Featured Events in Madrid in July, 2025 (July Updated)

The museum is presenting a selection of around fifty collages by the film director and screenwriter Isabel Coixet (born 1960). Curated by Estrella de Diego, the exhibition is part of the PhotoEspaña 2025 programme. Isabel Coixet has been working for years on collages made from paper and photographs that are reminiscent of the preparatory shots employed by some Hollywood directors, who left nothing to chance. There is a continuity between what Coixet demands from the viewer in her films and the narrative place in which her collages locate visitors to the exhibition. These are works that connect with the great avant-garde tradition of this art form - from Hanna Höch to Kurt Schwitters - and also associate Coixet with a certain precariousness, with a way of working with little which she also pursues in her films.

The Palacio de Cristal has traditionally been a space where artists are commissioned to work on a new piece conceived specifically for its unique architecture. Although the restoration and repair work currently being carried out on its structure means visitors cannot access its interior, the programme held within to support the public display of current art continues all the same. In fact, it is the radical imagination of artists that will enable the Museo Reina Sofía to continue to endow this emblematic space with cultural content. The first such artist to take part in this series is Miguel Ángel Tornero (Baeza, 1978), who contributes with a work devised for the canvases which will cover the building during its first year of restoration work.

A Life in a Few Lines marks the first major European retrospective of the Lebanese-born artist Huguette Caland (Beirut, 1931–2019), whose life and work spanned decades, continents and media, challenging the aesthetic and social conventions of her time. Featuring approximately 300 drawings, paintings, sculptures and work in other media, as well as documentary ephemera, the exhibition weaves a new narrative around Caland’s practice, questioning perceptions of her cosmopolitan rootlessness to show an artist deeply connected to community, communication and the idea of home. It also reveals her defiance of social and sexual norms in work that explores notions of gender, the body, belonging, love, aging and personhood, all of which is set against the broader geopolitical currents of a decolonising and neoliberalising world.

Hello Everyone is a large-scale installation that brings together works by Léa Estrucci (Barcelona, ​​1981) from 2011 to the present day. These works incorporate formal variations, constituting a fragmented and echoing archive that includes sculptures, sounds, moving images, graphic works and visual scores. Overall, it can be seen as both a retrospective and a navigable warehouse.

The exhibition “Reencountering Néstor” seeks to retrospectively reinterpret the image of Néstor Martín-Fernández de la Torre (Las Palmas, 1887-1938), an artist from the Canary Islands with a wide range of interests. From paintings and murals to theatre sets and costumes by such notable figures as Manuel de Falla and Antonia Mercé y Luque, La Argentina, the exhibition features more than 100 works that are relatively unknown outside the island.

This anthological exhibition on Marisa González (Bilbao, 1943) surveys the artist’s career after she was awarded the Velázquez Prize in 2023. A series of works from the 1970s, made in the Department of Generative Systems from the School of the Art Institute de Chicago, foretells of the artist’s early and sustained interest in communication and image reproduction technology, a concern what would situate González at the forefront of such experimentation in Spain. Some years later, she would in fact participate in Procesos (Processes), a 1986 exhibition that opened the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and explored the intersections between culture and new technology. Moreover, the subject matter explored in some of her earlier works (images related to violence against women, revisions of maternity, etc.) have granted the artist a position in recent research on feminist genealogies in Spanish art.

The museum presents a solo exhibition by Japanese artist Ayako Rokkaku (Tokyo, 1982) that traces her artistic evolution through thirty early and recent works, including paintings, sculptures and installations. The exhibition, part of the programme of shows devoted to the Blanca and Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, reveals a universe in constant transformation, where past and present intermingle, and where paradise is not a destination, but a fleeting sensation, just beyond reach yet always within feeling.

The work of Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1978) fuses sculptural installation, video and performance to open a reflection on his own biography and on his country’s turbulent history, marked by different forms of violence and armed conflict. Ramírez-Figueroa’s practice draws from Latin American political activism and experimental theatre, calling into question established and entrenched narratives which have emerged on specific episodes in the recent past. Through the physicality of bodies and staged environments that envisage fantasy and reality, the artist revisits his own traumas and those of a country shaped by colonial extractivism, civil war and the social imbalance of the Indigenous population.

Terrafilia, a term that combines Terra (Earth) with filia (love and friendship), expresses a deep connection of affection, care and responsibility to the Earth and its countless inhabitants. Loving the Earth involves engaging with animals, plants, geological formations and supernatural creatures, as well as rethinking the place of humanity within the complex and tangled network of life. Faced with the growing pressures of global warming, loss of biodiversity and growing inequalities, this exhibition uses art to imagine and orient visitors towards transformative ways of being-in-the-world, mobilizing affinity between species, new types of collectivities and planetary care. Organized in collaboration with TBA21-Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Terrafilia brings together about a hundred works covering five centuries of the Thyssen-Bornemisza, Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, including artists such as Joachim Patinir, Wassily Kandisnky, Natalia Goncharova, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Ins Zenha, Ayrson Heraclito and Hervé Yamguen. These works present an evocative spectrum of artistic and intellectual explorations, revealing the depth and scope of stories beyond the human and imaginary multi-species. Resisting the entrenched dualism of modern cosmology, based on the separation between the social and the natural, the exhibition invites visitors, through the lens of artists from various generations and traditions, to meet the world as a multiverse: a world of many worlds. Terrafilia also marks a decisive shift away from anthropocentric and western-centric perspectives, embracing an emerging planetary policy. In doing so, it aligns with recent philosophical, anthropological, ethical and legal twists that advocate the recognition of non-human life and biological and geological entities as participants of a planetary multitude. Structured into seven interconnected scenarios, the exhibition addresses topics such as cosmograms, animated worlds, the art of dreams, objectivity, relations with the earth, mythical times and ocean cosmogonies. These thematic currents guide visitors through different ways of relating to the Earth - through myth, science, dreams, stories, spirituality and ecology, while critically questioning the stories of colonial expansion, resource extraction and ecological violence that have shaped the current planetary crisis.

Espacio Cultural Serrería Belga is pleased to welcome After All: Photography in the Helga de Alvear Collection. Part of the PHotoESPAÑA 2025 programme, this exhibition surveys the visual history of Europe’s transformation through its architecture, revisiting a century of rupture and rebirth in which photographers documented the echoes of war, industry, and memory. It shows the gaping wound left by World War I, the industrial crisis that hit West Germany in 1950 and later spread to the rest of Europe and the United States, and the reshaping of the global political order after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event that marked the birth of contemporary society, with all its contradictions and conflicts. We have a specific image of each of these three historical eras, an image constructed by photography and represented in the Helga de Alvear Collection. The first was defined by the New Objectivity artists of the 1920s and 1930s, preceded by Eugène Atget, who extinguished every glimmer of optimism and eradicated all traces of subjectivity and pictorialism in an attempt to represent the interwar years with technical precision and formal accuracy, while simultaneously initiating the debate about the veracity of photography.

Terraphilia —a term combining Terra (Earth) with philia (love and friendship)— expresses a deep-rooted connection of affect, care, and responsibility toward the Earth and its multitudes of inhabitants. To love the Earth is to pledge allegiance to animals, plants, geological formations, and supernatural creatures, as well as to rethink humanity’s place within the complex, interwoven web of life. In the face of the mounting pressures of planetary heating, biodiversity loss, and increasing inequalities, the exhibition turns to art to envision and orient us toward transformative ways of being in the world, mobilizing interspecies kinship, new kinds of collectivities, and planetary care.

Summer Scenes is back to bring live culture to every corner of the region. Dance, theatre, music, art, circus and more will come together in one local event for all audiences. Now in its sixth year, the festival celebrates innovation, experimentation and creativity with an open and multidisciplinary programme. A vibrant event that brings together the best of culture from across the region, taking place during July, August and September. Enjoy summer with us!

AC/DC Madrid is set to electrify the city on July 16, 2025, at the renowned EstadioRiyadhAirMetropolitano. This highly anticipated event promises an unforgettable evening of rock and roll, beginning at 21:30. With ticket prices ranging from 100 EUR to 180 USD, fans will experience the legendary band's iconic hits in a venue known for its exceptional acoustics and vibrant atmosphere. Located in the heart of Madrid, EstadioRiyadhAirMetropolitano offers convenient access and top-notch facilities, ensuring a seamless experience for all attendees. AC/DC Madrid is not just a concert; it's a monumental event that will resonate with rock enthusiasts long after the final chord is struck.

AC/DC and The Pretty Reckless are set to electrify the stage at EstadioRiyadhAirMetropolitano in Madrid on July 12, 2025, at 21:30. This highly anticipated event promises an unforgettable night of rock music, featuring the legendary AC/DC, known for their high-voltage performances and iconic hits, alongside the dynamic and powerful presence of The Pretty Reckless. With ticket prices set at 100 EUR or 501 USD, fans will experience an evening of unparalleled energy and musical prowess. EstadioRiyadhAirMetropolitano, located in the heart of Madrid, offers a premier venue for this monumental concert, ensuring excellent acoustics and a vibrant atmosphere. This event is a must-see for rock enthusiasts and promises to be a highlight in Madrid's 2025 concert calendar.