Banksy’s subversive art mixes this year with the darkest night. The Banksy Museum in Madrid, located in Arganzuela, will celebrate Halloween on Friday, October 31, 2025 with a special program that will turn its rooms into a journey between art and the macabre. In addition, there will be treats for everyone, a themed makeup artist and a 2 for 1 promotion on tickets at Fever valid from 18:00 to 21:00.
Beyond Halloween, the museum has a Screen Printing Workshop, a screen printing workshop that uses the same technique with which Banksy has spread his work around the world. It was born as a children’s activity, but after the great reception of the public it has been opened to all ages and will remain permanently. It takes place every Thursday, from 11 am to 1 pm, and has a supplement of € 9.50 (applicable to any type of ticket) and includes the creation of a piece to take home.
What will we find at the Banksy Museum on October 31?
The Banksy Museum in Madrid will be transformed into a gallery halfway between urban art and the disturbing. Banksy’s grim reapers (yes, those with the iconic happy face) will roam the halls among the more than 170 reproductions on display, bringing a point as mysterious as photogenic to the evening. In addition, a makeup artist will be available from 18:00 to 21:00, there will be free candy and a special atmosphere that will turn the space into a perfect setting for a sweet night of art and shadows.
A permanent tour through Banksy’s work and message.
The aim of this museum is to review the work of the master of street art through more than 170 reproductions and analyze how and why he has managed to leave his mark on the history of world art without showing his face. It also revolves around the eternal debate on graffiti (art or vandalism?) and raises, work by work, reflections on the provocative and revolutionary nature of Banksy’ s works.
Banksy or the eternal debate
It has been years since the figure of Banksy entered the collective imagination with his own political discourse, inseparable from the social reality in which he finds himself. Each action, each graffiti, generates international news. Incisive, brazen, direct, uncomfortable and without filter, the works of this artist go beyond the canvas or the street wall.
For example, in 2015 he opened the gloomy amusement park Dismaland in Somerset, a work of ephemeral art total antithesis of Disneyland whose materials were used to build shelters for immigrants in Calais. Or Walled Off Hotel, the hotel “with the worst view in the world”, located in Bethlehem in front of the wall built by Israel around the West Bank to enclose the supposedly “occupied” territory by Palestinians.
For years, the figure of Banksy has been introduced in our collective imagination with a political discourse of his own and inseparable from the social reality in which he finds himself. This has generated two positions: one of defenders and the other of detractors of this prolific artist who began his career in street art and under rather disadvantaged contexts. Now, this new Banksy Museum brings us closer to his committed look through a permanent immersive exhibition.
