Exhibition. Hassan Khan. The Keys to the Kingdom

Hassan Khan. Study for the work Happy Empire, 2019

Hassan Khan. Study for the work Happy Empire, 2019

Hassan Khan's (London, United Kingdom, 1975) broad and diverse artistic practice includes music, performance, moving and still image, sculpture, installation and text. His work engages with both familiar, shared conditions as well as elusive and undisclosed content to produce forms that excite the imagination, raise fundamental questions, channel undercurrents simmering under the surface, seduce and alienate, engage with expectations, pose mysteries as well as help re-articulate our experiences with the shifting structures of power.

For his exhibition at the Palacio de Cristal in Parque del Retiro Khan takes the tumultuous populism of the present and its intriguing method of tapping into the grotesque as a starting point. The Keys to the Kingdom is an exhibition of song, flags, glass sculptures, computer generated murals and other forms that lies on the spectrum between the romantic and the vulgar, the sublime and grotesque. The exhibition enters the imaginary landscape of a political economy underpinned by slavery, exploitation and dehumanization. 

Dates: From 17 October, 2019 to 1 March, 2020
Location: Retiro Park, Palacio de Cristal
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía

 

Master Lecture. Juan Antonio Ramírez Chair: Stephen Eisenman Black Ops in Art and Modern Politics. From Goya to Donald Trump

Pablo Picasso. Cabeza de caballo. Boceto para «Guernica» [Horse Head. Sketch for

This year The Juan Antonio Ramírez Chair invites Stephen Eisenman, one of the most original and innovative art historians in recent times, casts light on today’s central problems — political violence, animalism, human rights — through a double commitment: social, in relation to his work as an activist, and methodological, through his research and its concerns with social approaches to art history. Eisenman offers a master lecture, and in both he will reflect upon so-called ‘black ops’, understood as police or military interventions carried out covertly by States. 

The Juan Antonio Ramírez Chair, which proceeds with the master lectures organised by the Museo’s Study Centre since 2010, is conceived as a space of reflection on art history, starting from its limits and vanishing points, understood as a discourse with specific attributes (iconic-visual, according to Ramírez), and hugely important to contemporary society at a time of image overload.

Date: Tuesday, 8 October 2019
Hour: 7pm
Location: Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía
In collaboration with: Máster universitario en Historia del Arte Contemporáneo y Cultura Visual
Language: English with simultaneous interpretation
Admission: free, with prior ticket collection at the Museo Ticket Offices and on the Museo Reina Sofía website

An education programme developed with the sponsorship of the Banco Santander Foundation

 

Activity Series. Return to the Future? Eighty Years on from the End of the Spanish Civil War

Robert Capa (André Ernö Friedmann). Madrid, November-December 1936, 1936, posthumous print, 1998. Gelatin silver print on paper, 29.4 x 40.2 cm. Museo Reina Sofía

Robert Capa (André Ernö Friedmann). Madrid, November-December 1936, 1936, posthumous print, 1998. Gelatin silver print on paper, 29.4 x 40.2 cm. Museo Reina Sofía

The 1936 coup d’état and the ensuing civil war splintered reality, the pieces scattering across complex [in]exiles, disappearances, silences… faltering and inconclusive narratives, fertile, multifocal and widespread memories that pulse and throb today, cross-examining the present and managing to distort a univocal, hegemonic gaze. Eighty years on from the end of the Spanish Civil War, the drive of the silenced once again challenges linear history and its ellipses. Thus, the programme Return to the Future? starts from an analysis of three different stages: the Dictatorship, the Transition and Democracy in Spain, reactivating critical power and confronting logics of memory from a present that strikes up a dialogue between accounts of the past and visions of possible futures. 

Check the full programme on the Museo Reina Sofía website.

Date: From 17 October to 4 December 2019
Hour: check programme
Location: Museo Reina Sofía: Sabatini Building, Auditorium and Floor 2 (room 206); Nouvel Building, Floor 0 (exhibition tooms), Protocol Room and Courtyard
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía, Asociación La Comuna and the Anastasio de Gracia-FITEL Foundation
Force line: Politics and the aesthetics of memory
Admission: Free, until full capacity is reached. Some activities require prior registration, check programme

 

Encounter, Round-table discussion and Lecture. The Aníbal Quijano Chair: Communal Feminisms Kurdistan and Latin Amefrica

Made by El Salvador women in ACNUR refuges. Colomoncagua, Honduras, ca. 1983 Dimensions 47 x 53 cm. Courtesy of Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen, El Salvador

Made by El Salvador women in ACNUR refuges. Colomoncagua, Honduras, ca. 1983 Dimensions 47 x 53 cm. Courtesy of Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen, El Salvador

The second edition of the Aníbal Quijano Chair sets up a dialogue between two experiences of communal feminisms, understood as the grounds from which to build other ways of life: the farms and gyneceum’s of the Kurdish Confederation, a democratic organisation that questions the state logic of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria; and the movement of public Afro-Latin American self-organisation in Colombia. Both experiments share a testing of cooperative and reciprocal links led by women and are both developed amid violence. This programme, comprising an encounter, a round-table discussion and a concluding lecture, eschews the rhetoric of heroism and war that intersects conventional political traditions, exploring instead affection that becomes political.

Participants: Elisa Fuenzalida, Besime Konca, Charo Mina Rojas, Rita Segato and Gülcihan Şimşek.

Date: Tuesday, 8 October 2019
Hour: 7pm
Location: Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200 and Study Centre
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía
Programme: The Aníbal Quijano Chair
Admission: 
Encounter: free, by filling out an online form.
Round-table discussion and lecture: free, with prior ticket collection from the Museo Ticket Offices and on the Museo Reina Sofía website

 

Encounter. Radical Language, with Susan Bee, Charles Bernstein and Ron Silliman

Susan Bee, Pow!, Oil, enamel and sand on canvas, 76 x 61 cm, 2014. Courtesy of the artist

Susan Bee, Pow!, Oil, enamel and sand on canvas, 76 x 61 cm, 2014. Courtesy of the artist

This encounter, organised by the Museo Reina Sofía and Seminario Euraca, welcomes poets Charles Bernstein and Ron Silliman and artist Susan Bee, designer of the poetry magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E and co-publisher of  M/E/A/N/I/N/G. All of them, with close ties to the Language poetry movement, will perform readings and present their past and present work, as well as engage in conversation with the attending audience. This encounter wraps up the study programme centred on their work and organised by Seminario Euraca, a research collective that works with the tongues and languages of the present crisis.

Date: Friday, 25 October 2019
Hour: 6:30pm
Location: Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía and Seminario Euraca
Admission: Free, with prior ticket collection from the Museo Ticket Offices and on the Museo Reina Sofía website from 21 October

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