ALBERTO GRECO. VIVA EL ARTE VIVO, retrospective of one of the most unique figures in international avant-garde art

The exhibition Alberto Greco. Viva el arte vivo is a retrospective which seeks, from a grounding in Alberto Greco’s body of work in full, to cast light on the Argentinian artist’s career over time, engaging at once in a dialogue with the avant-garde of his time and the relation his work bears to our present. 

This temporary exhibition is on display from 11 February to 8 June 2026 on Floor 0 of the Museo Reina Sofía’s Sabatini Building. The survey, arranged across eight rooms, chronologically and conceptually ranges over the artistic arc of the Argentinian artist in the period spanning from 1949 to 1965. 

In a show comprising more than 200 works and documents — paintings, drawings, collages, writings, manifestos, photographs of Greco’s actions — that bear witness as much to his literary writings and work in the plastic arts as his actions in public space, visitors can immerse themselves in Alberto Greco’s life and work via a survey stretching from his beginnings in poetry and painting to his development of arte vivo, which Greco unfolded in street actions and objets vivants, to his drawings and Madrid writings, to collages he dubbed “self-propaganda” and, finally, to the novel Besos brujos (Bewitching Kisses), written before his death. 

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