Collection Contemporary Art: 1975–Present
Museo Reina Sofía•Feb 18, 2026 — Ongoing
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Collection Contemporary Art: 1975-Present
Sabatini Building, Floor 4
This floor tells the history of art of the last fifty years through a selection of works from the Museo Reina Sofía’s collections. Is the past the path that leads to the present, or does its memory offer mistakes and paths of no return when faced with a future still to build? Or better yet, how does one travel back to the past from the present? The work of a national museum is not to reinterpret the past in search of a mirror for today’s society, but rather to let the concerns of the present find a multitude of responses in the past so as to understand that the present day is not something to be taken as a given, but rather as a becoming that is indispensably constructed as a collective. In uncertain times, it is not a question of imagining futures, but of trying to recognize in the present those desirable futures that are already here.
Contemporary art arose as an order of representation, a transformation of culture…
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Collection Contemporary Art: 1975–Present
Museo Reina Sofía•Feb 18, 2026 — Ongoing
Press Release
Collection Contemporary Art: 1975-Present
Sabatini Building, Floor 4
This floor tells the history of art of the last fifty years through a selection of works from the Museo Reina Sofía’s collections. Is the past the path that leads to the present, or does its memory offer mistakes and paths of no return when faced with a future still to build? Or better yet, how does one travel back to the past from the present? The work of a national museum is not to reinterpret the past in search of a mirror for today’s society, but rather to let the concerns of the present find a multitude of responses in the past so as to understand that the present day is not something to be taken as a given, but rather as a becoming that is indispensably constructed as a collective. In uncertain times, it is not a question of imagining futures, but of trying to recognize in the present those desirable futures that are already here.
Contemporary art arose as an order of representation, a transformation of culture…






















































































