Image: Lázaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid
The Lázaro Galdiano Museum’s garden in Madrid will host ‘Between the Grid and Life’, an outdoor sculpture exhibition presented as one of the venues for the 17th edition of Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend. Curated by Begoña Torres, the exhibition will run from 9 September to 15 November 2026, with free admission.
The show brings together 13 sculptures by Carlos Albert, David Magán, Tamara Arroyo, Andreu Alfaro, Cristina Almodóvar, Mar Solís, Nuno Nunes-Ferreira, Simón Vega, Javier Bravo de la Rueda, Pedro Calapez, Josep Maynou, Dagoberto Rodríguez and Sandra del Val. The works will be distributed across different areas of Parque Florido, the garden surrounding the museum, creating a route through the site rather than a single enclosed display.
According to the museum, the exhibition examines the tensions between systems of order and the organic experience of contemporary existence. Its central metaphor is the grid, understood as a structure associated with geometry, repetition and control. The sculptures consider how such systems coexist with the body, time, memory, chance and the continuing transformation of living things.
The curatorial framework allows the grid to take different forms. In some works, it operates as a support, container or visual architecture; in others, it is fragmented, distorted or overtaken by organic elements. The exhibition therefore presents structure not as a fixed resolution, but as a framework exposed to interruption and change.
The participating artists work with a broad range of materials, including corten steel, iron, porcelain, painted aluminium, marble, cement and recycled objects. The museum describes the works as connected by a shared “universal grammar” of internal relationships, while grouping them around distinct lines of inquiry. Carlos Albert, David Magán and Tamara Arroyo address space and emptiness; Andreu Alfaro, Cristina Almodóvar and Mar Solís evoke places beyond physical limits. Nuno Nunes-Ferreira, Simón Vega and Javier Bravo de la Rueda explore memory, politics and society, while Pedro Calapez focuses on the territory between things and Josep Maynou on the threshold between control and chance.
Dagoberto Rodríguez and Sandra del Val have each created a site-specific work for the museum gardens. Their pieces are described as moving between play and architecture, extending the exhibition’s investigation of how constructed systems meet the particular conditions of a place. The garden, in turn, becomes both setting and part of the exhibition’s spatial logic. ‘Between the Grid and Life’ will be on view at the Jardín del Museo Lázaro Galdiano in Madrid from 9 September through 15 November 2026.
