Museo Reina Sofía

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, located in Madrid, is one of the leading institutions dedicated to modern and contemporary art, both nationally and internationally. It participates in TEJA through Museo Tentacular, a department within the museum’s Directorate of Studies, responsible for developing, nurturing, and sustaining various collaborative networks in which the museum takes part. Each of these networks operates at different scales, with diverse modes of operation and actors involved, but they can be broadly grouped into three main areas of work:

• Citizenship and the commons
• Art and social transformation
• Institutional solidarity

These networks negotiate and nurture relationships with the social contexts and demands that affect and shape the museum.

Through a variety of formats — from activities and working groups to publications — Museo Tentacular explores co-responsible ways of programming, sharing, and listening, weaving a fluid ecosystem of alliances and exchanges within, around, and beyond the museum. This network extends beyond the realm of art, fostering dialogue and relationships with adjacent spheres, such as social movements and cultural policies.

Through these interactions, the institutional space and the very notion of the public become porous, permeable, and responsive to the diverse realities with which they engage. The museum thus positions and defines itself not only as a meeting place, but also as a space of friction and debate, where the different social and historical processes that pass through it — whether from the neighborhood, the city, the state, or the world — question and transform its ways of operating.