The Facts
The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid has opened "Marlene Dumas: Durmiendo con el enemigo / Sleeping with the Enemy," a thematic survey of around eighty works spanning the 1970s to the present. The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, and collages, organized around dualities such as eroticism and death, pain and pleasure, and intimacy and distance, with portraiture as a central genre. After its run in Madrid, the show will travel to Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection in Paris and the Sammlung Moderne Kunst at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.
The Signal
The Reina Sofía's decision to stage a non-chronological, thematic survey of Dumas's work underscores her lasting influence across generations of figurative painters. For collectors, the exhibition signals sustained institutional demand for the artist's emotionally charged portraiture and her ability to navigate complex psychological terrain—factors that have kept her market robust at auction and in primary sales. The subsequent European tour to Pinault's Paris venue and Munich's Pinakothek der Moderne further extends her visibility among major contemporary art institutions.
- Artists: Marlene Dumas
- Museums: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection, Pinakothek der Moderne
- Locations: Madrid, Paris, Munich
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