The Museo Reina Sofía presents its new COLLECTION. CONTEMPORARY ART: 1975 – PRESENT

Vista de la Sala 4 «Lo personal es político. Feminismos y nuevas presencias de género». Judy Chicago, Women and Smoke [Mujeres y humo] 1971-1972. Museo Reina Sofía. Fotografía: Roberto Ruiz. © Judy Chicago, VEGAP, Madrid, 2026 

The new exhibition narrative spans fifty years of art history, from the Spanish Transition to democracy to the present day, by way of more than four hundred works by 224 artists. Over half have not been exhibited previously in the Museo Reina Sofía Collections.

According to Spain’s minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, the presentation is “a major cultural event that strengthens contemporary art, widening its scope and gathering more voices and more gazes, particularly the gazes of women”. Spain’s minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, the president of the Museo Reina Sofía’s Board of Trustees, Ángeles González-Sinde, Museo Reina Sofía director, Manuel Segade, and the Museo’s deputy artistic director, Amanda de la Garza, yesterday unveiled COLLECTION. CONTEMPORARY ART: 1975 – PRESENT, the new presentation of the Museo Reina Sofía Collections spanning fifty years of contemporary art from Spain, from the Transition to democracy to the present day, via three exhibition routes. By way of a selection of 403 works by 224 artists, this new narrative seeks to cast light on the contribution of Spanish contemporary art.

The exhibition, unveiled for public display from 18 February, stretches across the entire fourth floor of the Sabatini Building, totalling more than 3,000 square metres. Its arrangement is linear and sometimes non-chronological and ranges across twenty-one chapters, comprising well-known pieces from the Reina’s Collections and acclaimed artists such as Picasso, Miró, Dalí, Juan Genovés, Juan Muñoz, Cristina Iglesias, Susana Solano, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Esther Ferrer, Cristina García Rodero, Richard Serra and Andy Warhol. ​​