HYBRID 2025

HYBRID Contemporary Art Fair | IX Edition

We participated for the third consecutive year in Hybrid !!

Hybrid Art Fair is one of the highlights of Madrid Art Week .

The international contemporary art fair, which has become a benchmark for lovers of experimental art , announces a ninth edition that promises to be the most ambitious to date.

Among the new features of the 2025 edition is the expansion of the exhibition space, as for the first time, Hybrid Art Fair will occupy a new floor of the Hotel Petit Palace Santa Bárbara , thus expanding the space dedicated to art and offering the public an even more immersive experience across the hotel's 3 floors.

One of the rooms during the last edition

The exhibition is set in a unique setting: a hotel room . This, combined with the fair's transdisciplinary art program, creates a distinct and unique experience for visitors, highlighting direct contact with artists and immersive curatorial projects. The fair is also the perfect place to acquire unique pieces of contemporary art at affordable prices .

You can see our proposal for Hybrid in ✨ Room 012 ✨

Rafa Fernández (Liège, Belgium, 1966)

In his work, photography and travel go hand in hand . Although he has traveled widely and has notable works from countries like Japan, his weakness is the United States . Perhaps it has to do with his varied musical and artistic references, all of them directly linked to this nation: jazz and blues; the photography of Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, and William Eggleston, among many others; and the hyperrealist painting of the second half of the 20th century by artists such as John Baeder and Richard Estes.

"My interest in the American period of the 1950s is all-encompassing. Wherever I go, I can't help but think of the cinema of that era, the cars, the clothes, the hairstyles... Elegance and glamour come to mind when I think of those years, and, almost unintentionally, I search for a vintage feel in the objects and scenes I photograph, as if what appears in the image were outside its temporal space."

Chicago 2014

27 x 18 cm., warmtone baryta paper turned to selenium

Analog shot and copy

Memphis 2017

9 x 13 cm., warmtone baryta paper turned to selenium
Analog shot and copy

New York 2018

13 x 9 cm., warmtone baryta paper turned to selenium
Analog shot and copy

Ruth Álvarez (Oviedo, 1995)

His painting, framed within the context of new figuration and contemporary naive art , seems to represent a fantasy world where a series of characters and spaces appear, shaped by vibrant colors and dreamlike landscapes. The return to the natural, the animal, the mystical, and the cosmic is pertinent in the work. The characters are characterized by a dreamy and melancholic attitude.

Ruth's imagination seems to enclose a world in need of repair and at the same time raises the possibility of another possible place.

What was left

146 x 114 cm., mixed media on canvas

The collector

100 x 100 cm., mixed media on canvas

Flowers that cry

27 x 21 cm., mixed media on canvas

Saturday

Collective formed by Inés Iglesias (Salamanca, 1978) and Natalia Suárez (Laviana, 1976).

On Saturdays, they like to have a late breakfast, drink Camparis, eat pizza, rewatch Ally McBeal, and have sex, for example. On Saturdays, they also like to make animal masks with unexpected color combinations. As if a megachromatic cosmos overflowing with M had spat in those foxes' faces.

All of Sabado 's creations are unique pieces. Natalia begins the process of serial reproduction using a mold, casting white clay entirely by hand. Once the pieces have dried, they undergo a first firing, or biscuit firing. Inés hand-paints each mask, using colored slips and glazes with effects, bringing each character to life. The process concludes with glazing and kiln firing in her own workshop.

Obviously this could only happen on a Saturday .

Saturday

Fox and Rabbit

17.5 x 15 x 12 cm. and 28 x 15.5 x 9 cm. clay, enamels and gold

Cat

15.5 x 15.5 x 9.5 cm, clay, enamels and gold

Woodic (Laviana, 1976)

Behind the pseudonym Woodic is Natalia Suárez , who, after working as a designer for several years in Barcelona, returned to Asturias. She settled in El Valle de Candamo, where she built a small space surrounded by nature that serves as her inspiration throughout the process of creating Nordic-inspired ceramic pieces.

Woodic combines noble raw materials such as white earthenware and wood into original pieces that are close to the natural environment.

Her pieces can be seen in the fair's VIP lounge . Curator and art critic Inés Alonso Jarabo selected her works to be part of this exhibition. This lounge aims to provide a space for connection and exclusive activities for guests.