Upcoming activities
PERO... ¿ESTO ES ARTE? OTOÑO 2026
Este curso está dirigido a todas aquellas personas que alguna vez se han detenido frente a una obra preguntándose precisamente eso: “Pero… ¿Esto es arte?”. Un espacio pensado para acercarse al arte desde la curiosidad, el diálogo y la experiencia compartida.
FLORILEGIUM. THE MOST MARVELLOUS DITCH AND ROADSIDE FLOWERS.
Inspired by wild gardens and flowers that grow where no one expects them, this workshop invites families to create, imagine and experiment together. Session by session, we will create a world of our own where oddities, myths and the freedom to grow in our own way all have a place.
TOUR AND WORKSHOP FOR SECONDARY AND UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL GROUPS
This tour and workshop invites groups to explore the exhibition through observation, conversation and collective experimentation. We will look closely at the works, asking ourselves not only what they tell us, but also what lies beyond what they appear to be saying. We will explore drawing as gesture and thought in motion, as writing, imprint, play and a possibility for encounter.
DANCING THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
Dancing the Neighbourhood is an after-school activity for children aged 6 to 12, held on Tuesday afternoons at Museo CA2M. A space for moving between ideas, improvising, taking shortcuts, changing direction, looking closely and finding a thousand other ways to move with the museum, the neighbourhood and everything that happens in between.
FROM 5 TO 7. WORKING GROUP ON AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA AND EDUCATION TEACHER TRAINING
One Thursday afternoon a month, we come together around a shared passion: the moving image. Throughout the course, we will invite artists and filmmakers to share their creative processes, explore different ways of working and spark new conversations.
IN EXCHANGE FOR BREEZES AND DEW
We are kicking off the academic year with the Performance and Education Workshop, a space for training, exchange and research aimed at teachers, artists, cultural mediators and cultural workers, as well as anyone interested in the relationships between education, culture, the local area and artistic practice.
TERRACE GARDEN
Every Friday morning, a group of people gather at the museum under a simple pretext: to tend a vegetable patch. But, as with the best pretexts, it goes far beyond just the plants.
THE INTRUSION. OTHER WAYS OF TAKING OVER SPACE
During these workshop-style visits, children will discover the exhibitions as an open space in which to explore, experiment, interact and formulate questions through artistic activities. The activity offers an active, sensitive and participatory approach to contemporary art. It is an opportunity for the pupils to take centre stage in the experience.
REAL BALLET OF THE MUSEO CA2M
A company that embraces all forms of movement and being, without any physical or technical requirements. A stable group that explores, experiments with and shares dance through the everyday, the sensory and the collective.
ABUNDANCE LAB
What does a garden that emerges from an abandoned picnic smell of? How do you make compost and compost yourself? What sun-based systems invite us to imagine desirable futures? The Abundance Lab is a meeting place, a starting point: we can decide what we want to be from now on, and it’s best to do it together.
AN AMATEUR CHOIR 2026
An amateur choir is a creative project in which any type of voice is welcome to participate. Every other Thursday, we hold our own research sessions as well as sessions with artists who work with voice and listening.
WE LOOK FOR OURSELVES IN THE FOOTPRINTS AND OUR STEPS AREN'T THERE...
In the upcoming sessions of the Reading Group, we will explore and investigate the role of myths in all their meanings and in all their breadth. We will reflect on those stories that have been decisive in the construction of female subjectivity in order to question them and rebel against them.
DONDE CONTINÚAN LAS COSAS: INTERMITTENCES
Donde Continúan las Cosas is a group formed by past participants of our programmes for young people, united by their interest in culture, art and community work.
Previous Activities
LA FRESQUERA 2026
This summer, the museum is turning into a space designed to combat the heat just like it’s always been done: where it’s cool, with no hurry and in good company. Inspired by those perennial places where idleness is fine, this project is turning the museum into a summer refuge where you can simply exist.
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE 2026
Artists in Residence is a programme developed by Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo and La Casa Encendida to support artistic creation and research centred on the body and performance.
WHAT THE EYE DOESN'T REVEAL
These tours of the Ester Partegàs, Dorothy Iannone and Antonio Ballester Moreno exhibitions don’t seek categorical answers but open up a space where the experiences of visitors, and of groups that now form part of the museum, are put into play and create networks. We want to reflect together on it what means to tour an exhibition using conversation, listening and the difference of gazes.
FUGA 2026
After a first year of sharing, experimenting and learning—a year of discovering how difficult but how rewarding it is to create a genuinely collective space—the group embarks on this new phase with a clear aim: to create their own podcast.
THE PLACE OF UNIQUE CREATURES.
The Place of Unique Creatures will be a four-day summer workshop running from 30 June to 3 July for children aged 6 to 12 who would like to join us in imagining and creating a place of their own.
2026 PICNIC SESSIONS: OPEN UP THE NIGHT
La Tristura and Mucha Muchacha are coming to the CA2M Museum this year to present the Picnic Sessions 2026. They have invited a range of artists to join them for a few hours at dusk. And so, between 28 May and 2 July, we’ll gather on the museum terrace to welcome the evening together.
Activities Publications
Everything I See Will Outlive Me brings together the two-part retrospective comprising Everything I See Will Outlive Me, held at Sala Alcalá 31, and In the Violet Hour at Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, both organised to mark the 70th anniversary of Juan Muñoz’s birth.
3_Eras is an unpublished text by José Luis Brea based on the film version of the book Las tres eras de la imagen. This film, made by María Virginia Jaua and José Luis Brea, included visual and sonic imagery.
La réplica infiel se interroga sobre la compleja relación que el arte establece con su materialidad, planteándose de qué manera se encarna el pensamiento en la forma, en el objeto, en la acción o en el cuerpo, resistiendo tanto a la promesa implícita en la idea, como a las tensiones e incertidumbres generadas por su inserción en las instituciones, los rituales de la cultura y los órdenes de lo real y lo posible.
Con alrededor de sesenta artistas de reconocida trayectoria internacional, David G. Torres, comisario de la exposición "PUNK. Sus rastros en el arte contemporáneo", plantea una visión transversal del punk como catalizador de una serie de estéticas, políticas y actitudes culturales, que desde sus inicios hasta hoy han marcado un posicionamiento dentro del arte contemporáneo. Una corriente anímica ligada a un movimiento musical muy característico que se dilata en diferentes actitudes dentro de la acción artística y su planteamiento conceptual.
La exposición "PER/FORM. Cómo hacer cosas con (sin) palabras" está comisariada por Chantal Pontbriand, figura fundamental para entender el desarrollo de la performance, desde sus inicios hasta la actualidad. En su labor como crítica y editora de la revista Parachute, Pontbriand, ha liderado la renovación en el discurso de la crítica de arte sobre las nuevas disciplinas que nacen en los años sesenta, tales como la performance, la instalación y los nuevos medios artísticos. Esta exposición es, en consecuencia, una actividad viva y en permanente desarrollo, donde las instalaciones, fotografías, películas, documentos, performances en directo, charlas y coloquios habitan el espacio del CA2M, proponiendo con todo ello una visión más amplia del tradicional concepto de exposición.
La exposición colectiva Sin motivo aparente es una muestra que nos aproxima a la obra de arte contemplada al margen de componentes externos. Partiendo de las palabras del artista Lawrence Weiner «Out of the Blue», la exposición gravita en torno a la posibilidad de que las obras de arte no tengan que ceñirse a una trama discursiva concreta. Una invitación al espectador a construir una reflexión propia a partir de las micro historias en las que nos adentra la obra, un territorio reservado para las emociones.
Aernout Mik es uno de los artistas holandeses más reputados internacionalmente. Su obra ha sido objeto de exposiciones individuales en importantes instituciones de todo el mundo, como el MoMA de Nueva York o el Jeu de Paume de París y ha participado en las grandes citas de Arte como las bienales de Venecia, Sao Paolo y Melbourne. A través de sus piezas en vídeo cuidadosamente instaladas, que llegan a incorporar físicamente al propio espectador, Aernout Mik desmenuza algunos de los conflictos presentes en nuestra sociedad.
A través de la exposición Pop Politics: Activismos a 33 Revoluciones, el joven comisario madrileño Iván López Munuera nos sumerge en el complejo mundo de los posicionamientos ideológicos contemporáneos, siempre puestos bajo la lupa de la relación entre música y artes visuales. La exposición está abierta a múltiples interpretaciones y a la actitud activa de sus visitantes, a quienes invita a disfrutar de la música, las imágenes, los films y la cuantiosa información que componen esta muestra.