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Art galleries respond to the coronavirus crisis : El País newspaper

July 14, 2020

Last Saturday the newspaper El País published an article focused on the responses of art galleries to the coronavirus crisis. "Madrid's Freijo has created a parallel virtual gallery which, as its director Angus Freijo indicates, will focus on digital art 'to give more visibility to more artists' work'."

ÁNGELA BONADIES participates in the virtual exhibition "De confines y confinamientos" | Cuenca Biennial Foundation

June 27, 2020

Eleven women artists with great careers in contemporary art are part of this exhibition in times of pandemic, a necessary curatorial exercise, which reflects on the confinement through the tangible and intangible, the everyday and the symbolic.It is focused on resistance and creation in this current complex environment....

Tomorrow, June 27th, the opening of Glenda Zapata's exhibition "PANIC" will take place | LZ46

June 26, 2020

Just as our previous opening, this one will also be organized in small groups, by appointment, from 12.00 to 8.00 pm (info@galeriafreijo.com / 91 310 30 70). PANIC is a new project by Bolivian artist Glenda Zapata, for which the artist has had numerous meetings with different women of Bolivian origin, residents of the...

ONE HUNDRED, by José Iges, wins 2nd prize in the 60 sec Radio competition

June 17, 2020

The work ONE HUNDRED, by José Iges, has won the Second Prize in the 60 sec Radio competition. "It arises from a gesture of writing repeated a hundred times on a computer document: the word One. After the last one I added Hundred. When I printed the result I realized that one hundred times one is something that can easily...

Article by the artist Miguel Ángel García for the National Museum of Anthropology

June 15, 2020

The National Museum of Anthropology publishes an article by the artist Miguel Ángel García on the challenge and consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.To illustrate the section 'Anthropology for critical moments' they have chosen the image of his work The Encounter 1, which is included in Freijo Gallery's virtual...

Freijo Gallery in Channel 22 Mexico

June 3, 2020

Channel 22 in Mexico has broadcasted the interview with the director of Freijo Gallery, Angustias Freijo. In it, she talks about the celebration of the gallery's 10th anniversary, the new measures adopted in the gallery since its reopening after the lockdown and the new virtual program she has launched, which opened with...

Zoom meeting and interview with Angus Freijo, Mario Cader-Frech, Joaquín Gallego and Alberto Olé

May 30, 2020

On May 27th an online meeting of the Visual Arts sector took place via Zoom, organized by Carol Solar, visual artist.The director of Freijo Gallery, Angus Freijo, took part in the collectors' special edition, together with Mario Cader-Frech, co-founder of Y.ES Contemporary, Joaquín Gallego, specialist in Contemporary Art...

Interview of Carlos Pazos about his exhibition "Interrogantes suspendidos" at ADN Gallery, Barcelona

May 29, 2020

The exhibition of Carlos Pazos Interrogantes suspendidos at ADN gallery was confined the day after its opening and now you can see this magnificent show again. In the midst of the explosion of pop culture, the French May, the hippy movement and psychedelia, in contrast with the agonizing Franco dictatorship, Pazos...

MNCARS | Online documentary of Elena Asins

May 28, 2020

Until June 7, you can watch the documentary There Is Nothing to Understand Here. A documentary on Elena Asins free on the MNCARS Vimeo channel.At Freijo Gallery, we have extended Elena Asins' exhibition, Horizons, until June 10.

Galería Freijo at Digital ART PARIS | ARTSY

May 27, 2020

Following the French government’s announcement banning all public gatherings until mid-July, Art Paris 2020, the leading modern and contemporary art spring event, will be moving online with the launch of two initiatives: Art Paris Digital by Artsy and Art Paris Live. Art Paris is pleased to announce an evolution in its...

Concha Jerez in CANARIAS7

May 20, 2020

Concha Jerez, winner of the 2015 National Plastic Arts Award, talks to CANARIAS7, showing her discontent regarding the measures proposed by the Spanish Ministry of Culture to reactivate culture. She has signed a protest letter that a group of prominent artists has sent to the Executive, led by Pedro Sánchez.According to...

Laura Torrado in rtve | 'Visions from Fragility', this is how the great photographers see confinement

April 13, 2020

Visions from Fragility is an exhibition, curated by Zara Fernández de Moya, which shows us the inner world of twelve photographers, who depict the confinement from their point of view. The curator has brought together images taken during the quarantine by twelve photographers, including our artist Laura Torrado. In the...

Interview with Angustias Freijo and Ramón Mateos | #EdiciónCuarentena

March 31, 2020

Diego Iglesias, from Finding Art Madrid, interviews Angustias Freijo, director and foundress of Freijo Gallery, and Ramón Mateos, artist and director of the LZ46 program at Freijo Gallery. They talk about the gallery's relationship with Mexico, the future of galleries and art fairs, the role of galleries as spaces for...

VISIT OUR EXHIBITIONS

March 18, 2020

Click here to see Elena Asins' exhibition HORIZONS. Click here to see Antonio de la Rosa's exhibition Archetypes for a New Pagan Mythology. By appointment until April 13: +34 637 608 189

CORONAVIRUS/EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES

March 11, 2020

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Alfredo Castañeda at Casa de México in Spain

March 4, 2020

On March 12th at 7pm, the opening of the exhibition De la mano del Maestro will take place at Casa de México in Madrid, Spain. This exhibition brings together the work of Alfredo Castañeda, a great Mexican artist who moved between sleep and wakefulness, the concrete and the subjective, dream and imagination.

Mateo Maté | EX6, 6th Electronic and Experimental Art Exhibition

February 19, 2020

The opening of the 6th Electronic and Experimental Art Exhibition E scap ES will take place on Friday 21 February at 7.30 p.m. in the Sala Luis Sampedro of the Centro Cultural Galileo in Madrid. It will be open to the public until March 15. Our artist Mateo Maté will participate in this exhibition that shows works by...

Arte Al Día dedicates an article to Gina Arizpe, winner of the First Prize Tequila 1800 Collection

February 15, 2020

On Saturday February 8th, during the Mexican art fair ZONA MACO, the Tequila 1800 Collection awards ceremony took place and the first prize was won by Gina Arizpe for her work Names and Coordinates. Arte al Día, a magazine aimed at promoting contemporary Latin American artists, has dedicated an article to this year's...

In Freijo Gallery's booth NP10, Gina Arizpe, First Prize winner of the 1800 Collection | ZONA MACO 2020

February 8, 2020

The artist Gina Arizpe has received today the First Prize of the 1800 Collection in ZONA MACO. Three works from her series Names and Coordinates have been acquired by the 1800 Collection. This series shows a visual fabric made up of the names of all the women murdered in Ciudad Juárez (1985-2019) and in the State of...

Gina Arizpe in ZONA MACO | NP10 | 5 - 9 FEB

February 5, 2020

Tomorrow, February 5th, the preview and opening of ZONA MACO in Mexico will take place, which can be visited between February 5th and 9th. Freijo Gallery has been the only Spanish gallery selected for the New Proposals section, curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy (Mexicali, 1984). We will present in our stand NP10 the...