Alberto Greco: Viva el arte vivo — Exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid)

Alberto Greco: Viva el arte vivo — Exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid)

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía presents Alberto Greco. Viva el arte vivo, a retrospective exhibition devoted to Alberto Greco (Buenos Aires, 1931 – Barcelona, 1965), a pivotal figure of the experimental avant-garde and founder of arte vivo. The exhibition traces his brief yet intense career, understood as a wandering itinerary across cities and cultural scenes in which art and life deliberately merge.

The exhibition brings together works produced between 1949 and 1965, ranging from his early writings and Informalist painting—focused on materiality, spills, and surface tension—to his actions and objets vivants, the drawings made in Madrid, and the collages the artist himself described as “self-promotional.” The exhibition also includes the novel Besos brujos, written shortly before his death.

At the core of the project is arte vivo (later also called vivo-dito), formulated by Greco in Paris in March 1962: a way of working that shifts the artwork toward the situational and the immediate. Under these premises, the artist “signed” people and everyday spaces, declared places to be works of art, and extended his practice to the street as a site of aesthetic invention.

The exhibition also highlights how this impulse continues in drawings and collages traversed by writing, references to popular culture and mass media, affective modulations, and records of the everyday, where urban wandering, pop gesture, and the intimate archive coexist.

Institutional Collaboration

For more than fifteen years, Galería Del Infinito has carried out sustained research into the work and thought of Alberto Greco. This work led in 2020 to the publication La aventura de lo real. Escritos de Alberto Greco, a volume that brings together previously unpublished texts by the artist and foregrounds his writing as a constitutive part of his practice.

Within this framework, Galería Del Infinito actively participates in the Museo Reina Sofía retrospective through a significant loan of artworks and archival materials, reaffirming its commitment to the research, conservation, and international dissemination of Greco’s legacy.

The Reina Sofía retrospective not only reappraises a fundamental artist of the twentieth century, but also re-signifies artistic practices that continue to fuel contemporary debates around action, the archive, and aesthetic experience. As a space committed to critical thinking and art history, we celebrate this international dialogue with a figure who has profoundly shaped the development of conceptual practices in art.

Practical Information

Dates: February 11, 2026 – June 8, 2026
Venue: Museo Reina Sofía — Sabatini Building, Floor 0 (Madrid)
Curated by: Fernando Davis
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía

Alberto Greco: Viva el arte vivo — Exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid)

Institutional Collaboration

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