Madrid will host the ninth edition of the international Madrid Design Festival from 5 February to 8 March 2026, turning the city into the capital of design and positioning it in a privileged place on the international scene. The 2026 event includes Guatemala as the invited country and will host around 200 activities, 20 exhibitions and more than 80 OFF spaces, Open Studios and showrooms.
Under the slogan Redesigning the World, the programme is structured around four dimensions that define the scope of design: responsibility to address contemporary challenges; transcendence as a lasting mark on the way we live; impact in the transformation of environments and structures; and transmission as a link between generations and knowledge.
The festival confirms its vocation as a platform that boosts design to transform our environment, generate new ideas and project alternative ways of living together. The ninth edition will once more turn the city into a benchmark for this discipline with an extensive programme of activities featuring designers, specialists and professionals from the sector. Alternative creative environments, the unifying force of design, dialogue or the understanding between professionals, companies and institutions are the pillars of this latest edition.
The 2026 edition features Guatemala as the invited country and an exhibition devoted entirely to the country’s contemporary textile design will be presented for the first time in Spain. Under the name of Textile Art in Guatemala: Design and Identity, the exhibition, created by Idonika in conjunction with Amarillo Studio, will bring together an extraordinary selection of huipil embroidered blouses and pieces made in accordance with traditional techniques, such as backstrap loom weaving or brocade. It can be seen at the Fernán Gómez Cultural Centre from 5 February to 3 May 2026.
For yet another year, the festival will count on the Fernán Gómez Centro Cultural de la Villa as its main venue, in addition to other venues, such as the CaixaForum Madrid, Spanish Film Library, National Museum of Decorative Arts, National Archaeological Museum, Cerralbo Museum, Museum of Romanticism, History of Madrid Museum, Reina Sofía Museum, COAM, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Athenaeum of Madrid, DIMAD and Matadero Madrid, among others.
The most noteworthy exhibitions include André Ricard. Design in Use (Fernán Gómez Cultural Centre. 6 February - 19 April 2026), which is devoted to the artist’s designs that are associated with daily life and what is invisible: what naturally is integrated into our daily life. His work is not presented chronologically but through spaces in which his pieces become meaningful: the table, bath, kitchen, study, party and memory.
The Mediterranean Manifesto exhibition (Fernán Gómez Cultural Centre. 6 February - 3 May 2026) is an exhibition that groups together a paradigm shift when it comes to living, through a selection of furniture by different designers , most of which are European.
The Madrid DesignPRO professional days (18 - 21 February 2026) will be back with leading national and international designers, a programme of conferences, master classes and networking opportunities in which design professionals will reflect on the capacity of this discipline to transform and improve society. This edition brings together leading figures, such as Patricia Urquiola (National Design Prize 2025), Luca Nichetto, Emma van der Leest, Marc Morro, Christien Meindertsma, Héctor Serrano (National Design Prize 2024), Loumi Le Floc’h, Benjamín Iborra (Mesura) and Liza Enebeis (Studio Dumbar), along with designers, such as Yanki Lee and Petra Janssen, who are references in social and community design.
The MINI Design Award will also be back in 2026 with its 4th edition. It is the only award in Spain that integrates all of the design disciplines (industrial design, product, digital, graphic, fashion, lighting, architecture, urban development and thought) under the same purpose: identify projects that have a positive impact on cities through sustainability, the environment and new materials, among others.
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