Visit the Mapfre Foundation in Madrid, and discover a space for avant-garde culture as well as artistic and documentary photography. See works of painting, photography, and sketches with a focus on the period spanning from the late-19th century to the mid-20th century.

Until August 24, 2025 the visitors can enjoy two excellent temporary exhibitions of greats artists:

JOSÉ GUERRERO. CONCERNING LANDSCAPE
Organised always in series, the photography of José Guerrero (Granada, 1979) presents itself as a continuous study of the representation and perception of landscape and architecture through the photographic image. With a significant use of light, colour and atmosphere, his photographs transform iconic and historical places—such as La Mancha, Carrara, Sierra Nevada and the Thames—into dynamic settings that engage the cultural background of the viewer, evoking a poetic gaze filled with meanings and connotations.
This exhibition spans over 20 years of his career to date.

FELIPE ROMERO. BRAVO
Bravo was the winning project of the second edition of the international KBr Photo Award, launched by Fundación MAPFRE in 2021. As in many of his other works, Colombian photographer Felipe Romero (Bogotá, Colombia, 1992) invites reflection on a space of tension and conflict: the border between Mexico and the United States, specifically a stretch of the Río Bravo (known as the Rio Grande in the United States), which is part of the more than one thousand kilometres of division
between the two countries. His images of people, landscapes and architecture form a sober visual essay on the idea of waiting and the complexity of border identity.

NICHOLAS NIXON. THE BROWN SISTERS (1975-2022)
Nicholas Nixon (Detroit, 1947) stands out as an important figure in the history of contemporary photography. Celebrated for his deep and empathetic gaze, Nixon combined his artistic career with teaching at the Massachusetts College of Art until 2017. Among his most emblematic projects is The Brown Sisters (1975-2022), a series begun in 1975 that annually portrays his wife, Beverly Brown (Bebe), and her three sisters. With a refined technique and a profoundly human eye, Nixon turns the everyday into an emotionally powerful visual narrative and confronts us with one of the most moving depictions of the passage of time in the history of art.
Following the final photograph of 2022, Nixon has concluded the series, marking the first time it will be shown in Spain in its final version.

Photo credits:
José Guerrero
Hwy-80 (House near Wendover), UT, 2011
From the series “After the Rainbow”
Fundación MAPFRE Collections
© José Guerrero, VEGAP, Madrid, 2025

Felipe Romero Beltrán
El Friki’s friend and pink wall
Bravo
© Felipe Romero Beltrán

Nicholas Nixon
The Brown Sisters, 2022
Gelatin print
Fundación MAPFRE Collection
© Nicholas Nixon