MAY 2024 - WET DREAMS

Mayrit Bienal is an event that merges design, architecture and contemporary art held every two years in Madrid. Through exhibitions, installations and activities throughout the city, Mayrit positions the Spanish capital as a creative focus for emerging talent.

After the successful editions of 2020 and 2022, which consolidated its position as one of the unmissable events on the Spanish circuit, Mayrit Bienal is renewed in 2024 with an ambitious program that will transform Madrid into the capital of avant-garde design and architecture.

Under the motto “WET DREAMS” developed by researcher Marina Otera Verzier, the Biennial will present more than 25 disruptive projects by artists, designers, architects and groups from all over the world.

In addition to the main exhibition venues, the Mayrit Biennial 2024 will have an extensive program of workshops, talks, tours and educational activities to involve all audiences in this new MAYRIT adventure. Madrid becomes an ephemeral laboratory for experimentation, new materials and disruptive proposals to rethink the spaces we inhabit.

This year, Mayrit presents the second edition of the exhibition Tomorrow, with Cecilia Tham from Futurity Systems as curator.

The exhibition reflects on the future of human connections at a time when technology is advancing rapidly and social dynamics are constantly evolving.

We are in a transformative phase of our relational history, where loneliness and the company of artificial intelligence are on the rise, and social norms and forms of relationship are constantly changing.

It is an experience developed by Idoia Cuesta and Inés Sistiaga that promotes the connection of artists with the processes and materials of wood through workshops and residencies. The exhibition explores how the use of artisanal techniques in these creative spaces encourages an in-depth dialogue with the different stages of wood transformation, from the forest to the final object. We will have a workshop for 20 participants, whose results will be part of the exhibition at the Design Center.

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