganda, a postal art initiative presented as “an unorthodox magazine, in which the pages and articles are received one by one and separately, a gallery that in each delivery will show a work to the viewer’s home and not the other way around.” According to the editorial note, simply and plainly, “a wedge of artistic opposition.” A radical collaborative project that, months later, would merge with the critical spirit of the partners and friends of the Galería Nacional, where Manuel Saiz arrived guided by Julio Jara, a colleague in exhibitions at the Villalar gallery and an early collaborator in both projects. It was from this meeting, and together with the contributions of other artists and theorists such as Javier Colis, José Díaz Cuyás, Celia Martín, Pamen Pereira or Alberto Vidarte, when they decided to unite both independent initiatives in a common project: GENE, a gallery of collective production that publishes multiples in postcard format.

The World Olive Oil Exhibition is the biggest international trade fair totally devoted to the olive oil sector The World Olive Oil Exhibition is the biggest international trade fair totally devoted to the olive oil sector. It is mainly geared towards producing cooperatives and olive mills that seek to open new markets and exportation possibilities, as well as towards the main olive oil purchasers from around the world. Information Source: Pomona Keepers, S.L. | expotobi

Arco-Madrid is one of the main contemporary art fairs on the international circuit Arco-Madrid is one of the main contemporary art fairs on the international circuit. It will feature a display of products like ceramic, jewellery, digital, photo, fibre, metalwork, sculptures, glass, mixed media, wood, graphics,  painting and etc. Information Source: IFEMA | expotobi

Spencer Sutherland will be embarking on The Drama World Tour 2025, with a stop in Kansas City on March 7th. The concert will take place at the Madrid Theatre located at 3810 Main Street. Fans can expect an unforgettable evening filled with Sutherland's soulful voice and captivating performances. Don't miss the opportunity to witness this talented artist live on stage in Kansas City.

Horeca Professional Expo features exhibits from various sectors such as hotel & bar, culinary, hospitality, kitchen equipment, design and architecture, business, and much more Horeca Professional Expo features exhibits from various sectors such as hotel & bar, culinary, hospitality, kitchen equipment, design and architecture, business, and much more. Information Source: IFEMA | expotobi

Cinegetica will display products like rods, reels, lures, threads, accessories, fishing probes, engines, boats, technical clothing and much more Cinegetica will display products like rods, reels, lures, threads, accessories, fishing probes, engines, boats, technical clothing and much more. Information Source: IFEMA | expotobi

Throughout her career, the painter Soledad Sevilla (Valencia, 1944) has developed a rigorous language based on the purity of line and color and on the construction of forms based on geometric modules. This exhibition, curated by Isabel Tejeda, chronologically retraces the artist's career, from her first steps at the Computing Center of the University of Madrid to her current work, through more than a hundred works, some of which were made especially for the exhibition. The retrospective focuses on the artist's statement that she has been painting the same picture all her life, linking her early works from the 1960s to her latest series, such as White Horizon or Waiting for Semper, in which she pays tribute to her recommender and friend Eusebio Semper.

This exhibition explores the concept of the grotesque, a core of aesthetic thought capable of offering new perspectives on reality. Developed by the writer Ramón María del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) as a tool of critical questioning in response to the backwardness and moral despair that plagued Spain in the first half of the 20th century, the grotesque confronts the country’s social, political and cultural constraints, insisting on the distance of the gaze and a range of aesthetic strategies to deform with maximum efficiency. Unlike other cultural representations of the grotesque that emerged in Europe, in which horrific distortions embodied the absurdity of life during that period, the grotesque proposed a new aesthetic that needed to be dedicated to the renewal of social structures. Through extensive documentation and various works of art, this exhibition explores the main themes and strategies that express the grotesque, emphasizing that it is an aesthetic proposal that survived Valle-Inclán’s time and thought. The exhibition is divided into eight main sections. It begins with the Antes del esperpento of the last decades of the 19th century, which displayed a selection of satirical news, drawings and popular optical devices of the time, which were forerunners of anamorphosis.

This thematic route offers an approach to the Museum’s permanent collection through a selection of works on display. Devised by Eduardo Barba Gómez, gardener and researcher into art and botany, it reveals how the latter subject plays a significant role in the stories. The diversity and richness of the Museo del Prado’s collections allow for this new interpretative approach, with a focus on more than 40 botanical species through a selection of 26 paintings by artists of the significance of Patinir, Fra Angelico, Titian, Velázquez, Rubens and Zurbarán. The route is complemented by a publication and an audio guide in Spanish and English.

Curated by French thinker Georges Didi-Huberman, the exhibition “In the moved air…” articulates a political anthropology of emotion in poetic terms, outlining ways of breathing and resistance that confront the persuasive culture of capitalism that has permeated everything. Its title, taken from Federico García Lorca’s Romancero gitano, appeals to overflowing emotion that is not restricted to a single subject, where Lorca’s idea of ​​the “duende” comes into play. In this way, emotion is understood here as a movement that is transmitted to the community through a singular body and that is capable of leading to a “commotion,” that is, a concatenation of emotions that affects a group, an environment, a relationship.

The exhibition Opera to a Black Venus, dedicated to the multidisciplinary artist Grada Kilomba (Lisbon, 1968), brings together a selection of installation works that is the most complete presentation of her work to date in Spain. Trained in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis at the Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada (ISPA) in Lisbon, she worked at the Júlio de Matos Hospital with survivors of the war in Angola and Mozambique before completing her PhD in Philosophy at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Strongly influenced by the work of the revolutionary philosopher, writer and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, Kilomba began to research and write about memory, trauma, race and gender to question the connections between power, knowledge and violence. With this solid academic foundation in clinical psychoanalysis and philosophy, as well as a long career as a researcher, the artist later expanded her interests on these issues through different formats, including performance, stage reading, video, photography and large-format sculptural and sound installations. Through these, the artist analyses the dominant systems of knowledge production and proposes a process of unlearning regarding Western epistemology with the intention of challenging the linearity of the historiography that in some way perpetuates the colonial economy.

AULA is a fair that helps students to effectively decide their educational and professional future AULA is a fair that helps students to effectively decide their educational and professional future. It combines a significant offering of educational and training centres, entities and service companies that respond to the training needs of students (from 14-15 years and above) who come to choose which centre to attend for training to get onto the job market. Information Source: IFEMA | expotobi