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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. The programme is structured in dialogue with the year-round activities of both institutions, and therefore prioritises projects that connect with their approaches to research, experimentation and artistic production.

Artists in Residence also seeks to encourage exchange and the creation of meaningful connections between participating artists and the various communities, practitioners and programmes associated with Museo CA2M and La Casa Encendida, promoting opportunities for interaction, reflection and collaboration.

Residencies have a maximum duration of four weeks and are hosted by either Museo CA2M or La Casa Encendida in June and July.

The four projects selected for the 2026 edition of Artists in Residence are:

  • Algo Cayó (Something Fell) by Bella Báguena

  • A la derecha, a la izquierda y tan tan tan... (To the Right, to the Left, and Ta Ta Ta) by Malvin Starlin

  • Backstage by Yunping Li

  • Ley 34/23293 (Law 34/23293) by Júlia Barbany

 

 

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JUNE–JULY
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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.

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What is the relationship between art and incarceration? What role does culture play within a closed institution? What impact does it have? Is the cultural offer in prisons adequate? Do men and women have equal access to culture behind bars?

La Casa Encendida, Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo and the association teta & teta present Envisioning Freedom: Art and Incarceration, a gathering dedicated to reflecting on the role of literature and art in prisons. Over the course of two days and in two different venues, the event invites participants to consider the importance of culture in prisons—closed, isolated and often forgotten institutions, especially where women are concerned.

On 24 June, La Casa Encendida will host a day dedicated A las Olvidadas (To the Forgotten Women), an initiative led by the association teta & teta that collects books donated and dedicated by members of the public, in an attempt to raise awareness of the situation of women in prison and reflect on female incarceration through literature. The full programme is available here.

The 25 June programme at Museo CA2M will revolve around COSMORAMA, an innovative initiative launched by the museum in 2024 in collaboration with the NGO Solidarios para el Desarrollo. Through Cosmorama, Museo CA2M has organised a range of activities—drawing competitions, training courses, workshops and talks—that explore new forms of participation and connection, turning prisons into spaces for experimenting and producing shared knowledge through collective practice and experience.

Over the past year, and with the support of Fundación Sabadell, a range of educational initiatives have been developed at Madrid V Prison (Soto del Real), which even houses an exhibition space bearing the programme’s name where works and projects created by inmates are displayed, challenging conventional ideas about the limits of art and its audiences.

The COSMORAMA Forum at Museo CA2M aims to serve as a space for sharing and reflecting on the experiences generated in the course of the Cosmorama programme, and also as an opportunity to collectively consider the role of art and culture as agents of change within prison institutions: what has already been achieved, the possibilities they offer and the challenges that remain.

PROGRAMME:

10.30: Opening presentation of the COSMORAMA Forum 

11.00: Opening talk by Pastora Filigrana

12.30: Experiences panel: Clemente BernadAntonio Ballester Moreno and Fátima Moreno

Break

16.00: Conversation between inmates from Madrid V Prison (Soto del Real), Álvaro Crespo and Tania Pardo

17.00: Experiences panel: Álvaro Perdices, Marina Roca and Taxio Ardanaz

18.00: Experiences panel: Elena Rosauro Ruiz, Amelia Repetto and Lidia Amalia Mateo

19.00: Collection of letters for people deprived of their liberty

Throughout the day, the artist Quique Palomo will create an illustrated chronicle of the event.

 

Organised in conjunction with:

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In collaboration with:                    With the support of:

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25 JUNE
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The COSMORAMA Conference aims to serve as a forum for discussion on the events that have taken place during the Cosmorama programme, but also as an opportunity to reflect collectively on the role of art and culture as a tool for change within prisons: what has been achieved, the possibilities it offers, and the challenges that still lie ahead.

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COSMORAMA FORUM
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Drawing of a prison cell by an inmate, created for the first “In & Out” Drawing Competition, 2024 (detail)

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What would a verbena (summer fair) shared with the city's birds look like?

What if, for one afternoon, we stopped watching them from below and invited them to celebrate with us?

We invite you to come and find out for yourselves: to share the verbena with our winged neighbours. We will be joined by Lidia Toga, who will help us to discover more about the rich world of urban birdlife. She knows these inhabitants of the skies and rooftops inside out, and will help us to understand their ways of being, moving and gathering.

Perhaps we should begin by looking up. Swifts, forever in motion, trace a rapid, collective dance across the sky that sets the tempo. They may encourage us to move with them, to follow that impulse alongside the groups Bailar el barrio and Baivén, flocking together, occupying space and discovering that movement can also be a way of belonging.

Between flights, we will build our own nests, inspired by the communal weaver bird that visited the preschool and primary workshops alongsid Adriana Reyes y Goya Batalla. Together, we will create collective shelters: shared spaces like the huge nests of monk parakeets, those living structures where there is always someone nearby, company and someone with whom to share things.

And, like magpies, we will be drawn to all things shiny and bright. Small treasures may appear: bits of paper that catch the light, found objects, fragments whose meaning changes when viewed together. The verbena will be that, too: a chance to pause for a moment and see things from a different perspective.

If at any time we need to slow down, we can pause Pompa y las familias, who have been exploring ways of sharpening the senses: listening more slowly, looking more closely, observing that pigeon from the windowsill, following the magpie in flight, noticing how things change when we truly pay attention.

There will, of course, be a shared spread—delightfully chaotic and generously abundant, just as it should be. Crumbs here and there; food passed around, changing hands, appearing and disappearing; eating on two feet while life unfolds around us.

Join us on 13 June at 5.30 pm to flutter, flock and chatter together as we celebrate the end of the school year.

All kinds of birds, families, and creatures of the earth and sky are welcome.

This verbena will be guided as a collective flight by Lidia Toga, an artist specialising in illustration, painting and muralism; Baiven, the collective formed by the dancers, choreographers and cultural mediators Alba Sáenz-López Aumente and Mar Sáenz-López Aumente; with Adriana Reyes, an anthropologist and creator in the field of live arts; Gregoria Batalla Batalla, a teacher at Zaleo nursery school, historian and provocateur in the art of education; and POMPA, a collective project for cultural management, curating and artistic creation led by Mara Sannia and Irene Aguilera Martín, whose practices intertwine to shape a shared territory of listening, play and transformation.

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13 June
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On 13 June, we’ll be celebrating the arrival of summer. We’d like to invite you to join us for this street party. What would a street party shared with the city’s birds be like? What if, for one afternoon, we stopped looking up at them and invited them to join in the celebrations?

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Image: A monk parakeet, a wagtail and her chick enjoying a bite to eat beside the River Manzanares, as seen by Lidia Toga. Swifts cross the skies over Móstoles (AI-generated) while, on the rooftop of Museo CA2M, two girls leap into the air in an image by

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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.

Sometimes we imagine bodies with wings, shimmering skin, enormous legs or the bodies of sea animals... Creatures that hide beneath stones, that sleep in caves, that crawl, float, leap or change shape. What if we could invent a being of our own? How would it move? What sounds would it make? What would it feel like to the touch?

The Place of Unique Creatures offers a space in which participants can explore using their bodies, movements and imaginations, discovering new sensations and new ways of being in the world.

As always, we will start from the idea of a shared refuge: an intimate space built together as an act of care and imagination in relation to the outside world. We want to think of these places as territories where we can invent alternative ways of living together and imagining collectively.

Through play, fantasy and shared adventure, we will set off on a journey towards new places and new possibilities. We will engage all five senses, bringing out the creature that lives inside each of us. Who says such creatures only exist in fairy tales? After all, isn’t the reality we inhabit magical enough in itself?

Along the way, we will create our own masks and use fabrics, paint and a range of materials to transform the space into a collective dreamscape where new forms of life and coexistence can appear. Through movement and theatrical creation, we will gradually compose a fantastical form of dance theatre populated by singular creatures.

Little by little, the group will build a living, dreamlike landscape: a community of unique creatures creating their own ecosystem, customs, hiding places and stories. A place where they can pretend to be something else and perhaps discover new ways of being together.

Chimenea de dos mujeres girando is a collective founded by Jara Arellano and Zoe Guidotti, artists and dancers who will facilitate the workshop through dance, bodily exploration and improvisation.

While dance lies at the heart of their practice, they see art as a hybrid territory where movement, literature, film, painting, photography and theatre coexist, nourishing their work and helping them to create distinctive worlds of their own. Their practice occupies a space bordering on play, imagination and collective creativity, eschewing academic conventions in favour of creating receptive spaces where the body can transform, invent and dream. Their principal aim is to make dance accessible to all and create safe environments where people can connect through freedom, attentive listening and the absence of judgement.

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30 June – 3 July
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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.

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CHILDREN'S SUMMER WORKSHOP
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On 27 and 28 June, Museo CA2M in Móstoles will host the first edition of Cable: A Festival of Underground Culture.

Cable is a celebration of underground culture, bringing together concerts, film and short-film screenings, talks, and a fair dedicated to books, comics and fanzines. 

Cable seeks to unite artistic and cultural practices that fly under the radar, whether in music, film or literature, and are no less interesting for it. Here, the underground is understood not as a springboard or stepping stone to commercial success, but as a legitimate, enduring and even ideal context for artistic creation. With Cable, we want to champion this spirit and way of working, which feels more necessary now than ever. In an age when culture has largely moved online, counterculture must remain offline: in person, organic, human and immediate.

The complete line-up is as follows:

  • CONCERTS:  Comunión, Cosas bien cosas mal, From, Los lagos de Hinault, Marcelo Criminal, Mordaza, Primera Mort, Sierra and Vosotras veréis.
  • FILMS:  Aliens (Luis López Carrasco), Balearic (Ion de Sosa), Din que non falan (Santos Díaz), Ilusión (Daniel Castro), Inmotep (Julián Génisson), La Panadella (Joel Jiménez), Lo-Tech Reality (Guillermo Galoe), Portales (Elena Duque), El ruido solar (Pablo Hernando), Souvenirs de Madrid (Jacques Duron) and Vivir en un mar bravo (Guillermo F. Flórez).
  • BOOK FAIR: Anoche Press, Apa Apa Cómics, Aristas Martínez, Autsaider, Barrett, Belleza Infinita, Clavos y Chinchetas, Colectivo Bruxista, Comisura, La Felguera, La Granja, Libros Walden, Niños Gratis*, Orciny Press, Pepitas de calabaza and Smol Books.
  • TALKS about magazines, underground culture, bars and more, featuring Andrés Castaño, Blanca Lacasa, Carles Armengol, Eduardo Bravo, Enrique Rey, Javier Rueda, Julián Génisson, Marcelo Criminal, Lorena Iglesias, Rubén Romero, Ruby Fernández and Santi Fernández.

Cable will be held at Museo CA2M in Móstoles on Saturday, 27 June, from 11 am to 9 pm and Sunday, 28 June, from 11 am to 3 pm.

Admission is free on a first-come, first-served basis.

Cable is a project by Libros Walden, a Madrid-based publishing house specialising in books on popular culture and cult authors. The team is led by Manuel Moreno and Ruby Fernández, editors, writers and cultural managers with more than twenty years’ experience organising festivals, fairs, concerts and events such as Autoplacer, Niebla, Festichachi and Nuevo Anochecer at public and private venues in Madrid and beyond.

Information also available at: @cablesumergido / www.cable.cab 

 

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MORDAZA | Sábado 27 | 12:00

En palabras de Eric Sueiro, Medalla:

Mordaza
 "Por favor, trata de arrancarlo. Parece mentira que un grupo, cuyo nombre  proviene de un objeto usado para evitar que abras la boca, te provoque unas  ganas irremediables de ponerte a gritar. Así son Mordaza, un puñetazo  distorsionado que oscila entre lo viejo y lo nuevo.

El cuarteto madrileño formado en 2024 conjura todas sus influencias en un vórtice de fuego. Su centro de gravedad pone la contundencia en medio del meollo, pero su espíritu melódico se arraiga hasta el tuétano. Encasillarlos en el post-punk, el noise pop o el punk rock sería vago e inexacto. Mordaza van mucho más allá. Un sonido honesto, potente y con un mensaje antigeneracional. Ya basta de himnos generacionales, valga la redundancia. Lo que necesitamos son bandas como Mordaza y canciones que pongan un cuchillo en la garganta del estatus quo. Como las suyas." Spotify | Instagram


COMUNIÓN | Sábado 27 | 13:00

COMUNIÓN es el nuevo proyecto musical de Goulash! y Paula JJ. Ambas creen en el trabajo colectivo y les gusta Comunionsubir acompañadas al escenario. Por eso, han adoptado la idea de apoyo mutuo para lanzarse a producir música en solitario, pero de la mano de una buena compañera. Juntas consiguen algo más grande que la simple suma de las partes. Los directos de Comunión son un explosivo b2b en el que Tábata y Paula comparten stage para potenciar al máximo sus respectivos temas. 

Goulash! es el primer proyecto en solitario de Tábata Pardo, ex miembro de proyectos como Fuckaine y Rayo. Con Goulash! explora una mezcla de géneros como el electroclash, synth pop y beats de hip hop con actitud punk.

Vocalista en Las Odio y Dúo Divergente, Paula JJ presenta aquí su primer trabajo sin guitarras. Una nueva propuesta que ha definido como “bedroom punk”, con un sonido electrónico y experimental, pero manteniendo intacto su espíritu riot. Web | Web


PRIMERA MORT | Sábado 27 | 17:00Primera mort

Pop de habitación, con unos dulces toques de tristeza desde la isla de Mallorca. Web | Instagram 

 

 


SIERRA | Sábado 27 | 18:00Sierra

Sierra vuelve al escenario con lo que mejor sabe hacer: canciones que se quedan. Tras un recorrido que empezó  con “Tiene mucha fuerza” —un EP que agitó el underground— y que cristalizó en “A ninguna parte”, definido  como  un “pop redondo, intenso y honesto” por la prensa,el proyecto regresa en formato esencial: sin banda, sin  artificio, solo canciones. Un concierto para reencontrarse con ese pulso directo, entre lo luminoso y lo melancólico, que convirtió a Sierra  en una de las propuestas más personales del pop independiente. Spotify | Instagram

 


los lagosLOS LAGOS DE HINAULT | Sábado 27 | 19:00

Los lagos de Hinault es un proyecto desarrollado por Carlos Ynduráin que, tras seis discos a sus espaldas, está ya consolidado como uno de los grandes referentes del pop underground español. En otoño de este año publicarán su séptimo elepé y en el concierto de Cable presentarán algunas de esas nuevas canciones. 

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MARCELO CRIMINAL | Sábado 27 | 20:00

Marcelo Criminal es el nombre artístico que lleva usando años Marcelo García (1997) para hacer canciones pop enMarcelo Criminal su cuarto. En 2016 empezó a publicarlas de forma autoeditada, hasta que a finales del año 2018 Carolina Durante y Amaia (ganadora de Operación Triunfo), versionaron una de ellas: Perdona (Ahora Sí que Sí). El éxito no fue inmediato solo por juntar a dos figuras tan relevantes y antagónicas, sino porque la canción era, simplemente, maravillosa: un par de párrafos hicieron falta para partirnos el corazón y dar forma al gran himno de (des) amor de esta generación.Su último trabajo "La Última Casa de Apuestas" ha supuesto un antes y un después en su carrera, consolidando la presencia de Marcelo Criminal en el panorama alternativo nacional.

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vosotrasVOSOTRAS VERÉIS | Domingo 28 | 12:00

Este proyecto creativo nace en Madrid, en el barrio de Carabanchel en 2018. Sus integrantes: Ángela, Mari, Simone y Dani, se mueven entre el power pop y el punk rock, con letras divertidas que nos transportan a experiencias vividas por todos.

Tras su primer EP Preámbulo (editado por Hurrah! Música 2021), disco celebrado igualmente por crítica y público, en 2024, la banda lanza los singles “Sí Quiero”, “Mañana Es Lunes” y “No Llores Al Salir”, nuevos himnos con melodías sin freno, estribillos para tatuar y matrícula de honor en pogo. A los que se suman “Ahora Sé” y “Yo Nunca He”, para dar forma al LP “Vamos Tarde” con Carlos Hernández a los mandos de la producción y los video Karaoke de Rodri Chrome.xyz. SpotifyInstagram


cosas bienCOSAS BIEN COSAS MAL | Domingo 28 | 13:00

Cosas bien cosas mal es el proyecto en solitario de Tomás Avilés, de Carabanchel. También conocido por su trayectoria en Noise Nebula y Carrera. Esta nueva propuesta nace de la idea de componer canciones a partir de un teclado Casio de juguete y una 808 como elementos principales. Así, el potencial de sus canciones se encuentra reducido a su expresión más mínima, la raíz. Canciones cortas y letras inmediatas bajo capas de lo que él define como “soniditos y texturitas”. Que todo recuerde a un boceto es la idea final, pues según él, “la música del presente está tan super producida que ya no resulta natural ni cercana”. Este nuevo álbum presenta un giro inesperado, ya que, en vez de ser música que funciona como desahogo personal, pasa a ser música para que  la gente pueda hacerlas suyas.  Spotify | Instagram


fromFROM | Domingo 28 | 14:00

From es el alias de Fernando Romero, activo desde 2019. Fernando comenzó grabando en solitario, atraído por lo analógico, las voces cercanas y las pequeñas imperfecciones de trabajar sin pulir. Sus primeras canciones se inclinaban hacia un pop luminoso y artesanal, pero poco a poco fueron derivando hacia algo más incierto. Tras trasladarse a los Países Bajos, su música se volvió más pausada y expansiva. El espacio y la repetición pasaron a ocupar un lugar central, y su voz se alejó de la confesión directa para adoptar una presencia más contenida. En los últimos años, elementos del post-punk, el dub o la coldwave se han ido filtrando en su lenguaje sin convertirse en gestos estilísticos evidentes.  Spotify | Instagram


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el ruidoEl RUIDO SOLAR - PABLO HERNANDO  

Sábado 27 | 11:15 y 15:00 

Ficha: 2020. 16 minutos. 

Una colección de historias sobre personas que tuvieron una visión fugaz del futuro después de un evento cósmico inexplicable.

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“DIN QUE NON FALAN” - SANTOS DÍAZDin que non falan

Sábado 27 | 11:30 y 15:15

Ficha: 2023. 17 minutos. 

Una pareja habla de sus cosas en el campo. Y luego, otra pareja más joven parece hacer lo mismo, en algún lugar cercano. ¿Qué está sucediendo en ese paisaje que luego adquiere un inusitado protagonismo? Tras la inolvidable Os prexuízos da auga (2019), que también estuvo en el D’A, Santos Díaz parte de un aparente costumbrismo para dar forma a una delicada pieza en la que el sentimiento poético ocupa un papel preponderante..

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portalesPORTALES - ELENA DUQUE

Sábado 27 |11:45 y 14:45

Ficha: 2025. 16 minutos.

Portales sigue el curso del río Guadalete en Cádiz, España, desde la sierra hasta el mar: un catálogo de paisajes que esconden otros paisajes, una colección de portales (y postales) interdimensionales que fusiona acción real y animación creando una fauna y flora imposibles, otra historia y geografía para un discreto curso de agua.

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lo techLO-TECH REALITY - GUILLERMO GALOE |

Sábado 27 |13:15

Ficha: 2023. 8 minutos.

Unos visitantes llegaron del cielo a la ciudad. Habían oído que en la ciudad algunas personas tenían herramientas para crear sueños hi-tech a partir de realidades lo-tech. Pero no encontraron a nadie. Entre los sonidos de la ciudad, los visitantes detectaron una transmisión codificada. Un cortometraje de Guillermo Galoe en colaboración con el colectivo Underground Resistance, de Detroit, a partir del tema Lo-Tech Reality de «Mad» Mike Banks.

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ILUSIÓN - DANIEL CASTRO Ilusion

Sábado 27 | 13:20

Ficha: 2013. 65 minutos.

Un guionista y director de cine trata de insuflarle al país parte de la ilusión que parece haber perdido en los últimos tiempos. Su idea es hacer una película sobre los pactos de la Moncloa. Eso sí, quiere que sea un musical.

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VIVIR EN UN MAR BRAVO - GUILLERMO F. FLÓREZ Vivir en un mar bravo

Sábado 27 | 15:40 y Domino 28  | 11:15

Ficha: 2023. 25 minutos.

La vida de Carmen siempre ha sido una comedia quijotesca. Vivió una guerra civil, fue monja, construyó una nueva vida, se divorció en una sociedad conservadora, tuvo varios amantes y, sobre todo, nunca obedeció órdenes. Ahora, tras 86 años de aventuras, Carmen planea su suicidio.

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inmotepINMOTEP - JULIAN GÉNISSON

Sábado 27 | 16:10

Ficha: 2022. 65 minutos.

Un joven chófer investiga la desaparición de un cliente. Cuenta con la ayuda de su profesor de italiano, un agente inmobiliario sin hogar y un artista que utiliza fotografías de archivo al azar para ilustrar sus sueños. Todo parece una pista en este mundo un poco absurdo, pero ¿de qué?

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aliensALIENS - LUIS LÓPEZ CARRASCO

Sábado 27 | 17:15

Ficha: 2017. 27 minutos.

Describe la vida de Tesa Arranz y el ambiente cultural que le rodeó. Un retrato íntimo, sincero y desprejuiciado en el que la artista narra su vida a través de su obra gráfica, sus poemas, diarios, novelas y cartas. El título de la obra refiere a los más de quinientos retratos de extraterrestres que Arranz ha pintado en la última década.

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BALEARIC - ION DE SOSAbalearic

Sábado 27 | 19:00 (Coloquio posterior con director y guionistas).

Ficha: 2025. 74 minutos.

Tres feroces perros mantienen prisioneros a un grupo de jóvenes en una piscina perteneciente a una lujosa casa en la que se han colado, mientras los vecinos se reúnen en una fiesta en una villa cercana para celebrar el comienzo del verano. Es la víspera de San Juan, un día propicio para la magia.

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LA PANADELLA - ION DE SOSA Panadella

 

Domingo 28 | 11:15

Ficha: 2008. 56 minutos.

La Panadella, un emblemático pueblo de carretera en decadencia situado en Cataluña, espera la llegada de los visitantes desde una misteriosa torre. Los empleados del Hotel y Restaurante Bayona, el único servicio de hostelería del pueblo, siguen sus rutinas cíclicas día y noche. Se preparan las camas y las mesas, se hornea el pan y se lava la ropa, un ciclo perpetuo de constante preparación para algo o alguien.

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SOUVENIRS DE MADRID - JACQUES DURON Souvenirs de Madrid

Domingo 28 | 13:30 (Presentación previa de la película con el equipo de la película).

Ficha: 2025. 74 minutos.

Señoras en bata y pantuflas de vuelta de la compra o de tertulia con las vecinas en la plaza del Dos de Mayo; jubilados echando la partida de mus frente a las Escuelas pías; bares de encimera de zinc y el No se fía; mercerías y carbonerías en pleno Centro... Cuando Madrid era un pueblo. El proyecto nació en diciembre de 1995, cuando, en busca de su café con leche matutino, descubrió que el bar El Orien-

tal de Malasaña había cerrado tras el retorno del dueño a su Galicia natal y, en su lugar, ya apuntaba la modernidad en obras de un tal Rock Café.

Como remedio, quizá, comenzó a filmar el ajetreo diario en los barrios de Malasaña, Lavapiés, Embajadores y La Latina, con planos fijos sobre trípode, hasta acumular cien horas de rodaje sobre un tiempo encapsulado.

Así, desfilan las costumbres arraigadas que colean en Madrid, entre planos estáticos y mudos de trabajadores, cual ramillete de postales, pues los protagonistas, quizá por la novedad, posaban durante minutos como si se tratasen de fotografías, a pesar de que Duron y Morel les pedían permiso para grabarles en vídeo.

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Sábado 27 a las 12:15 “Revistas” con la participación de:

  • BLANCA LACASA
  • EDUARDO BRAVO
  • ANDRÁS CASTAÑO
  • RUBÉN ROMERO

Sábado 27 a las 18:00 “Underground” con la participación de:

  • LORENA IGLESIAS
  • JULIÁN GENISSON
  • MARCELO CRIMINAL
  • SANTI FERNÁNDEZ

Domingo 28 a las 12:15 “Bares” con la participación de:

  • CARLES ARMENGOL
  • ENRIQUE REY
  • JAVIER RUEDA
  • RUBY FERNÁNDEZ

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Dates
27 and 28 June
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Acceso notas adicionales

AREAS: TERRACE | HALLWAY | SUI

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Cable is a celebration of underground culture, bringing together concerts, film and short-film screenings, talks, and a fair dedicated to books, comics and fanzines. 

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CABLE
CABLE: A FESTIVAL OF UNDERGROUND CULTURE
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Design: Abel Cuevas.

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ALL-DAY OPENING HOURS

“I lose days, life, sleep. But it’s not my fault if I desire death and life at once, at the same time, at the same hour. And I want everything at the same time.” Alejandra Pizarnik

Girls (whispering): Hey, sweeties, are you awake?

Sadness: Yes, fully awake... It’s impossible to sleep in this heat.

Girls: Yeah, we're all wide awake as well...

Sadness: What’s up? What’s on your mind?

Girls: Nothing special... It’s just that feeling that we could maybe be somewhere else right now, you know?

Sadness: Yeah, that happens sometimes... Do you want to come over to my place? We can do something, anything.

Girls: We were thinking that it’s ages since we went to a party. A really great, fantastic party, surprisingly tender, dramatic and luminous... A party that represents us!

Sadness: Well, of course, when you put it like that! These are strange times for parties... But anyway, come over, we’ll think of something. Come now. You can even come in your pjs!

Girls: Ok, we're on our way. In any case... it shouldn’t be too hard to have party in these times, should it? In these times, a party can simply be about pausing and being together. In these times, a party can be about loving and remembering we're lovable.

Sadness: Totally. In these times, a party can be about spending a great hour dancing. A great hour singing. A great hour told well.

Girls: Invoking the night so we can see the stars, if only for a moment. Invoking the night and making it last until we drop. Tired, sweaty, listening to a story, an idea, a song.

Sadness: As Juan de Mairena said, an hour well told would never finish being told. A party can also be about celebrating time and celebrating the night.

Girls: Girls getting together for a twilight picnic. That could be nice.

Sadness: Great, so that’s what we’ll do, ok? All we need is a nice place in the open air, some music and a hundred or maybe two hundred friendly people. That will change the night completely, take it to places we can’t imagine...open it up, right?

Girls: Yes, that’s it. Let the night open up.

Open up the night.

La tristura and Mucha Muchacha arrive at the Museo CA2M this year with a joint proposal for the 2026 Picnic Sessions. What they propose is a time of listening, dancing, watching. According to anthropologists, before we shared a language we shared rituals, which is essentially what makes us human. We want to share this ancient ritual with the people of the city, share the feeling of being hospitable in this century. We’ve sought out different artists to spend a few hours with at twilight, artists who strive to establish a unique relationship with our times, who can hold their gaze in these dark times we are living through, and who can also perceive a light in that darkness. Who can see the crack. So between 28 May and 2 July we’ll meet on the museum terrace and open up the night together.

“When the light leaves
and the sky’s black,
no nothing
to look at,
day’s done.
That’s it.” 
 Robert Creeley

PROGRAMME

  • Thursday 28 May. Guillem Jiménez | Okkre
  • Thursday 4 June. Los Voluble
  • Thursday 11 June. Laura Morales | Fantasma Sur
  • Thursday 18 June. TEMPO DE FURIA (Egozkue and Paz) | Eddi Circa
  • Thursday 25 June. Carmen Muñoz | Derek van den Bulcke
  • Thursday 2 July. Natalia Fernandes | Las Víctimas Civiles

Time: 9 pm to 11 pm

CURATED BY:

Celso Giménez and Violeta Gil, members of La tristura, have been working in the performing arts field since they were twenty years old. Trying to generate “human situations” on and off the stage. Investigating the limits between presentation and representation, with a special focus on contemporary theatre, and committed to the intuition that intimacy and poetry are essentially political concepts. During this time, La tristura has collaborated with venues like the Teatros del Canal in Madrid, the Grec Festival in Barcelona, Cena Contemporânea in Brasilia, the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, Noorderzon in Groningen, and the AUA Festival in Bern, among others. Over the years they have also generated contexts like the Escuela de Invierno, Festival Salvaje and the Gran Convocatoria Mundial, all with the desire to keep connecting different agents and artists, trusting that these connections will give rise to unexpecting and inspiring movements. In recent years they have started solo projects and new collaborations in the fields of cinema, the stage and literature. Their work is still tied to Madrid, the city where they live and develop their projects.

Ana Botía and Belén Martí have been directing the dance company Mucha Muchacha since 2016, together with Marina de Remedios and Marta Mármol. Since the outset, their work has been focused on researching the body as a space of memory, identity and transformation, creating proposals that combine tradition and contemporaneity. Their performance language incorporates elements of folklore, pop music and Spanish dance codes, reconfigured through a critical gaze rooted in the present.  Since its birth the company has created Volumen 1 (2019), Mucha Muchacha (2021), Para cuatro jinetes (2023) and more recent projects like Cantar de gesta (2026) in which they continue to explore the relationship between body, narrative and collectivity. Mucha Muchacha has developed a collaborative practice with artists from different disciplines, generating research and mediation projects like SERÉ FOLCLORE and the TALLER-FIESTA project.

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28 May – 2 July
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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.

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Picnic 2026
2026 PICNIC SESSIONS: OPEN UP THE NIGHT
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Illustration: Adara Sánchez.

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21:00 - 23:00

In this workshop we’ll approach the Tarot as a creative, symbolic and deeply personal tool. We’ll begin by exploring archetypes, memory and autobiography, and then we’ll use drawing to make a unique card that represents you: your card.

Each participant will create their own Tarot card, developing its symbols, meanings and narratives. It’s not a question of learning a closed system, but of opening up a space where the intuitive and the personal guide the process.

During the workshop we’ll look at examples of influential Tarots like Dorothy Iannone’s (Ta)Rot Pack, using Aitor Saraiba's Tarot of Light as our compass to understand the Tarot as a living language that can be reinterpreted through individual experience.

Drawing skills are not required. The approach is free, accessible and focused on the process rather than the result.

This workshop is also a first step for anyone who wants to embark on the journey of creating their own complete Tarot deck, beginning with a card that will operate as the starting point and seed of a personal symbolic universe.

Aitor Saraiba is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice revolves around drawing as the primary tool of exploration. Using this medium, he expands his language to encompass different formats, from ceramics to textile art, building a personal universe defined by a constant dialogue between the manual and the symbolic

His work is inspired by a quest to connect with the invisible, to shape what doesn’t always have a name. In this process, drawing becomes an intimate, spiritual channel. As a result of his research, in 2021 he created the Tarot de Luz, a work that has sold more than 30,000 copies worldwide and has been translated into several languages, making it one of his most influential pieces.

Saraiba’s work is deliberately situated at the margins of the artistic establishment. His interest lies in the artisanal, ancestral and intuitive, with parallels in outsider art, pop art and mystical tools. From that place, he has forged an honest, personal language that champions emotion, imperfection and spiritual connection as forms of knowledge.

 

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Dates
12 May
Target audience
Registration
-
Topics
Acceso notas adicionales

CAPACITY: 20 PEOPLE.

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In this workshop we’ll approach the Tarot as a creative, symbolic and deeply personal tool. We’ll begin by exploring archetypes, memory and autobiography, and then we’ll use drawing to make a unique card that represents you: your card.

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WORKSHOP FOR ADULTS
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Tarot
IMAGES THAT SPEAK OF YOU: CREATING YOUR OWN TAROT CARD WITH AITOR SARAIBA
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Aitor Saraiba’s Tarot of Light

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From 18:00 to 21:00

Directed by: Carmen Aldama

“A new terrain where everyone is welcome, where education dresses up in its finery and science is fun. Every night the Universidad Popular will become a type of free and free-of-charge theatre of education,” wrote Blasco Ibáñez in the newspaper El Pueblo in January 1903. Blasco Ibañez founded the first people’s university in Valencia, which drew far greater numbers of attendees than the students enrolled in the official university. Now, in the present, we fantasise with the idea that the attendees of the “theatre of education” challenged the authority of the well-meaning teachers, who were devoured by popular wisdom. The photograph would have been taken moments before the storming of the rostrum. 

Following model of adult education centres, since 2008 the Museo CA2M has been running the People’s University programme as a space to reflect on the nature of art today. Over the years, the lectures given by art history and philosophy academics have gradually incorporated other forms of learning based on artistic practice, and artists have been invited to share their working methods and processes. The People’s University attendees have always participated vigorously in the discussions and played an active role in the sessions with the artists, to the extent that they have ultimately become the protagonists of the lecture series. For that reason, the research topic for the 2026 edition of the People’s University is the actual learning group that emerges and flourishes around the programme. A group that is always varied, genuine and fluctuating. 

Over the course of five sessions, we’ll experiment with insubordination, anonymity, collective authorship, resistance, radical confidence, power, cannibalism and other heroic fantasies with which to unleash popular energy. 

PROGRAMME

  • Wednesday 22 April. THE ARTIST IS PRESENT. Javier Tirado Ocón 
  • Wednesday 29 April. SEASON FINALE. Cuqui Jerez
  • Wednesday 6 May. DEVOUR ME AGAIN. Aitana Cordero
  • Wednesday 13 May. TEACHING THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW. Carmen Aldama
  • Wednesday 20 May. GRAND FINALE. Ben Attia and María Moncada
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Dates
FROM 22 APRIL TO 20 MAY
Target audience
Registration
-
Acceso notas adicionales

Limited capacity

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Over the course of five sessions, we’ll experiment with insubordination, anonymity, collective authorship, resistance, radical confidence, power, cannibalism and other heroic fantasies with which to unleash popular energy. 

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PEOPLE’S UNIVERSITY
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UP 2026
“THEN THE ATTENDEES CLIMBED ONTO THE ROSTRUM AND DEVOURED THE SPEAKERS”
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Blasco Ibáñez on Calle de San Vicente upon his arrival in Valencia. Ajuntament de València. Imagen: Arxiu Històric.

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Afternoon session (to be confirmed)

In April and May the curators of the Ester Partegàs and Dorothy Iannone exhibitions, Bea Espejo and Tania Pardo, will take you on a tour of the shows, pointing out the hallmarks of the artistic practices of these two creators.

MINOR ARCHITECTURE BY ESTER PARTEGÀS, curated by BEA ESPEJO

The world in our pocket

Having the world in our pocket is like inhabiting a minor architecture. It alludes to something small that leads to many things, highlights the value of what is within our reach, and celebrates the sensation of confidence we feel when we achieve a lot with very little. It also operates as metaphor for the condensation of the world: something immense, complex and infinite that can be concentrated in the palm of our hand. This thrill of understanding the world and seeing the inexhaustible in the everyday provide the premise for reflecting on Ester Partegàs’s work. 

  • Tuesday 14 April, 6.30 pm
  • Saturday 23 May, 12 pm

OVER AND OVER AGAIN BY DOROTHY IANNONE, curated by TANIA PARDO

Let’s talk about Dorothy...

The sixties, the Tarot, Dieter Roth, Sarah Pucci, Fluxus friends, Berlin, Düsseldorf and hundreds of recipes. Autobiography, love and the domestic realm were tools of exploration in Dorothy Iannone’s art. The intimacy and power of her works can also be interpreted as a space of women’s liberation, where the personal becomes political. In this tour, books, paintings, sculptures and sound boxes, saturated with text and colour, provide a gateway into Iannone’s universe and the central themes of her work: eroticism, sexuality and friendship.

  • Saturday 18 April, 12 pm
  • Saturday 23 May, 1 pm
  • Saturday 13 June, 12 noon

Activity free of charge. Please register in advance by calling 91 276 02 21 or writing to ca2m@madrid.org 

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Dates
APRIL–MAY–JUNE
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Topics
Acceso notas adicionales

CAPACITY: 20 PEOPLE

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In April and May the curators of the Ester Partegàs and Dorothy Iannone exhibitions, Bea Espejo and Tania Pardo, will take you on a tour of the shows, pointing out the hallmarks of the artistic practices of these two creators.

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visitas comisarias
GUIDED TOURS OF THE EXHIBITIONS
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Picture: Sue Ponce.

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1 HOUR

Have you ever stopped to think about how the bonds between people are manifested? Friendship, family and romantic relationships, needs and plans, desire... The emotional fabric is packed with feelings and concepts that become invisible lines leading and connecting us, constantly tightening and slackening, sometimes without us even noticing.

On this occasion we propose to enrich the research project Un juego de cuerdas y sus 12 leyes [A String Game and Its 12 Laws] with a collective game dynamic in which we’ll explore these and other bonds in a palpable, sensory way through knots and links.

We invite you to get tangled up with us and let go of the rope with the artist and researcher Inés Sorlat, who will use her practice to move the strings. Thus begins Intermittences, with the focus on what is there but might not always be there, on what is tightened but might also slacken.

Inés Sorlat (Madrid, 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist and Audiovisual Communication graduate of the Carlos III University in Madrid. Her work combines audiovisual narrative, installation and sewing, investigating the bonds between people and the invisible laws that uphold them. This exploration led to Un Juego de Cuerdas y sus 12 leyes, a series of twelve conceptual installations that reflect on relationships as a single interconnected system.

In 2025 she presented the first two pieces, Ley 8 and Ley 11, and she is currently developing the following works in the series, visually representing the system and its strings, and, one by one, reinterpreting their laws.

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. The project aims to redefine relationships with the museum, fostering the self-management of the group members and involving them in the definition of programmes for young people.

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Dates
UNTIL JUNE
Target audience
Acceso notas adicionales

CAPACITY: 15 PEOPLE.

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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.

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OPEN WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 16 AND OVER
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dc las cosas
DONDE CONTINÚAN LAS COSAS: INTERMITTENCES
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17:00 - 20:00