First-semester highlights 2025

Main highlights of CentroCentro’s 2025 first semester exhibition programme:

Rafael Canogar: [I]Realities [Works 1949-2024]
January 30–May 18, 2025
Curator: Alfonso de la Torre

Rafael Canogar’s (Toledo, 1935) first institutional solo exhibition in Madrid for more than 20 years offers a new opportunity to take a fresh look at his extensive and productive career. The exhibition consists of around sixty works –paintings, collages and sculptural reliefs, dating from 1949 to 2024– most of which come from his personal collection, as well as some from other private and public collections such as the MNCARS. In addition, it includes an important documentary collection and filmed interviews. The exhibition portrays an artist at an extraordinary moment of his creative career, characterised by the intensity of his dedication to painting.

Almudena Lobera: Take Long Take
February 13–June 8, 2025
Curator: Tiago de Abreu Pinto

Almudena Lobera’s (Madrid, 1984) most significant institutional exhibition in Madrid to date presents one of her most haunting site-specific works. It unfolds as a continuous journey through an almost symmetrical space, where subtle dissonances within captivating installations evoke a sense of déjà vu in the viewer.  Lobera’s sensory intervention transforms the space through color, conjuring the sensation of a swimming pool where the water rises to the viewer's neck. Through new drawings, sculptures, installations, and video works, she reveals an iconography rooted in her exploration of perception and the creative process, offering an experience where the rational merges with the intangible.

Mar Solís: Origin
February 27–June 15, 2025
Curator: Lorena Martínez de Corral

Madrid–born artist Mar Solís (Madrid, 1967) presents a large-scale installation designed in dialogue with CentroCentro’s monumental architecture, made up of more than twenty sculptures and drawings that create a three-dimensional triptych in the gallery. They all share a genuinely sensory and abstract language, in which opposing concepts are entwined: symmetry and asymmetry, attraction and expansion, light and darkness, matter and antimatter, and a time in which present, past and future converge in the same temporal space. Origin alludes to Mar Solís' fervent interest in science and particularly in modern physics and its intersection with art as a tool for proposing new ways of perception. The exhibition is activated through performances in which the human body, metal and chalk complete the intention of its proposal.

Open Buffet: Almost a Decade of Fueradcarta
February 13–September 28, 2025
Curator: Javier Díaz-Guardiola

Open Buffet explores the first decade of Fueradcarta, a genuinely Madrid-based publishing project directed by artists Patricia Mateo and José Luis López Moral. Fueradcarta distributes limited editions of artists’ books at affordable prices. Each edition consists of one hundred numbered booklets, signed by the artist and accompanied by an original artwork. The exhibition reviews seventy-one limited editions published to date, which represent an atlas of the current Spanish art scene.

Juan Navarro Baldeweg: To Make and Chance
June 12–November 2, 2025
Curator: Ignacio Moreno

Juan Navarro Baldeweg’s first institutional solo exhibition in Madrid in more than ten years provides an overview of the extensive career of this Spanish creator. The exhibition reveals the key themes he has tackled in his work in different expressive media –painting, sculpture, architecture and installation– from the 70’s to his latest work.

Three Formal Experiences: Núria Fuster, Clara Montoya, Sandra Val
June 26–October 26, 2025
Curator: Miguel Cereceda

Inspired by the book Nature, History, God by philosopher Xavier Zubiri, this exhibition brings together sculptures and installations by three talented Spanish artists: Núria Fuster (Alcoy, Alicante, 1978), Clara Montoya (Madrid, 1974) and Sandra Val (Madrid, 1979). Their works in dialogue exemplify these three main concepts of Western metaphysics and aim to foster a new understanding and appreciation for the elements that make up contemporary sculpture, showing how art can elevate the everyday to a higher plane.

Eternal Instant in the Garden: Cristina Almodóvar, Chus García-Fraile, Daniel Verbis
July 10–November 16, 2025
Curator: Lola Durán Úcar

The concept of a garden, as a space for play and contemplation, as an open door to the heart of nature, as a corner of protection and as a place of paradise and desire, but also of excess and fall, is the central theme of this proposal. The exhibition brings together old and new works by Cristina Almodóvar (Madrid, 1970), Chus García-Fraile (Madrid, 1965) and Daniel Verbis (León, 1968).