The Reina Sofía Museum focuses on Latin American art in its new season

Between 2025 and 2026, the museum will also focus on women in the avant-garde and on "Guernica," a prominent Picasso painting.
Latin American artists, such as Cuban artist Félix González-Torres, will be the focus of the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid's new season dedicated to contemporary art, according to the gallery's director, Manuel Segade, during the presentation of the activities.

The 2025-2026 season will also focus on women in the avant-garde and on "Guernica," a prominent Picasso painting currently at the Reina Sofía, and its influence on the world, Segade explained at a press conference.

Latin America arrives with Peruvian Andrea Canepa's intervention on the canvas covering the Crystal Palace in the central El Retiro Park, 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.
The new season features a 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.

The 2025-2026 season will also see the inauguration of the first phase of the new presentation of the museum's permanent collection, focusing on Spanish art from 1975 to the present day. The museum will also celebrate the 40th anniversary of the inauguration of the Sabatini Building, built as a hospital in the 18th century, as the Reina Sofía Art Center.

In addition, the museum is launching 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 for Best International Feature Film at the upcoming Hollywood Awards.
Regarding women in the avant-garde, the Spanish artist Maruja Mallo, a key figure of the Generation of '27, and Aurèlia Muñoz, one of the most important textile artists of the 20th century, will be featured in exhibitions with which the museum continues "exploring the key importance of women in Spanish artistic production," Segade emphasized.
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."

This work has become "a public piece that represents a no to war and a no against civilian populations, and it has taken on an unstoppable life," explained the director.
Therefore, the goal is to see how it has influenced and been adapted to conflicts in other countries through indigenous artists, such as "African Guernica," a work against apartheid in South Africa by Dumile Feni, a key artist of contemporary African art.
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