Culture acquires 17 works in ARCO for the Reina Sofía Museum | Culture | EUROtoday

In the present version of the Madrid ARCO artwork truthful, the Ministry of Culture has acquired 17 works (by 14 artists) supposed to strengthen the gathering of the Reina Sofía museum. The funding quantities to 402,760 euros and stands out for the sturdy weight of the creators: of the 14 artists, 9 are girls. The acquisition was introduced this Friday after the assembly of the Permanent Commission of the Royal Board of Trustees of the Reina Sofía Museum held throughout the framework of the truthful, which takes place at IFEMA. The Secretary of State for Culture, Jordi Martí, and the museum director, Manuel Segade, have burdened the significance of those purchases each to strengthen the museum’s assortment and to help modern creation.

The works acquired belong to the artists Annette Messager, Claudia Andujar, La Ribot, Ester Chacón, Pere Noguera, Oriol Vilanova, Kapwani Kiwanga, Venuca Evanán, Ángel Bados, Amparo de la Sota, Joan Gelabert, Ana Laura Aláez, María Alcaide and Roberto Jacoby. Together, the items mirror a broad spectrum of up to date inventive practices and span over a century of inventive manufacturing.

The Secretary of State for Culture has highlighted the Ministry’s dedication to strengthening public collections. As defined, to date in 2026 the division has already allotted greater than 1.3 million euros to acquisitions for state museums, a determine that features the funding made in ARCO. Martí additionally recalled that final yr a complete of three.6 million euros had been invested in purchases for various museum establishments of the State. For his half, the director of the Reina Sofía has indicated that these acquisitions reply to a transparent technique of the museum: to strengthen the presence of feminine artists and develop the approaches that construction its assortment. Currently, works signed by girls symbolize roughly 15% of the practically 27,000 works that make up the museum’s assortment.

Purchases and prizes

The ARCOmadrid 2026 version has featured quite a few different institutional and company purchases. For instance, the ARCO Foundation has acquired seven works due to the proceeds from its annual dinner, incorporating works by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Lia D Castro, Katinka Bock and Janis Rafa, in addition to items by Ana Laura Aláez, Amparo de la Sota and Sheida Soleimani with the help of various collaborators.

At the institutional stage, the Community of Madrid has awarded its ARCO 2026 Prize to the artists Los Bravú, Federico Miró and LUCE, whose works will turn out to be a part of the CA2M Museum assortment. For its half, the Madrid City Council has acquired 4 works for the town’s Museum of Contemporary Art, by Patricia Gadea, Elena Blasco, Oriol Vilanova and Daniel Canogar.

The Junta de Andalucía, after growing its acquisitions finances by 45%, has added eleven works to the collections of the CAAC and the C3A, whereas the IVAM has made one of many largest purchases of the truthful, with thirty works by twenty-three artists for a complete worth of 555,000 euros. Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma has additionally acquired 5 items by totally different artists current on the truthful. Among the non-public collections, the María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation has bought 14 works. The Sorigué Foundation has integrated new items chosen with the participation of its employees, and the María José Jove Foundation Art Center has added works by Miguel Marina, Irma Álvarez-Laviana and Damaris Pan.

In addition to acquisitions, ARCOmadrid 2026 has awarded quite a few inventive prizes. The Proyectos Ultravioleta gallery has obtained the Lexus Award for the very best stand; The NEWARTaward@ARCO has distinguished works by Julia Scher and Jonas Englert; and Esther Gatón has received the Cervezas Alhambra Prize for Emerging Art. Also acknowledged have been June Crespo (Catapulta Award), the Commonwealth and Council+Patron gallery (Engel & Völkers Award), Julia Padilla and Venuca Evanan (Young Talent Award), and the Selebe Yoon gallery (Opening Award). Other awards have gone to Luis Gordillo (ENATE-ARCOmadrid Prize), Cristina Lucas (Pilar Forcada ART Situacions Prize), Dalila Gonçalves (Catalina d’Anglade Prize), Lola Lasurt (Fundació Vila Casas Acquisition Prize) and Sofía Salazar Rosales (Emerige-CPGA Prize). Finally, the Elvira González gallery has been awarded the II Juana de Aizpuru Prize for its profession and dedication to the truthful.

These purchases and prizes happen throughout the framework of the forty fifth version of ARCOmadrid, which is being held till March 8 in Madrid. After its first two days devoted to professionals, the truthful will open to the general public in the previous few days, evidencing its key function as a platform to advertise the artwork market and for the incorporation of recent works into private and non-private collections.