Exhibitions

Esther Ferrer unfolds live art: 'Fold and Process' shakes up the Mint

bonart madrid - 03/03/26

He Museum Home of the Currency presents of the 17 of December of 2025 to the 12 of April of In 2026, the exhibition Fold and Process will be dedicated to Esther Ferrer, a fundamental figure in performance art in Spain and a reference point for action art internationally.

After receiving the Tomás Francisco Prieto Prize, awarded by the Royal Mint, Ferrer presents a retrospective exhibition that reviews his career since the 1970s. Far of a reading chronological, the exposure —police station by Beatriz Martinez Son of a son— proposes a route based in connections and resonances internal between series of different stages, highlighting the conceptual coherence that runs through all his production.

A pioneer of performance art and a member of the historic ZAJ group, Ferrer has developed a radically free practice, where the body, time and space are essential materials. His construction site explore tensions as rigor and absurd, geometry and poem, word and silence, accident and chance, constantly questioning the materiality of the art object and shifting the focus towards experience.

Fold and Process incorporates previously unseen pieces and three installations created specifically for the chance. The exposure puts he accent in he process as principle structural of His work—open series, models, sketches, and scores—reveals a methodology where the idea HE unfolds in multiple variations. In the practice of Ferrer, the action and he body They don't just illustrate the work: they constitute it. As the artist states, the process is as important as the result, generating a continuous fold of relationships that expands the meaning of each piece beyond its physical limits.