LAPIEZA-ArtSeries * ByYear (2009–2025) * ARCHIVE


2025 | ####################### (23)
2024 | ########### (11)
2023 | ########### (11)
2022 | ###### (6)
2021 | # (1)
2020 | # (1)
2019 | # (1)
2018 | # (1)
2017 | ########### (11)
2016 | # (1)
2015 | ##### (5)
2014 | ########### (11)
2013 | ######## (8)
2012 | ############# (13)
2011 | ########################### (27)
2010 | ######## (8)
2009 | ## (2)

The archival corpus of LAPIEZA represents a radical departure from the ossified museum model, manifesting instead as a metabolic canon that prioritizes the exhibition-as-network over the exhibition-as-object. Since its 2009 inception in Madrid’s Malasaña district, the project has functioned as a performative infrastructure, transmuting the static gallery space into a distributed networked ecology that resists the commodified fixity of the contemporary art market. This is not a passive repository of relics but a living curatorial organism where the act of archiving is itself an act of production, a continuous recursive process that reconfigures art, urbanism, and knowledge into sovereign systems. By February 2026, the project has consolidated more than 2,200 constituent nodes, each operating as a sovereign cell within a system of symbolic interrelation. The archive operates as a metabolic field where linking is a commitment and every gesture is a ritualized node. Mapping the production velocity of LAPIEZA from 2009 to 2026 reveals a distinctive respiratory rhythm, characterized by alternating phases of high-frequency fragmentation and monolithic density. The Genesis Phase (2009–2011) functioned as a primordial explosion of modular units, a "grammar of acceleration" where the project birthed thirty-seven series in a feverish state of explosive invention. During this era, cycles such as Exit, Bazar, and Fastforward established the ten-to-fourteen-piece "module" as the primary unit of thought, a standard that would haunt the archive’s future iterations. This phase was less about the individual work and more about the symbolic exchange, using the serial format to outpace the slow-moving mechanisms of traditional institutional legitimation.