Artizar Gallery Opens New Space in Madrid During Apertura 2025

On September 11, coinciding with the start of the art season in the Spanish capital and the Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend program, Galería Artizar will officially present its new location at Calle Doctor Fourquet 6, one of the main arteries of contemporary art in Spain. This opening marks not only a significant milestone in the gallery’s trajectory but also a necessary step in establishing a stronger position within the national art ecosystem.

Founded in 1989 in San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Tenerife) by Carlos E. Pinto, Galería Artizar has spent over three decades as an independent project committed to contemporary art, becoming a key reference point in the Canary Islands and fostering ongoing dialogue between local, national, and international artistic practices.

From the beginning, Artizar has championed the work of Canarian artists, many of whom have gone on to achieve national and international recognition, thanks in part to the gallery’s sustained support. However, the journey has not been without its challenges. As the gallery’s current directors—now the second generation of the family—explain, “Working from the periphery, especially from islands like the Canaries, means facing extremely limited visibility despite the quality of the work, the consistency, and the commitment to the artists. Opening a space in Madrid is not so much a conquest as a strategic surrender to a persistent reality: in the Spanish art world, if you’re not in Madrid, you don’t fully exist.”

A New Chapter on Doctor Fourquet Street

The new venue at Doctor Fourquet 6 joins one of the most vibrant and dynamic gallery circuits in Madrid, located next to the Reina Sofía Museum and surrounded by some of the country’s leading contemporary art spaces. This new location is not intended to replace the gallery’s historic headquarters in La Laguna, but rather to complement and expand it, offering an independent program that will allow Artizar to be more consistently present in the national art conversation.

“Madrid offers visibility, but it’s also a space for exchange, for networking, for institutional and media presence. It’s not just about selling—it’s about actively participating in the narrative of contemporary art in Spain and giving our artists the opportunities they deserve,” says the Artizar team.

The new space will host approximately four exhibitions a year, adding to the six shows the gallery already produces annually in Tenerife. Together, they will form a dual and complementary program across both locations. The aim is to maintain the curatorial vision that has defined the project over the years: a blend of emerging and established art, of the local and the international.