The Museo Nacional de Antropología presents “La Quema. A Retrospective” by Elena del Rivero

The Museo Nacional de Antropología presents “La Quema. A Retrospective”, a major exhibition dedicated to the artist Elena del Rivero, as part of the museum’s Visiones críticas programme and its 150th anniversary celebrations. The exhibition is on view until 24 May 2026.

Curated by Mateo Feijoo, the exhibition takes as its starting point an action developed by the artist in 2024 in San Pedro Fiz de Vilar (Ourense), where she presented a series of works in domestic and rural spaces before subjecting them to a collective burning ceremony with the participation of the local community. This gesture articulates a reflection on memory, transformation, and the connections between art and shared life.

The exhibition brings together collages, assemblages, and works from the Diarios series, incorporating reclaimed materials and everyday objects transformed into affective archives. The retrospective is complemented by the presentation of Canto para un monumento funerario, produced in collaboration with students from EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona and presented at the Panteón de España, expanding the collective and pedagogical dimension of the project.

“La Quema” offers a transversal view of Del Rivero’s practice, where the act of burning is understood not as destruction, but as transformation and passage, in an ongoing dialogue between territory, memory, and community.

The presentation of Monuments in Love / Cartas de Amor commemorates forty years of Honeymoon Project through an event that activates the intersection of contemporary art, performance, and music culture.

On February 13, 2026, Sala Apolo in Barcelona will host the public presentation of the book Monuments in Love / Cartas de Amor, a publication that revisits one of the most significant projects by Antoni Miralda. Organized by Galeria Senda in collaboration with the venue as part of the Art Meets Apolo program, the event situates the publication within an expanded framework that moves beyond the traditional book launch format.

The session will adopt a performative structure that broadens the notion of a book presentation. Victoria Cirlot, Elvira Dyangani Ose, and Gabriel Ventura will take part in a dialogue incorporating a staged reading of the fictional letters exchanged between the Statue of Liberty and the Columbus Monument, the conceptual core of Honeymoon Project. The evening will also feature a gastronomic proposal developed with Tiberi Club, a concert by the musical project Akajú in quintet formation, and a screening of Colón era una mujer by the group Hidrogenesse.

Edited by Terranova, FoodCultura, and Galeria Senda, with design by Bendita Gloria, the book inaugurates the Honeymoon Updates collection. The publication revisits the project’s initial phase (1986–1992), focusing on Cartas de Amor, an imaginary correspondence that sought to humanize monuments charged with history and to rethink, through fiction, notions such as freedom, conquest, and cultural exchange.

The presentation also coincides with the farewell of Liberty Crown Brocheta, an installation located in the lobby of Sala Apolo. The piece reinterprets the crown of the Statue of Liberty as a luminous device composed of fruit and vegetable skewers associated with Columbian exchange, articulating food, historical memory, and symbolic representation—recurring axes in Miralda’s practice.

Art Meets Apolo thus consolidates itself as a platform for experimentation, activating the venue as a hybrid space where contemporary art and club culture converge. Developed together with LAB36 and Galeria Senda, the program proposes new forms of cultural mediation and fosters dialogue between disciplines, audiences, and creative scenes.