Inéditos 2026

Inéditos helps young curators to find their footing in the professional art world by offering them the chance to produce their first exhibition. In its twenty-three editions, Fundación Montemadrid has supported more than sixty emerging curators, assisting them with the production of their exhibitions, publishing accompanying catalogues and disseminating their work.

Inéditos has featured artists, researchers, educators, arts administrators, cultural producers and freelance curators who have gone to earn national and international acclaim, such as Juan Canela, Emma Brasó, Ángel Calvo Ulloa, Luisa Espino, Irina Mutt and Neme Arranz.

The winning projects for this year’s edition are:

Kumusta na kayo?, curated by Álvaro Talavera (Murcia, 1992)

Kumusta na kayo? brings together five Filipino artists and collectives who are showing their work for the first time in Spain. Through a variety of media such as photography, self-publishing, video installation, collective painting and internet art, the exhibition uses the urban landscape of modern Manila to highlight different lifestyles in the city.

With the megapolis as both setting and metaphor, the works resignify the traces of colonisation through stories of resistance, identity and memory. In a gesture that decentralises the colonial narrative, the exhibition presents a space of interrogation in which the artists claim and exercise their right to tell the story of their own country and also their own story.

Y me convierto en un río, cuya lengua marrón no descansará [I Become a River Whose Brown Tongue Never Rests], curated by Raquel Algaba, (Madrid, 1992)

In our contemporary relationship with nature, plants and technical systems are intertwined, transforming both the environment and our self-awareness. The works featured in this project explore that liminal condition, displacing the centrality of the anthropocentric voice to broader forms in order to better understand our surroundings and ourselves. This generates new interactions between art, nature and technology, as well as giving rise to other regimes of perception.

The curatorial proposal conceives the exhibition space as an expanded greenhouse in which each installation develops its own microclimate and pace of growth. The undulating pedestals evoke a living terrain in which the pieces are not only supported but form an integral part of an ecosystem in resonance. The room therefore becomes a symbolic landscape: a space of mediation and shared experience that invites us to rethink our relationship with nature.