New exhibitions season at the La Casa Encendida

La Casa Encendida starts the new season with three exhibitions, which show three premises: Accommodating the new singers (Generation 2015), working as platform for the work of those artists who still have not been able to make themselves known in Spain as it occurs with the unpublished Neïl Beloufa, and using hindsight to know thoroughly the work of the most established artists like José Antonio Suárez Londoño.

Generation 2015

From February 13 to April 5, 2015

As every year since 2002, the Generations call of the Montemadrid Foundation supports young artists providing them with tools for the production and dissemination of their works. Its main objective is creating a platform dedicated to the contemporary art to show the work of the creators and disseminate their artistic proposals between the critics and the public, in general. The 10 artists chosen for the 2015 Edition are Elena Aitzkoa, Objetos nómadas; Karlos Gil, ; Cristina Garrido, #JWIITMTESDSA? (Just what it is that make today's exhibitions so different, so appealing?); Fermín Jiménez Landa, Acampada libre; Lucia Simon, Sin título-libretos; Pep Vidal González, Following the (Magnetic) North Pole; Daniel Jacoby, Jagat: Part I.; Nadia and Laila Hotait, La noche entre Ali y yo; Karlos Martinez B., Textile from exile; and Oriol Vilanova, Sin perder casi nada.

Curator: Ignacio Cabrero

The catalogue includes texts by Óscar Alonso Molina, Haizea Barcenilla, Andrea Bee, Sarah Demeuse, Valentinas Klimasauskas, Rosa Lleó, Luca Lo Pinto, Itziar Okariz, Joshua Simon, Manuela Moscoso and Maria Josefa Yzuel.

Contando con la gente by Neïl Beloufa

From February 13 to April 5

In the first exhibition of Spain dedicated to the French artist of Algerian Neïl Beloufa origin produced by the ICA in London, La Casa Encendida presents its latest films and sculptures. Through his audiovisual facilities, Beloufa reflects on the relationship we have with the screens and redirects the way we link the real and the digital world. At the same time, the exhibition explores how we interact each other and interpret the world since the Internet invention.

Neïl Beloufa (Paris, 1985) studied at the University of Fine Arts and Decorative Arts in Paris, at Cooper Union in New York and at CalArts (California). His works have been included in collective exhibitions presented at the Kunstmuseum of Bonn, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Brooklyn Dumbo Art Center, Center of Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv and the international triennial of contemporary art in Prague.

Curator: Matt Williams

Muestrario by José Antonio Suárez Londoño

From February 20 to April 5

Muestrario is a retrospective of the work of José Antonio Suárez Londoño. Its title not only refers to the nature of the exhibition, which includes works made with various techniques and formats, but the qualities of the work by Suárez Londoño in an attempt to compile and classify. Approaching his work also implies to approach his sources: his everyday surroundings, literature and the history of art. A great deal of his work has been created in small drawing books that have gradually taking the nature of some private diary.

His work has been exhibited at the Drawing Center and the MoMA in New York, at the 55 Venice Biennale and at the National Museum Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Muestrario has been produced by La Casa Encendida in the context of the invitation from ARCOColombia, in collaboration with MAMM (Museum of modern art of Medellín, as per initials in Spanish) and CAPC Museum of contemporary art in Bordeaux.

Curator: Yara Sonseca more

The catalog includes an essay by Yara Sonseca and an interview to José Antonio Suárez Londoño by the curator chief of the MAMM, Emiliano Valdés.

Generation 2015

From February 13 to April 5

#Generacion2015

Contando con la gente by Neïl Beloufa

From February 13 to April 5

#ExpoBeloufa

Muestrario by José Antonio Suárez Londoño

From February 20 to April 5

#ExpoLondoño