Peso y Presencia at 2B Space To Be during Madrid Design Festival 2026 – Photo by Pablo Gómez-Ogando.
Design. Until mid-March, Madrid Design Festival 2026, the ninth and largest edition to date, turns the city into a major international stage for design with over 300 events and exhibitions across the Spanish capital. Organised by La Fabrica, the event encompasses industry, craft and innovation under the theme ‘Redesigning the World’.
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FORMA Design Fair
March 5-8 at Matadero Madrid, Map.
Justino del Casar at FORMA Design Fair.
The inaugural FORMA Design Fair, the first Spanish fair for collectible design, is set to open up a professional space aimed at strengthening the sector’s economic value – Tickets. Curator by Antonio Luna and Emerio Arena has selected designers, studios, brands, and galleries, including Mayice Studio, Arturo Álvarez, Jaime Hayon, Justino del Casar, and more. FORMA is organised by La Fábrica and the Madrid City Council, with the collaboration of Matadero Madrid and DIMAD, the institution managing the Central de Diseño.
André Ricard. Design in Use
Until May 3 at Fernán Gómez. Centro Cultural de la Villa, Map.
Tatu lamp at the ‘André Ricard. Design in Use’ exhibition – Photo by Pablo Gómez-Ogando.
The retrospective André Ricard. Design in Use, curated by Marian Povedano and Arnau Pascual, covers more than six decades of work by André Ricard, a key figure in Spanish industrial design. Highlights include the stackable Copenhagen ashtray (1966), the 1970’s Tatu lamp with its adjustable pivoting tubes and lampshade, and the Barcelona ’92 Olympic torch.
Manifiesto Mediterráneo
Until May 3 at Fernán Gómez. Centro Cultural de la Villa, Map.
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The collective exhibition brings together more than thirty artists and designers working from craft, material research and self-published design to reinterpret the Mediterranean Sea as a cradle of knowledge, innovation and cultural diversity as well as a fragile ecosystem threatened by pollution, mass tourism and industrial pressure. The showcase is curated by Mariona Rubio and co-produced by Madrid Design Festival and Cosentino.
Peso y Presencia
Until March 8 at 2B Space To Be, Map.
Photo by Pablo Gómez-Ogando.
The Peso y Presencia (Weight and Presence) exhibition at 2B Space To Be brings together architects and designers to explore how objects acquire presence through their materiality, function, and perception. The showcase features designs crafted from coiled metal, old tripods and motorcycle headlights. “It is not only about mass or density,” explains curator Yaiza Camacho, “but about how each piece finds its balance —how its material and construction sustain what it intends to express.”
Red de apoyo
Until March 28 – Alex Hug Studio, Calle del Chimbo, 8, Map.
Courtesy of Madrid Design Festival.
Alex Hug Studio invites you to jump into an embrace of many hands. The installation explores human fragility and the collective need for support in the face of falling. Through a collective body built from recovered textile gloves, the work materialises what usually remains invisible: “the network of care, affection, and bonds that sustains us when body and mind can no longer endure. Falling ceases to be a failure and becomes an act of trust.”
Jaime Hayon’s Love Catcher
March 5 and 7 at Rosewood Villa Magna, Map.
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“Love is not a passive state but an exercise of reaching and rising,” explains Spanish designer Jaime Hayon. His inflatable Love Catcher – a hybrid, inflatable bird human figure at XXX – is an ode to fellowship. In a world fractured by the weight of conflict, it pretends to be bronze but lives in the air, “a reminder of our own capacity to rise and to love one another.”
enLANA2
Until March 3 at Kutrix Gallery, Map.
Courtesy of Madrid Design Festival.
Kutrix Gallery’s enLANA2 exhibition, curated by Teresa Herrero, explores the contemporary use of wool and reclaims materials with deep cultural resonances. The project is supported by Wool4Life, the Alliance for Wool, Diseño Interior and Gan Rugs, and brings together works by designers such as Patricia Urquiola, Miguel Leiro, Álvaro Catalán de Ocón, and more.
