Although in a capital city it sometimes seems difficult to find affordable plans, free exhibitions in Madrid are an ideal cultural alternative when we want to continue to broaden our horizons, but not spend money on it.
In addition, this season you can enjoy the vibrant Madrid of the 20s, a literary look at the city or the universe of Paco Roca, among other proposals.
Madrid Art Déco, 1925: The style of a new era
The effervescence of Madrid in the 1920s is encapsulated in this exhibition where, through objects such as costumes or posters, and aspects such as architecture or urban mobility, the weight that Art Deco had in the life of the people of Madrid at the time and in the city itself becomes clear. The exhibition brings together more than 50 pieces and can be visited at the Sala Sur de CondeDuque.
📍Location: Conde Duque Contemporary Culture Center (Conde Duque Street, 11).
🗓️ Dates: until November 2, 2025
Memory. Emotional journey through Paco Roca’s comics.
The free exhibition “La memoria. Emotional Journey through the comics of Paco Roca” at the Cervantes Institute brings together more than 70 original pieces by the award-winning Valencian cartoonist, including murals, unpublished vignettes, sketches and pages from such emblematic works as Arrugas. The exhibition is a tribute to the historical, family and identity memory, and turns the visit into an emotional journey through the author’s universe. The building, designed by architect Antonio Palacios, adds value to this essential cultural event in the heart of Madrid.
📍Location: Instituto Cervantes (Calle Alcalá, 49)
🗓️ Dates: until September 28, 2025
Picasso in the work of Mingote
Throughout his career, Mingote found in Picasso an artist to admire and vindicate, and also a source of inspiration for his own work. In this exhibition, which brings together works by the cartoonist in chronological order, one can explore a hitherto little-known facet of Mingote in which the focus is on how his work dialogues with that of the artist from Malaga.
📍Location: Municipal Exhibition Hall of Buitrago del Lozoya (Calle de la Tahona, 19).
🗓️ Dates: until December 7, 2025
Madrid, muse of Letters
Madrid, Muse of Letters at the Espacio Cultural Serrería Belga pays tribute to the city’s role in world literature, from the Golden Age to the 20th century. The exhibition turns Madrid into six great books that include fragments and visions of authors such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Galdós, Pardo Bazán, Lorca and Valle-Inclán, inviting visitors to travel through the literary history of the capital through an immersive and visually surprising experience. It is the first assembly of the new Espacio Letras, in the heart of Barrio de las Letras, and will be available until December 31, 2025 with free admission.
📍Location: Espacio Cultural Serrería Belga (Calle Alameda, 15).
🗓️ Dates: until December 31, 2025
Alfredo Alcain. A retrospective
A whole career through more than 150 pieces: Alfredo Alcain’s career is captured in this free exhibition, which brings together works from the different stages through which the artist has passed. From paintings of shop windows and facades of Madrid to still lifes or his reinterpretations of the classic still life of Cèzanne. All this establishing a constant dialogue between popular culture and high culture.
📍Location: Sala Alcalá, 31 (calle de Alcalá, 31)
🗓️ Dates: until January 11, 2026
Navarro Baldeweg. Doing and Chance
CentroCentro is hosting the first institutional exhibition of Juan Navarro Baldeweg in Madrid in more than a decade. The exhibition traces the more than sixty-year career of the artist, one of the great contemporary Spanish creators. It brings together more than 70 works -paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings, photographs and models- dated between 1963 and 2025, many of them unpublished and from public and private collections. The exhibition reveals how painting, architecture and sculpture intertwine in a creative universe guided by chance, experimentation and observation of nature.
📍 Location: CentroCentro (Plaza Cibeles, 1)
🗓️ Dates: until November 2, 2025