María María Acha-Kutscher has co-directed Antimuseo with artist and curator Tomás Ruiz-Rivas since 2005. This independent platform explores and promotes alternative models of contemporary art production and dissemination, taking a critical approach to art institutions.
Antimuseo takes part in the group exhibition La transición estética. España, 1960–2020, presented by the Fundación Juan March at its Madrid venue from 16 October 2026 to 10 January 2027, with the project [M]UMoCA (Madrid Unofficial Museum of Contemporary Art), known as «the poorest museum in the world».
The exhibition offers an overview of the transformations in Spain's visual and artistic culture from the 1960s to the present, focusing on the processes that enabled the arrival and reception of international modern and contemporary art in a country that had experienced three decades of cultural isolation under Franco's dictatorship. Bringing together more than two hundred works and documents, the exhibition explores the role of institutions, galleries, independent initiatives and different channels of cultural dissemination in shaping a new artistic landscape.
Within this context, [M]UMoCA is presented as a project that challenges traditional models of museums and collecting, proposing an alternative framework for the production, preservation and dissemination of contemporary art. Developed by Antimuseo, the project advocates different ways of building a collection and understanding the value of artistic objects, from a critical perspective on institutional structures and the mechanisms through which art is legitimised.
The exhibition is curated by José María Parreño, Germán Labrador and Manuel Fontán del Junco.
