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Curator: Nicolás Combarro From: 01.2018 With Café Lehmitz Anders Petersen (Stockholm, 1944) defined his style and subsequent works, and at the same time earned significant international recognition. Over the course of three years, he worked with utmost humanity and care taking pictures of prostitutes, travesties, lovers, and drug addicts that frequented the bar. In 1970 Petersen presented his first solo exhibition that was held in the Café itself and included nearly 350 photographs. With regards to this body of work and as a declaration of intentions, Anders Petersen states that when photographing he uses only his heart, and only when

From: 01.2018 In the past decade, Teresa Margolles has focused her artistic practice on Juarez City, Mexico, a place that is tragically known for the wars between drug cartels, the kidnappings, the brutal assassination of hundreds of women, and for the impunity of the assassins caused by the inaction of public authorities. Since the 90s, successive city councils have tried to recover the historic center by enacting a social cleansing and eliminating from the proximity the sex servers, among others. Dance Floors reveals transgenic sex workers occupying the remains of what were once the dance floors of the now demolished

Curator: Ana Berruguete From: 02.2018 This exhibition proposes a survey of over thirty years of work by Adriana Lestido (Buenos Aires, 1955). The selection of pieces focuses on woman and includes principal topics that she has explored throughout her career, such as, love, solitude, and maternity. The artists uses photography to document the intimacy of the people she portrays from a social perspective. Separation and absence are key themes throughout her work. Beyond reality, Adriana Lestido portrays emotions. Her first photographic essays are still clearly influenced by photojournalism as a social testimony following the tradition of documentary photography. Later her

Curator: Oliva María Rubio From: 09.2018 Photographer, designer, chronicler of the world of fashion, and writer, Sir Cecil Beaton (London, 1904 – Salisbury, 1980) captured with his lens some of the leading personalities that contributed to the transformation of the 20th century. The themes in his work vary from the British aristocracy to the glamour of fashion. He was an official photographer for Vogue magazine. In addition, published drawings, photographs, and articles for Life, Vanity Fair, and Harper´s Bazaar. He had the capacity to suggest sophisticated, delicate, and sensual worlds. He was a genius in fashion photography and famous for

From: 02.2019 In 1964, still leaving the dream of their recently gained independence, Zambia started a space program that would put the first African on the moon catching up the USA and the Soviet Union in the space race. Only a few Optimists supported the project by Edward Makuka, the school teacher in charge of presenting the ambicious program and getting its necessary funding. But the financial aid never came, as the United Nations declined their support, and one of the astronauts, a 16 year old girl, got pregnant and had to quit. That is how the heroic iniciative turned

Curator: Oliva María Rubio From: 02.2018 Even though he was not born in Madrid, the producer Basilio Martín Patino (Lumbrales, Salamanca, 1930) has expressed his sensitivity, affection, and empathy for this city in a large part of his filmography. He has revindicated Madrid as the liberal city par excellence of Spain since 1900, with its cultural, political and artistic effervescence, whose peak would be the Free Educational Institution and the Residency of Students where the Generation of 27 was formed. He has also stressed the generosity of the people of Madrid, willing to go to the streets, like when they

Curator: Nicolás Combarro From: 01.2018 In this recent exhibition proposal Alberto García- Alix presents a journey through his work present and the past, and thereby his own biography. It is a voyage through his memory, an “infinite monologue”, where he reveals to us his most intimate and poetic side. The essence of this project is rooted in an audiovisual piece with the same title, in which García-Alix uses is own voice to reflect upon his past and his photography from the subjective present. García-Alix is one of the most representative photographers in the Spanish artistic scene in recent decades. Recognised

Curator: Kalev Erickson From: 09.2018 The photographic archive, as a paradigm of visual order and custodian of truths, in its foundation aims to organize without surprises or considerable changes the documentation of what we have already lived. At the Archive of Modern Conflict, however, things happen as if from the other side of the mirror. Deliberately devoid of their contexts and meaning, the photographic images fall into a state of limbo in which anything can occur. This is precisely where play comes into play. The exhibition proposal The Greatest Show on Earth is the record of a journey. The images

Curator: Hester Keijser From: 09.2018 The Netherlands and Switzerland are among the leading points of reference for outstanding contemporary photography. Curated by Hester Keijser, this exhibition brings together works by the preeminent artists of Dutch and Swiss photography. This exhibition, in keeping with the carte blanche programme that will explore ideas involving games and new photographic discourses, proposes a fictitious soccer match between the two countries, and the arbitrator may very well be a Spanish artist. Ruth van Beek, Lana Mesic, Uta Eisenreich, Anne Geene, Jan van der Til y Isabelle Wenzel de Holanda y Ester Vonplon, Augustin Rebetez, Magdalena