HYBRID 2025

We are participating for the third consecutive year in Hybrid !! 

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

The international contemporary art fair that has become a reference for lovers of the most 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, since for the first time, Hybrid Art Fair will occupy a new floor of the Petit Palace Santa Bárbara Hotel , thus expanding the space dedicated to art and offering the public an even more immersive experience on the 3 floors of the hotel.

One of the rooms during the last edition

The exhibition is set in a special environment, the rooms of a hotel . This, combined with the fair's transdisciplinary artistic programme, creates a different 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 Fernandez (Liège, Belgium, 1966)

In his work, photography and travel go hand in hand . Although he has travelled the world and has notable works from countries such as 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 authors such as John Baeder or Richard Estes.

"My interest in the American period of the 1950s permeates everything. 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 without wanting to..., I look for a vintage feeling in the objects and scenes I photograph, as if what appears in the image were outside of its temporal space."

Ruth Alvarez (Oviedo, 1995)

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

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

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, watch Ally McBeal again and have sex, for example. On Saturdays they also like to make animal masks with unexpected colour combinations. As if a megochromatic cosmos overflowing with M had spat in those foxes' faces.

All of Sábado 's creations are unique pieces. Natalia begins the process of serial reproduction by casting white clay in a completely artisanal way. Once the pieces have dried, they undergo a first firing or bisque firing. Inés paints each mask by hand, using coloured slips and glazes with effects, giving life to each character. The process ends with glazing and firing in an oven in her own workshop.

Obviously this could only happen on a Saturday .

Woodic (Laviana, 1976)

🗓️ March 6-9

🕘 Thursdays from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

🕘 Fridays from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

🕘 Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

🕘 Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

📍 Hotel Petit Palace Santa Barbara

More information at www.hybridart.es

Photo and text HYBRID: hybridart.es