Opening of the Congress Century's Worth of Shooting Stars, held on 22, 23 and 24 February 2021. Andrés Úbeda de los Cobos, Deputy Director for Conservation and Research, Museo Nacional del Prado.

Where are women hung in museums?

Estrella de Diego. Professor of Contemporary Art, Complutense University of Madrid.

This conference forms part of the Congress A Century's Worth of Shooting Stars. Organised by the Museo del Prado, the Congress aims to review the role played by women within the various artistic structures from the advent of the constitutional regime in the early nineteenth century to the end of the reign of Alfonso XIII, in the early decades of the twentieth century, through a multifaceted perspective capable of encompassing their diverse positions. Invited by men to participate in a system not designed for them—in which women artists were regarded as remarkable exceptions—women shone briefly, only to fade thereafter from the narrative that the bourgeoisie shaped to suit its own worldview, and which we have conventionally, and rather neutrally, termed the History of Art.