Exhibition. Ceija Stojka. This Has Happened

The Reina Sofía Museum hosts a retrospective dedicated to the Austrian-romani artist Ceija Stojka (1933–2013) a self-taught painter and narrator, and author of a late-blooming literary and pictorial body of work developed from 1986 onwards. Stojka was born into a family of traders who, after the annexation of Austria, were persecuted through the racial National Socialism laws and separated and interned in different concentration camps. In the 1980s, she began to draw on her memories, initially through oral narrations and poems, and subsequently through painting.

The present exhibition offers a tour of the work of the artist, who painted on paper and card, employing oils or acrylic materials she applied either with a brush or directly with her fingers, using vivid colours and sharp lines to give her work vibrancy.

Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía in collaboration with La maison rouge - Fondation Antoine de Galbert (Paris)
Curatorship: Paula Aisemberg, Noëlig Le Roux, Xavier Marchand-Lanicolacheur

Dates: 22 November, 2019 - 23 March, 2020
Location: Sabatini Building, Floor 3

Encounter. Misplaced Trans History. Transgender Day of Remembrance

Collection of the Trans Argentina Memory Archive

In conjunction with the Transgender Day of Remembrance, held annually to remember those who have been killed through transphobia, hate and fear, the Museo Reina Sofía will organise an encounter to present the Archivo de la Memoria Trans (Archive of Trans Memory, AMT), an alternative cartography created with a view to repositioning hidden and silenced historical documentation as it questions the politics of visibility.    

The origin of this archive hails from the figures of María Belén Correa and Claudia Pía Baudracco, trans activist women and the founders, in 1933, of ATA (the Association of Argentinian Transvestites). Both longed for a space in which to gather surviving companions, and their memories and images, in the hope of preserving the memory of bodies that suffered police violence or were abandoned or punished by the Argentinian State in power until the early 1990s.

Participants: María Belén Correa, Cecilia Estalles, Magalí Muñiz and Carla Pericles (representatives of the Trans Memory Archive).

Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía
With the support of: Embassy of Argentina in Spain
Inside the framework of: We Speak for Our Difference. LGTBIQ+ Programme and Objectors. Feminisms in the Museo
Force line: Action and radical imagination

Date: Thursday, 21 November 2019
Hour: 7pm
Location: Sabatini Building, Vaults Gallery
Admission: Free, until full capacity is reached

Encounter. Situated Voices 10. Debt, Feminine Plural

Elise Fitte-Duval, Des mareyeuses attendent les pêcheurs tôt le matin, sur la plage de Bargny [Women processing fish wait for fishermen early in the morning at Bargny Beach], 2019

Inside the framework of Museo Situado, a network of collaboration with different migrant collectives and associations from Madrid’s Lavapiés neighbourhood and the Museo Reina Sofía, this new edition of Situated Voices explores the different artistic and feminist approaches to the notion of debt, understood as an instrument of economic, political and cultural domination. In this respect, debt alludes to, on the one side, States’ foreign debts, leaving them without agency and at the service of external economic interests; and, on the other, to a widespread mechanism of social control in the contemporary world, delineating what is gradually becoming known as “the factory of the indebted man”.

Organised by: Museo Situado
With the collaboration of: Grigri Projects and Plataforma Auditoría Ciudadana
Programme: Situated Voices
Force line: Contemporary Malaise
Language: Spanish and French with simultaneous interpretation

Date: Tuesday, 26 November 2019
Hour: 7pm
Location: Nouvel Building, Protocol Room
Admission: Free, until full capacity is reached

Screening. Interval 28. Oliver Laxe. O que arde [Fire Will Come]

Oliver Laxe. O que arde [Fire Will Come]. Film, 2019

This new edition of Intervals, a screening series centred on recent film work, presents O que arde [Fire Will Come, 2019] directed by Oliver Laxe. The film, a story of containment and the wish for destruction based on the life of an arsonist depicts rural inhabitants’ refusal to disappear in rural-exodus Spain. The filming of real fires, the psychological factor of the landscape and working with non-professional actors — the inhabitants of the Os Ancares mountains in Lugo and León, where the film is shot — sculpt a work which is at once tragic and beautiful.

O que arde will be screened together with Y las chimeneas decidieron escapar, an early short film by the author, made in collaboration with Enrique Aguilar.

Oliver Laxe, will present the first session and hold a talk after the screening.

Organised by: Museo Situado
Programme: Intervals

Dates: Thursday, 28 November and Sunday, 1 December 2019
Hour: 7pm and 6:30pm
Location: Sabatini Building, Auditorium
Admission: Free, until full capacity is reached

Encounter. Keeping the Promise. World AIDS Day

Intervention by La Radical Gai and LSD on 1 December 1996. World AIDS Day, Madrid

Over the past 30 years, World AIDS Day has been commemorated on 1 December. During this period, the protests, struggles and actions related to what life with HIV entails have varied, depending on the different stages of the AIDS crisis. In conjunction with this day, the Museo Reina Sofía will participate in actions by putting forward activities that articulate memory exercises with present-day reflections, organising a session featuring the participation of associations and people doing research and making art works that revolve around life with HIV.

Furthermore, there will be a presentation of the forthcoming formation of the study group Espantando el mal (Scaring Evil Away), to be established at the end of January 2020. The encounter and study group is coordinated and supported by Equipo re, a research and production platform that works at the crossroads between body and archive politics.

Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía
Inside the framework of: We Speak for Our Difference. LGTBIQ+ Programme
Force line: Contemporary Malaise

Date: Sunday, 1 December 2019
Hour: 11am
Location: Nouvel Building, Protocol Room
Admission: Free, until full capacity is reached