The Reina Sofía Museum will have a more feminine 2026-2027 season than ever. Of the nine scheduled exhibitions, eight are by women artists. The Canary Islands creator Eli Cortiñas will kick off the season on September 23 with her exhibition The Machine Dreams of Smoke. Manuel Segade, the center’s director, said the goal is to “navigate towards a more porous museum,” regarding a program that will move between the intimacy of the body and the denunciation of environmental destruction. Segade emphasized the exploration of the unknown through the work of the artists who will appear at the Reina Sofía: “These monographic exhibitions will compose a map of what we believe is unknown or forgotten and deserves to be recovered as a central theme.”
During the 2026-2027 exhibition cycle, the Reina Sofía Museum will host the works of the following artists: María La Ribot, Eli Cortiñas, Marta Minujín, Anne Truitt, Marlene Dumas, Fernanda Laguna, Pacita Abad, and the Iranian Monir Shahroudy, as well as the Colombian artist Miguel Ángel Rojas. The program will not be limited to the Reina Sofía space in Atocha but will extend to the Velázquez and Crystal palaces. Director Segade has said that, despite the forecast to finish the work on the Crystal Palace in 2027, it is likely that the work will extend until 2028.
To celebrate the centenary of the poets of the Generation of ’27, next year the Reina Sofía Museum will dedicate an exhibition to Manolo Millares and will launch the Flamenco García Lorca project, which explores the relationship between the poet and this musical expression.
Looking ahead to spring 2027, the exhibition Avant-garde Writings in the Lafuente Archive will make use for the first time of the Protocol Room in the Sabatini building, a space remodeled by the studio of Spanish architect Juan Herreros.
