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RÍO & MEÑAKA IS A CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY FOUNDED IN 2018, REPRESENTING ESTABLISHED NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS. BASED IN MADRID, THE GALLERY PRESENTS AN EXHIBITION PROGRAMME COMMITTED TO A WIDE DIVERSITY OF ARTISTIC LANGUAGES AND A PLURALITY OF CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES, FOSTERING PRACTICES THAT ENGAGE WITH THE MOST PRESSING ARTISTIC AND SOCIAL CHALLENGES OF OUR TIME. ITS ACTIVITIES EXTEND BEYOND THE EXHIBITION SPACE THROUGH PATRONAGE INITIATIVES INCLUDING ARTIST RESIDENCIES, UNIVERSITY EDUCATION PROGRAMMES, AND PROJECTS DEVELOPED IN COLLABORATION WITH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS, REINFORCING ITS COMMITMENT TO THE PRODUCTION, RESEARCH, AND DISSEMINATION OF CONTEMPORARY ART.
SINCE ITS FOUNDATION, THE GALLERY HAS ORGANISED MORE THAN 200 SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS IN SPAIN AND ABROAD; AWARDED RESIDENCIES WITH STUDIO SPACE AND ACCOMMODATION IN MADRID TO MORE THAN 30 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS; PRODUCED OVER 100 PUBLICATIONS WHILE CONTRIBUTING TO MANY OTHERS; PARTICIPATED IN MORE THAN 40 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ART FAIRS; AND GENERATED MORE THAN 1,500 MEDIA APPEARANCES, HELPING TO PROMOTE THE WORK AND PRACTICE OF ITS ARTISTS BOTH NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY.
RECOGNISING THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE-SHARING IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, AS WELL AS THE NEED TO PROMOTE BEST PRACTICES WITHIN THE SECTOR, RÍO & MEÑAKA HAS CONSISTENTLY SOUGHT TO EXPAND BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL ROLE OF THE GALLERY. IT HAS DEVELOPED AN INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME IN ART AND COLLECTING, WHICH HAS ALREADY ENCOMPASSED MORE THAN 200 LECTURES AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS. SINCE 2022, IT HAS ALSO CO-DIRECTED SPAIN’S FIRST MBA IN ART BUSINESS IN COLLABORATION WITH CEU SAN PABLO UNIVERSITY, TAUGHT BY SOME OF THE COUNTRY’S LEADING PROFESSIONALS IN THE ART WORLD.
THE GALLERY IS DIRECTED BY ENRIQUE DEL RÍO, AMAIA DE MEÑAKA, AND GREGORIO CÁMARA, EACH OF WHOM BRINGS MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN THE FIELDS OF ART AND COLLECTING. RÍO & MEÑAKA IS A MEMBER OF ARTEMADRID, SPAIN’S LEADING ASSOCIATION OF CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERIES, BRINGING TOGETHER THE CAPITAL’S FOREMOST GALLERIES.
WE COLLECT, WITH LOCATIONS IN MADRID, BARCELONA AND CARABANCHEL, IS A CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY BORN IN 2018 TO REPRESENT A NEW GENERATION OF ARTISTS AND GIVE VOICE TO A NEW GENERATION OF COLLECTORS, HENCE OUR NAME. WITH AN EXTENSIVE MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMMING COMPOSED BY PRESTIGIOUS ARTISTS WITH INTERNATIONAL PROJECTION, THE GALLERY COMMITS TO A GREAT DIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND PLURALITY OF DISCOURSES. IN ADDITION, IT HAS A SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM OF INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS FOR ARTIST RESIDENCES AND AN INNOVATIVE UNIVERSITY TRAINING PROGRAM IN ART AND COLLECTING.
WITH ITS MAIN HEADQUARTERS IN MADRID, LOCATED IN THE CENTRAL GALLERY AREA OF THE PRESTIGIOUS NEIGHBORHOOD OF SALAMANCA, WE COLLECT ALSO HAS A SECOND HEADQUARTERS IN BARCELONA, DEDICATED TO EMERGING ARTISTS, AND A THIRD SPACE IN CARABANCHEL, AN ARTIST RESIDENCE FOR INTERNATIONAL CREATORS . SINCE ITS BIRTH, THE GALLERY HAS CARRIED OUT MORE THAN 100 INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION PROJECTS BOTH IN SPAIN AND ABROAD; HAS SCHOLARSHIPED MORE THAN 30 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS WITH WORK AND RESIDENCE SPACE IN MADRID; HE HAS MADE MORE THAN 12 PUBLICATIONS AND CONTRIBUTED TO MANY OTHERS; HAS PARTICIPATED IN MORE THAN 10 INTERNATIONAL ART FAIRS; AND HAS ACCUMULATED SINCE ITS BEGINNING MORE THAN 1,500 APPEARANCES IN THE MEDIA, THUS HELPING TO DISSEMINATE THE WORK AND THE WORK OF ITS ARTISTS FROM ALL ANGLES INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OUR BORDERS.
IN ADDITION, AWARE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF TRAINING AND INFORMATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY, AND OF THE NEED TO PROMOTE GOOD PRACTICES IN THE SECTOR, WE COLLECT HAS ALWAYS WANTED TO TRANSCEND THE LIMITS OF THE GALLERY BY PROMOTING AN INNOVATIVE AND NECESSARY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM IN ART AND COLLECTING, WHICH ALREADY ADDS MORE THAN 200 CONFERENCES AND ROUND TABLES ORGANIZED, AND PROMOTING SINCE 2022 THE FIRST MBA IN ART BUSINESS IN COLLABORATION WITH THE PRESTIGIOUS CEU SAN PABLO UNIVERSITY, TAUGHT BY SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PROFESSIONALS IN THE SPANISH ARTISTIC PANORAMA.
THE GALLERISTS ENRIQUE DEL RÍO AND AMAIA DE MEÑAKA EACH HAVE MORE THAN 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN THE WORLD OF ART AND COLLECTING. WE COLLECT IS PART OF THE MAIN ASSOCIATION OF CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERIES IN SPAIN, ARTEMADRID, WHICH BRINGS TOGETHER THE BEST GALLERIES IN THE SPANISH CAPITAL.