The tour to the building pays particular attention to its history, the original architecture and its refurbishment process, as well as to the current use of its spaces as a cultural center.

What is a “notebook”? Human beings have always created places to inscribe their fleeting thoughts: wax tablets, walls, pieces of pottery, sheets of paper... From the Renaissance on, this place for the transitory and brief would acquire the status of a portable studio, and notebooks would become...

hablarenarte and CentroCentro, in the framework of the programme The New Dictionary of Old Ideas, open a call for three production residencies with a duration of 3 months each (from June to August 2019). The residencies will be connected to a travelling exhibition to happen in 2020.

This call is...

Memelismos (Memelisms) employs sculpture and formalism to explore issues linked to the popular imaginary in an attempt to use objects to create an archive of memories.

Juanli Carrión will work with residents of Madrid, inviting them to build a collaborative sculpture that represents the living...

14 March 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Cibeles Palace, which houses CentroCentro Cultural Centre. Since it first opened as the Telecommunications Palace, the building has had various incarnations and has been the focus of myriad gazes. This idea of looking, of assessing from...

Enjoyment is one of the fundamental aspects of today's work narrative. Its implications, conversely, don't involve increased pleasure in the work sphere but rather increased dedication and time devoted to work. Added to this situation is the matter of “compensation” and its complicity in the...

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This conversation critically delves into common themes such as the image, the apparatus, the ornament, through different methodologies (curating, artistic practice and theoretical and historical research).

Participants: Catalina Lozano, curator and Asier Mendizabal, artist.

 

Between 2005 and 2008, Mantilla and Chaves made various trips around Latin America.  On one of them they discovered the Library of the Centre for Theological Studies of the Amazon (CETA) in the Peruvian city of Iquitos. Years later, with the aim of further exploring the inconsistencies arising from...