A Kassen

twenty minutes past two 19 Feb - 30 Apr 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 Nov 2025 - 14 Feb 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

Patricia Gadea

¡BUM! 11 Sep - 29 Nov 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 Jul 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 Feb - 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

Néstor Sanmiguel Diest

Días de niebla 22 Nov 2024 - 15 Feb 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 Sep - 11 Nov 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

Regina de Miguel

Lapidario 17 May - 28 Jul 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

Jacobo Castellano

chorda Achillis 23 Feb - 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

Zush

ZUSH Obras 1970 – 1986 25 Nov 2023 - 17 Feb 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 Sep - 18 Nov 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 Jun - 2 Sep 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 Apr 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

Group show

Miradas y formas 11 Feb - 5 Apr 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 Dec 2022 - 23 Jan 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 Sep - 3 Dec 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 Feb - 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 Nov 2021 - 5 Feb 2022 MAISTERRA Read more

Sarah Grilo

Works (1967 – 2000). Second part. 9 Sep - 20 Nov 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 Jul 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 Apr - 19 Jun 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 Feb - 3 Apr 2021 MAISTERRA Read more

Encuentro IX

Ir en su búsqueda 11 Jan - 13 Feb 2021 MAISTERRA Read more

Encuentro VIII

Salir a recibirle 14 Dec 2020 - 19 Jan 2021 MAISTERRA Read more

Encuentro VII

Reunión de expertos en alguna materia 23 Nov - 12 Dec 2020 MAISTERRA Read more

Encuentro VI

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

Encuentro V

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

Encuentro IV

Discusión, pelea o riña 7 Sep - 3 Oct 2020 MAISTERRA Read more

Encuentro III

Por lo general, inesperado 10 Aug - 5 Sep 2020 MAISTERRA Read more

Encuentro II

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

Encuentro I

Acto de encontrarse 29 Jun - 18 Jul 2020 MAISTERRA Read more

Maria Loboda

Omniabsent 22 Feb - 20 Jun 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 Nov 2019 - 15 Feb 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

Regina de Miguel

Rising Anxiety 12 Sep - 8 Nov 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 Apr - 13 Jul 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 Feb - 13 Apr 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 Nov 2018 - 19 Jan 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 Sep - 27 Oct 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

María Luisa Fernández

7. 614. 101. 381 + - 6 Jun - 19 Jul 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 Apr - 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 Feb - 7 Apr 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 Nov 2017 - 27 Feb 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