Buades Gallery We present a conversation between critic and curator María Escribano and Mercedes Buades. The place that the Buades gallery (1973-2003) occupies in the genealogy of art galleries in Madrid is particularly hot, as it reflected the artistic evolution of the Spanish transition. “I found myself in the right place, at the right time,” …

Edurne Gallery: a fleeting utopía The Galería Edurne is the life project of Margarita de Lucas and Antonio Navascués, which began its trajectory on 11 March 1964 in a semi-basement of Calle Villanueva 23 in Madrid, where such interesting and transcendental figures as Rueda, Millares, Zóbel, Saura and Alberto Greco would appear. Throughout its history …

El papel de Juana Mordó Juana Mordó (Thessaloniki, 1899 – Madrid, 1984) was an essential figure in the history of Spanish art galleries. After a period in Paris and Berlin, she arrived in Madrid in the 1940s and soon played an important role on the cultural scene. She opened her gallery of the same name …

SEN GALLERY Eugenia Niño (Caracas, 1933) founded the Sen gallery in 1969, in Núñez de Balboa street (Madrid). A few years later she moved to Calle Barquillo, where she remained until the gallery closed in 2009. Numerous artists passed through her gallery, such as Nacho Criado, Equipo Crónica, Elena Asins, Isabel Villar, Eduardo Úrculo, Luis …

THEO GALLERY Elvira González (Madrid, 1937) is one of Madrid’s pioneers art gallerists. Among other awards for her work, in 1999 she was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts. In 2011 she was awarded the Medalla al Mérito en el Trabajo and in 2013 the Fundación Arte y Mecenazgo Award in …

Biosca gallery, first salon of the eleven In 1942, Eugenio d’Ors, freed from his duties at the “Instituto de España”, promoted the creation of the “Academia Breve de la Crítica de Arte”, with the firm commitment to give visibility to contemporary art movements in a Spain recovering from the still open wounds of the recent …

Vandrés Gallery Fernando Vijande (Barcelona, 1929 – Madrid, 1986) founded Vandrés, dedicated to the sale of antiques, together with Gloria Kirby in 1971 to later convert their business into an art gallery -Galería Vandrés- . Today we present a conversation with Marisa Torrente, who was co-director of the Galería Vandrés together with Fernando Vijande. Vandrés …

Leandro Navarro Gallery The Leandro Navarro Gallery was founded in 1978 by the gallery owner and collector after whom it is named, a former playwright and court attorney. Leandro Navarro, a great lover of the fine arts since childhood, became acquainted with impressionism and avant-garde art during his time as a student in Paris. After …