The Reina Sofía Museum Puts the Spotlight on Alberto Greco

The museum's new program, under the direction of Manuel Segade, highlights the Argentine artist, alongside artists from the region, and the global impact of Guernica.
The director of the Museo Reina Sofía, Manuel Segade, presented the center's new season this Wednesday, the first designed solely under his leadership. It will focus on women in the avant-garde, Latin American artists, and Guernica and its influence worldwide.

The 2025-2026 season will also be marked by the inauguration of the first phase of the new presentation of the permanent collection, focusing on Spanish art from 1975 to the present day, and by the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Sabatini building as the Reina Sofía Art Center.
In addition, the Reina Sofía Museum is inaugurating a new program dedicated to the exhibition of artistic practices in film and new media with a work by film director Oliver Laxe, whose film "Sirat" was nominated for an Oscar this Wednesday.

The film is the subject of an "installation presentation" by the author, entitled HU/ Bailad como si nadie os viera (Dance as if nobody saw you), which "challenges the limitations inherent to the movie screen."
Meanwhile, Maruja Mallo, a key member of the Generation of '27, and Aurèlia Muñoz, one of the most important textile artists of the 20th century, will be the subject of separate exhibitions through which the museum continues "exploring the key importance of women in Spanish artistic production," Segade emphasized at a press conference.

The aim, she explained, is to recover and highlight the art of these women, who were overshadowed and deserve to be known and recognized in Spain and abroad.

The 70-year-old painter Juan Uslé will be the focus of a new retrospective, 20 years after the previous one. Curated by 41-year-old Ángel Calvo Ulloa, a decision made by Segade, who is committed to pairing older artists with young curators who can bring a fresh perspective to the work and generate a "cross-pollination of perspectives."

Latin America is coming twice: first with Peruvian Andrea Canepa's intervention on the canvas covering the Palacio de Cristal while it is under construction, and then with a retrospective of a key figure in the invention of performance art in the 1960s: Argentine Alberto Greco, who lived in Spain during his final years.
Andrea Canepa and Alberto Greco (photo) represent the Latin American presence in the Reina Sofía's new season.

The "highlight" of the season will be the retrospective of Félix González-Torres, a Cuban artist based in the United States, whom Segade considers "as important as Veronese," one of the most influential figures of recent decades and a central figure in the aesthetics that responded to the AIDS crisis at the time.

February will be the month for the presentation of the collections in a new account of the last 50 years told from Spain, through the work of more than 200 artists from 1975 until "just before the opening," the director noted, leaving the door open to new additions or acquisitions.

In March, under the title History Doesn't Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes, a unique series will begin that will continue in the coming years and will consist of the presentation of fundamental works from other geographies and chronologies in dialogue with Guernica.

“Guernica came to the streets with Vietnam, the Gulf War, Ukraine, and Palestine, and became a public piece that signifies a ‘no to war’ and a ‘no against civilian populations’, and it has taken on an unstoppable life,” he explained.
Therefore, the objective is to see how it has influenced and been adapted to conflicts in other countries through indigenous artists, such as the African Guernica, a work against apartheid in South Africa by Dumile Feni, a key artist of African modernism.
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