Dejar abierto al salir
In art, not everything is possible, but here, something is. We’re going to discover what that “something” is together—each time, whoever is there, with whatever we have: our bodies, our voices, our stories.
Through the painting and photography exhibitions, in the space provided by Mapfre Foundation.
With the team of facilitators dedicated to making this a welcoming space and time.
Let’s try to make something happen.
Over the course of a workshop-tour, we’ll ask questions with and about art, with life on the horizon. Always with the desire to make life more interesting than art. That would truly be something. That would truly be making a difference. Leaving different from how we arrived and taking something back to our daily lives.
Overcoming mistrust, spending time together, leaving a mark.
And leaving things open as we leave.
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These workshop visits are designed for everyone. So far, we’ve been visited by Moha, Youssef, Fátima, Vassily, Ivan, Filly, Mercedes, Rosa, and many more participants.
They’ve come through associations, foundations, and NGOs, with groups of unaccompanied minors, Ukrainian refugees, older adults with mild language and memory loss, and migrant women seeking employment.
We believe that cultural rights matter and that they also include the right to images—to look at them together, to do something with them, from handling them to immersing ourselves in them, to turning our backs on them if they don’t interest us.
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MAPFRE Foundation Exhibitions:
Between March and May, the exhibitions we’ll be working with are Helen Levitt and Anders Zorn. Travel the world, remember the earth.
On the autumn horizon, we catch a glimpse of new exhibitions:
Pre-Raphaelite: Women’s Paths (1850–1914): women artists’ response to a movement against academic art. Emerged in mid-19th-century England.
The Other Side of the Avant-Garde: Discover the dialogue between psychiatric patients and avant-garde art in the 1920s.
Minor White: The photographer conceived of images as expressions of inner states, viewing photography as a contemplative experience.
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“Dejar abierto al salir” is a series of free guided tours and workshops, organized by Fundación Mapfre and hablarenarte, that take place from February through December at the Sala de Arte Recoletos.
The tours are usually held on Monday mornings, allowing visitors to enjoy the gallery without other visitors present. They can also be scheduled for Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday mornings.
Tours are primarily held on Mondays, with the option to schedule them on a case-by-case basis on Wednesdays, Thursdays, or Fridays between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. We usually accommodate groups of 15–20 people.
If you work for a social organization or are part of a vulnerable group and are interested in attending, please email us at eva@hablarenarte.com.
The Art Gallery is located at Paseo de Recoletos, 23 (Chueca, Banco de España, or Colón metro stations; Recoletos commuter train station) and is accessible to people with disabilities.
The team leading the tours consists of Carlos Almela, Eva Garrido del Saz, and Matías Herrera Córdoba (hablarenarte) and Rocío Herrero (Mapfre Foundation).
