
2025 already? Really? A new year begins in Madrid but with the same characteristics as always: its slope, the good intentions and resolutions, the gyms… And now it’s time to sign up for all the January plans in Madrid to give the best start to this 2025.
Table Of Contents
- Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes (all month)
- Juan Magán & Friends (January 30).
- Enlightenment (from January 25)
- Generation 2025 ( from January 24)
- An artistic canvas covering the Palacio de Cristal (from January 16)
- Chinese New Year (from January 29th)
- Inverfest (all month)
- The other beast ( from January 9)
- Banksy Museum (all month)
- RISK, Circus Festival (from January 30)
- The bailaor Ángel Rojas' farewell to the stage (January 25 and 26)
- Leonardo Da Vinci. History of a Betrayal (from January 10)
- Cinema and Architecture at Matadero (January 7 to 29)
- Los chicos del coro musical ( all January)
- More concerts in January (all month)
- An expansive gray (from January 15)
- Casa Bajas (all month)
- Bodies (from January 14).
- FITUR (from January 22 to 26)
- Madrid Fusion (from January 27 to 29)
- Visit to the "new" CCCQS
- Candlelight's candlelight concerts (various dates).
- Nenúfares y Twombly ( from January 15th)
Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes (all month)
Where do we start, perhaps with the first staples of mythical Marvel comics, or the original costumes of superheroes like Black Panther and Wolverine? How about continuing with the pinball machines, the light tables to practice your comic book drawing, or the experience of becoming Iron Man for a few minutes? Marvel. Universe of Super Heroes more than an exhibition is a celebration of 85 years of the company that made us dream, believe and get excited.
📍 Location: Avenida del Partenón, 5 (Barajas)
💸 Tickets: from 16,90 €.
Juan Magán & Friends (January 30).
“Yesterday I saw her dancing around with her friends in a street in Madrid…”. Tremendous songs composed by Juan Magán and those that he has been creating and launching to the world of radio for more than twenty years.
Two decades of hits that he now celebrates, within the context of the Negrita Festival, at the WiZink Center (which in a few days will be renamed Movistar Arena, remember). He will do so in the company of those artists friends who have accompanied him along the way: Nacho, Ana Guerra, Chema Rivas, Danny Romero, Lérica, Mar Lucas, Victor Magan, Carlos Baute, Karetta El Gucci and Chris Tamayo.
📍 Location: Avenida de Felipe II, s/n (Goya)
💸 Tickets: from 37 €.
Enlightenment (from January 25)
This 2025 we will celebrate the seasons, all four, to the rhythm of Vivaldi. And we will do so in an immersive experience in which these compositions of the master will not only sound: they will be lived. Through the latest technologies in video mapping, which will invade the church of the German-speaking Evangelical Community of the Castellana, we will be able to feel the birth of spring, the torrid summer, the transition to autumn and the stagnation of winter.
📍 Location: Paseo de la Castellana, 6 (Centro)
💸 Tickets: from 13€.
Generation 2025 ( from January 24)
Every year for the past 25 years, the Montemadrid Foundation opens a call for young artists with a vocation to produce and disseminate their works. The eight winning projects of this year’s 2025 are now presented in this exhibition at La Casa Encendida. Let’s name these artists: Noela Covelo Velasco (Pontevedra, 1994); Isabel Merchante (Madrid, 1999); Tana Garrido Ruiz (Tarragona, 1989); Alvaro Chior (A Coruña, 1992); Mar Reykjavik (Valencia, 1995); Elian Stolarsky (Uruguay, 1990); Javier Velazquez Cabrero (Madrid, 1990) and Marina Gonzalez Guerreiro (Pontevedra, 1992).
📍 Location: Ronda de Valencia, 2 (Embajadores)
An artistic canvas covering the Palacio de Cristal (from January 16)
The Crystal Palace is still under construction (and will remain so, in an intense process of restoration, for at least three years). But that does not prevent the art is still alive around him. It will do so through the installation of canvases that, in addition to covering scaffolding and construction materials, will serve as an artistic window for visitors to the Retiro Park.
In this first year, the canvas is designed by the artist Miguel Ángel Tornero. Called Gran Friso, it is a compendium, a collage of everyday photographs set in Madrid. A canvas full of details, images superimposed as a giant diorama.
📍 Location: Paseo de Cuba, 4 (Retiro Park)
Chinese New Year (from January 29th)
Happy Year of the Snake! On January 29 will begin a new Chinese year that, as always, Madrid celebrates in style. With the program that is growing little by little, let’s prepare the desire with this list of delicious restaurants in which to book.
Among the activities confirmed so far, a classical dance workshop and a handicrafts workshop will be held at the Confucius Institute of Madrid with Professor Zhang Zhehao on January 29. You can check this article to find out the latest news.
📍 Usera District (Usera)
Inverfest (all month)
The eleventh edition of Inverfest, the Winter Festival of Madrid, comes with a full program of more than a hundred shows (concerts, comedy, poetry evenings, flamenco cycle…).
A program that gathers big names as it will present new albums and will also mark the beginning of the tour of some artists who, we predict, will set the musical trend of 2025. Among the January program: Marwán, Rodrigo Cuevas, Coque Malla, La Bien Querida, Miguel Poveda, Derby Motoreta’s Burrito Kachimba, Judeline, María José Llergo, Rulo & La Contrabanda… in venues in Madrid such as La Riviera, the Wizink Center or Teatro Circo Price.
📍 Location: Different locations.
The other beast ( from January 9)
Ana Rujas embodies a beast, the one that dwells within her being and observes through her own eyes. This alter ego, which bustles and fights inside her, proposes a reflection: no one can escape from oneself, it is the worst prison. Rujas not only interprets but is also the creator of this text, which she defines as “an intimate laboratory”. But beyond a performance, it is a multidisciplinary show with art as the redeeming center. Find La otra bestia at Matadero.
📍 Location: Plaza de Legazpi, 8 (Arganzuela)
Banksy Museum (all month)
January marks the beginning of everything (on a symbolic level) and, also, the start of a new museum in the city of Madrid: Banksy Museum is the second venue to open in the country dedicated to the figure and work of one of the most vindictive and world-renowned artists of Street Art. And now, it has a permanent exhibition space in the city with more than 170 replicas of his most recognizable works and other not so famous but equally combative and subversive.
📍 Location: Paseo de la Esperanza 1 (Arganzuela)
💸 Tickets: from 14€.
RISK, Circus Festival (from January 30)
The Canal Theaters will host a festival that seeks to investigate “in the languages of the circus“, those that have to do with the corporeality, the surprising and the risk of circus universes that gives the event its name. There will be shows from national companies and also from invited countries such as Belgium, France, Canada or Ukraine. You can consult the complete program here.
📍 Location: Calle de Cea Bermúdez, 1 (Chamberí)
The bailaor Ángel Rojas’ farewell to the stage (January 25 and 26)
Fronteras en el aire. With this piece Ángel Rojas will say goodbye after more than three decades on the tablao. The bailaor will do so on one of his favorite stages, in the Red Room of the Teatros del Canal. His company, formed by a cast of 12 dancers, will perform Fronteras en el aire for two days. A piece that is not only flamenco, it is commitment: stick by stick, movement by movement, this production narrates the journey of migrants who undertake their journey from Africa to Europe, looking for a future and a new life.
Location: Cea Bermúdez, 1 (Chamberí)
Leonardo Da Vinci. History of a Betrayal (from January 10)
Leonardo Da Vinci’sLast Supper comes to Madrid in immersive format. This exhibition recreates life-size the artist’s most iconic work to enjoy, thanks to technology, every detail, every color, every stroke, after more than 500 years since its creation.
📍Location: Gran Vía street, 78 (Downtown)
Cinema and Architecture at Matadero (January 7 to 29)
Cineteca k icks off this season with a very particular selection of films: all of them, different in form and content, have in common the look at urban and intimate spaces and “the narrative power of the built space in relation to those who inhabit it“, as indicated by Matadero. Among these films are Goodbye, Dragon Inn, El Reportero or Synecdoche, New York.
📍 Location: Plaza de Legazpi, 8 (Arganzuela)
Los chicos del coro musical ( all January)
Starts the last season in Madrid of the great musical based on the story of Professor Clément Mathieu, who arrives at a boarding school for “troubled” boys to teach music. There, in addition to teaching scales and staves, he reconnects with his passion for music thanks to his students, to whom he proposes to set up a choir . A story about friendship but also a song (and never better said) to the importance of music in learning and teaching.
📍 Location: Teatro La Latina
💸 Tickets: from 35€.
More concerts in January (all month)
The musical furor begins in 2025. Madrid, as we all know, is the epicenter of the best live shows and the city through which the tours of the main international artists pass. But the capital also hosts those little gems that perform in small and medium-sized venues and, in January, the show begins! Some dates to keep in mind, beyond Inverfest:
- January 22, Touché Amoré (sala Mon).
- January 24th, Maika Makovski (La Sala del WiZink Center)
- January 24, The Rapants (Sala But)
- January 30, Juan Magán & Friends (WiZink Center)
📍 Location: Different venues.
An expansive gray (from January 15)
The Neomudéjar starts a new season with an exhibition that reflects on the very space in which this art center is located. Cristina Calderón brings two iconic factory premises into dialogue (on the one hand, the Fabra i Coats boiler, in Barcelona; on the other, the former MZA small material and telegraph warehouse, that is, La Neomudéjar). He does so through an exhibition in which he imaginatively puts two machines from both spaces into dialogue. An expansive gray reviews the current industrial production model, the incidence of AI and the transformation of the labor sector.
📍 Location: La Neomudéjar, on Calle Antonio Nebrija, s/n (Atocha).
Casa Bajas (all month)
Santi Vaquero was a bricklayer. He was also a warehouse boy. All this in a Madrid in full boiling and in full oblivion of its peripheral neighborhoods: this is how the 70s were forged, with a neighborhood of Vallecas forgotten and left, full of “low houses”, those precarious dwellings in which different immigrants from other Autonomous Communities, sought improvement, the promised future. The exhibition Casas Bajas, with photos by Vaquero and texts by the collective La Liminal, is at the CCCQS during the whole month.
📍 Location: calle del Rosario, 15(Centro)
🗓️ Dates: until May 30, 2025
🕢 Hours: Monday to Friday from 10am to 8pm; Saturdays from 10am to 2pm. It will be closed on January 6.
Bodies (from January 14).
A surprising exhibition opens its doors this January to know everything, absolutely everything (what is knowable) about the human body itself. Bodies is an exhibition in a somewhat shocking format: the sample consists of up to eight complete bodies, five torsos and more than 100 real organs treated by a technique called plastination.
📍 Location: Plaza de la Constitución, 2(Centro Comercial Rivas Centro, Rivas-Vaciamadrid)
💸 Tickets:from 12€.
FITUR (from January 22 to 26)
The great International Tourism Trade Fair is back: from January 22 to 26 IFEMA will become the meeting point for countries, tour operators, travel media, tourism professionals… This year, Brazil is a partner of FITUR 2025, that is, the country around which activities, workshops and various events will be held throughout the city.
📍 Location: IFEMA Madrid Trade Fair Center. Avenida del Partenón, 5 (Barajas district).
Madrid Fusion (from January 27 to 29)
And after FITUR, Madrid Fusion, another of the great fairs that start every year at IFEMA. Madrid Fusión is the closest thing to paradise for gourmets, food and product lovers, but also for those who are curious about trends in the kitchen. With the presence of the most renowned chefs in the country as well as restaurants, agencies, companies and companies dedicated to food and catering, Madrid Fusion presents the latest developments in the sector but also holds workshops and competitions as expected as the chef revelation of the year.
In this 2025 edition, entitled “Revolutionaries: 30 years since Spain astonished the world”, on this occasion the round tables and demonstrations will be aimed at analyzing the reasons for that gastronomic revolution “that radiated around the planet from 1995”, in a retrospective in which big names such as Ferran and Albert Adrià, Dabiz Muñoz, Estela Gutiérrez and Chiara Pavan will participate.
📍 Location: IFEMA Madrid Exhibition Center. Avenida del Partenón, 5 (Barajas district).
Visit to the “new” CCCQS
Last month, one of the city’s cultural centers went through a molting stage (literally, MUDA). That is, a change of skin to be reborn with more strength and a new color. Today, now open as Centro de Creación Contemporánea Quinta del Sordo (CCCQS), it houses exhibitions, a cafeteria, workshop and exhibition rooms… and an ambitious program to create a community around art and conversation.
📍 Location: Calle del Rosario, 15 (La Latina)
💸 Tickets: Free admission.
Candlelight’s candlelight concerts (various dates).
Candlelight, emotion, music, maestro! Candlelight is the cycle of candlelight concerts in which the great classics are reinterpreted but also dares with pop, rock, soundtracks… This 2025, Candlelight kicks off on January 3 with a flamenco tribute to the greats such as Camarón, Morente or Lola Flores.
Abba, Coldplay vs. Imagine Dragons, a tribute to ABBA, Ed Sheeran… and many others among the flickering lights of candles in incredible locations throughout Madrid.
📍 Location: Different locations.
💸 Tickets: from €15 €.
Nenúfares y Twombly ( from January 15th)
In this new season of La Neomudéjar, the work of one of the creators who is part of its residency program (with the now defunct Ciudad del Arte de Zapadores), Manolo Oyonarte, will be installed. Oyonarte’s work in this exhibition arises from the obsession and stendhalazo produced by Monet’s work of The Water Lilies and mixes it with the atmospheres and free strokes of the American Cy Twombly. The result of this mix of generations and styles is a twinning of eras but also a tribute to the mere act of contemplation and admiration of the past from the now.
📍 Location: La Neomudéjar, on Calle Antonio Nebrija, s/n (Atocha).