西班牙马德里国际当代艺术博览会（ARCO Madrid）是全球规模最大、策划活动最为丰富的艺术界盛会之一，该展创办于1982年，每年一届马德里举行，现每年五月在里斯本举行艺术分展。每年在这一艺术展上，来自世界各地的艺术家和画廊都将带来极具先锋性和实验性的艺术作品，为人们奉上一场视觉盛宴。
在ARCO展会上，来自世界各地的画廊、收藏家和其他当代艺术的相关人士将聚集到这里。吸引数万参观，ARCO将要呈现最好最前沿的当代艺术。
ARCO Madrid是西班牙的国际当代艺术博览会，自成立以来，它是当代艺术市场的主要平台之一。2024年，它举办了以加勒比地区为核心的第43届会议。该节目由Carla Acevedo Yates和Sara Hermann Morera策划，名为“海岸、潮汐、洋流：加勒比海的海洋”，重点关注由这片海洋连接的陆地的艺术场景。
此外，ARCOmadrid 2024再次展示了由组委会选择的作为博览会主轴的总计划画廊的艺术内容，以及由Cristina Anglada和Yina Jiménez Suriel策划的“开幕”部分，其中展示了一些年轻画廊。“永远不一样”。由JoséEsparza Chong Cuy和Manuela Moscoso策划的拉丁美洲艺术节继续加强了ARCOmadrid与拉丁美洲艺术之间的历史纽带。
另外一个特别的机制是Arco与西班牙几家大的美术馆与收藏机构每年都编列预算从博览会中收藏购买艺术家的作品，从arco基金会到马德里的三大美术馆(普拉多美术馆、瑞纳·索非亚当代艺术馆、蒂森·波那米萨美术馆)，以及莱昂当代美术、加列侯当代美术馆、hapfre基金会等都带着预算前来进行年度“消费”。这种美术馆级的收藏项目对许多画廊有着非常大的吸引力，让博览会成为一个真正的艺术交易平台。
专业学术部分的坚强阵容讲师团几乎囊括了当代艺术界的佼佼者与收藏家，并且提供学院与专业的授课认证制度，超过250位的讲师群，主办单位提供交通食宿以及每场数百欧元的讲师费，不计成本地邀请其他重要艺术机构如artforum杂志和tacshen出版社等参加，在让人惊叹ARCO雄厚的财力后盾与毫不马虎的专业规划。ARCO的主题国家馆，吸引了画廊业界以及该国的参与兴致，以国家的主题呈现当地艺术发展的现况，所推销的不仅是艺术家与艺术品还有国家的形象，相对的也增加ARCO的经费充裕运用契机。
展品范围(Show Products):
绘画，雕塑，摄影，影像，美术，视觉，多媒体，版画，肖像，以及其它高级艺术品、收藏品，经典现代艺术品和当代艺术品等。
展会报告(Show Reports):
Madrid, 10 March 2024.- The International Contemporary Art Fair, ARCOmadrid 2024, organized by IFEMA MADRID, closes is doors this afternoon to the 43rd edition with a positive outcome and a good commercial pace. The trust the galleries have placed in the fair is reflected in the content of the highest quality, which have attracted national and international collectors of great drive beyond the days reserved for professionals. Likewise, professionals and the public have also celebrated the excellent artistic programs presented this year.
ARCO, and the city of Madrid, gain weight and recognition in the current international art scene, and are confirmed as a key event for the art market in Spain, and as a meeting point and exchange point between Europe and Latin America.
ARCOmadrid, which this year has once again had the commitment of the Royal Family with the presence last 6 March of the King and Queen of Spain in the opening of the event, estimated to exceed 95,000 visitors. Likewise, the level of professional attendance which has mobilized the presence of around 38,000 professionals from all over the world, has been highlighted.
The International Contemporary Art Fair has in this edition had the participation from 205 galleries from 36 countries, close to 400 international collectors and 200 invited professionals from 40 countries.
ARCOmadrid 2024 Acquisitions
Following on from the first days exclusively dedicated to collectors and professionals, ARCOmadrid has recorded important institutional and corporate acquisitions, including those of Fundación ARCO; Museo Reina Sofía; Community of Madrid; Madrid City Council; lFundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson; Fundación Helga de Alvear; Fundación María José Jove, among many others (access these acquisitions).
ARCOmadrid Awards
National and international institutions and companies share support and recognition for artistic creation in ARCOmadrid, by sponsoring art awards.
On this basis, the Argentinian gallery W – GALLERY, with artwork by Chonon Bensho and Florencia Sadir, has been awarded the Lexus Award for Best Stand and Artistic content in ARCOmadrid 2024.
The Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT has also announced that Tomás Saraceno (Pinksummer Gallery) and Abraham González Pacheco (Galería Campeche), are the winners of the first Acquisition Award at ARCOmadrid.
In turn, the artist from Pamplona, Fermín Jiménez Landa, (ángels barceló), has won the 8th Cervezas Alhambra Emerging Art Award for his work Almuerzo solar, created together with the artisan Encarnita Berrio.
The illy SustainArt Award, dedicated to the patronage of promising young artists in Contemporary Art, has been awarded to the Madrid artist Mónica Mays, represented by the Swiss gallery Blue Velvet. The winning work, “En la palma de sus manos” (In the palm of your hands), stands out for its combination of elements from the industrial world and the natural world.
The 19th ARCO/BEEP Electronic Art Prize 2024, awarded in collaboration with the Arts Connection Foundation, has been granted to Daniel Canogar for his work "Scrawl" (2023), exhibited at the Max Estrella gallery, and to Peter Halley for his work "Exploding Cell" (1983) at the Senda gallery. With these two artists and award-winning works, La.NewAr makes its firm commitment to contemporary art and aesthetic-technological developments. Its collection is enriched by these two additions.
The artist Concha Jerez, represented by the Freijo gallery, has been awarded the 1st ENATE-ARCOmadrid 2024 Award.
The Argentinian galleries Remota and Piedras have won the 10th Opening Award for the best stand in this section. In addition, the Sissi Club gallery, from France, has achieved a special mention for its project.
Likewise, the Catalina d' Anglade Award has been awarded on this occasion to the work Kapokier (1997), by Susana Solano, an artist from the Carreras Múgica gallery in Bilbao. Her work manifests the freedom to contemplate art, without the need to explain it or find any logic in it.
