educacion.ca2m@madrid.org

educacion.ca2m@madrid.org

Triggering impulses, working in an experiential way, promoting critical attitudes through action, involving the body in learning processes ... These educational practices, in tune with the centre’s educational philosophy, are based on the construction of knowledge through experience. Thus, the exhibition’s performative routes focus on the spectator's experience and turn their gaze towards current art. In this way, we create meeting spaces in which to experiment and construct critical discourse regarding contemporary work. 

At this time, we wish to invite you to visit two of CA2M’s exhibitions with us.
On Saturdays at 6:30 PM we propose visiting TRÉMULA, artist Javi Cruz’s exhibition, together. And on Sundays at 12:30 PM, VEROÍR EL FRACASO ILUMINADO (EXPERIENCE THE ILLUMINATED FAILURE) by the artist Cecilia Vicuña. There will be a maximum of 6 people.

To sign up, write to educacion.ca2m@madrid.org or call 91 276 02 21. You can also come directly to the museum and, if there are not too many of us, join the tour by leaving your details at reception. We take all of these measures in order to take care of ourselves and to take care of you, though we are aware that these measures may change according to the situation. We look forward to meeting up with you again.

Activity type
Dates
Saturdays and Sundays
Target audience
Registration
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Triggering impulses, working in an experiential way, promoting critical attitudes through action, involving the body in learning processes ... These educational practices, in tune with the centre’s educational philosophy, are based on the construction of knowledge through experience.

Categoría cabecera
recorridos performativos
Performative routes 2021
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Foto Sue Ponce

Is it a cycle?
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Duration
Every weekend until the closing of the exhibitions
Biografías

Going out on to the street to propose practices that alter the logical order of things; sticking chewing gum on the museum entrance to create a collective sculpture with the fingerprints of the all students; hanging their own flag on the museum facade (if only for a minute); and inventing ranges of colour to reconstruct the Móstoles landscape at precisely 12.30 noon.  

These are just some of the experiences in which students who have visited the Museo CA2M have engaged.  

During the school year we propose an experience for secondary and upper secondary students that will turn the museum into a space for creation, investigation and collective thinking.  

This year the activities will revolve around the Murky Waters exhibition by Inês Zenha, their first institutional solo show in Spain. Zenha explores queer identity, desire and vulnerability through installations, paintings and sculptures that invite us to rethink the body, fluidity and power structures.  

With this same focus, we have invited the artist Aicha Josefa Trinidad Gououi to help us design strategies to activate the exhibition spaces and generate meaningful experiences with the students. The aim is to establish a direct link between contemporary artistic practices and young people, encouraging critical thinking and discussion about topical social and cultural themes.  

What do we propose?  

  • An encounter inspired by the desire to share knowledge, practices and experiences.  
  • A space to imagine other ways of being together.  
  • An opportunity to turn the museum into a laboratory, a stage, a shelter.  

Aicha Josefa Trinidad Gououi is a researcher and artist. Her work explores how first-person writing and lived experiences can become forms of knowledge. 

 

Activity type
Dates
FROM OCTOBER TO JUNE
Target audience
Acceso notas adicionales

CAPACITY: 35 PEOPLE

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During the school year, we offer an experience aimed at secondary school and sixth form groups that transforms the CA2M Museum into a space for creation, research and collective thinking. This year we will be working around the exhibition Aguas Turbias by Inês Zenha.

Categoría cabecera
Visita-taller
Inês Zenha, The Surrendered (detail), 2022. Photo: Sue Ponce
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Inês Zenha, The Surrendered (detail), 2022. Photo: Sue Ponce

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Duration
Tuesday 11:00–13:30

“Out of the mud... these seams” is a morning workshop at the Museo CA2M where we invite groups of pre-school and primary school children to come and share stories connected to other forms of knowledge and transmission, using experiences they already practise: gestures, listening, play, telepathy, imagination, dreams...

The stories are shared in the workshop without the need for words. Sometimes they emerge in the form of stitches, sometimes in gestures or silences. The children explore ways of learning and remembering that are not always taught but are felt. The workshop and the exhibition space are a place to come together, imagine and listen with the body, a place where the ordinary is transformed into the extraordinary, and art emerges without anyone naming it.

Adriana Reyes (anthropologist and creator in the living arts field) and Gregoria Batalla Batalla (teacher at the infant school Zaleo, History of the Americas graduate and revolutionary in the art of educating) know a great deal about all of this, which is why we’ve invited them to design this workshop in which the children will turn something small into a new creation; where the body, collective action and other contemporary art forms will be harnessed to create something wonderful out of something small.

Activity type
Dates
FROM FEBRUARY TO JUNE
Registration
-
Acceso notas adicionales

Maximum 25 people

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“Out of the mud... these seams” is a morning workshop at the Museo CA2M where we invite groups of pre-school and primary school children to come and share stories connected to other forms of knowledge and transmission, using experiences they already practise: gestures, listening, play, telepathy, imagination, dreams...

Subtitle
WORKSHOP FOR PRE-SCHOOL (AGES 4 AND 5) AND PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN
Categoría cabecera
Barros
OUT OF THE MUD 2025–2026
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Picture: Sue Ponce.

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Duration
TUESDAY 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

“Dancing the neighbourhood”, held every Tuesday evening at the Museo CA2M, is conceived as a permanent meeting space for children, a little community where the ordinary becomes special, where every gathering is an opportunity to discover something new along with other people, a feel-good place in which to explore through the body and movement. 

Last year, children between the ages of 6 and 12 participated in a creative adventure that took them to different parts of the museum... and the city! As well as exploring works by artists such as Sol Calero, María Medem and Santiago Sierra, they went to places like Avenida de la Constitución, Parque Cuartel Huertas and Plaza del Pradillo.

During the sessions, they engaged in body play, designed spaces, created dance scores and recorded an audiovisual experience to discover different forms of dance in Móstoles.
All of this movement prompted multiple questions that continue to energise the project:  Where can dance be found? Who can dance? How can we document our own dances? What do we learn when we dance?

This year we want to go on exploring, opening up new routes and looking at the place where we live with different eyes. Using body play, time and space, we’ll design major choreographic expeditions to imagine and share new ways of dancing together.

The activity is led by Alba Sáenz-López Aumente and Mar Sáenz-López Aumente, dancers, choreographers, cultural mediators and founders of Baiven, a collective that uses dance as a form of cultural mediation and is committed to the horizontal sharing of experiences, perspectives, knowledge and critical thinking. 

You can sign up at any time during the school year.
Places are subject to availability, but we’ll be delighted to welcome you if there are any vacancies.

 

Activity type
Dates
FROM OCTOBER TO MAY
Registration
-
Entrance

“Dancing the neighbourhood”, held every Tuesday evening at the Museo CA2M, is conceived as a permanent meeting space for children, a little community where the ordinary becomes special, where every gathering is an opportunity to discover something new along with other people, a feel-good place in which to explore through the body and movement. 

Actividades asociadas
Subtitle
EXTRACURRICULAR DANCE AND MOVEMENT WORKSHOP
Categoría cabecera
Bailar el barrio
DANCING THE NEIGHBOURHOOD 2025–2026
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Picture: Sue Ponce.

Is it a cycle?
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Duration
Tuesday 5:30pm - 7:00pm

There are some images that rather than appearing fully formed on the celluloid acquire their shape more slowly, little by little. That’s precisely what has happened with the silhouette of a community that has yet to acquire a name: it’s emerged gradually out of workshops, conversations and shared gestures, as a group open to anyone who is curious about films and education, and wants to discover them by watching, listening and imagining. 

This group, which is still in the making, aims to become a space for meeting and working together. A place for sharing experiences, watching films, making films, and thinking about the classroom and what fall outside its remit. We’re interested in sound, image, movement, and all their possible extensions.  

The meetings will take place during the school year between 5 and 7 pm, like the two hours in real time in which Cleo from 5 to 7 takes place, and which we want to turn into meaningful hours: a parenthesis for listening, creating and shared thinking. 

We’ll continue to shape this image as the year progresses. We don’t yet know its definitive form because we want everyone who takes part in the activity to help build it. We’ll set the dates at each meeting as we go along. In any case, it will be a space to test out ideas, to share imaginaries, to make proposals as they occur to us and to engage fully in whatever emerges.

As the first gesture, the first still image, we’ll get together this autumn for a screening of audiovisuals made by teachers, organised by the local art teachers’ association. This will be our launch pad for starting to watch and listen as a group headed to the same place. 

Aimed at educators, teachers and anyone interested in audiovisuals and education. If you want to join us, fill in the form and we’ll let you know about the meetings and activities. 

 

Dates
ONE WEDNESDAY PER MONTH
Registration
-
Topics
Entrance

A place to watch films, make films, think about the classroom and everything outside it. Aimed at teachers, lecturers and anyone interested in audiovisual media and education. This space encourages us to explore new ways of learning, teaching and viewing collectively.

Events
Categoría cabecera
Taller profesorado
FROM 5 TO 7
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Duration
FROM 5 PM TO 7 PM

Just like the end of every school year, we are looking for a special way to kick off the summer. This year we’re inviting the artist Sara Manubens, who will suggest that we collectively create our own House Drag over the course of four days.

‘This workshop uses the tools of the art of drag as creative power for working with ourselves. I am suggesting an open, sensitive space where all bodies, concerns, fantasies, fears and illusions have a place, with the goal of sharing. We want to share who we are, who we want to be, what makes us uneasy and what we reject. And we will transform all of this into artistic material. How? Through drag art technologies: lip syncing, choreography, exaggerated theatre, makeup, humour and vibrant emotions. We’ll do it through friendship and being together, because that is House Drag: a horizontal space of mutual support to make life happier.’

 

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Dates
30 June to 3 July 2025
Target audience
Entrance

Just like the end of every school year, we are looking for a special way to kick off the summer. This year we’re inviting the artist Sara Manubens, who will suggest that we collectively create our own House Drag over the course of four days.

Actividades asociadas
Subtitle
SUMMER WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Categoría cabecera
Taller
House of the Seas
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Picture: Camila Goa

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Duration
Monday to Thursday from 11h to 14h.

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.

La Fresquera is a place where time stands still a little, where you can come read, play cards, talk… or simply do nothing. A place where the cool air is appreciated, like when you used to sit in your doorway in good company with a pitcher of water next to you.

La Fresquera isn’t an activity; it’s an attitude. It’s opening the museum’s doors to turn it into that courtyard, square or porch where you love to be. We’ve prepared a series of comfortable, quiet spaces full of plants where you can feel at home.

We care for your plants. Watering Can Initiative

We know that many people go on holiday in summer and don’t know what to do with their plants. At La Fresquera, we are thinking about them, too, and that’s why we are launching the Watering Can Initiative. From 25 June to 15 September, the museum is offering to care for the plants of the residents of Móstoles. All you have to do is fill out a form to choose the days you want to leave us your plants and tell us how to care for them, and we’ll do the rest: find the best spot for them, water them, even talk to them if needed… Here we treat them like they’re one of the family.

Activity type
Dates
THE MONTHS OF JULY, AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER
Target audience
Entrance

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.

Categoría cabecera
La fesquera
COOL DOWN AT THE CA2M MUSEUM
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In this last reality bite, we immerse ourselves in brain rot, the infinite scroll where time lost onscreen goes. We are inviting all the artists we have partnered with this year to open up a window onto their private lives through their favourite memes and videos in a unique, shared video-tapping. A relaxed conversation with snacks like a celebration of Internet culture and what unites us on the big screen.

Activity type
Dates
FRIDAY 20 JUNE
Target audience
Topics
Acceso notas adicionales

CAPACITY: 50 PEOPLE

Entrance

In this last reality bite, we immerse ourselves in brain rot, the infinite scroll where time lost onscreen goes.

Subtitle
WHERE THINGS CONTINUE
Categoría cabecera
Actividad
INFINITE SCROLL · DIGITAL DISCORD
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Duration
2,5 HOURS

Lots of things happen in the summertime that don’t seem as possible throughout the year: you meet new people, eat more ice cream than allowed, stay out later… Time streeeeeetches out, like when you step on chewing gum with your shoes. When we were little, we may have gotten bored, especially those of us who stayed in the city. There are hours when you can’t go outside unless you want to fry like an egg, and that’s when the maddest ideas are hatched.
How about we mix chocolate and sausage?
Those of us who already have a few summers under our belts are trying to conserve this spirit, and we wonder… what if Madrid’s asphalt turned into the sea? Could an art centre be a shell for a hermit crab? Could the CA2M Museum be a refuge for children in the summer? What about all year round?

On Hermits and Shells aims to turn the museum into a portal to a reality where these ideas may be possible, beginning with constructing our own space for and with children: a coral reef, a giant shell, a summer home… with views of the sea? Hairy walls? No adults?
Then we’ll see if we want to head out to explore our new habitat, leaving a slime trail like snails but in fluorescent colours so we don’t forget our way back and in case we want to invite anyone to enter.

Through performative games, installations and textile sculptures, we’ll also create our own portable homes so we can carry all our wishes and scatter them around the corners, hoping to communicate with other beings, in other spaces, in other seasons… beyond summer.

Massa Salvatge is a work cooperative located in Valencia that imagines, develops and promotes educational and cultural spaces for action, where critical imaginaries are explored in relation to the social issues that affect us. They work from an ‘anti-adult’ perspective of education, art and culture, placing the focus on children’s rights and needs. The group has drawn from the diverse backgrounds, knowledge and expertise of its members, using artistic tools and strategies, cultural mediation and education as their foundation, and they have blended these practices with research and participatory action, cultural management and training.

 

 

 

Activity type
Dates
From 8 to 11 July
Acceso notas adicionales

Workshop for 12 persons (Registration from 9 June to 8 July)

Entrance

Summer workshop for children with Massa Salvatge.

Subtitle
Summer cottage
Categoría cabecera
Caracolas
ON HERMITS AND SHELLS SUMMER CABIN
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Picture: Massa Salvatge

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Duration
From 11 to 13:30

Let the drum roll start, the fans flutter and the families get ready, because the festival is about to begin!

The museum is turning into a square, a place of revelry, a meeting point, and it’s opening its doors two at a time to welcome all families in a celebration filled with joy, creativity and unforgettable moments. Welcome to the big celebration of the year!

Because doing needlework and dancing—it’s all about getting started… Let’s gather to celebrate what we’ve shared, what we’ve created and what we’ve experienced! This celebration brings together everyone we’ve worked with throughout the year to close the season enthusiastically with the proposals of the artists who have unquestionably nailed it!

Stars of this big celebration:

Baiven with the kids from ‘Dancing the Neighbourhood’ (Alba Sáenz-López Aumente and Mar Sáenz-López Aumente) have held the Dancing the Neighbourhood workshop on Tuesday afternoons throughout the entire school year. It’s a meeting point for neighbourhood kids where they have discovered dance in unexpected places, expanding their view of movement in the world. What might they be preparing for us for this occasion?

Adriana Reyes and Goya Batalla Batalla have held the From those clays, these seams workshop for nursery and primary school kids, bringing boxes filled with thread, yarn and thimbles, filled with stories they have shared around the pleasure of embroidery. What stories are concealed in those thimbles?

Tania Arias Winogradow, with whom we’ve built real nests where you can rest inside the museum, accompanied by Santiago Rapallo and Eleni Chaidemenaki, suggest a very special afternoon snack for this festive day. Do we really always have to eat sitting around a table?

And now… raise the curtain, play the music and make sure everyone’s here! Because this celebration is not only a party; it’s an homage to everything we’ve experienced. Thanks for stitching this year together with us! See you next year—and keep up this shared joy!

 

Activity type
Dates
21 JUNE
Target audience
Entrance

On 21 June, the museum dresses up to celebrate the grand closing of the school year.

Categoría cabecera
Verbena
REVELRY: NEEDLEWORK AND DANCE—ITS ALL ABOUT GETTING STARTED
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Picture: Sue Ponce

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Duration
17:30h - 19:30h