Nocturnal Walkthroughs: The Homecoming

The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza and TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary present the second edition of their open call for nocturnal walkthroughs, this time accompanying Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk’s Pedagogies of War. These evening visits offer a new way to approach the exhibition, inviting audiences to engage with the artworks in an intimate, immersive setting where dialogue, contemplation, and shared experience take center stage.

Martina Nováková and Miguel Valentín present a performative tour that brings audiences closer to the experience of war and its impact on everyday life and spatial perception. Guided by a narrative that blends personal and collective memory, visitors move through the exhibition, becoming part of a world that is at once fictional, documentary, and dystopian. The activity encourages reflection on our role as spectators and witnesses, highlighting two key ideas: the misleading sense that war always happens far away, and the ways political violence shapes the body—directly, indirectly, or across generations.

Martina Novákova and Miguel Valentín (Bulgaria/Spain, Panoptikum theater company) are an artistic duo working in unconventional spaces. They approach museums as performative spaces—not only as containers of artworks, but as territories shaped by memory, absences, and political tensions. In their work, collective memory and personal experience always go hand in hand. Their projects have been presented at the National Gallery Square 500 (Bulgaria), Sofia City Art Gallery (Bulgaria), JustMad Art Fair 2024 (Madrid), and Navel Art Gallery (Madrid). They have also intervened in theatrical venues such as the Corral de Comedias in Alcalá de Henares, the Ivan Vazov National Theatre (Bulgaria), and the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Center in Gabrovo (Bulgaria).

Date and time: May 23 and 30, 2026, 9:00 pm and 10:00 pm

Location: Exhibition space, Floor -1, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Registration: Through this link on Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza´s website

Access: Free. Prior registration required

Recommended age: All ages. Groups of 25 visitors.

Language: Spanish