educacion.ca2m@madrid.org

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.

FUGA is a space where we continue to promote autonomy, exploration and collective undertaking. We don't impose anything here and there are no closed hierarchies: the group members design the programme together.

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 podcast will be a tool for engaging with the museum’s programmes and exhibitions, but also for looking beyond them. It will enable us to map the contemporary art scene, interview artists and curators, visit spaces, chat with cultural agents and make our own voice heard in what is happening right now.

We want FUGA to be a place where we can continue adding to a collective archive, where we can explore current initiatives together, formulate theories, ask questions and continue to engage with the museum from the perspective of our own interests and languages.

We’ll meet twice a week during the year in a friendly, horizontal and experimental setting to design the podcast, record episodes, explore topics, invite people and create a project that is truly ours.

The shelter, retreating to the shelter 
the cave, the cave
the sound box between the shelter walls
the acoustics of the drawings
there where it sounds
we’ve been here for eight years and never sung a full song 

Beyond the end we have never sung
of those lost to the river
from the river to sea
cocorococo

Beyond the urgency-attention
uncertain-subtle-unfinished-unspeakable-invisible
attention intention
being in the phase, in the 3rd phase, not of autonomy but of self-management 
corococo coco cocorococuuuuuuuu

Beyond a new gentleness
that must be invented 
becoming a body of affectations
a beast of a thousand heads with a thousand tongues
reemerges in the shelter of the cave

An amateur choir is a creative project in which any kind of voice is welcome to participate. Every other Thursday, we do our own research sessions as well as sessions with artists who work with voice and listening.

Session dates of An Amateur Choir 2026

15 January / 29 January / 12 February / 26 February / 12 March / 26 March / 9 April / 23 April / 7 May / 21 May / 4 June / 18 June / 1 October / 15 October / 29 October / 5 November / 19 November / 3 December / 17 December.

Those who have come in the past:

An Amateur Choir has featured Sonia Megías, Itziar Okariz, Jaume Ferrete, María Salgado and Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca, Rocío Márquez, Alma Söderberg, Ainara Lagardon, Jhana Beat, Juan G. Araque (Juan Dresán) and Lolita Versache, Luz Prado, Los Torreznos, Makiko Kitago, Julián Mayorga, Agnès Pe, Paloma Carrasco, Anto Rodríguez, Elisa C. Martín, Elena Murcia Pinto with Marina Peralta Murcia, Inma Marín with Jon Cañal and Tania Arias Winogradow with Milo-Andrey Ulises, Rolando San Martín, Amalia Fernández, Elena Córdoba, Raquel G. Ibáñez, Alex Reynolds, Black Tulip, tacoderaya, Mónica Valenciano, Ruth Abellán and Arturo Moya, Ojo Último, Monserrat Palacios and Fátima Miranda, Sole Parody, Enrico Dau Yang Wey, Coco Moya, Veza Fernández, Patricia Leguina, Jesús Burrola, Noela Covelo, Stina Force, Los Cramps (Nilo+Francisco), Ángela Segovia, Eddi Circa + raxet1, E1000, El Gato with Jotas, Nilo Gallego, Tavi Gallart, Hijas de Yocasta, Amaia Bono and Damián Montesdeoca, Piccola, Bea Narcoleptica and Elan d’Orphium.

MATINEES: EXPANDED CINEMA FOR FAMILIES 2026

Matinees is an open, flexible space in which cinema expands: the cinematographic experience spills out of the screen and invites your active participation, regardless of your age.

The white cinema screen—that flat, opaque surface—is also a place to plunge into, to dive down to unsuspected depths. It can spill out of the sides, splashing and soaking everything around it, rising up to the ceiling and raining down from above. The images can adopt unimagined forms: unspeakable, immeasurable. We can watch them from a seat, or alternatively lying down, arm in arm, scattered across the room. Even with our eyes closed. We can touch the light, feel its colours, listen to it like a whisper, like a song. And we can do all of this together, in a room with no seats, no tickets and no popcorn. We believe there are many ways to watch cinema that have yet to be discovered. To explore them, we’ve invited various artists and filmmakers to imagine what those ways are and what other type of cinema has yet to be experienced. The Matinees take place on Saturday mornings and each session will be different: a proposal, an experiment, a challenging experience. We invite you to come with your best friends, your siblings, sons, daughters, dads, mums or grandparents and discover cinema like you have never imagined it. You’ll find all the details and session times here very soon, but for now here are the sessions dates and guests.

PROGRAMME 

28 FEBRUARY | MAIDER FERNÁNDEZ IRIARTE

7 MARCH | MARTA AZPARREN IN COLLABORATION WITH TANIA ARIAS WINOGRADOW

14 MARCH | GÉNESIS VALENZUELA AND MANUEL MUÑOZ 

21 MARCH | ANGIE DE LA LAMA

TIMES: 11.30 am** Time subject to change

Everyone is welcome at the Matinees. We want this programme to be a place for sharing, regardless of age. Babies, boys and girls, young people, adults and seniors: come and join us. You’re free to enter and exit the room during the sessions.

Since 2009 we have been running a performance workshop for teachers, educators and artists interested in education. The week-long activity consists of working with the body to forge collaborative ties and reflect collectively with the Museo CA2M educators, participating teachers and guest artists on educational processes and the performativity of education.

This year we’ve invited the art duo formed by Libia Castro (Spain) and Olafur Olafsson (Iceland), who started their partnership in the Netherlands in 1997. Working with a wide variety of media, their practice is collaborative, conceptual and cross-disciplinary.

The duo’s interventionist projects often involve other people. Over the years, they have teamed up with activist groups and invited other artists, professionals and people from different backgrounds to work with them on art and activism initiatives, creating temporary and flexible collectives governed by a “Do It Together” approach.

They have presented their work on rooftops, in public squares, on building facades, at socio-cultural centres, on radio and television, in living rooms and kitchens. They have also taken part in festivals like the 8th Havana Biennale, Manifesta 7, the 54th Venice Biennale and the 19th Sydney Biennale, and in exhibitions at venues like La Casa Invisible and the Van Abbemuseum. In 2009 they received the third prize of the Dutch Prix de Rome award for their video Lobbysts, and in 2021 they won the Icelandic Art Prize for their polyphonic performance and video In Search of Magic: A Proposal for a New Constitution for The Republic of Iceland.

More details about the workshop will be available here soon.

Previous performance workshops have featured Los Torreznos, Tania Bruguera, Pere Faura, Itziar Okariz, Norberto Llopis, Nilo Gallego, Dora Garcia, Jiri Kovanda, Olga Diego and Jorge Satorre.