Rirkrit Tiravanija
February 28, 2026 - February 7, 2027 | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castillo de León
In recent years, access to housing, the difficulty of gaining financial independence, rural depopulation, internal and external migration, and changing models of coexistence are profoundly reshaping what it means to inhabit a space. Intense and prolonged periods of cohabitation—whether driven by economic pressures, social dynamics or personal circumstances—have revealed tensions, contradictions and vulnerabilities inherent to the idea of home. For some, it is a place of refuge and safety; for others, it can become a space of constraint, insecurity or exclusion.
Is There No Place Like Home?, curated by Monserrat Pis Marcos, questions this dogma at a time when housing has emerged as one of the primary social concerns in Spain. The exhibition examines the concept of home as something unstable and multifaceted, shaped by social conditions, cultural expectations, emotional experiences and lived realities. Combining wall-based works, installations and audiovisual material, the show explores this notion from multiple angles: the missed or unattainable home, the idealised home, the physical and the mental home, the fragile home, the dangerous home and the unstable home. The wide range of artistic perspectives included in the MUSAC collection is complemented by four newly commissioned contemporary interventions that will be added to the exhibition in the course of 2026, produced by Cestola (Xoana Almar and Miguel Peralta), Tito Pérez Mora, Sara Alonso and Lara Ruiz. This constellation of viewpoints also considers those without a home, those who have left home behind, and those who seek or reinvent home.