November 2026 Open House

The Artist Residency Center (Centro de residencias artísticas - CRA), located in Nave 16 at Matadero Madrid, is a space for work and shared living among diverse artists and cultural practitioners who exchange working processes, research, and creation. Throughout the year, various activities offer a glimpse into what happens behind closed doors, but it is during the Open House that all residents share their work directly with the public.

This upcoming Open House features the eight artists from the quarterly Art and Environment residencies: Miguel Alejos, Mauricio Freyre, Ignacio García Sánchez, Gelen Jeleton, Carlos Monleón, Juan Pablo Pacheco, Ana Robles Pérez, and Sofía Tudela. The advisory team for the Art and Environment residencies—artist Bárbara Fluxá and curator Claudia Rodríguez Ponga—will guide us through the day with two conversational tours.

Additionally, this quarter the CRA welcomes back the residencies for audiovisual projects in development, carried out in collaboration with Cineteca. Residents Julián Azcutia, Julián Génisson, and Lucía Selva will be joined by screenwriter Lola Mayo and producer Jamie Weiss.

The program also features electronic music residents María Castro and Álvaro Cáceres, Art and Education resident Emily Sun, and the associations Debajo del sombrero and AMECUM.

Finally, as part of the CRA Produce program, artist María Jerez will open her studio and share her ongoing research process in a space where children are warmly invited to participate.

You can download the resident brochure with full details about their projects here.

Program

MORNING

• 11:00 AM | LO PEQUEÑO Y LO GRANDE (The Small and the Large) – Debajo del sombrero

  Live drawing

  Location: Studios 1 & 2

• 11:30 AM | GUIDED TOUR

  Luisa Espino with Debajo del sombrero, AMECUM, Emily Sun, and María Jerez

  Location: Residents' Studios

• 12:15 PM | GUIDED TOUR

  Claudia Rodríguez Ponga with Mauricio Freyre, Sofía Tudela, Miguel Alejos, and Gelen Jeleton

  Location: Residents' Studios

• 1:00 PM | GUIDED TOUR

  Bárbara Fluxá with Juan Pablo Pacheco, Carlos Monleón, Ana Robles Pérez, and Ignacio García Sánchez

  Location: Residents' Studios

• 1:45 PM | HISTORIA POLÍTICA DE LAS FLORES: COMEFLORES (Political History of Flowers: Flower-Eaters) – Gelen Jeleton

  Performance (drawing reading)

  Location: Auditorium

   

  AFTERNOON

• 4:00 PM | DOORS OPEN

• 5:00 PM | SACIAR ESTA SED DE RÍO (Slaking This River Thirst) – Juan Pablo Pacheco

  Guided meditation

  Location: Black Box (Cubo negro)

• 5:30 PM | GUIDED TOUR

  Lola Mayo and Jamie Weiss with Julián Génisson, Lucía Selva, and Julián Azcutia

  Location: Editing Suite

• 6:30 PM | LO QUE LA LENGUA RETOÑA (What the Tongue Sprouts Anew) – Emily Sun

  Musical, poetic, and affective activation centered on native and migrant languages, featuring Ada Okenve Obiang and Don Jovan Urbiztondo

  Location: Black Box (Cubo negro)

• 7:00 PM | LA CARTA NÚMERO 234. DE VILLALBA DE CALATRAVA A LA ISLA DE SABLE (Letter No. 234: From Villalba de Calatrava to Sable Island) – Ana Robles Pérez

  Performatative reading

  Location: Auditorium

• 7:30 PM | ERRORES FUNDAMENTALES (PERFORMANCE) (Fundamental Errors) – Mauricio Freyre

  Live reading

  Location: Black Box (Cubo negro)

• 8:00 PM | PINK::NOISE – María Castro & Álvaro Cáceres

  Showcase with interactive visuals by Vicky Gómez (Cosmorfia)

  Location: Auditorium