The most complicated part of winter is over, the Easter vacations are on the horizon, the month of art arrives late this 2024, starting spring. And with all this, the earthy instinct comes out of our pores. March plans in Madrid are perfect for soaking up the energy of the incipient spring sun.
Table Of Contents
- Colita. Antifémina (all month)
- Pixar World (all month)
- Flowering of the almond trees in La Quinta de los Molinos
- Genesis (all month)
- International Women's Day (March 8)
- Bee Week (March 14 to 23)
- The Berlin Wall. A divided world (all month)
- Polar Sound Pre-party with Mafalda Cardenal and José de Rico (March 14th)
- ARCOmadrid (March 6-10).
- Teatralia (March 1 to 24)
- Ellas Crean (from March 2 to 31)
- Murder Mystery (March 16, 23, 24 and 30)
- Have a drink at the best terraces in Madrid.
- Art Week at Matadero Madrid (March 5 to 10)
- Salón de Arte Moderno - SAM (from March 6 to 10)
- Art Madrid (from March 6 to 10)
- Goya, the Awakening of Consciousness (from March 22nd)
- Imagina Experiment ( until March 31)
- Holy Week (March 24-31)
- An ephemeral work at the Museo del Prado (from March 19)
- Visiting the most beautiful restaurants in Madrid
- Jurassic World by Brickman (all month)
- UVNT Art Fair (from March 7 to 10)
- Candlelight (various dates)
- A walk through the Royal Palace
- HYBRID Art Fair (from March 7 to 10).
- Kapital Theater
- JustMad (from March 7 to 10)
- Paint in the Dark (March 15, 16 and 17)
Colita. Antifémina (all month)
Antifémina is considered “the first openly feminist graphic book of the Transition era”. Work of the union of two women, two artists, Colita (Isabel Steva Hernández) and Maria Aurèlia Capmany, both claimed with their images the role of women in a sexist environment. Now, they receive a belated but necessary tribute with an exhibition that will be open until May 5 at the Goya Hall of the Círculo de Bellas Artes.
📍Calle de Alcalá, 42 (Downtown)
Pixar World (all month)
More than 300,000 people have already visited the exhibition dedicated to Pixar World. This furor is only comparable to the homesickness of the films of the film company that marked us and continue to mark us. Divided into 13 rooms in which life-size sets of ten films are exhibited, it is an experience to immerse yourself in those sets that we saw on the big screen and that now lives in Madrid for a few months.
Space 5.1 of the IFEMA Madrid Exhibition Center. Avenida del Partenón, 5 (Barajas district).
Flowering of the almond trees in La Quinta de los Molinos
It is said, it is commented, that the almond trees are already in bloom since February. This year, unlike last year when frosts postponed this outbreak of life, they are already in full bloom. Anyway, it is presumed that in March (at least the first week) you can still enjoy this phenomenon of flowering. You can follow here the daily thread with the state of the almond trees to ensure your visit.
📍 Calle de Alcalá, 257 (El Salvador District)
Genesis (all month)
In a little corner of the Castellana, an experience of light and color narrates the first three days of the Earth with high-definition projections and video mapping. This is Genesis, the plan to let yourself go for half an hour, empty your mind, enjoy the images, relax and meditate if that’s your thing. You will find it inside the church of the German-speaking Evangelical Community – Friedenskirche.
Paseo de la Castellana, 6 (Serrano).
International Women’s Day (March 8)
The March 8 feminist demonstration on March 8 will return to the streets of Madrid this year. For now, the 8M Commission has just announced the itinerary of the demonstration: it will be starting at 19.00h between Atocha and Colón and marching under the slogan “Patriarchy, Genocides, Privileges, #SeAcabó”. On International Women’s Day 2024 from UN Women they are committed to “Financing women’s rights: accelerating equality”.
📍Atocha-Colón
Bee Week (March 14 to 23)
Madrid, in spring, blooms with festivals. Even festivals that sprout with the arrival of the warm weather. This is the case of Bee Week, which returns with a second edition in its format for venues (La Riviera or Teatro Barceló, among others). Bee Week will bring together groups such as Depresión Sonora, Camellos, Los Estanques and Anni B Sweet or Lazharus from Madrid and will continue with its environmental work of planting trees and creating beehives.
Different venues
The Berlin Wall. A divided world (all month)
One of the large-format exhibitions of the year, this show brings together more than 300 objects that help to contextualize a period that is, to this day, a symbol of division, absurdity and the pain of borders. The Berlin Wall. A Divided World also brings together original testimonies from Berliners who lived on both sides of the wall.
📍 Canal Foundation (Canal)
Polar Sound Pre-party with Mafalda Cardenal and José de Rico (March 14th)
From the creators of Polar Sound Festival, comes the first pre-party Polar Sound by imagin to Madrid to warm up before the biggest festival of the winter season. Do not miss Mafalda Cardenal and José de Rico in exclusive concert and the best DJs that will make us vibrate with the best live music. A theme party as a preview of everything you will find during two days of snow, music and friends in Baqueira Beret. Let’s go to the party!
Florida Park. Madrid
ARCOmadrid (March 6-10).
The great International Contemporary Art Fair of Spain is back for its 43rd edition with the focus on “The shore, the tide, the current: an oceanic Caribbean”. A whole artistic program is articulated around the Caribbean concept, reflecting on the panorama of countries bathed and connected by this sea. In addition, ARCOmadrid‘s usual programs, including ‘Never the Same. Latin American Art’ or the ‘Opening’ section, with representation of the youngest galleries. A fair that in its last edition was visited by 95,000 people with the representation of more than 1,300 artists, 800 collectors and 36 countries.
IFEMA. Avenida del Partenón 5 (Barajas district).
Teatralia (March 1 to 24)
Three weeks celebrating theater in the capital. Teatralia is the International Festival of Performing Arts for all audiences of the Community of Madrid and in this 28th edition will host theater, music, puppet shows, magic, circus, projections and contemporary dance. You can access the complete program here.
📍 Various locations
Ellas Crean (from March 2 to 31)
Ellas Crean celebrates its 20th anniversary in this edition of 2024. Two decades of music, dance, poetry, meetings, theater, cinema, performance, exhibitions… With the aim of “making visible the work of artists and creators in the world of culture“, this festival is made up of a solid network of the associative movement of women in culture as well as institutional support. You can consult here the complete program for this 2024.
📍Various locations
Murder Mystery (March 16, 23, 24 and 30)
Two murders have been committed in Madrid. One, in a large mansion near Alonso Martínez; the other, in a neoclassical palace in the Atocha neighborhood. ‘Murder Mystery’, the immersive life-size mystery game, will push the participants (who become investigators for a day) to the limit: false clues, contradicting suspect testimonies…
📍 Calle de Santa Isabel, 44 (Barrio de las Letras); Calle Hortaleza, 87 (Chueca).
Have a drink at the best terraces in Madrid.
We leave the cold days behind and the sunshine arrives, and for any Madrilenian the good weather is synonymous with terraces. From Madrid Secreto we have prepared this list of the 28 terraces that you should know to spend unforgettable evenings.
📍Several locations.
Art Week at Matadero Madrid (March 5 to 10)
For the first time, Matadero will host the International Fair of New Contemporary Art UVNT Art Fair. But also, as if that weren’t enough, the cultural institution gets involved by holding events such as open days at the Center for Artistic Residencies, meetings with artists and curators as well as guided visits to spaces like the Clima Fitness exhibition or, of course, a complete program dedicated to art at Cineteca Madrid.
📍Plaza de Legazpi, 8 (Arganzuela)
Salón de Arte Moderno – SAM (from March 6 to 10)
The Carlos de Amberes Foundation hosts the Modern Art Salon for four days. Fifteen galleries will show their collections, including pieces by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Sorolla, Joan Miró, Picasso, Zuloaga, Basquiat… In this edition, the presence of a second edition of Lorca’ s Romancero Gitano , which contains 9 original drawings by the author (and dedicated to Rafael Suárez Solís), stands out.
📍 Calle de Claudio Coello, 99 (Salamanca neighborhood)
Art Madrid (from March 6 to 10)
Art Madrid returns for its 19th edition, bringing together more than 40 national and international galleries. A unique artistic showcase that, under the Crystal Gallery of the Cibeles Palace, explores the latest trends in painting, sculpture, graphic work, photography, video art and art installations.
📍 Calle de Montalbán, 1 (Cibeles)
Goya, the Awakening of Consciousness (from March 22nd)
The two exhibition halls of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando will open their doors to twenty-eight paintings, six drawings and more than 300 prints and copper matrices engraved by Goya. It is the first time that the totality of the plates that Goya created for the stamping of his engravings are presented.
Calle de Alcalá 13 (Downtown)
Imagina Experiment ( until March 31)
The exhibition Experimento IMAGINA, a gathering of works by prestigious photographers such as Cristina García Rodero, Ouka Leele, Martin Parr, Sarah Moon, Manuel Falces, Carlos Pérez Siquier, Sibylle Bergemann or Henri Cartier-Bresson, is extended until March 31. The exhibition stems from the IMAGINA Project, which was shown for the first time at the Seville Expo in 1992, compiling 456 photographs by 36 world-renowned photographers. At the Serrería Belga Cultural Space we will find 49 images by 16 photographers. A secret? The works shown by Cartier-Bresson are not photographs: they are drawings.
Calle de la Alameda, 15 (barrio de las Letras)
Holy Week (March 24-31)
At last, one of the most longed-for respites: the first national holidays of the year are celebrated from March 24 to 31 with Semana Santa (Holy Week). And although the trend is to to escape from Madrid at all costs, it is also an opportunity to stay, to recognize the city, to see another point of view of that Madrid that empties and fills up in the most touristy areas.
But what a tremendous time to discover the lives of other neighborhoods, make the route of the craziest facades of the city, try the trendiest Japanese pastry shops, indulge in the wine bars of the moment and make those plans that we have been procrastinating endlessly.
Various locations
An ephemeral work at the Museo del Prado (from March 19)
Zurbarán’s Still Life with Citrons, Oranges and Rose arrives in room 10A of the Prado. It is the only still life by the artist that will be exhibited until June 30 in Madrid, when it will return to its “home”, the Norton Simon Museum that has loaned the piece these months. This is “The guest work” of the season and is a key piece in the reconstruction of the figure of Zurbarán as it “helped to advance the process of reconstructing the catalog of the painter,” as indicated by the museum itself.
Calle de Ruiz de Alarcón, 23 (Retiro)
Visiting the most beautiful restaurants in Madrid
Architects and designers work in restaurants that after decades will be studied as a projection of a contemporary feeling, as a fashionable place among the people of the time or as future nostalgia dumps. Madrid, with thousands of restaurants (at least 50 of them you have to try before you die), has a vast gastronomic offer that is at least remarkable. But as the experience is not only to live it but also to tell it through images, there are restaurants that fall in love for its beauty and justify the visit only as a space of visual or functional delight. Here is the list.
📍 Various locations
Jurassic World by Brickman (all month)
Jurassic World by Brickman is what we might colloquially refer to as a “pot calling the kettle black”. Inside, more than 50 dinosaurs created with 6 million LEGO® pieces are displayed in different rooms that recall and reinterpret iconic scenes from Jurassic World. In addition, you can build as many figures as you want, leaving your mark on this space.
📍 IFEMA Madrid. Avenida del Partenón, 5 (Barajas district).
UVNT Art Fair (from March 7 to 10)
UVNT Art Fair (International Fair of New Contemporary Art) is a meeting space for art that this year moves for the first time to Matadero. As its leitmotiv says, “A space to explore the freshest languages, integrate different aesthetic codes and find new trends in the art world”, all thanks to the presence of about thirty national and international art galleries in full dialogue with visitors and the environment. Another reason to celebrate the great month of art in Madrid.
📍Plaza de Legazpi, 8 (Arganzuela)
Candlelight (various dates)
Candlelight is the cycle of concerts that expands the music to the most unlikely corners of Madrid and in a magical setting, surrounded by candles. This month, among all the concerts offered by Candlelight, the Premium Tribute to Coldplay at Four Seasons stands out. But also the newcomer to the city: Candlelight Tributo Flamenco, where songs by Camarón, Morente, Lola Flores and many more will be performed. The latter will take place at the Ateneo de Madrid on March 2 and 24.
📍 Four Seasons and Ateneo de Madrid
A walk through the Royal Palace
The backside of Plaza de España, walking through the Sabatini hedge maze and back up to the Royal Palace is an absolutely idyllic walk. The greenery, the fountains, the gardens of Sabatini, those of Campo del Moro … and, of course, the two must-sees in a privileged space: the Royal Palace and the most recently opened museum in Madrid, the Gallery of Royal Collections. A great plan to enjoy this green corner to inaugurate spring.
📍 Bailén Street (Palace)
💸 Tickets for the Royal Palace from 20€.
💸 Tickets for the Royal Collections Gallery: from 13€.
HYBRID Art Fair (from March 7 to 10).
The 8th edition of HYBRID arrives at the Hotel Petit Palace Santa Barbara. This contemporary art fair is located in the hotel rooms,with art installations in each of the rooms, performances and different stalls and stands with works by artists along the corridors. As every year, independent proposals, both local and international, are shown here, and it is considered one of the great springboards for emerging artists in the city.
📍 Plaza de Santa Barbara 10 (Alonso Martínez)
Kapital Theater
It is indisputable: the Kapital is one of the great queens of Madrid’s nightlife. A title it has earned through epic parties, unmissable sessions, but also because, no matter how many years go by, it is always there, undaunted by the passage of time and the changing generation of night owls.
📍 Atocha Street, 125 (Atocha)
JustMad (from March 7 to 10)
The fourteenth edition of JUSTMAD returns to put on the map the new art galleries and emerging artists that will be talked about in the coming years. This fair works as a catalyst for these new trends and creators, giving them a platform from which to be visible and vindicate the importance of the role of art.
📍Palacio de Neptuno: Calle de Cervantes, 42 (Jerónimos)
Paint in the Dark (March 15, 16 and 17)
Paint in the darkness of a local while you toast with a drink, learn techniques with the help of a tutor and slide the brushes with fluorescent colors on a canvas that, of course, then you can take home. Paint in the Dark is one of those experiences that make Madrid a city where crazy things are always happening.
📍 Calle de Irún, 23 (Palacio)