PROGRAMME 2026-2027

The director of the Reina Sofía Museum, Manuel Segade, has presented the program for the coming year in the Museo, spanning the period from September 2026 to July 2027.

Central to the new programme is the importance of the body, visitors’ active participation and different exercises to expand the art history cannon, and nine temporary exhibitions, eight devoted to women artists. In the Collections area, there will be second editions of History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but it Does Rhyme and Single Piece, in addition to a rehang of different rooms on Floor 2 of the Sabatini Building, bringing still-unknown female artists to the fore, to mark the hundredth anniversary of the Generation of ’27. Moreover, the avant-garde holdings from the Lafuente Archive will form an exhibition in the Sabatini Building’s Protocol Room and 150 works from the Reina Collections will travel to the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw as part of the exhibition Pearls and Scars.

A further innovation this year is the continued incorporation of live arts into the Museo’s public programmes. María Gimeno’s performance Queridas Viejas (Old Mistresses) and the retrospective on the prominent works of La Ribot — in a continual eight-hour piece in the Palacio de Velázquez — will form part of a music programme which engages in dialogue with Collection. Contemporary Art: 1975–Present and opens with the figure of Spanish punk Ana Curra and proceeds with Plena Pausa, a solo project by J de Los Planetas which forms a soundtrack to unreleased short films by Iván Zulueta.