"La lechuza de Minerva" marks the centenary of the Círculo de Bellas Artes building, offering a critical reflection on the institution's role and art's power today. This exhibition features diverse interventions by artists and collectives, transforming building spaces and uncovering hidden histories, including the recovery of Nancy Spero's "Sky Goddess, Minerva." Explore how it questions institutional needs and envision new ways of being together.
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This exhibition, titled 'La lechuza de Minerva', reflects on the centenary of the Círculo de Bellas Artes building by activating a disruptive energy to rethink the role of art in collective life. It features interventions by various artists and aims to uncover hidden histories within the institution.
La lechuza de Minerva, launched to coincide with the centenary of the Círculo de Bellas Artes building, is a critical reflection on the institution's role and the power of art in contemporary life. Drawing inspiration from the insurgent spirit of the 1991 exhibition 'El sueño imperativo', which transformed the Círculo into a space of political and poetic friction, this exhibition seeks to activate a disruptive energy from the present. It convenes artists, activists, and collectives whose practices often inhabit the liminal spaces between body and architecture, writing and space, matter and memory. The intervention unfolds over two months, activating less visible areas of the building and its programming, functioning as interferences and fissures that open new modes of listening and presence. It is conceived as a device in process, open to instability and resistance to fixed definition, aiming to spill out beyond the building and into the city's pulse. A significant aspect of the exhibition is its endeavor to uncover a hidden part of the building's history: the recovery of 'Sky Goddess, Minerva' (1991), an artwork created by Nancy Spero for 'El sueño imperativo' on the Círculo's rooftop. This material archaeology and field research, undertaken by restorer Rocío Casasus, seeks not only to reconstruct an artistic gesture but also to reactivate critical memory and question its restitution in the present. The exhibition prompts urgent questions about the institutions we need today, the bodies that can inhabit them, and the frictions that allow for their re-imagination, envisioning a porous institution that listens, is affected, and is open to the unexpected and more just ways of being together.
All public activities, performances, and exhibition visits are free of charge, with limited capacity. General admission is 6 €, with a reduced price of 5 €. Members of Círculo de Bellas Artes enter for free.
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