17 must-see galleries at Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend
Dec 10, 2021
The Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend is here and RedCollectors brings you a virtual tour of 17 essential galleries. Live a unique experience and collect the best pieces of contemporary art of the moment.
Galleries you can't miss at the Opening
PONCE + ROBLES
The Ponce + Robles gallery opened in 2012 and is the union of two Madrid gallery owners, Raquel Ponce and José Robles. With a long track record, their gallery gives visibility to Spanish artists on the international scene. They have participated in more than 80 fairs in Spain and abroad, such as ARCO Madrid, Zona Maco in Mexico City, Art Lima, Parc Lima, Volta in Basel, Pinta Miami or Frieze New York.
Carlos Nunes, Chantal Peñalosa, Ding Musa, Elza Maria Sinimbu, Pilar Quinteros and Patricio Blanche
Tragedy was in the air
FREIJO GALLERY
Freijo Gallery was founded in Madrid in 2010 with the aim of giving visibility to conceptual art, visual poetry, performance and sound art.
Shell Sherry
Time measurements
Elba Benitez
Since its opening in 1990, the Elba Benítez Gallery has embraced the broad spectrum of media in contemporary art production (sculpture, painting, photography, video, site-specific installations, performance, collective actions). Over the years, the gallery has strived to explore other channels of artistic expression formed by the interaction of art with other disciplines, such as architecture, cinema, tourism, urban planning and the production of projects for public spaces.
Nohemí Pérez, Marwan Rechmaoui, Dierk Schmidt
Painting and Geopolitics
FERNANDO PRADILLA
Opened in late 2001, the Fernando Pradilla Gallery aims to promote and disseminate contemporary art in Latin America and Spain, acting as a bridge to the knowledge of artistic expressions on both continents.
Alberto Baraya
Fables of an artificial naturalist
1 LOOK AT MADRID
1 Mira Madrid focuses on current artistic practices in Eastern Europe and Latin America, without ever forgetting the national panorama. For this new project, the commitment to sociopolitical and feminist art was reinforced, with the dual objective of questioning and initiating a debate on the context in which we currently live.
Esther Ferrer
Space/Time/Presence
THE RYDER
Patricia Lara founded The RYDER in a garage on London's famous Herald Street in 2015. In four years, the gallery has become a platform for artistic discourses that understand the creative process as an end and performance as a medium that dialogues with contemporary society.
Belen Uriel
S/T
WHITE BERLIN
Specialising in photography and visual arts, Blanca Berlín focuses on the most innovative trends in contemporary Spanish and international photography, represented by both established artists and promising talents. Occasionally, it also hosts other artistic disciplines other than photography.
Cecilia Paredes
That old tunnel called time
AURAL GALLERY
Founded in 2001 in Alicante, since December 2019 Aural has a new headquarters in Madrid, with which it seeks to consolidate a gallery project based on defending contemporary artistic practices by working with national and international artists whose discourses are based on a personal line of research and contemporary thought.
Jose Maldonado
Postimetries
ALVARO ALCAZAR
The Álvaro Alcázar gallery focuses on the dissemination of contemporary art. The gallery's programme is based on the representation and exhibition of established and mid-career Spanish and foreign artists. The gallery features different artistic disciplines such as painting, sculpture, photography and video.
Rafael Canogar
Origin
CAMERA OBSCURA ART GALLERY
Camara Oscura is a multidisciplinary art gallery specializing in international contemporary photography. Our value proposition consists of presenting the best current artists to the collector, selected with a professional, alternative and transgressive criterion, as well as promoting our artists with a vision of the future, with special emphasis on participation in international fairs.
Ellen Kooi
Written in Water
MARRIED SANTAPAU GALLERY
The Casado Santapau Gallery was founded in 2007 and represents established artists who are in the middle of their professional careers and who experiment with various formats. The gallery's curatorial program is a fundamental pillar in the idea of using this space as a laboratory to question new languages in contemporary art within the limits of minimal and conceptual art.
Enrique Martinez Celaya
A Poem to Madrid
Rafael Perez Hernando
The Rafael Perez Hernando gallery It was first opened in 1996 in Madrid and moved to Calle Orellana 18 in 2004, where it began a line of exhibitions featuring emerging artists and established painters. The gallery works with rigor and coherence in its proposal, where color, imperfection, light, emptiness and balance coexist.
Simon Callery
S/T
Moses Perez de Albeniz
Founded in 1996 by Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, the MPA Gallery has fostered the careers of a diverse group of nationally and internationally renowned artists, both emerging and established, working in multiple disciplines and through various media. The MPA Gallery represents artists from the United States, Europe and South America in Madrid.
Elvira Love
Paths of jungles
Lucia Mendoza
Opened in 2014, Lucía Mendoza is a contemporary art gallery located in the heart of Madrid. The gallery's proposal includes artists from different countries and cultures whose practices and aesthetics represent, from different disciplines of the visual arts, a contribution to contemporary sociocultural research; revealing, as the intention of the gallery's artistic direction, the role of contemporary art as a mirror of today's society, in its broadest and most complex sense, as well as its interaction with the environment.
Josefina Guilisasti
The sea is dressed in feathers and the ice is painted red
F2 GALLERY
F2 Galería, directed by Paloma González and Enrique Tejerizo, opens its exhibition space in Madrid in mid-2014. F2 Galería represents Spanish and international artists, established and emerging, seeking to play an important role in the European art scene.
Federico Miró
S/T
Sabrina Amrani
Sabrina Amrani opened her eponymous gallery based in Madrid, Spain, in June 2011. French of Algerian origin, she was raised in a mix of cultures, traditions and habits that are common to most of the artists she works with. The gallery represents artists from across the East and West, bridging cultural gaps and promoting dialogue and intellectual development through it.
Collective Exhibition
Out of place
WILD GALLERY
The proposal of Galería Silvestre is aimed at working in the artistic field of contemporary painting without ruling out other disciplines such as sculpture, photography, drawing... Its ideology is to welcome emerging artists with a consolidated career and work experience. All without rushing, from the pause and celebrating each situation with joy and the advantage of the common.
Rebecca Glover
To the edge of what I wasn't, I was