What are the new galleries that have recently opened in Madrid like? Where are they? Who are their young gallery owners? What is the training of these entrepreneurs? Which artists do they exhibit? Who are their collectors? After COVID, confinement and Filomena, in times of e-commerce, fiber-speed communications and new international conflicts… why open a new art gallery in Madrid?
Ensanchar la puertais an exhibition that aims to answer these questions and many more, giving a voice to the newest gallery owners who have opened the doors of their spaces in the city in recent years. A selection of them will present their projects and the work of their artists. This project is planned in three phases: a first in the form of interviews with the gallery owners, accessible in the form ofpodcast; The second, as a physical tour of the results of this research, together with a collective exhibition of the artists represented by these galleries; the third, through a public programme of round tables that will take place during the exhibition, to analyse and debate the information obtained throughout this research.
With these three moments we aim to offer an overview of the new Madrid galleries, both for those who know the traditional art trade in our city, and for those who have not frequented it until now.
In the 1960s, gallery owner Leo Castelli, seeing that the artists he worked with were creating increasingly larger canvases, had the door to his gallery widened. This gesture of collaboration and understanding conveys both the will of the galleries and their involvement with the artists, as well as that of this exhibition, which opens its doors to give visibility to the new entrepreneurs in the art market in Madrid.
WIth the galleries Arniches 26, Belmonte, El Chico, la oficina, Picnic y Pradiauto.
Curated by Joaquín García Martín
