A summer of exhibitions, films screened in the Garden and sheltering from the heat at the Museo

 

Summer 2026

 

 

Visit our exhibitions   This summer visitors can enjoy the following exhibitions: Aurèlia Muñoz. Beings (until 7 September); History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but it Does Rhyme; Dumile Feni: African Guernica (until 22 September); Milk, Snow, Tear, Hand. Blanca Sánchez’s Art of Making and Being (until 9 October); and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Sweet Revenge (until 12 October) in the Museo’s main site. Furthermore, in the galleries in the Retiro Park, the show Fernando Sánchez Castillo. The Wayward Pearl (until 8 March 2027) and the installation Andrea Canepa. Bundle are on view in the Palacio de Velázquez and Palacio de Cristal, respectively.

 

 

Film and Video   The Swimming Pool: Swim or Sink Summer Cinema   From 3 July to 29 August 2026 – 10pm   The summer film series returns once again in the Museo’s recently renovated Garden, focusing this year on the existential, symbolic imagery of the swimming pool. Entitled The Swimming Pool: Swim or Sink, the programme seeks to explore the existential ambiguity that has characterised pools across the history of film in their diverse manifestations. The films within the series are free to access and are screened on Fridays and Saturdays throughout July and August.

 

Climate Shelter   A Space for Rest   2 JUL - 2 SEP 2026       Live Arts   Take Shelter in Culture 2026   Live Flamenco in the Rooms of the Collection   6 jul - 24 ago 2026

 

 

Video   Eva Lootz Making as if Wondering: So What Is This?   Artist Eva Lootz (Vienna, 1940) discusses her work in this video, which documents the exhibition Eva Lootz. Making as if Wondering: So What Is This?, held in the Museo Reina Sofía in 2024. A possible journey through some of the key questions sparked in and by her work, and which underscore a certain way of understanding artistic practice: taking one’s work as a gesture capable of questioning the world from scratch.

La favorita     Watch series

 

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"African Guernica" by Dumile Feni at the Museo

march 2025

 

 

Exhibition   History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme. Dumile Feni: African Guernica   from 25 Mar to 22 sep 2026   History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme is a new programme at the Museo Reina Sofía that aims to establish a dialogue between Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937) and other significant works of art that share certain parallels in their modes of representation or thematic concerns, yet originate from different historical and cultural contexts. In this first instalment of the series, curated by Tamar Garb, Picasso’s iconic work can be seen for the first time alongside African Guernica (1967) by Dumile Feni (Worcester, South Africa, 1942 – New York, 1991), one of the key artists of African modernism.

 

Inaugural Conversation   History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme. Dumile Feni: African Guernica   Inaugural Conversation by Tamar Garb and Premiere of the Musical Piece Inkomo iwile by Philip Miller and Tshegofatso Moeng   24 mar 2026       Panel of Experts   Thinking with African Guernica by Dumile Feni   Curatorial, historical, museological and psychoanalytic perspectives   25 Mar 2026

 

 

video   La Favorita Ana Locking on Doubles / Pairs / Couples, by Louise Lawler   In this interview, designer Ana Locking discusses the photographic series Doubles / Pairs / Couples (1982–1985) by artist Louise Lawler (Bronxville, New York, 1947), whom she discovered at a Pictures Generation exhibition that transformed her understanding of art.

 

Seminars and lectures   The (legal) person and the legal form. Chapter III   Seminar with Sven Lütticken   registration until april 10th

 

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