No trip to Madrid is complete without an afternoon browsing the exhibits at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Spain’s national museum of 20th-century art. Through March 27, Ignasi Aballi: Without Beginning/Without End examines topics including the vast number of images that are part of modern society. The artist includes painting, photography, film and video with a look at the relationship between images and the written word.

A related exhibition by Portuguese artist Alexandre Estrela, Pockets of Silence, employs the mediums of film and video in an exploration of how the spectator is affected by an image, as well as the relationship between a moving image and the still space between images.

Through March 21, Hito Steyerl: Duty-Free Art takes a look at how the Internet and technology have influenced modern life; using video narrations — often humorous — to examine the process of communication and the issues of control, surveillance, cultural globalization, migration and militarization.