The Ateneo de Madrid is a private cultural institution located in Madrid, the capital of Spain, and founded in 1835 as the Scientific and Literary Athenaeum. Six Prime Ministers and almost all of the Spanish Nobel Prize winners, many politicians from the Second Republic and various members of the Generation of ’98, ’14 and ’27 have passed through the Athenaeum.
Its presidents include Laureano Figuerola, Segismundo Moret, Gumersindo de Azcárate, Antonio Alcalá Galiano, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Miguel de Unamuno, Fernando de los Ríos, Gregorio Marañón and Manuel Azaña. The first woman admitted as a member was Emilia Pardo Bazán on 9 February 1905 with member number 7,925.
The Ateneo has two exhibition halls, where Lucio Muñoz, Antoni Tápies, Manuel Hernández Mompó, Manolo Millares and Marta Cárdenas have shown their works. In 2019, the work of Daniel Garbade was exhibited there and, as the headquarters of PHotoEspaña, the SocialSUBJECTIVE exhibition with the work of Antonia Cruz was held. Antonio López held his first solo exhibition there in 1957.
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