Come for the art week noise, stay for the objects that slow you down. CAN Design brings collectible design into the heart of CAN Madrid and asks what it means to live with what we collect.
Gaspard Fleury-Dugy
The borders between art and design are dissolving into a shared territory of objects, ideas and space. In its tenth anniversary edition, CAN Art Fair Madrid opens that territory further with CAN Design, a new section devoted to collectible design. From 5 to 8 March 2026, Matadero Madrid becomes the setting for a programme that feels less like an add on and more like a shift in emphasis.
Curated by Marisa Santamaría, CAN Design takes shape through an exhibition titled ‘Mix Max’, a name that captures the pleasure of cross pollination without forcing labels. The section gathers creators whose practices move fluidly between architecture, industrial design and craftsmanship, with work that can sit comfortably inside a gallery while still holding the logic of use, touch and proximity. It is design that keeps its edge, and art that does not mind being handled by the imagination of everyday life.
Loumi Le Floc’h
Luz Moreno Pinart
The line up includes Alicia Framis, Andrés Jaque, Belén Moneo, Birgitte Due Madsen, Raffaella Mangiarotti, Lee Sisan, Gaspard Fleury-Dugy, Luz Moreno Pinart, Loumi Le Floc’h, Lionel Jadot, Kresta Design and Lluis Aleixandre, among others. What connects them is a sensitivity to materials and spatial thinking, and a shared interest in how an object changes meaning when it moves from display to dwelling.
CAN Design lands in Madrid after a first outing in Ibiza, and it arrives at a moment when collectors are increasingly drawn to pieces that hold conceptual weight and physical presence at once. Limited editions, authorial furniture and sculptural craft are no longer a side conversation in the art world. They are part of its vocabulary. CAN Madrid makes that reality visible, and gives it room to breathe.
Lluis Aleixandre
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