Madrid, June 2026 –

In a city where the Movida transformed freedom into a form of collective expression, Nômade Temple Madrid presents during Pride 2026 Pastores y Dioses: The Male Nude in the Work of Pablo Pérez-Mínguez, an unprecedented exhibition that revisits one of the lesser-known facets of the photographer who helped define the visual imagination of a generation. The exhibition will run from June 26 to July 4.

Under the motto “SEAMOS COMO SOMOS,” the exhibition becomes the starting point for a week of art, music, and gatherings that connect some of the values historically championed by LGBTQ+ movements—freedom, authenticity, diversity, self-expression, and community—with the cultural spirit that shapes Nômade Temple Madrid.

Curated by Toño Rodríguez and presented in collaboration with the Reina Sofía Museum and PHotoESPAÑA, the exhibition will be hosted at Monopol, Nômade Temple Madrid’s cultural space, conceived as a creative laboratory open to the city, where exhibitions, concerts, listening sessions, performances, and encounters between artists and the wider community take place.
The project is complemented by a program of events unfolding across Monopol and Say No More, the hotel’s nightclub, positioning Nômade Temple Madrid as one of the capital’s new cultural meeting points during Pride Week.

Pablo Pérez-Mínguez’s Archive Opens Up for an Exhibition of Unseen Works at the Hotel
To understand the significance of Pastores y Dioses, it is necessary to look back to Madrid in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was a period of profound cultural transformation, during which a new generation of creators began to forge innovative forms of expression shaped by freedom, experimentation, and a break from previously established codes and dogmas. Spain—and Madrid in particular—experienced a cultural resurgence, giving rise to one of the most vibrant and exhilarating moments in the country’s artistic and cultural history.

Within this context, Pablo Pérez-Mínguez played a pivotal role in shaping the visual imagination of the era. Through his camera, he portrayed some of the movement’s most emblematic figures, including Pedro Almodóvar, Alaska, Carlos Berlanga, Fabio McNamara, Tino Casal, and Javier Furia, among many others. Through this monumental and invaluable body of work, he helped define the iconography of one of the most decisive periods in Spain’s recent history—a moment that would later become known as the Movida Madrileña.

If the Movida Madrileña represented the emergence of new forms of expression after decades of cultural uniformity, Pride remains today one of the spaces where that freedom continues to find visibility. Pablo Pérez-Mínguez’s work connects these two moments through a shared perspective: the celebration of identity, desire, and difference.

Today, Pastores y Dioses revisits a lesser-explored dimension of Pérez-Mínguez’s legacy. The exhibition focuses on a period of his artistic production centered on the rediscovery of the male body, desire, theatricality, and the construction of identity, through a selection of original works and previously unseen photographs that engage both with their historical context and with contemporary debates.
The exhibition brings together four original works by the photographer alongside a series of images produced especially for this occasion. Much of this material has never before been shown publicly, making the exhibition a unique opportunity to access a lesser-known chapter of the artist’s archive.

As part of the project, issue 50 of La Luna de Madrid, the iconic cultural magazine of the Movida Madrileña, will also be published. Conceived as both a catalogue and an editorial extension of the exhibition, this special edition brings together interviews, essays, photographs, and archival materials connected to the photographer’s work. The publication has been designed by Índigo / Toño Rodríguez, former designer of the magazine.

Culture, Music, Community and Pride

Nômade Temple Madrid understands Pride as a celebration of the freedom to be oneself. Not as a celebration that belongs to the hotel, but as a space for gathering and visibility around values that have historically also driven artistic creation, counterculture, and community building.

For this reason, throughout the week, Monopol and Say No More will open their doors to artists, musicians, collectives, and audiences who understand culture as a tool for expression, connection, and transformation.

Pablo Pérez-Mínguez’s exhibition serves as the centerpiece of a program that connects art, music, and contemporary culture across Monopol and Say No More throughout Pride Week.

Monopol will host listening sessions, talks, and cultural activations focused on music and contemporary culture, featuring figures such as Gia Fu, the acclaimed collector and DJ whose practice centers on contemporary Asian music and vinyl culture, as well as projects connected to today’s queer scene through artists such as Marcos French, Cabaret Queer, and Sonido Tupinamba, whose work explores the intersection of music, performance, and identity.

Meanwhile, Say No More further establishes itself as Nômade Temple Madrid’s nightlife destination: a club that understands the night as a cultural territory where different scenes, styles, and communities converge around electronic music and contemporary club culture.

Within this context, artists and collectives including Ketiov & Fernanda Arrau (Carbs), Sapphire Flav, Fukcnormal, Marketes, Mica Wagner, Ester Samaniego, Yahaira, and GROOVEMAMI will take part in a program that explores diverse languages of the dance floor throughout the week.

 
Monopol: A Living Cultural Organism Within Nômade Temple Madrid

Monopol is Nômade Temple Madrid’s cultural laboratory. Conceived as a flexible environment dedicated to contemporary creation, it functions as a point of connection between disciplines, artists, and audiences through exhibitions, live music, performances, listening sessions, and hybrid formats.

With a constantly evolving program, the space was created with the ambition of fostering new forms of cultural exchange within the city, placing shared experiences at the heart of its mission.

During Pride Week, Monopol will serve as the main stage for the hotel’s cultural programming, hosting the Pablo Pérez-Mínguez exhibition alongside some of the most prominent activations of the program.


PRIDE WEEK PROGRAMME

Monopol & Say No More

June 27 — Dante’s HiFi Listening Session | Rich Medina + Alan Drummond

Monopol
July 1 — Listening Session with Gia Fu
July 3 — Marcos French + Cabaret Queer + Sonido Tupinamba

Say No More

June 25 — Ketiov & Fernanda Arrau (Carbs) + Sapphire Flav + Tarot
June 26 — Fukcnormal + Marketes
July 2 — Poly Rythmo | Sonido Tupinamba + Gia Fu
July 3 — Mica Wagner + Ester Samaniego
July 4 — Closing Party | Yahaira + GROOVEMAMI + Sapphire Flav