Terrafilia Fest
From 19 to 21 September 2025
The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza and TBA21 launch the first edition of Terrafilia Fest, a new annual gathering that brings together experimental art, critical thought, and ecological activism to challenge exhausted worldviews and foster unorthodox yet urgent forms of knowledge and action.
Conceived as a speculative counterpart to the exhibition Terraphilia (on view until September 24), the festival unfolds as a collective platform for imagining new forms of planetary intelligence in response to the ecological and sociopolitical challenges of our time.
In the midst of the current global (dis)order—marked by climate collapse, the erosion of democratic frameworks, and the persistence of extractivist and colonial paradigms—Terrafilia Fest convenes artists, thinkers, and activists from diverse contexts to explore alternative ways of inhabiting the world.
Through a program of performances, workshops, talks, screenings, and experimental encounters, the festival rehearses new forms of cultural practices as tools for critical imagination, radical solidarity, and ecosocial transformation.
A public programme of TBA21 and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
In collaboration with WIELS Bruselas, Festival de las Ideas and the Universidad Complutense of Madrid.
