Nogueras Blanchard Gallery in Madrid
Alonso Martínez · Contemporary programme
Editorial Profile
NoguerasBlanchard operates as a mid-sized contemporary art gallery in Madrid with a program shaped by a dialogue between the Spanish scene and broader international discourses. Founded through the merger of NoguerasBlanchard’s Barcelona and Madrid spaces, the gallery has developed a translocal identity, presenting emerging and established artists whose practices often engage conceptual, political, and materially driven concerns. Its exhibitions move across painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and research-based or archival approaches, often foregrounding critical narratives around history, labor, language, and representation. Located in Alonso Martínez, it sits within one of the nodes of contemporary art in Madrid, where commercial galleries increasingly intersect with institutional and independent initiatives.
The gallery’s roster and exhibition history suggest a curatorial direction attentive to rigor rather than market-driven uniformity, with artists such as Mercedes Azpilicueta, Claudia Pagès, and Danh Vo reflecting an interest in practices that combine formal experimentation with conceptual depth. Participation in international art fairs and sustained visibility beyond Spain position it within a wider European and global circuit, while its Madrid space contributes to the evolving ecosystem of galleries in Madrid. In relation to nearby museums and non-profit spaces, including those shaping institutions in Madrid, the gallery plays a role in connecting local artistic production to broader international conversations without losing specificity to its immediate context.
Selected Artists
Wilfredo Prieto
Cuban
A Cuban artist whose minimal, often humor-laden gestures question political systems, consumption, and social structures, using everyday objects and simple materials to construct poetic yet sharply critical propositions.
Mercedes Azpilicueta
Argentinian
A Buenos Aires-born, Amsterdam-based artist whose multilayered practice draws on dissident feminist, queer, and postcolonial figures, weaving together voice, textile, and body to counter dominant historical narratives.
Ignacio Uriarte
German, Spanish
A German-Spanish artist who transforms the aesthetics of office life—ballpoint pens, typewriters, A4 paper—into serial, rule-based drawings that probe repetition, routine, and the relationship between labor and artistic practice.
Juliana Cerqueira Leite
Brazilian
A Brazilian sculptor based in New York who uses her own body as a primary tool, pressing into clay, latex, and plaster to produce large-scale works that record corporeal movement and interrogate the boundaries of physical matter.
Leandro Erlich
Argentinian
An internationally acclaimed Argentine artist who constructs large-scale architectural illusions—using mirrors, water, and familiar domestic elements—to destabilize viewers' perceptions of space, reality, and everyday experience.
Ester Partegàs
Spanish
A Barcelona-born artist whose installations examine the visual language of consumer culture, signage, and public space, using found materials and text-based strategies to expose the ideological codes embedded in everyday environments.
Selected Exhibitions
Habitual
Juliana Cerqueira Leite
Solo exhibition presenting sculptures and drawings exploring everyday bodily gestures as coded physical language, using clay, latex, plaster and metal to generate organic body-derived forms.
ACID LOVE FOREVER
Enric Farrés Duran
Research-based solo show stemming from the artist's engagement with MACBA's historical archive, presenting objects and documents that probe the paradoxes of conservation, permanence, and institutional memory.
Lecciones Aprendidas
Richard Wentworth
First solo Madrid show by the British sculptor, featuring assemblages of construction materials, books, mirrors and everyday objects that rethink language, memory and the built environment.
Dear Skywatcher: an exhibition of multiples and editions
Robert Filliou
A curated selection of Filliou's multiples and collaborative editions, presenting the Fluxus artist's ideas around playful exchange, communication and the dissolution of boundaries between art and everyday life.
Lost Garden
Leandro Erlich
Third gallery solo by the Argentine artist, transforming the space through mirror-based illusions, scale models and optical devices that blur perception, landscape and the boundary between observer and observed.
Dorothy Iannone, Sarah Pucci
Dorothy Iannone, Sarah Pucci
Two-person exhibition pairing the transgressive figurative work of American artist Iannone with Pucci's practice, presented at the Madrid space in the final months before the gallery's merger with Galeria Joan Prats.
Cartographies
Anna Bella Geiger
First in a gallery series on Latin American women artists, presenting Geiger's drawings from the De Rerum Artibus series and late-1970s video works exploring Brazilian identity and shifting socio-political contexts.
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