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 makes it clear that this 2024 is a leap month: 29 days full of experiences. Here are the best plans!
Table Of Contents
- Pixar World (all month long)
- From Spain with Design: Identity and Territory (from February 1)
- The intimate realism of Isabel Quintanilla (from February 27th)
- Genesis (all month)
- Chinese New Year (from February 2)
- Murder Mystery' (from February 24th)
- Chagall. A cry for freedom (from February 2)
- Rita's Brunch (from February 10)
- Madrid Carnival 2024 (from February 10 to 14)
- Jurassic World by Brickman (all month)
- Christer Strömholm (from February 2)
- The Berlin Wall. A divided world (all month)
- Autius Driving School in Argüelles celebrates its 4th anniversary with several offers (all month long).
- Las Fallas come to Madrid (February 17 and 18).
- When the lambs rise against the bird of prey (from February 21)
- Exhibition by Jordi Socías Al final de la escapada ( from February 22nd)
- Cocido madrileño route (from February 15)
- Three stage proposals at Condeduque: Angélica Liddell, Gastón Coré and Trajal Harrell (February 10, 11, 17, 23 and 24).
- Yerma (from February 8 to 25)
- Inverfest (until February 9)
- More concerts
- La Regenta (from 4 February)
- A new world (all month)
- Infinito Tàpies (from 20 February)
- Candlelight Valentine's Day (February 16 and 17).
- Goya finalist films at Sala Berlanga (all month long).
- Medieval Market of Chinchón (from February 9 to 11)
- Valentine's Day (February 14)
- Love Yarn (from February 9 to 11)
Pixar World (all month long)
What’s going on in Madrid with Pixar World… Inside this immersive experience, attendees replicate mythical scenes from the films, such as when the Toy Story dolls and toys “play dead” when they open the door to Andy’s room or when part of the ocean community goes in search of the missing Nemo. This exhibition has even been the scene of TikTok trends like the one in Soy tan petit….
This is what immersive experiences are all about, where space is a stage for creation, imagination and a blank canvas for social networks.
Space 5.1 of the IFEMA Madrid Exhibition Center. Avenida del Partenón, 5 (Barajas district).
From Spain with Design: Identity and Territory (from February 1)
The Central Design Matadero hosts from February an ambitious exhibition that brings together more than a hundred pieces “to give visibility to national design through initiatives undertaken by Spanish professionals”. Free of charge and “live”, this exhibition, which has already visited cities like Compostela, Badajoz or Gijón, adds to its passage through Madrid proposals from professionals and design companies in the capital.
📍 Paseo de la Chopera, 14 (Matadero, Arganzuela neighborhood)
The intimate realism of Isabel Quintanilla (from February 27th)
The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum is making headlines in the art scene this year: for the first time in its history, the Madrid art gallery will dedicate a monographic exhibition to a Spanish artist. More than a hundred works by Isabel Quintanilla Isabel Quintanilla, Madrid’s great brush of contemporary realism, make up this exhibition, which ironically includes paintings never previously exhibited in Spain, her native country.
In the words of the museum itself: “Quintanilla lived and worked at a time in the history of Spain when women artists had neither the weight nor the prominence enjoyed by male artists (…). The artist always referred to the constant struggle involved in solving the problems that painting poses to anyone who wants to use it to experience reality in a different way.”
Paseo del Prado, 8 (Chueca)
Genesis (all month)
Genesis is an experience to let yourself go, to lie down, relax, enjoy the show of light, color and sound about the origin of the Earth. You will find it inside the church of the German-speaking Evangelical Community – Friedenskirche.
Paseo de la Castellana, 6 (Serrano).
Chinese New Year (from February 2)
Happy Dragon Year! On February 10 will begin a new Chinese year that, as always, Madrid celebrates in style. The activities will start on the 2nd and the famous parade will be held next Sunday, February 11 at 12h, a parade that will feature this year with more than 1000 artists, three giant dragons, live music, traditional dances … organized by the main Chinese associations, sports clubs and school groups.
📍 Usera District (Usera)
Murder Mystery’ (from February 24th)
Who has murdered the Marquise of the Fernán Núñez Palace? Why did she do it? Murder Mystery is a kind of life-size immersive game in which participants become investigators of a mysterious and suspicious death. This immersive experience changes location and plot after sweeping through the palace of Santa Barbara.
📍 Calle de Santa Isabel, 44 (barrio de las Letras).
Chagall. A cry for freedom (from February 2)
to be one of the great artistic retrospectives of the year 2024 in Madrid, the Sala Recoletos of the Mapfre Foundation will gather from February 2 the work of the Belarusian painter of Jewish origin Marc Chagall. His production, always tied to the crude socio-political reality in which the artist lived (he lived through the two world wars and an exile) travels between surrealism, cubism and Russian expressionism.
Paseo de Recoletos, 23 (Justice)
Rita’s Brunch (from February 10)
One of Madrid’s great parties is back: Rita’s Brunch starts its new season on Saturday, February 10. The brunch that is anything but a regular brunch: here you can dance, sing, toast and eat international cuisine. Autocine Madrid CesurFP will once again host this event, changing the cinema for the dance floor and putting at the service of partygoers different food trucks, show cooking, happy hour, live DJs…
📍 Calle Isla de Java, 2
Madrid Carnival 2024 (from February 10 to 14)
Parades, musical performances, activities… The Carnival will start this 2024 with the traditional proclamation from the balcony of the Casa de la Villa and will end with the no less traditional Burial of the Sardine on Ash Wednesday. This begins in the Plaza de San Antonio de la Florida, crosses the Manzanares and passes through Doctor Casal and the underpass of the M30 until the “final” burial in the Fuente de los Pajaritos in the Plaza de las Moreras in the Casa de Campo.
📍Different locations
Jurassic World by Brickman (all month)
The Jurassic World by Brickman exhibition has caused such a furor that it has extended its stay at IFEMA until March. What can we see? More than fifty dinosaur replicas created with 6 million LEGO® pieces. An absolute madness, curious and engaging, which in addition to narrating the adventures of the Jurassic World universe, sends a message to lovers of construction and puzzles: it can be done.
📍 IFEMA Madrid. Avenida del Partenón, 5 (Barajas district).
Christer Strömholm (from February 2)
The Mapfre Foundation will kick off February with another exhibition from the hand (or rather, the eye) of Swedish photographer Christer Strömholm. A retrospective that touches on all the artists of his prolific career (his time with the German group Fotoform, his fixation with assemblages of objects in the final stage of his career, his travels, street life through his lens, the portraits he took of different artists…).
Paseo de Recoletos, 23 (Justice)
The Berlin Wall. A divided world (all month)
Symbol of division, the fall of the Berlin Wall is still considered today a historical event that changed the way we see the world. This exhibition displays more than 300 objects as well as original testimonies from neighbors on both sides of the wall to reflect on the social and political changes, tangible and intangible barriers.
📍 Canal Foundation (Canal)
Autius Driving School in Argüelles celebrates its 4th anniversary with several offers (all month long).
The Autius Driving School of Argüelles is celebrating its fourth anniversary and is doing so with offers for those who wish to get their driving license this winter. In its efforts to make the road easier, Autius Argüelles (Alberto Aguilera 33) is giving away free extra classes when you purchase vouchers of 10 and 20 classes, allowing you to start your training immediately after passing the theory test, with no waiting list.
For those who have not yet passed the theory exam, Autius presents an effective method through intensive 6-day courses, with intensive classes of two hours per day. Once completed, you will be able to measure your progress with the tests available on the My Autius app, ensuring you are prepared for the official exam. If you sign up this February, you can be behind the wheel in just a few months.
📍Alberto Aguilera, 33 (Argüelles).
💸 2 free lessons with the voucher of 10 and 5 with the voucher of 20 with manual or automatic car.
Las Fallas come to Madrid (February 17 and 18).
That’s right: the roots of the Valencian festival will arrive this 2024 to Madrid. They will do so from February 17 to 18 celebrating in the capital a mascletá. With the location for the traditional fireworks display still to be defined (Cibeles or Colón is being considered), what has been confirmed is that there will also be a passejà of falleras mayores.
📍 To be defined.
When the lambs rise against the bird of prey (from February 21)
A forest inside the mountain of the Retiro cats. This is what Precious Okoyomon ‘s first exhibition in Spain proposes. It is a total work of art(Gesamtkunstwerk) that unifies different artistic disciplines inside this renovated space: to begin with, this forest will impregnate those who enter with the smells of the earth, of the vegetation; in addition, we will find an animatronic creature that pretends to be a symbol of suffering but also of triumph (according to the work of the poet Anne Boyer that has the same name as that of the exhibition).
📍 Paseo de Fernán Núñez, 30 (Retiro)
Exhibition by Jordi Socías Al final de la escapada ( from February 22nd)
The Sala Canal de Isabel II opens its doors to an exhibition that brings together the career of photographer Jordi Socías to the present day. More than five decades of shutter that began in the late 1970s, with that portrait of Salvador Dalí (the one in which Socías only needed to capture half of a close-up of the painter’s face to capture his whole essence). Since then, his eyes have pierced characters such as Borges, Paloma Picasso, Francis Ford Coppola or Ai Weiwei .
📍 Santa Engracia Street, 125 (Chamberí)
Cocido madrileño route (from February 15)
This is the 14th 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 38 restaurants participate in which were served, in these last years, 90000 servings of cocido, 600000 kilos of noodles and 20000 of chickpeas. From the classic Malacatín to the new classic Casa Carola or the vegan Distrito Vegano.
📍Several locations.
Three stage proposals at Condeduque: Angélica Liddell, Gastón Coré and Trajal Harrell (February 10, 11, 17, 23 and 24).
Angélica Liddell lands at the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque to invite us to attend her own funeral. In Voodoo (3318) Blixen ( Feb. 10 and 11), Liddell narrates a pact with the devil, a series of events that end up leading us to her own farewell. For his part, on February 17, Gaston Coré will defend Before Night Falls, an exploration of the physical terrain, of dance, of body movement. Finally, Trajal Harrell will present his Köln Concert on February 23 and 24, a further step in the artist’s intention to continue reinventing the culture of dance and the most avant-garde music.
📍 Conde Duque Street, 11 (Conde Duque)
Yerma (from February 8 to 25)
La Dramática Errante brings this free text adaptation of Lorca’s great play. The theater company captains a version directed and acted by Bilbao actress María Goiricelaya (accompanied by Aitor Borobia, Leire Orbe, Unai Izquierdo and Loli Astoreka, among others). In this Yerma, the audience will not hear a word of the poet from Granada, but will hear the words of all the women that Lorca represented (and continues to represent) in his transcendental work: those who face the stigma of not being able to have offspring.
📍 Plaza de Colón, 4 (Salamanca)
Inverfest (until February 9)
February will kick off with the last throes of Inverfest, which will end on February 9, leaving behind more than a hundred musical shows in a cycle that runs through the capital’s most iconic venues.
The February bill includes concerts by Coque Malla, Paul Alone, La Zowi and Soto Asa at the Wizink, Valeria Catro, Leo Rizzi, Fetén Fetén, Pedro Ladroga and Pipiolas at Sala Paqui, among many others. You can access the complete program here.
📍 Different locations.
More concerts
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 like El Coleta at Copérnico on the 3rd, Masego on the 7th at La Riviera, Bejo on the 8th at La Paqui, Delaporte on the 9th at La Riviera, Samuraï on the 18th at La Paqui and Ralphie Choo on the 22nd at the same venue.
📍 Different locations.
La Regenta (from 4 February)
La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas Clarín opens at the Sala Guirau of the Fernán Gómez from February 4. Centro Cultural de la Villa. This is the first time that this play, a classic of Spanish literature, is faithfully represented following the writer’s novel. A reflection on love, passions, drives and the chains that bind human beings to morality, to what people will say, to conventions.
📍 Plaza de Colón, 4 (Salamanca)
A new world (all month)
The exhibition A New World at the Palacio de Liria, Madrid, presents works by Mexican artist Denise De la Rue that navigate the connection between historical exploration and the conquest of territories.
The show includes the only autograph letters of Christopher Columbus in private hands, taking visitors on a journey from the discovery of America in 1492 to the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969, through sculptures based on artifacts that have been at NASA or reproductions of meteorites.
📍 Liria Palace. C. de la Princesa, 20 (Ventura Rodriguez)
Infinito Tàpies (from 20 February)
The retrospective Infinito Tàpies: at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid celebrates the centenary of the birth of the Catalan artist. Through a series of initiatives, the Antoni Tàpies Foundation seeks to project the artist’s legacy into the future.
The exhibition at the Reina Sofía presents a wide selection of works spanning Tàpies’ career from 1943 to 2011, showcasing his pioneering vision in the reuse of materials and the anticipation of current themes. The exhibition, which will remain open until June 23 at the Reina Sofía and will then travel to the Fundació Antoni Tàpies
📍 Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. C. de Sta. Isabel, 52 (Estación del Arte).
Candlelight Valentine’s Day (February 16 and 17).
“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 16, the Círculo de Bellas Artes will be the stage for Candlelight: Romantic Soundtracks. That same day, ABC Serrano will also light up with a Valentine’s Day Special, with the best songs by Tchaikovsky and Debussy, among other great pieces.
The following day, February 17,the stage of love will be the Ateneo, where the string quartet Parallel Quartet will honor the most beautiful day of February by performing the most romantic themes of our popular imagination.
📍 ABC Serrano, Ateneo de Madrid and Círculo de Bellas Artes.
Goya finalist films at Sala Berlanga (all month long).
Throughout the month and until next March 23, the Berlanga will screen (for €3.50) the finalist films in the 38th Goya Awards (to be held in Valladolid). Among them, we will be able to enjoy La sociedad de la nieve, El maestro que prometió el mar, 20.000 especies de abejas, Las chicas están bien, Matria, Creatura…
📍Calle de Andrés Mellado, 53 (Chamberí)
Medieval Market of Chinchón (from February 9 to 11)
“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 the 9th and the 11th of the month. It will then become a giant medieval market. Blacksmiths, craftsmen, theater, gastronomy? The whole town will be involved in this journey into the past.
📍Various locations (Chinchón)
Valentine’s Day (February 14)
That’s the thing about February: that fighting cold weather 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?
📍 Love is in the air (Todo Madrid)
Love Yarn (from February 9 to 11)
Do you love crochet, do you want to learn how to crochet, are crafts your thing? Love Yarn, the largest wool fair in Europe, arrives in its second edition at the Crystal Palace of the Casa de Campo to bring together fans of wool, cotton, natural and synthetic fibers, around more than 100 exhibitors dedicated to this art. 10,000 m2 in which to do workshops, buy materials, learn techniques or learn about new trends from the best weavers and weavers, designers and designers.
📍 Casa de Campo Glass Pavilion: Avenida Principal, 16 (Lago)