#VersionaThyssen
The Region of Madrid collaborates since 2019 with this initiative, conceived to bring art closer to a younger audience. #VersionaThyssen is a competition that the museum is organising, which offer a space for young people between the ages of 18 and 35 to promote and showcase their creative work by re-interpreting paintings from the collection.
Contestants can submit, via Instagram, drawings, illustrations, paintings, collages, video-installations and other genres that can be captured in digital format. Since 2020, Fundación Coca-Cola joins the initiative as collaborator.
In 2020, the initiative has also received the Art Explora- Académie de Beaux Arts European Award, which acknowledges the value of #VersionaThyssen as a creative space which brings and bonds culture to new audiences, and allows with its support the exploration of new ways of development during 2021.
In 2019, four editions of the contest were held. As a closure for each one, the jury's decision is announced at a special event where the works of the finalists are on display accompanied by a concert in the museum’s Central Hall. In 2020, four new editions took place, with their corresponding online awards ceremonies.
In 2021 new calls are held. Since its release, #VersionaThyssen received more than 10,000 works.
Selection of images

























Lucas Cranach the Elder
The Nymph at the Fountain, ca. 1530-34
Oil on panel. 75 x 120 cm
© Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

@mirandamakaroff
Guest artist #VersionaThyssen I

Vittore Carpaccio
Young Knight in a Landscape, ca. 1505
Oil on canvas. 218.5 x 152.2 cm
© Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

@_lara_lars_
Guest artist #VersionaThyssen I

Domenico (Domenico Bigordi) Ghirlandaio
Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, 1489-90
Mixed technique on panel. 77 x 49 cm
© Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

@ricardocavolo
Guest Artist #VersionaThyssen I

Opening night #VersionaThyssen I

Opening night #VersionaThyssen I

Evento nocturno #VersionaThyssen

Evento nocturno #VersionaThyssen

Evento nocturno #VersionaThyssen

Evento nocturno #VersionaThyssen

Evento nocturno #VersionaThyssen

Anonymous German Artist
Portrait of a Lady wearing the Order of the Swan, ca. 1490
Oil on panel. 44.7 x 28.2 cm
© Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

@alvarogracia
First prize #VersionaThyssen I

Jan Gossaert
Adam and Eve, ca. 1507-1508
Oil on panel. 56.5 x 37 cm
© Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

@richoustin
First prize #VersionaThyssen I

Francesco del Cossa
Portrait of a Man with a Ring, ca. 1472-1477
© Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

@mariagimenaherrera
First prize #VersionaThyssen II

Gerard van Honthorst
The happy Violinist, ca. 1624
Oil on canvas. 83 x 68 cm
© Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

@aleramiirezgtz
First prize #VersionaThyssen II

Simon Vouet
The Rape of Europa, ca. 1640
Oil on canvas. 179 x 141.5 cm
© Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

@collective.sisters
Primer premio #VersionaThyssen III

Tommaso Salini
Young Peasant with a Flask, ca. 1610
© Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
@grater__
First prize #VersionaThyssen IV
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