A motorcycle, a body, and desire pushed to its limits. Desire Dissection is a live sound performance in which Leo Pum explores the paradox of possession: dismantling what we desire until it disappears, transforming its destruction into sound.
The project emerged from research developed during the artist’s month-long residency at SOLO Castanedo (Cantabria), for which he was selected through the SOLO Castanedo Artistic Residency 2026 international open call.
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Movimiento 37, an initiative dedicated to connecting the global art community through exhibitions and artistic residencies, presents Criaturas Híbridas, an exhibition curated by Galería SENDA bringing together works by Evru/Zush, Gonzalo Guzmán, and Sandra Vásquez de la Horra. The exhibition arrives in Madrid as part of a project that opens its space at SOLO CSV to proposals from galleries, collections, and institutions, fostering encounters and new connections between different agents within the art scene. (more…)
Bowman Hal presents uːː ɡʊɾːuː uːː ɡʊɾːuː, the first solo exhibition by Ampparito (Nacho Nevado, Madrid, 1991) at SOLO CSV, our space in Cuesta de San Vicente 36, Madrid. Conceived not as a conventional exhibition but as a ‘conceptu al trompe-l’œil’ , the exhibition brings elements commonly found on the streets of Madrid — and equally familiar in any European capital — into the gallery, using humour to offer a different perspective on both the space and the city. On view from 17 September to 21 November, the works transform the space into a playground for visitors’ imaginations.
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David Morago presents Zwischenzeit, a solo exhibition at Urban Spree, Berlin, bringing together the works created during his four-month residency at the renowned independent cultural centre. Represented by SOLO Contemporary, Morago unveils a new body of work that marks a pivotal moment in his career, reflecting the evolution of his painting practice towards a new visual language.
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Ulyss3s by SOLO presents at Nave 24 a new series of visual and narrative experiments developed by the collective Ulyss3s, a project situated at the intersection of video art, electronic music, performance and artificial intelligence. The exhibition brings together a range of works that explore the relationship between human memory and machine vision, shifting the generated image towards territories where identity, fiction and estrangement become unstable. (more…)
SOLO Independencia presents Helnwein: mundos invertidos, the first major retrospective in Spain of Gottfried Helnwein. Bringing together more than 40 works spanning four decades, the exhibition offers a comprehensive insight into the artist’s practice, developed in collaboration with over a dozen European collections. (more…)
Movimiento 37 (SOLO CSV) presents CINDY CRAWFORD: <Hostage 01>, a new exhibition that investigates the materiality of tension through a body of work situated between the sculptural and the performative. (more…)
Bowman Hal presents A&E, Adolf/Adam & Eva/Eve, Drawing Sessions 2020–2022, an exhibition by acclaimed Los Angeles artist Paul McCarthy, developed in collaboration with German actress Lilith Stangenberg. (more…)
Movimiento 37, SOLO’s initiative dedicated to connecting the global artistic community, presents The Engineering of Comfort, the first solo exhibition in Spain by South Korean artist Shinuk Suh. Free to access and hosted in the Movimiento 37 space within SOLO CSV, the exhibition will be on view until February 21 and is presented in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Center Spain.
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Bowman Hal presents Imminence, the new exhibition by Italian artist Siro Cugusi. The exhibition can be visited at SOLO CSV from 28 November to 31 January 2025. This is the third exhibition at the space, which opened in June 2025, and reflects Bowman Hal’s international and collaborative vision. (more…)
SOLO CSV hosts an encounter with Paul McCarthy (Salt Lake City, 1945), a key figure in the history of contemporary art and one of the most radical and unsettling voices on the international scene. The conversation, moderated by Josechu Carreras, director of Batty Purple —the SOLO project connecting collectors with art and artists—, forms part of a series of events exploring the intersections between creation, thought, and contemporary artistic practice.
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The Italo-British duo dmstfctn presents in Madrid The Models, an audiovisual and interactive installation that fuses avant-garde and tradition by improvising representations of the Commedia dell’Arte through generative artificial intelligence and real-time audience participation.
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SOLO CSV inaugurates Movimiento 37, a space conceived as an international platform for exchange between artists, galleries, and institutions through residencies and exhibition projects. It offers international projects the opportunity to present their work in Madrid, providing curatorial guidance and communication support so that each collaboration can reach its full potential. This is the second space open to the public at the center, following the Bowman Hal gallery, which launched its program in June. (more…)
Bowman Hal presents We All Shine On, the new exhibition by American artist Aaron Johnson, organized in collaboration with Almine Rech Gallery. The exhibition can be visited at SOLO CSV from September 10 to November 15, 2025. This is the second exhibition at the space, which opened in June 2025, and reflects Bowman Hal’s international and collaborative vision. (more…)
Cezar Mocan has been awarded the SOLO AI ’25 AWARD, the international prize from SOLO Contemporary and Onkaos promoting artistic and creative exploration around artificial intelligence. Mocan will receive €10,000 to develop and produce his project, which will be exhibited at SOLO CSV in early 2026.
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The 20th and 21st of November, SOLO Independencia in Madrid hosted “Downonly,” a performative installation by artist Nikita Diakur. This 24-hour piece examined the concepts of falling and unpredictability, blending the physical and digital realms through everyday objects from the recent past and nearly vintage technology.
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Colección SOLO, announced the winner of our second edition of the prestigious SOLO AI Award. This award highlights artworks made with artificial intelligence (AI), and this year’s winner is Gregor Petrikovič’s “Sincerely Victor Pike,” chosen from 372 artists. The ceremony was held yesterday at Goldsmiths University in London. It included the announcement of the winner and an exhibition of finalist works along with expert talks on art and AI.
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SOLO AI AWARD is dedicated to exploring the intersection of contemporary creative practices and artificial intelligence through a global competition focusing on digital and new media art.
In 2024 celebrates its second edition in collaboration with Goldsmiths University and Google Arts&Culture. (more…)
On the pavement, far from the white cube and its delicately ordered, the acrobatically arrangedbodies of filip custic and Virgen María (Maria Forqué), precariously supported by dozens of balloons of various sizes and colours, create a dreamlike structure that decisively occupies public space. dreamcore performance was held in Puerta del Sol (Madrid) on December 2023.
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Ulyss3s SOLO, the experimental artistic project fostered by Colección SOLO presented its new video animation “The War of the Worlds” last 4th of November at Espacio SOLO. The project, conceived as a visual narrative and produced with generative AI tools, uses the binary logic of war as an encounter point to reflect on the cultural tendencies of self-defence, as well as fascination of the unknown.
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The artists combine their different cultural backgrounds to address the main issues of their generation with an artistic proposal created in an artistic residency on the island of Mallorca. Over-information, identities, visual over-information and hyper-connectivity guide this exhibition that responds to universal questions through painting, installation and art
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Through 30 international artists such as Keiichi Tanaami, Justin Matherly, Mika Rottenberg, David Altmejd, Grip Face, Glenda León and Paco Pomet and over 63 works that include sculpture, painting, sound art, digital animation and artificial intelligence come together in conversation on the paradoxical appeal of excitement and terror, Colección Solo brings Protection No Longer Assured until December 2023. (more…)
SoloJSN, the new platform hosted by Colección, creates SOLO AI ‘23 AWARDS to promote artificial intelligence as a medium for artistic experimentation. The winning artwork will be part of the upcoming exhibition at Espacio SOLO in 2023.
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Colección SOLO joined Untitled Art 2022 (Miami) for the first time with the ‘Colección SOLO Acquisition Award’. The ceremony took place on December 1st and the award was given to the following artists: Alba Fernanda Triana, Pablo Benzo and Aglaé Bassens.
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Koka Nikoladze, composer and sound artist who lives in Oslo, presented on 21st November his latest project: Koka’s Self-Applauding Machine. An electromagnetic sculpture that can play several sound landscapes self-sufficiently and which, involving the performer and his audience, questions the role of the observer. By “humanising” the robotic, it reflects on vulnerability, the contagious nature of applause and the appeal of catchy tunes.
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The Dutch collective SMACK uses videogame engines to confront us with our group behaviour and show the hegemony of collective truths in the face of our ability to doubt. Tribe War, a live generative work, reflects on culture wars and our inability to modify certainties shared by the group. Tribe, on display at the Espacio SOLO (Madrid), presents awide-ranging art project including digital pieces, generative work and sculpture. Tribe Tower, currently in progress, will be presented in September as part of the inaugural exhibition at the revamped Evoluon in Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
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Certeza, an exhibition that proposes a collective reflection on what we take for granted, through the work of artists such as Amoako Boafo, Alex Hug, filip custic, Chino Moya, SMACK , Botto, Nick Cave and Koka Nikoladze, among others. Certeza, which will be on display at the Espacio SOLO from the 1st of April until December, will include a programme of parallel activities which will feature the participation of the artists whose work is on display, as well as a series of regular podcasts by El Extraordinario.
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Matadero Madrid, Centre for Contemporary Creation, a public arts space of Madrid City CouncilArea for Culture, Tourism and Sports, presents the exhibition The Garden of Earthly Delights, through the artworks of Colección SOLO, an invitation to revisit Bosch’s work through the prism of our present-day. Some fifteen international artists take part in the show, curated by Colección SOLO, which will run from 7 October 2021 to 27 February 2022 at Nave 16, MataderoMadrid.
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Dutch artistic trio SMACK released ‘Tribe Characters’, their first NFT art project. Mario Klingemann, novakzen collective and Filip Custic, the artist behind Rosalía’s visual universe, also presented NFT works supported by Onkaos , an initiative to foster new media artists which forms part of Colección SOLO.
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Colección SOLO has extended Still Human until 20th December 2021.
David Altmejd, Mario Klingemann, Tomoo Gokita, Neo Rauch, Nina Saunders, Nam June Paik, Evru/Zush and Miriam Cahn feature in this dialogue on how we create, observe and interact with new developments.
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