TRACES. A Selection of Works from the MVM’S Conceptual Artists’ Collection

A significant part of the Museo Vostell Malpartida collections is sustained by vestiges; tracks
that the performance, the happening or the Fluxus concert provide once the action has ended
in time and space. The museum displays the signs, the objects that formed part of the event.
However, something that cannot be exhibited in a museum, but which accompanies and charges
these remains with meaning, is the impression, more or less deep, more or less lasting, that the
experience makes on those who participate in it or on those who prefer to just watch.

Many of these TRACES are featured in this new temporary exhibition that explores the richness
and heterogeneity of our Conceptual Artists’ Collection. The genesis of this corpus of works is
rooted in the many actions, encounters and exchanges that have taken place in this museum since the second half of the 1970s.

On this occasion, we wanted to look at these foundations, so solid and yet so subtle, tracing the hope and conviction of these young artists in their relationship with the museum as a promising space for creation and learning, a new proximity to the public and a permanent dialogue with the territory. It is worth highlighting the numerous presences of women involved in the language of action that have occupied the space of the MVM since its beginnings, either from the objectual or the corporeal, on which we wanted to place special emphasis.