Celebrating its forty fourth version this 12 months, ARCOmadrid 2025 is bringing collectively 214 galleries from 36 international locations, making Madrid a significant cease for up to date artwork this month. With a mixture of established and rising expertise, the truthful has a big Latin American presence with almost a 3rd of worldwide galleries coming from the area. Spain can also be nicely represented, with 71 galleries making up a couple of third of the exhibitors.
The truthful runs from March 5 to 9 at IFEMA MADRID, with the primary three days reserved for VIP visitors earlier than opening to the general public on March 7. Listed below are a few of the cubicles price testing.
The Ryder Initiatives | Sales space 9D04
The Ryder Initiatives turns its sales space into a mirrored image on the structure of artwork gala’s—areas inside areas, every with its personal set of concepts. That includes works by Patrix Dominguez, Suzanne Treister, Priyageetha Dia, Miguel Benlloch, Kivan Quiñones Beltrán, Lúa Coderch, William Mackrell, Rosana Antolí, Ivana de Vivanco and Sahatsa Jauregi, the sales space explores themes of know-how, gesture, and unconscious vocabularies. The works span video, sound, drawing, portray, efficiency, and sculpture, aligning with the gallery’s broader curatorial path.
Vermelho | Sales space 9C23
Vermelho
Vermelho will highlight two artists with completely different approaches to activism by way of artwork. Claudia Andujar has spent many years combating for the rights of Brazil’s Indigenous communities, significantly the Yanomami individuals, whereas additionally pushing the boundaries of images. Iván Argote, primarily based in Paris, takes a extra playful however equally political strategy. His idea of Radical Tenderness makes use of sculpture, installations, and audiovisual works to query historical past, energy and {our relationships} with others. Each artists use artwork as a instrument for critique and storytelling.
GALERIA SUR | Sales space 7C21
Galeria Sur
GALERIA SUR will showcase a lineup of artists who helped outline fashionable artwork throughout Latin America. Joaquín Torres García merged Constructivism with Latin American symbolism, whereas Rafael Barradas captured the vitality of metropolis life with Vibracionismo. Antonio Berni’s social realism targeted on on a regular basis struggles and Xul Photo voltaic created a surreal, mystical visible language. Wifredo Lam blended Afro-Cuban traditions with Surrealism, whereas Adriana Varejão and Hélio Oiticica challenged Brazil’s colonial previous by way of layered surfaces and participatory installations. The sales space presents a powerful historic narrative that continues to resonate as we speak.
Galeria T20 | Sales space 9A12
Galeria T20
Galeria T20 highlights Toda la memoria del mundo, a diptych by José Maldonado that merges portray and sculpture. The piece combines metallic acrylic on canvas with high-end supplies like 18K gold, diamonds, and sapphires, turning on a regular basis objects—cube, rings, and extra—into reflections on time, likelihood and reminiscence.
Voloshyn Gallery | Sales space 7A10
Voloshyn Gallery
Voloshyn Gallery will deliver collectively artists who push the boundaries of discovered object assemblage. Curated by Gean Moreno, the sales space options Ricardo Brey, Harold Mendez, and Jonathan Sánchez Noa. Brey’s work explores the intersection of science and mysticism, whereas Mendez delves into histories of migration and id by way of layered supplies. Sánchez Noa reimagines papermaking, utilizing tobacco stains and textures to evoke misplaced histories of colonial extraction. Collectively, their works supply a thought-provoking dialogue on reminiscence, transformation and alternative routes of understanding the world.
IFEMA Madrid Exhibition Middle
Av. del Partenón
5, Barajas
Madrid 28042
Spain
