The month of love, the month of “let this winter come to an end”, the month of the Chinese New Year? February is the record month that shows that in Madrid we are very much into doing a lot of things all the time: 28 days full of experiences. Here are the best plans!
Table Of Contents
- Enlightenment (all month long)
- Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes (all month)
- Extremadura, a history engraved in stone (from February 18)
- It is dangerous to peek inside (from February 18).
- Banksy Museum (all month)
- Warhol Poster Exhibition (from February 12)
- David Lynch: Madrid cinemas pay tribute to you (all month)
- Ella ( from February 26)
- Flamboyant. Joana Vasconcelos (from February 13)
- Madrid Design Festival (from February 6)
- Festival Diminuto (from February 15)
- Chinchón Medieval Market (from February 28th)
- Queer Art (from February 4th)
- February concerts in Madrid (all month)
- Picasso's Vollard Suite (from February 13)
- A great exhibition on Egypt (from February 14).
- Laia Estruch. Hello Everyone (from February 26th)
- Tarek Atoui. At-Tāriq (from Feb. 18)
- Gypsy, the musical (from February 7)
- Centro Danza Matadero (from February)
- Ruta del cocido madrileño (from February 15).
- Guardi and Venice in the collection of the Gulbenkian Museum (from February 3rd)
- Sakiko Nomura. Tender is the night ( from February 6)
- Candlelight Valentine's Day ( February 14 and 16)
- Inverfest (all month)
- CoffeeFest (from February 15 to 17)
- Huguette Caland. A life in a few lines (from February 19th)
- 1924. Other surrealisms (from February 6)
- Marina Vargas: Revelations ( from February 10)
- Valentine's Day (February 14)
Enlightenment (all month long)
What do you imagine when you listen to a piece of Vivaldi’ s Four Seasons? What colors, what shapes, what figures come to your eyes? Enlightenment is the immersive experience that transforms all this inspiration into reality: it does so through cutting-edge video mapping technology that floods every nook and cranny of the church of the German-speaking Evangelical Community – Friedenskirche.
📍 Where? Paseo de la Castellana, 6 (Centro)
💸 Tickets : from 13€.
Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes (all month)
When we warned in Madrid Secreto that the official exhibition for the 85th anniversary of Marvel would arrive in the city, the boom was immediate. Now, months after its opening, this love for comics, movies and memorabilia of favorite superheroes and superheroines continues unabated.
The Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes exhibition has the ability to captivate audiences of all ages: it does so with an optimal selection of first staples, pieces never before shown to the public, tributes to the greats of the factory as Stan Lee or Jack Kirby…. but also with immersive rooms and life-size reproductions to take the best photos.
📍 Where can you find us? Avenida del Partenón, 5 (Barajas)
💸 Tickets: from 16,90 €.
Extremadura, a history engraved in stone (from February 18)
The Archaeological News Room of the MAN is a lucky thing: a place where archaeologists can share with everyone the latest findings and discoveries of interest. It is a living place, in continuous movement, which opens its second exhibition under the title Extremadura, a history engraved in stone. It will show five pieces, extracted from different excavations (Alcántara, Navalvilla de Pela, El Gordo, Mérida and Olivenza) that serve as a chronological journey from the Chalcolithic to the Visigothic culture.
📍 Where:Calle Serrano, 13 (Salamanca neighborhood)
Tickets: free access
It is dangerous to peek inside (from February 18).
Under the title It’s Dangerous to Peek Inside (Surrealism and Spain 1924 – 2024), the Círculo de Bellas Artes organizes a series of lectures and debates around André Breton’ s surrealist manifesto. This manifesto has just turned a century old and this series of workshops and conversations will analyze how the surrealist movement permeated art but also the very idiosyncrasy of the Spanish population up to the present day.
We will talk about Remedios Varo, Buñuel, of course, Dalí; but we will also mention the great prolegomena of the movement (such as the Baroque, El Bosco, Goya…). To round off all the activities (which you can find here), on March 6, Lagartija Nick will perform, acoustically, their album Un perro andaluz.
📍 Where to go? Calle de Alcalá, 42 (Centro)
💸 Tickets: free until full capacity.
Banksy Museum (all month)
What a furor the news has caused: Madrid opens 2025 with a new exhibition space dedicated to the figure and work of Banksy, the eternal anonymous artist. We don’t know who he is and we don’t care, but his work has radically transcended the way we see street art internationally. Not as vandalism but as protest, the most transgressive and honest: at street level without dealers or mediators. This space gathers more than 170 replicas, putting into perspective a trajectory of subversion and vindication with a permanent exhibition.
📍 Where is it located? Paseo de la Esperanza 1 (Arganzuela)
💸 Tickets : from 14€..
Warhol Poster Exhibition (from February 12)
Andy Warhol. Posters will bring together 134 posters created by the pop artist par excellence. It is a compilation of his work from the 1960s to the end of his career. Free of charge, it will be open at the Canal Foundation from February 12 in collaboration with the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg.
📍 Where? Calle de Mateo Inurria, 2 (Chamartín).
💸 Tickets: free access
David Lynch: Madrid cinemas pay tribute to you (all month)
The creator of characters like Henry (Eraserhead), John Merrick (The Elephant Man), Lula and Sailor (Wild at Heart) or the very famous Inspector Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks), has passed away. He leaves us, in a way, orphans. But with an incalculable cinematographic legacy full of references to that dark and authentic part of the psyche, to those impossible universes that live and will walk with us forever.
The cinemas of Madrid have invoked the director from Missoula and remember him with monographic cycles dedicated to his most recognized works but also to those short films with which it all began. From the Renoir ( until February 20 and in original version); through the Embajadores Cinemas (from February 5, also in original version) or the Verdi (from February 6 to 13). See the complete program here.
📍 Where to go? Different cinemas in Madrid
Ella ( from February 26)
The Sala Negra of the Teatros del Canal will host this musical play directed by Albert Boadella and performed by soprano María Rey-Joly. The piece narrates the suffering and the state between humiliation, torment, pain, fear, of a rape victim. In all this maelstrom of sensations, music, singing and small daily acts are the only things that connect her to the earth, the only things that redeem her.
📍 Where is it? Calle de Cea Bermúdez, 1, (Chamberí)
💸 Tickets: from 20€.
Flamboyant. Joana Vasconcelos (from February 13)
Joana Vasconcelos intervenes the interior (and gardens) of the Palacio de Liria, merging its striking colors, bold shapes and volumes, with the works of art resting in this historic palace. most recognized contemporary artists will install their great works in the Palacio de Liria.
📍 Where? Calle de la Princesa, 20-22 (University)
Madrid Design Festival (from February 6)
This year marks the eighth edition of a festival that is all about and for design. This 2025, all of Madrid becomes the epicenter of initiatives, more than 200 activities, twenty exhibitions in eighty spaces in the city, open days of design studios and showrooms.
Under the slogan “Redesigning the world”, Madrid Design Festival seeks to reflect on creativity and responsibility with the environment, but also to showcase new designers, giving a voice to the most disruptive studios and creative agents. You can consult the complete program here.
📍 Where will it take place? Various venues in the city
Festival Diminuto (from February 15)
Matadero’s new performing arts festival is dedicated to children and families. Plaza Matadero will become a big stage with tents, caravans, workshops, playgrounds…. Among the activities, there will be different sensory experiences (Asombro and Conectores, designed by El Hilo Rojo) that will last for three weekends; also, an immersive show called La madriguera, by the collective Farrés Brothers i Cia, a playable map to explore Matadero and matinees for the whole family at Cineteca. Check here for the full program.
📍 Where: Matadero, at Paseo de la Chopera, 14 (Arganzuela).
Chinchón Medieval Market (from February 28th)
“And when February reaches its equator, Chinchón will go back 500 years in time…”. This prophecy completely invented by Madrid Secreto is, in truth, a multitudinous event that will occur in the town of Chinchón between February 28 and March 2. It will then become a giant medieval market. Blacksmiths, craftsmen, theater, gastronomy? The whole town gets involved in this journey into the past.
📍Where? Several locations (Chinchón)
Queer Art (from February 4th)
The Maruja Mallo exhibition hall presents a compendium of works by queer artists, whose communicative object is “the richness and diversity of the LGBTQ+ community”. Beyond the artistic object itself, the exhibition tries to raise the voice on issues such as identity or personal freedom.
📍 Where: Maruja Mallo Exhibition Hall, Plaza Daoiz y Velarde, 2 (Pacifico)
💸 Tickets: free access
February concerts in Madrid (all month)
Topicazo to the song: Madrid does not sleep. And it’s true. Every day (any Tuesday included) there is bass drum, snare drum and guitar in Madrid’s venues. These venues (from large arenas to small venues to have the artist just a few meters away) are a city that breathes music. February arrives with great artists such as Ela Minus on the 18th at Nazca; Jay Jay Johanson at BUT on the 19th; or Carolina Durante on February 28th. Check out our favorite concerts in Madrid in February.
📍 Where? Several locations.
Picasso’s Vollard Suite (from February 13)
The Museo ICO Collection brings together the 100 etchings that Picasso created between 1930 and 1937. The Vollard Suite is more than a compendium of engravings: it is a work in itself, an ambitious project marked by the Civil War (as well as by the artist’s convulsive sentimental life during this period) in which he speaks of melancholy, eroticism and anxiety.
📍 Where is it? Calle de Zorrilla, 3 (Downtown).
💸 Tickets: free access
A great exhibition on Egypt (from February 14).
It is called Treasures of Egypt, is located at the Centro de Arte Tomás y Valiente de Fuenlabrada (CEART) and is completely free. The City Council of Fuenlabrada has organized this ambitious exhibition in collaboration with the Sophia Foundation and inside we will find 140 reproductions such as the statue of the pharaoh Chephren from the Cairo Museum or the grave goods of Tutankhamun.
📍 Where is it located? Calle de Leganés, 51 (Fuenlabrada)
💸 Tickets: free.
Laia Estruch. Hello Everyone (from February 26th)
The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía will dedicate a retrospective to Laia Estruch, an ambitious installation that will bring together all the works of the Barcelona artist from 2011 to the present. Among sculptures, visual scores and graphic works, the sounds and moving images with which Estruch works will also be displayed. “The ensemble can be considered a retrospective exhibition and a walkable warehouse at the same time,” the center says.
📍 Where: Museo Reina Sofía, Cuesta de Santa Isabel, 52 (Centro).
Tarek Atoui. At-Tāriq (from Feb. 18)
More than an exhibition, Tarek Atoui. At-Tāriq is a musical installation that delves into and revolves around the hospitality of Arab and North African homes. At-Tāriq means “he who comes from the night” or “the morning star” and, through the musical pieces, travels through the rural musical traditions of the Arab world.
📍 Where: Thyssen-Bornemisza, at Paseo del Prado, 8 (Paseo del Arte).
Gypsy, the musical (from February 7)
Antonio Banderas can’t stop creating. Now, immersed in his more theatrical side, he directs and reinterprets this magnificent musical that, we know, will give people something to talk about. Gypsy is one of the most internationally acclaimed musicals (it has won Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk and Grammy awards) and will now come to the Spanish capital starring Marta Ribera, Lydia Fairén and Laia Prats. Gypsy is the super production based on the life of burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee and how she was willing to do anything to turn her daughters into vaudeville stars.
📍 Where? Teatro Apolo, Plaza de Tirso de Molina (Centro)
Centro Danza Matadero (from February)
Now it really is: Centro Danza Matadero opens in Madrid with a program that kicks off this February with the presence of Ballet flamenco de Andalucía with a reinterpretation of Lorca’s Mariana Pineda; It Dansa with the pieces Biterna, Lo Que No Se Ve y Minus 16; and Chaillot Théâtre National de la Danse with Rachid Ouramdane.
📍 Where to go? Plaza de Legazpi, 8 (Arganzuela)
Ruta del cocido madrileño (from February 15).
This is the 15th edition of a route that unifies all of Madrid around the art of cocido. Its turnovers, its ingredients, its cooking hours… an absolute gastronomic alchemy that is celebrated until March 31 in which 37 restaurants participate in which were served, in these last years, 90000 servings of cocido, 600000 kilos of noodles and 20000 kilos of chickpeas. From the classic Malacatín to the new classic Casa Carola or the vegan Barceló Imagine, you have all the information in our article.
📍 Where? Several locations.
Guardi and Venice in the collection of the Gulbenkian Museum (from February 3rd)
The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum kicks off the year with an exhibition that, for the first time in Madrid, brings together all of Francesco Guardi’s works from the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. The exhibition consists of 28 oil paintings and one drawing (as well as an oil painting by the artist’s son, Giacomo). The works will take us on a journey to 18th century Venice and to the Vedutist and continuist style of Canaletto’s work.
📍 Where to go? Paseo del Prado, 8 (Paseo del Arte)
Sakiko Nomura. Tender is the night ( from February 6)
The Mapfre Foundation is showing a retrospective of Japanese photographer Sakiko Nomura. Nomura is renowned for her male nudes and how her gaze (full of eroticism but above all, tenderness and mystery) has been a rupture and a challenge to Japanese taboos.
📍 Where to find us? Paseo de Recoletos, 23 (Paseo del Arte)
Candlelight Valentine’s Day ( February 14 and 16)
“Love is in the air!” and they know it well at Candlelight. The special programming of the most spectacular classical concerts in Madrid is designed and curated with all the love that Valentine’s Day deserves.
On February 14, the ABC Serrano will be the stage for a special Valentine’s Day with performances by the string quartet Parallel Quartet of songs such as Salut d’amour by Elgar, Creep by Radiohead or Legends of Passion by James Horner.
On February 16, the stage of love will be the Four Seasons Hotel, where pianist Esther Toledano will give free rein to the most emblematic themes dedicated to love in cinema(Unchained Melody by Ghost, La Vie En Rose, All You Need Is Love by Love Actually…).
📍 Where? ABC Serrano and Four Seasons
💸 Tickets : from 23€.
Inverfest (all month)
A festival by days, a festival by venues, a festival that warms up the winter with the best music of the current scene. Inverfest arrives to fill the cold winter with music. This edition of 2025 starts on February 1st with the concert of Marlena in La Riviera and following artists such as Xoel López, Biela, Delaporte, Los Zigarros…
📍 Location: Different locations.
CoffeeFest (from February 15 to 17)
Coffee Fest is said to be the biggest event for coffee professionals. Also for lovers of this drink of the gods. This year, it will take place in Hall 6 of IFEMA and among everything that will happen, there will be a championship in which the best latte in Spain will be voted, also a latte art with matcha, a pro filtering tournament, a latte art contest… and also a selection of the best coffee shops and roasters.
📍 Where to find us? Avenida del Partenón, 5 (Barajas)
Huguette Caland. A life in a few lines (from February 19th)
This February, the Reina Sofia presents a retrospective on Huguette Caland. It is the first in Europe on this Lebanese artist. More than 300 drawings, paintings, sculptures… will be brought together in this exhibition to show how, through art, Caland explored and challenged conventions about social and sexual norms, about the body, belonging or love.
📍 Where? cuesta de Santa Isabel, 52 (Centro)
1924. Other surrealisms (from February 6)
How did it influence the first surrealist manifesto (Breton, 2924) and what repercussions did it have on art and society in Spain? This exhibition at the Mapfre Foundation aims to answer this question through representatives of the movement such as Salvador Dalí, Maruja Mallo and Óscar Domínguez, but also creators who may not ring a bell, such as Remedios Varo, Nicolás de Lekuona, Amparo Segarra and José Alemany.
📍 Where to find us? Paseo de Recoletos, 23 (Art Walk)
Marina Vargas: Revelations ( from February 10)
The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum continues with its Kora project, a commitment to make women artists visible. In February, it will open the exhibition Revelations, by Granada-born Marina Vargas. This artist works and researches on “the silencing of women throughout history“. In this case, through the figure of Mary Magdalene, she builds an exhibition tour in which she gives voice to women in art, in the sacred story… with an updated perspective.
📍 Where? Paseo del Prado, 8 (Art Walk)
Valentine’s Day (February 14)
That’s the thing about February: the cold weather fights with romantic plans to celebrate that quasi-blind angel who shoots arrows left and right. For starters, how about booking a table at the most romantic restaurants in town?
📍Where? Love is in the air (Todo Madrid)