MUSEO CENTRO DE ARTE DOS DE MAYO OPENS ITS EXHIBITION SEASON WITH TWO EXHIBITIONS DEVOTED TO THE ARTISTS ESTER PARTEGÀS AND DOROTHY IANNONE

13 February 2026.- Today, Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M) of the Community of Madrid opens its 2026 exhibition programme with Ester Partegàs. Minor Architecture and Dorothy Iannone. Over and Over Again. Both exhibitions will remain open until the summer, and can be visited free of charge at the museum in Móstoles.

Ester Partegàs. Minor Architecture, curated by Bea Espejo and co-produced with Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma, presents a survey of three decades of the artist’s work. Conceived as a circular route, the exhibition interconnects works from different moments in her career, fostering dialogue between them. With a display reminiscent of a vast archaeological park, the exhibition seeks to create the sense of tension that characterises Partegàs’s work.

Partegàs (La Garriga, Barcelona, 1972) has exhibited extensively both in Spain and internationally. Throughout her career she has received numerous distinctions, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2025), the American Academy in Rome’s Rome Prize in Visual Arts (2022–2023), and the 6th Catalina d’Anglade–ARCOmadrid Prize (2023). Based in New York since 1997, she also maintains studios in Marfa (Texas) and Barcelona.

Over and Over Again is the first exhibition at a Spanish institution dedicated to Dorothy Iannone (Boston, 1933–Berlin, 2022), bringing together more than one hundred works bursting with colour. Iannone worked across a wide range of media, including painting, drawing, collage, video, sculpture and artists’ books, while also making extensive use of the voice in sound recordings and audioboxes.

Although she studied Literature, Iannone began painting in 1959. Between 1963 and 1967, she ran a cooperative gallery with her husband on Tenth Street in New York. She subsequently lived in several European cities before settling permanently Berlin in 1976 after receiving a grant from the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme; she remained there until her death in 2022. From the beginning of her career in the 1960s, Iannone created vibrant paintings, drawings, prints, films, objects and books characterised by a strongly narrative, visual and openly autobiographical approach. Her work forms part of major collections, including Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Located in Móstoles, CA2M is the Community of Madrid’s leading contemporary art institution, with a collection of more than 2,000 works belonging to the regional government. Its year-round programme of exhibitions and activities supports contemporary artistic creation and has established the museum as a key reference point both nationally and internationally.

In 2025, the museum welcomed more than 50,000 visitors, including almost 10,000 attendees across its cultural and educational programmes. Initiatives such as Picnic Sessions and El Cine Rev[b]elado have been bringing performing arts and audiovisual practices to wider audiences for over a decade. The museum also offers family film mornings, educational programmes for primary and secondary schools, and professional development initiatives for teachers.