28.01.2026

The best art exhibitions to see in Madrid – Alberto Greco at the Reina Sofía

Between 11 February and 8 June, the Museo Reina Sofía presents Viva el arte vivo, an exhibition that revisits the radical and experimental figure of Alberto Greco (Buenos Aires, 1931 – Barcelona, 1965), a key figure in the artistic avant-garde of Argentina and Spain.

An Informalist painter, poet, performer, and queer flâneur, Greco turned his own life into a work of art through public actions, traveling exhibitions, and media gestures. The exhibition traces his production between 1949 and 1965—paintings, writings, collages, drawings, actions, and his novel Besos brujos—and revisits his proclamation of “living art,” a practice that sought to integrate everyday life into art through ephemeral performances, the signing of people and places, and urban declarations that left a particularly strong imprint on Madrid.

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