Daniel Jacoby

Cathartes 8 May - 10 July 2026 MAISTERRA Cathartes by Daniel Jacoby comprises an audiovisual work and five bronze sculptures. The video, titled Gallinazo , constructs a narrative from memory and identity as categories conditioned and traversed by systems of perception, classification, and exclusion. What pervades is the passage of time: childhood impressions, memories triggered by brands and... Read more

A Kassen

twenty minutes past two 19 February - 30 April 2026 MAISTERRA In Twenty Minutes Past Two , A Kassen works with devices conceived to produce stability, security, and certainty while remaining largely unnoticed: a clock, pavement as a regular surface of transit, administrative documents as neutral supports of information. These are discreet technologies of order whose value lies in their reliability... Read more

María Luisa Fernández

8,337,283,136. Nervous nature 11 November 2025 - 14 February 2026 MAISTERRA In the 1990s, María Luisa Fernández (Villarejo de Órbigo, León, 1955) produced the series Artistas ideales (Ideal Artists) as a reflection on the status of art and the artist. In this series, she transformed statistical charts—pie diagrams of participation, productivity, or relevance—into geometric wooden sculptures, painted with industrial colors. It... Read more

Miguel Marina

Hasta aquí | Patio Herreriano, Valladolid 18 October 2025 - 8 March 2026 Museum Highlights This collection of paintings by Miguel Marina (Madrid, 1989), all of them recent, were painted with this exhibition in mind after he had carefully examined the characteristics of the space, one of the most emblematic and demanding in the museum with its high walls and appealing rhythms. It is quite... Read more

Patricia Gadea

¡BUM! 11 September - 29 November 2025 MAISTERRA Patricia Gadea ’ s work echoes a critical tradition of imagery that has one of its origins in Goya. Her paintings do not represent reality through mimesis, but rather through distortion that reveals and unmasks. Both practices, united by the same urgency, use painting as a space of resistance against... Read more

Group show

El aliento de la tierra 8 May - 12 July 2025 MAISTERRA Art is not properly on the canvas or in the object, but in an intermediate place between the work and the viewer, it is in a no man's land, or rather, in a shared land. Juan Navarro Baldeweg In the 1970s, Spanish art witnessed the emergence of a new paradigm... Read more

Sarah Grilo

Soluciones para pensar 21 February - 3 May 2025 MAISTERRA In the gallery 919 of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, alongside Jackson Pollock's iconic Autumn Rhythm and Mark Rothko's No. 16, hangs Black Wall, a painting created in 1967 by Argentine artist Sarah Grilo in her East 50th St. studio in Manhattan. The acquisition of this work,... Read more

Silvia Bächli

Before | Museo Morandi, Bolonia 22 January - 30 March 2025 Museum Highlights Conceived for the Museo Morandi on the occasion of ART CITY Bologna 2025 and Arte Fiera, before proposed a dialogue between Silvia Bächli's abstract and poetic visual language and the legacy of Giorgio Morandi. For the exhibition, the artist selected eight still lifes from the museum's permanent collection, presenting them... Read more

Néstor Sanmiguel Diest

Días de niebla 22 November 2024 - 15 February 2025 MAISTERRA Días de niebla (Days of Fog) features approximately 30 works produced between 1999 and 2024. The core of the exhibition is marked by the use, initially experimental, of the line as both a formal and conceptual element; by painting straight lines with a minimum distance between them on flat forms,... Read more

Jerónimo Elespe

Dos sonidos, cuatro noches 6 September - 11 November 2024 MAISTERRA Dos sonidos, cuatro noches , in continuity with the rest of the work of Jerónimo Elespe (Madrid, 1975), gives rise to oblique approaches and promotes indeterminate, almost dreamlike interpretations from images that appear as veils that conceal other realities. His works are formed by multiple layers of materials that have... Read more

María Luisa Fernández

8,068,807,215. Blood in Gold | MUSAC, León 8 June - 13 October 2024 Museum Highlights 8,068,807,218. Sangre en oro (Blood in Gold) presents the most recent production by María Luisa Fernández (Villarejo de Órbigo, León, 1955). In it, she continues her quest for sculpture that is meaningful in every sense: that transcends itself, does not become self-absorbed and is relevant enough to impact the emotions... Read more

Silvia Bächli

They’ve Turned into Each Other. Which Is Which? | Kunst Museum Winterthur 25 May - 18 August 2024 Museum Highlights Presented in Winterthur, They’ve Turned into Each Other. Which Is Which? took its title from a line by the American poet Elizabeth Bishop and was structured around the series Lidschlag ( Blink of an Eye ). The exhibition offered a broad survey of Silvia Bächli's artistic practice, bringing together works... Read more

Regina de Miguel

Lapidario 17 May - 28 July 2024 MAISTERRA Lapidario is composed of several bodies of work, derived from critical research processes in different disciplines, which have resulted in a group of poetic and propositive pieces. Drawing from the visual languages of science (botanical, astronomical, cartographic or geological), Regina de Miguel suggests the rethinking of the relationship between human... Read more

Silvia Bächli

Partitura | Centro Botín, Santander 11 May - 20 October 2024 Museum Highlights The ground bass in my work is the space, so to speak. I conceive an exhibition as a piece for voices that span several rooms. I write a score, similar to musical notation, with dense passages, isolated points, repetitions, echoes, rhythms, clusters and pauses. Together, they form the sound space.... Read more

Jacobo Castellano

chorda Achillis 23 February - 11 May 2024 MAISTERRA chorda Achillis is also the name that the protagonist of Olga Tokarczuk’s novel “Flights” gives to Achilles tendon at a key moment in the text: –From now on it is called chorda Achillis , where naming (as well as drawing) is creating and seeing means knowing; drawing is never the... Read more

Sarah Grilo

Permanent Collection | The Met, New York 7 January 2024 - 7 December 2025 Museum Highlights Sarah Grilo’s Black Wall (1967) formed part of the presentation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s permanent collection in the Donald and Vera Blinken Galleries, located in the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing. Acquired by the Museum in 2024, the painting was featured alongside seminal works from The Met’s postwar and... Read more

Zush

ZUSH Obras 1970 – 1986 25 November 2023 - 17 February 2024 MAISTERRA This exhibition includes a selection of historical works from the 1970s and 1980s that show a key period in the artist’s production, centered on the construction and representation of the Evrugo Mental State, a mental, political and autonomous territory, with its own mythology, alphabet, currency, flag and laws. The creation... Read more

Silvia Bächli

Campos poéticos 14 September - 18 November 2023 MAISTERRA Campos poético s (Poetic Fields), consists of more than 20 works of gouache on paper, from different formats and periods, including recent pieces shown for the first time. The exhibition display, designed by the artist, borrows strategies from installation as an artistic genre, being these a key component in Bächli’s... Read more

Maria Loboda

Vexare 2 June - 2 September 2023 MAISTERRA Vexare , a Latin term that translates as “to vex”, is composed of works from two recent series by Maria Loboda: Vexier and The Vexer . The former consists of life-size, double-leaf doors, hung flush with the gallery walls and secured by sculptures of metal puzzles, instead of common locks;... Read more

Antonio Ballester Moreno

Nubes (verde) 22 April 2023 - 27 May 2024 MAISTERRA Nubes (verde) , is the sixth exhibition of Antonio Ballester Moreno in Maisterravalbuena along 15 years of collaboration and represents a significant moment of maturity and artistic precision in his career. His practice is based on the expanded idea of the essential, from which fundamental links between human beings and... Read more

Silvia Bächli

Langmatt Museum, Baden 26 February - 29 May 2023 Museum Highlights Silvia Bächli (1956 in Baden, lives in Basel) is considered one of the most important artists working in the medium of drawing. As early as the 1990s, her work was being shown internationally. In 2009, Silvia Bächli represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale. The Museum Langmatt is exhibiting her new... Read more

Group show

Miradas y formas 11 February - 5 April 2023 MAISTERRA The gallery is the original space of experimentation; the first space where the gallerist creates the necessary context for the works of art to express meaning. The professional partnership between artist and gallerist becomes emotional when they agree on ways of understanding and exercising their profession, the gazes and forms... Read more

Charity Exhibition

Proyecto Barreño 14 December 2022 - 23 January 2023 MAISTERRA On July 26th 2020, Boticaria García was on vacation and had to improvise a support that would support the filming material that she had to use in her afternoon live show. A bucket with white fretwork that had been hidden in a closet for decades was useful. After the live... Read more

A Kassen

Farola 8 September - 3 December 2022 MAISTERRA The gestation of 'Lamppost', the sixth exhibition by the A Kassen group in Maisterra, followed the announcement that it would be the last to be shown in the gallery, which will be moving to another space once the exhibition closes. The fact that it is the final exhibition to be... Read more

José Luis Alexanco

Alegorías métricas (1973–1978) 16 February - 7 May 2022 MAISTERRA A curled-up figure gives us its back, indifferent to our gaze. Its skin has become an armour that shelters it from the reality around it. In “Soldier” , 1964, José Luis Alexanco displays his friend from the military service and fellow artist, Darío Villalba, completely stripped of any features that... Read more

B. Wurtz

Monday 26 November 2021 - 5 February 2022 MAISTERRA Read more

Sarah Grilo

Works (1967 – 2000). Second part. 9 September - 20 November 2021 MAISTERRA Sarah Grilo. Works (1967 – 2000) is the title of the second part of an exhibition that since July and with fourteen oil paintings and five works on paper, invites us to explore a career spanning six decades of one of the most unique and relevant artists to represent American... Read more

Sarah Grilo

Works (1964 – 2002). First part. 1 - 24 July 2021 MAISTERRA Born in Buenos Aires in 1917, Sarah Grilo began her early studies in painting with the renowned Spanish artist, Vicente Puig . Grilo lived in Argentina, France and Spain before receiving a J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship in 1961, and subsequently moved to New York . In 1970, the artist left... Read more

Group show

Doble piel 30 April - 19 June 2021 MAISTERRA ‘Doble piel’ (Double skin) is the first exhibition held by the gallery since Encuentro, the exhibition cycle that displayed the work of 30 artists in 10 exhibitions over a nine-month period. Stripped of external elements such as openings and press releases, the aim of the exhibitions was to offer a... Read more

Encuentro X

Acción y efecto de topetar 15 February - 3 April 2021 MAISTERRA Read more

Encuentro IX

Ir en su búsqueda 11 January - 13 February 2021 MAISTERRA Read more

Encuentro VIII

Salir a recibirle 14 December 2020 - 19 January 2021 MAISTERRA Read more

Encuentro VII

Reunión de expertos en alguna materia 23 November - 12 December 2020 MAISTERRA Read more

Encuentro VI

Claros que se dejan al imprimir para estampar allí letras con tinta de otro color 26 October - 21 November 2020 MAISTERRA Read more

Encuentro V

Lance del juego del billar 5 - 24 October 2020 MAISTERRA Read more

Miguel Ángel Campano

Accents and difference | Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca 18 September 2020 - 28 February 2021 Museum Highlights Entering the universe of Miguel Ángel Campano (Madrid, 1948 – Cercedilla, Madrid, 2018) means to approach a multiplicity of references, influences and styles. The project “Accents and difference” is a review of those moments that have been crucial in his career. Moments of change and rupture, also of confession. The... Read more

Encuentro IV

Discusión, pelea o riña 7 September - 3 October 2020 MAISTERRA Read more

Encuentro III

Por lo general, inesperado 10 August - 5 September 2020 MAISTERRA Read more

Encuentro II

Coincidir en un punto dos o más cosas, a veces chocando una contra otra 2 July - 8 August 2020 MAISTERRA Read more

Encuentro I

Acto de encontrarse 29 June - 18 July 2020 MAISTERRA Read more

Maria Loboda

Omniabsent 22 February - 20 June 2020 MAISTERRA MAISTERRAVALBUENA presents its third individual exhibition of works by Maria Loboda, entitled 'Omniabsence', in which the artist immerses us in a private, secret, singular world; in the inner sphere of a person we don’t know, but of whom we see some traces. The word “Omnipresent” (present everywhere, a quality attributed... Read more

A Kassen

Pinturas de bronce 23 November 2019 - 15 February 2020 MAISTERRA 'Pinturas de bronce' (“Bronze paintings”) is the assertive title of the new exhibition of A Kassen in Maisterra . The Copenhagen collective draws on this unambiguous description to offer a compelling explanation of what the visitor will see and experience. It is an accurate message which clearly defines its meaning,... Read more

Miguel Ángel Campano

D’après | MNCARS, Madrid 6 November 2019 - 1 June 2020 Museum Highlights The Museo Reina Sofía stages a retrospective survey of the work of artist Miguel Ángel Campano (Madrid, 1948 – Cercedilla, Madrid, 2018) by way of a selection in excess of one hundred works made from 1972 onwards. The show, the last exhibition project in which the artist directly took part,... Read more

Regina de Miguel

Rising Anxiety 12 September - 8 November 2019 MAISTERRA There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species forever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing. Lynn Margulis. Rising Anxiety is midway between the inner turbulence of the... Read more

Group show

Ways of the hand, form of a mind 4 April - 13 July 2019 MAISTERRA This exhibition is not intended as a sequel. It is not intended as a prequel either. Despite referencing the title of a show curated for the short-lived Lisbon outpost of Maisterravalbuena, Ways of the hand, form of a mind does not assume the linearity of traditional narrative modes of address.... Read more

Silvia Bächli

Silvia Bächli 9 February - 13 April 2019 MAISTERRA Maisterra is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Madrid by the Swiss artist Silvia Bächli. This exhibition is made up of 19 works on paper made on the occasion in an exhibition space adapted to the circumstances. From the beginning of the 80’s, Silvia Bächli has applied to... Read more

Daniel Jacoby

Camuflaje para un lugar muy específico 17 November 2018 - 19 January 2019 MAISTERRA Maisterravalbuena is pleased to present the gallery’s third exhibition of the Peruvian artist Daniel Jacoby. “Camouflage for a very specific place ” is an exhibition exclusively dedicated to drawing, and the artist’s first exhibition based on this technique. The exhibition stems from the need to draw without any purpose beyond... Read more

Antonio Ballester Moreno

El tomillo y la hierba en el techo de mi habitación 19 September - 27 October 2018 MAISTERRA This project took shape from the exhibition “Vivan los campos libres de España” by Antonio Ballester Moreno held in La Casa Encendida in 2017. The title referred to an episode in which Alberto Sánchez cried out loud “Long live the free fields of Spain!”, probably in one of those initiation... Read more

Antonio Ballester Moreno

Affective Affinities | 33rd Bienal de São Paulo 7 September - 9 December 2018 Museum Highlights Antonio Ballester Moreno (Madrid, Spain, 1977) approaches his curatorial project for the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo as a way of contextualising a universe based in the close relationship between biology and culture, with references to the history of abstraction and its interplay with nature, pedagogy and spirituality. For this... Read more

María Luisa Fernández

7. 614. 101. 381 + - 6 June - 19 July 2018 MAISTERRA 'The senselessness of art is justified by the senselessness caused by the imposition of man' The artistic career of María Luisa Fernández (Villarejo de Órbigo, León, 1955) began with the creation of the artistic collective CVA (Comité de Vigilancia Artística), founded together with Juan Luis Moraza between 1979 and 1985.... Read more

Jack Goldstein

Selectric Works 14 April - 26 May 2018 MAISTERRA Maisterravalbuena is pleased to present “Selectric Works”, the first exhibition in Spain by American artist Jack Goldstein. Jack Goldstein (1945-2003) is considered one of the most important and influential artists of the generation after minimalism and conceptual art in America. Right after his death, the legacy of his work became... Read more

Jerónimo Elespe

Jerónimo Elespe 10 February - 7 April 2018 MAISTERRA “Je suis l’Empire à la fin de la décadence” Paul Verlaine Maisterravalbuena presents Jerónimo Elespe’s first exhibition in our gallery in Madrid. With autobiographic and literary references as starting points, specially the French Decadentism from the last years of the 19th century, Elespe’s works show subtle objects which he uses... Read more

José Luis Alexanco

Momentos 1969 “.....”2017 25 November 2017 - 27 February 2018 MAISTERRA Jose Luis Alexanco is the forefather of one of the most fertile and experimental times of the Contemporary Arts in Spain and the rest of Europe: The Pamplona Encounters 1972. He developed a project titled MOUVNT. Computable forms, 1968 - 1974 , that supposed the first systematical collaboration between art... Read more

A Kassen

O 14 September - 11 November 2017 MAISTERRA Maisterra is pleased to present the exhibition titled O , new sculptures and paper works by A Kassen that reflects on creation and transformation. This is the fourth exhibition of this Danish art collective in our gallery. The bronze sculptures, belonging to the Pours series, are shown for the first... Read more

María Luisa Fernández

Je, je… luna | Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao 18 June - 13 September 2015 Museum Highlights Je, je... luna traces a journey through the work of artist María Luisa Fernández (Villarejo de Órbigo, León, 1955). It shows different groups of sculptures, drawings and installations which to date have not been shown as a mid career retrospective. These works, produced between 1979 and 1997, are part of... Read more

Jerónimo Elespe

Lost Grey Machines | Ivorypress, Madrid 20 November 2014 - 10 January 2015 Museum Highlights Lost Grey Machines was Jerónimo Elespe's first exhibition at Ivorypress. Bringing together paintings and works on paper, the exhibition explored domestic life and its impact on the creative process, often taking autobiographical experience as its point of departure. Elespe conceives his drawings and paintings as abstract diaries in which everyday... Read more

Patricia Gadea

Atomic-Circus | MNCARS, Madrid 5 November 2014 - 5 January 2015 Museum Highlights Atomic-Circus is the first retrospective devoted to the work of artist Patricia Gadea (Madrid, 1960 – Palencia 2006), a key figure in the revival of Spanish painting in the 1980s and 1990s. Her painting emerged at a time of experimentation with freedom, sheltered by the movida cultural movement in Madrid... Read more

Miguel Ángel Campano

La pintura madre, Palexco - Kiosco Alfonso, A Coruña 30 May - 28 July 2013 Museum Highlights What do I understand by what is contained in the title of my discourse? Universal painting, including various aspects of graphic language, responds to a communicative impulse that begins from the human self in order to create signs that are not always pictorial. It does so with the desire to... Read more

Jerónimo Elespe

Tácitos y Sordos | CAC, Málaga 27 January - 25 March 2012 Museum Highlights Tácitos y sordos marked Jerónimo Elespe's first solo exhibition in a museum. Presented at CAC Málaga, the exhibition brought together a selection of small-format paintings produced between 2009 and 2011. Based between Madrid and New York, Jerónimo Elespe studied Fine Arts at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. His academic... Read more

Miguel Ángel Campano

Miguel Ángel Campano | MNCARS, Madrid 16 June - 20 September 1999 Museum Highlights This exhibition is made up of more that seventy paintings realised between 1991 and 1998 and endeavours to highlight the radicalism and pertinence of the artistic approaches of Campano as well as illustrating the points of transition that signify new discoveries to “make the painting possible”, in the words of... Read more

Miguel Ángel Campano

Campano. Painting 1980–1990 | IVAM, Valencia 16 July 1990 - 2 February 1991 Museum Highlights The exhibition of Miguel Ángel Campano presented at the Centre del Carme consists of two clearly defined parts. One traces the painter’s work from 1980 to 1989, and the second, conceived specifically for this occasion, develops a body of work centred around Poussin’s painting Ruth and Boaz . “The first... Read more