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Modern art, flamenco and cinema shape the new season at Juan March
Fundación Juan March is approaching a new season of exhibitions, concerts, talks and film series from its headquarters on Calle Castelló. The programme will begin in September and expand Madrid's cultural offerings with proposals focused on modern art, the Siglo de Oro, classical music and flamenco.
One of the main events will be The Aesthetic Transition. Spain, 1960–2020, opening on 16 October. The exhibition will examine how international currents in modern and contemporary art entered Spain and changed the creative landscape over six decades.
The exhibition will bring together works by more than thirty artists, including Kandinsky, Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, Constantin Brancusi, Paul Klee, Robert Motherwell, John Cage and Andy Warhol. The route will draw on specific works and episodes to explain the relationship between Spanish creation and the great artistic transformations of the twentieth century.
The next major exhibition will arrive in March 2027 and will be devoted to Roberto Burle Marx. Drawings, models, projects and audiovisual material will show how the Brazilian creator transferred the principles of modern design to gardens and landscapes, becoming a key figure in landscape architecture.
The musical season will begin on 30 September with Andrómeda y Perseo, a co-production with Teatro de la Zarzuela and the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico. The work will revive a Golden Age show with text by Calderón de la Barca and music attributed to Juan Hidalgo that had not returned to the stage for centuries.
The programme will be completed by talks on Calderón de la Barca and Greek sceptical thought, as well as a social cinema series devoted to Hollywood before the Hays Code. The selected films will show the critical view of the American industry in the 1930s in the face of the economic crisis and social inequalities.
Classical music will have another of its major blocks in Beethoven and Schubert: Crossed Shadows, which from 14 October will bring together performers such as the Trío VibrArt, Cédric Tiberghien and Imogen Cooper. There will also be a series devoted to works composed in memory of other musicians.
Flamenco will likewise have a prominent place with performances by Niño Josele, Jesús Méndez and Esperanza Fernández. The variety of the programme will once again turn the Fundación Juan March venue into an alternative for those seeking exhibitions, concerts and cinema without moving away from central Madrid.