ARCO has spent 45 years looking into the future: a holiday like a clock

In 2025, the fourth year in a row, the fair will attract 100,000 visitors. And on this occasion, 211 prisons were recorded in 2026, of which 34% are Spanish. 175 to integrate the general program, in the edition marked with sector references several times.

The cultural VAT rate is equivalent to the tax rate in the rest of EuropeThe year 2026 will mark the fifth years of the First Collectors and Failures program of historical gallerists Marian Goodman and Magda Bellotti, who regularly visited during the holidays in the past.

Quiz, in this edition dedicated to the future, what really matters is the present; and the general program is undoubtedly a thermometer that indicates this temperature.

Many galleries present artists who at the same time They organize exhibitions in large institutions: José de la Mano draws only one project from Aurèlia Muñoz – who opens a major retrospective at MNCARS on April 29 and at MACBA in November – and other Spanish artists from five to the present.

The Blue Velvet bride, here for the first time since the Vernissage, is joined by sculptor Mónica Mays, who ready to inaugurate a large installation in the Abierto x Obras de Matadero program, after the result of Cristina Mejías. The latter again comes with Sevilla’s Alarcón Criado, along with Mercedes Pimiento, José Guerrero and Belén Rodríguez.

The project realized in one of the Matadero residences is a project that presents the Valencian Tania Blanco: synthesis, in pop style, of triga moleculeswho accompanies Nacho Criado, Victoria Gil and Ana Roldán to the heterogeneo stand of FormatoCómodo.

Catalan Prats Nogueras Blanchard shoot with Ester Partegàs and Lucía C. Pino, both with consigned exhibitions at CA2M, and José María Sicilia at Palacio de Liria; además de Uslé, Tàpies, Ana Mendieta, Helena Almeida, Lola Lasurt – with extended story work in CondeDuque – and Christo & Jeanne-Claude. T20, frightened in Dr. Fourquet of Murcia, wait until March 15 for the FOD to reject the CentroCentro space; It also draws on a historical piece by Francesco Torres about the Spanish embassy in Berlin.

And as usual, as soon as we enter panel 9, we come across the stand of Elvira González, which offers the possibility to purchase Alfredo Alcaín, the recent photographer from Alcalá Room 31, Elena Asins (with exhibitions at the Picasso Museum in Málaga and at the Kubo Room in San Sebastian), Miquel Barceló or Juan Uslé (with a retrospective en). In addition to Neugerriemschneider, he also presents a project by the renowned nature artist Olafur Eliasson. The fair also rewards its trajectory concediéndole II Premio Juana de Aizpuru.

Valencian Rosa Santos draws María Ruido, who works on the video the controversial topic of pornography to Chiara Fumai, along with Marina González Guerreiro’s individual project and three short stories based on Andrea Canepa to build a large part of Crystal Palace. Canepa will open on May 23 at Madrid’s Bombón-Crisis for another solo exhibition.

Bombón, on the other hand, rehearses with Eva Fàbregas, Ludovica Carbotta, Nora Aurrekoetxea or Pere Llobera; and the Valencian Luis Adelantado, directed for ten years by his daughter Olga, presents the geometric minimalism of Irma Álvarez-Laviada, who launched an important media career retrospective at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, which also included sound artist José Antonio Orts and Andalusian painter Juan Suárez.

Our holiday there continues to be a good place discover female artists in the market, the art market, where a third of the world’s twenty galleries are raised in these cases. Of a total market estimated – in the previous year – at $57.5 billion, according to the Art Basel and UBS annual report, the work of female artists accounts for 42% of sales (up from 39% in 2023): rozando ya the paridad.

The photographs of Ouk Leele, the protagonist of the solo project RocioSantaCruz and Guillermo de Osma, are also presented by the artist and LGTBQ+ memory with works by Pitti Bartolozzi, erotic-lesbian discussions by Victorina Durán, Dehla Tejero and Pepe Caballera.

Travesía Cuatro acaba de fichar and Ángela de la Cruz, which previously continued with Carreras Múgica, and presents Bulleton the first individual in the Madrid gallery.

North Galician first draws on the Irish painter Patrick Michael Fitzgerald, also accompanied by his classics Miguel Marino and Julia Huete, discussions by Blanca Gracia, Rosendo Cid and photographs by the deceptive Anna Turbau.

Elba Benítez also presents news from Miroslaw Balko (with individuals and in the gallery), alongside the latest works by Catalan resident in Brussels Oriol Vilanova here we will represent at the 61st Venice Biennale. The stand is completed by Dora García, Isa Melsheimer, Noemí Pérez and Lucía C. Pino.

Max Estrella, for his part, on three occasions during the holidays, he will first show some pieces by Ana María Caballero and Isabel Coixet. The booth will also feature a special project dedicated to Miler Lagos with a history of her latest works on the origins and use of paper, and will feature the latest works of Cuban Glenda León to coincide with her first solo exhibition at the gallery.

Even the modeling duo has its followers: alongside Elvira González, Moisés Pérez de Albéniz teamed up with Jorge López to present Gema Polanco’s solo project; Ehrhardt Flórez teams up with Meyer Riegger to design a dialogue between June Crespo and Miriam Cahn. The Chiquita Room will have a duality, Pieter Laurens Mol and Teresa Estapé in white and black.

They participated in the Río & Meñaka fair, which led to Gregorio Cámar, the former director of Helga de Alvear – the gallery from which we ended up sending us – with a stand called “The Practice of Discourse”, illustrated by the works of Marlon de Azambuja, Nuria Mora, Ana Barriga and Fernandez-Pello. If they incorporate in the same way, Madrid Memory; Blue Velvet and Fermay entered without an embargo for two years of participation in the Opening.

Following the trend of comisariados stallsÁlvaro Alcázar is inspired by the sea because it is conceptual. As every year, Parra & Romero found themselves in the architecture of their stand design; this time it will be Carlo Scarpa and his Complejo Monumental Tumba Brion. Baró Galería presents “The Secret Garden” in an attempt to recreate the intimate and fantastical space of playwright Frances Hodgson Burnett.

The future that unfolds in festivals that develop and grow are different and international, where you can meet classics like Barbadillo and Rafael Ortiz or mid-career like Carlos Aires (Sabrina Amrani and Ani Molnàr). The future seen by the Serbian performer and poet Katalin Ladik: “In my work and in my life, transformation has always been one of the main reasons.” Pues ace.