Galería Ehrhardt Flórez Gallery in Madrid
Alonso Martínez · Contemporary programme
Editorial Profile
Galería Ehrhardt Flórez operates within contemporary art in Madrid as a research-oriented commercial gallery with a program centered on conceptual rigor and transgenerational dialogue. Founded by gallerists Patricia Ehrhardt and Guillermo Flórez, the space has developed a curatorial identity that moves between historical revision and contemporary experimentation, often presenting practices that engage with abstraction, minimalism, and process-based methodologies. Its exhibitions regularly encompass painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and works on paper, with particular attention to formal precision and intellectual continuity across generations. The gallery’s roster and exhibition history suggest an interest in both Spanish and international artists whose practices negotiate materiality, perception, and systems of representation, positioning it within the more critically driven segment of galleries in Madrid.
Within Madrid’s gallery ecosystem, the program occupies a measured space between the city’s more market-oriented contemporary venues and its institutional discourse shaped by institutions in Madrid. Rather than emphasizing spectacle, it tends toward carefully articulated exhibitions that foreground dialogue between works, often through tightly conceived solo and two-person presentations. Its participation in art fairs and its engagement with artists working across different geographies extend its visibility beyond the local context, while remaining anchored in Madrid’s evolving contemporary art landscape. In this sense, the gallery contributes to the city’s broader cultural fabric by sustaining a program where historical awareness, conceptual clarity, and contemporary production intersect.
Selected Artists
June Crespo
Spanish
Pamplona-born sculptor working with industrial materials—concrete, bronze, steel, fiberglass, and found textiles—assembled into hybrid forms that negotiate the boundary between the human body, architecture, and organic matter.
Secundino Hernández
Spanish
Madrid-born painter combining abstraction and figuration through layering, washing, and scraping techniques. His process-driven canvases draw on art history—from Action Painting to Spanish Old Masters—creating compositions in constant tension between control and dissolution.
Laia Estruch
Spanish
Barcelona-based artist whose practice centers on the voice and the body as primary materials. Working across performance, sculptural sets, and sound, she explores the emotive and communicative limits of a cappella vocal language, oral archives, and the physicality of speech.
Thilo Heinzmann
German
Berlin-based painter who integrates unconventional materials—pigment, fur, resin, styrofoam, porcelain, and aluminum—into tactile, multi-layered works that interrogate painting's fundamental conditions of surface, composition, color, and time. His work is held by Tate Modern and the Bundeskunstsammlung.
David Bestué
Spanish
Barcelona-born artist working at the intersection of sculpture, poetry, and architecture. Using molding, pulverization, and found materials tied to specific territories, his work critically engages Spanish cultural history, engineering, and the material residue of collective memory.
Julia Spínola
Spanish
Madrid-born sculptor living in Barcelona, whose practice focuses on gesture, accumulation, and material latency. Her works—often in vegetable fiber, putty, or found elements—resist singular definition, engaging in textual and spatial relationships with the environments they inhabit.
Selected Exhibitions
CARRAU
Laia Estruch
Estruch's most recent solo presentation at the gallery, featuring sculptural sets conceived as scenes for vocal and bodily experimentation, continuing her ongoing research into the voice as a material force and performance medium.
One Another
Thilo Heinzmann
The German painter's eighth exhibition in Madrid, bringing together three distinct bodies of work: new sand paintings, a selection of signature pigment canvases, and aluminum-based pieces from his Aicmo series, exploring materiality, texture, and the conceptual foundations of painting.
SOLAR
June Crespo
Crespo's second solo show at the gallery, presenting large-scale sculptural works in steel, bronze, textile, and concrete that interrogate scale, softness versus hardness, and the affective dimensions of bodily and architectural form.
Lengua Salada
Fátima Moreno
The Granada-based artist's first solo exhibition at the gallery, gathering drawings on paper from 2015 to 2024 alongside paintings, organized thematically around graphic gesture, folkloric imagery, and an expressive voice rooted in Andalusian culture.
Cambio de uso
Julia Spínola
Spínola's fourth solo presentation at the gallery, comprising new sculptures in fiberglass, cardboard, epoxy, and resin that investigate processes of copying, naming, and material transformation as a core sculptural methodology.
Secundino Hernández
Secundino Hernández
A solo exhibition of large silkscreen prints on cardboard and small canvases in which the human figure is embedded within abstract, kinetic compositions, exploring the intersection of printmaking technique and pictorial language through gestural mark-making and layered color.
UNO DOS TRES
Fernando García, Fátima Moreno, Rosa Tharrats, Björn Dahlem, Ulrich Rückriem, Laia Estruch
Six artists from different generations paired in three distinct gallery spaces, each pairing creating a dialogue between sculpture and works on paper across themes of landscape, cosmic form, and material tension.
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