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This exhibition hall offers a programme which places emphasis on today’s creation within international visual and plastic arts. Throughout the year, it puts on individual and collective exhibitions, focusing on middle-career artists, reviews of consolidated artists who have suffered diverse critical fortunes, and the presentation of important art collections from Latin America coinciding with the Arco de Madrid Fair, with pieces created in a variety of media and formats, including new technologies as a form of artistic expression.

The Alcalá 31 exhibition hall is located in an emblematic building by Antonio Palacios, which was built between 1935 and 1943 and was initially the headquarters of the Mercantile and Industrial Bank and which today belongs to the Community of Madrid. In 2002, it was refurbished by the architects, Jose Luis Iñiguez de Onzoño and Ignacion de las Casas, to house the offices of what was formerly the Department for Arts and the exhibition hall.

The exhibition hall, covered by an immense stone dome, occupies the great central nave that used to be the bank’s trading floor.