Matadero Madrid

Matadero Madrid is the Center for Contemporary Creation of the Culture, Sports and Tourism Area of ​​the Madrid City Council. Created in 2006 and located in the city's old slaughterhouse and livestock market, it is an area of ​​great heritage and architectural value, with enormous personality and a citizen reference. In its different warehouses, an extensive program is developed consisting of exhibitions, theater, festivals, live music, cinema and audiovisual projects, conferences, conversations and workshops, residencies for artists, educational programs and activities for families. All these activities are built through the diversity of the institutions that make up the center and lines of transversal, interdisciplinary work and in connection with international networks. The center brings together visual and performing arts, literature, digital culture, architecture, and design in search of interdisciplinary proposals. Matadero Madrid is proposed as a space for conversation and debate, to promote critical thinking and contribute to the renewal of ideas and artistic languages. It works as an attentive radar to react flexibly to the social challenges against which culture is activated as a tool of change, and claims experiment as an indispensable instrument for the emergence of a new culture.