The Museo’s public programmes pivot around six force lines which put forward a situated practice and adopt a position before issues that ask questions of us.
Action and Radical Imagination
Research, reflection and debate on the mounting global relevance of social struggles such as feminist activisms and sexual, decolonial and anti-racist dissidence. This line seeks to establish channels of communication and collaboration with artists and collectives putting into practice alternative modes of political action and imagination to challenge normative aspects.
Avant-gardes
The historicization of times and experiences in which art is considered a vector to transform the conditions of our existence and a laboratory of experimentation for new ways of life, and which also leads to a reflection on its current reverberations.
Commons
Research conducted around the notion of the commons (dissociated from the binomial public-private) to explore other modes of constructing heritage and communal life. Within this line, the archives policy fostered by the Museo is inscribed, along with other platforms in pursuit of a common or universal archive.
Contemporary Disturbances
An analysis and reformulation of the categories and certitude of the current historical cycle, marked by a crisis stretching across levels and scales, as much in the emergence of contemporary fascism as the seriousness of the environmental situation, and in the symptoms which in subjectivity are evident before the growing pharmacologization and precariousness of life.
Sensitive Ecologies
A reflection on the material environments and limited conditions that make life and its reproduction in different forms possible. It addresses the aesthetic, political, economic and interspecific relations that arise across the ecosystem, from a conscious understanding based on common listening, olfactory cartography, the democratisation of tastes, the recovery of touch, the emancipation of the gaze and the recognition of proprioception as joint experiences of imagination.
Politics and Aesthetics of Memory
A pooling of artistic and cultural vocabularies in processes of transition between dictatorships and post-dictatorship periods in Latin America, southern Europe and Africa. The aim of this force line is to explore the connections between seemingly distant processes and scenes, allowing new readings to be generated in these processes and their continuation in the contemporary world.
Rethinking the Museum
This lies at the core of the Museo Reina Sofía’s daily practice and prompts a sustained reflexive and critical exercise on its methods, setting out a way of building narratives and accounts around the Collection, the ways in which the construction of common and shared heritage is possible, and imagining other modes of institutionalism before mechanisms that make working and living conditions precarious for us all.
