Everything ready for the opening of ARCOmadrid 2024

Just a few hours before the official opening of the 43rd edition of ARCOmadrid, it transpires that pavilions 7 and 9 of IFEMA MADRID will be occupied by 205 galleries from 36 countries that, from March 6 to 10, 2024, will turn Madrid into an international capital of contemporary art.

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The organizers of this 43rd edition have reserved the first three days exclusively for professionals, and starting at 3:00 p.m. on Friday the 8th, it will open its doors to the public. As usual, the Kings of Spain are also expected to preside over the official inauguration this Wednesday, March 6, at 6:00 p.m.

ARCOmadrid 2024 will, once again, be the ideal space to show the current international art scene in a broad dialogue with Spanish art. It will be “five days of discovery and research with the presence of new international galleries that confirm ARCOmadrid's role as a reference for the visibility and exploration of artists, fostering an active market and enhancing knowledge about art.”

According to a press release circulated today, the international galleries: Gregor Podnar, Max Hetzler, Vera Munro, Air de Paris, Fortes D'aloia & Gabriel, Lévy Gorvy Dayan and León Tovar are joining the list of the General Program of the fair. These join the loyalty of others such as Thaddaeus Ropac, Mai 36, Jocelyn Wolff, Chantal Crousel, Krinzinger, Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Giorgio Persano, Lelong, Meyer Riegger, Perrotin, Poggi, Neugerriemschneider and Thomas Schulte.

For their part, Capitain Petzel, Société and Chertlüdde, or Mendes Wood Dm, Nicolai Wallner, Hollybush Gardens and Kalfayan Galleries repeat.
It is also of interest that the Spanish representation “this year stands at 35% of the offer with 73 galleries from the main cities of contemporary art, as well as from other contexts that include Seville, Palma de Mallorca, Murcia, Valencia, Santiago de Compostela, Gijón, Bilbao or Badajoz.”

Of its three curated sections, it is known that it includes as a 2024 research theme, 'the shore, the tide, the current: an oceanic Caribbean' which, curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates and Sara Hermann Morera, proposes, based on a careful selection of artists and galleries, a reading of the complex intersection between the land and this sea that arises from and to the shore as a space of exchange and constant instability: "intervene in the discomfort of placing oneself between the liquid and the solid" , as the commissioners point out. In a space specially designed by Ignacio G. Galán, Arantza Ozaeta and Álvaro Martín Fidalgo, 19 galleries will participate, such as David Castillo, Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary, Monique Meloche, Patron, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, Tern Gallery, Espacio Mínimo or Helga de Alvear.

Opening will once again be the space for discovering new proposals at ARCOmadrid. The selection of Cristina Anglada and Yina Jiménez Suriel will represent the commitment of young international gallerism with the participation of 15 galleries such as Artbeat, Blue Velvet, Eins Gallery, Espacio Continuo, Fermay, Hatch, Remota, Sissi Club and The Space Art Gallery, which participate for the first time.

The Never the Same section. Latin American art will contribute to strengthening research on Latin American creation and its relationship with all the agents present at the fair. Curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy and Manuela Moscoso, it will be made up of a selection of artists from Latin America from 12 galleries such as A Gentil Carioca, Jaqueline Martins, _Vigilgonzales, Isla Flotante, Millan, N.A.S.A.L. and Ultraviolet Projects.

Added to this are the 29 Artist Projects, presented by 33 galleries, including Peppi Bottrop (Ehrhardt Florez + Meyer Riegger), Laia Abril (Set Espai d'Art), Zila Leutenegger (Peter Kilchmann), Concha Jérez ( Freijo), Mónica de Miranda (Carlos Carvalho), Esther Boix (Marc Domènech), Josep Ponsatí (Prats Nogueras Blanchard+Bombon Projects), Carles Congost (House of Chappaz) or Elena Aitzkoa (Rosa Santos).

With information from ARCOmadrid 2024