“Until 16 March 2025 in Rooms C and D of the Jerónimos Building, the Museo del Prado and the Fundación Amigos Museo del Prado, in collaboration with the Madrid City Council of Madrid, is presenting the first solo exhibition on Sigmar Polke in Madrid. 

Sigmar Polke. Affinities Revealed offers visitors the chance to learn about the work of one of the most influential names in contemporary European art and to discover the fascinating dialogue he established with the Spanish pictorial tradition, with Francisco de Goya as its maximum exponent. Two artists separated by almost two centuries, but connected by their disruptive and visionary approach. 

The exhibition, curated by Gloria Moure, brings together more than forty works by Sigmar Polke, including paintings, photographs and drawings, together with the magnificent painting +Old Women or Time (1810-12) by Goya, from the collection of the Musée de Lille and presented here for the first time in Spain alongside its X-radiograph, an image that reveals compositions which particularly attracted Polke. This discovery encouraged him to experiment with new directions and offered him a source of inspiration to delve deeper into his own artistic concerns. 

The route through the exhibition unites the legacies of two great masters, establishing a dialogue between Polke’s formal experimentation and the symbolic charge of Goya’s work.” — Museo Nacional del Prado

Images courtesy Museo Nacional del Prado.