Madrid catches neon sculpture fever as they brace for this massive art get-together.

With Paris Design Week and New York Fashion Week causing the international aesthetic community to collectively max out their frequently flyer miles, it might be easy to overlook Madrid's upcoming art celebration, APERTURA. However, to do so would mean missing out on some of the best in contemporary Spanish art, in addition to global names branching out into the Iberian Penninsula. Organized annually by ARTE_MADRID to act as a celebration of arts and culture, from Septemober 19th to the 22nd events will be taking place throughout city, both day and night, with almost 50 contemporary art galleries inaugurating exhibitions. Basically this will be a big art party, and all of Spain is invited.

With a complete programme of activities in museums, art centers and galleries that "boosts Spanish plastic arts and

cultural industries on both a national and international scale" Apertura hopes to elevate Madrid's cultural offerings to match Berlin or New York's Gallery Weekends.

Below are our top 7 pics for what to catch next week:

GALERÍA CAYÓN Carlos Cruz-Diez. Physichromie n°1838, 100 x 300 cm, Paris 2013

GALERÍA ELVIRA GONZALEZ Dan Flavin. Sin titulo (to Annemarie and Gianfranco)

GALERÍA ASTARTE Florentino Diaz. Soy Espanol en el paro Estoy, 2011

MARTA CERVERA. Laida Lertxundi. Footnotes to a House of Love, 2007

GALERÍA MICHEL SOSKINE Inc. Patrick Bailly-Maitre-Grand, Hibernatus, 2010

IVORYPRESS. Olafur Eliasson. A view becomes a window

IVORYPRESS. Ron Arad. Blame the tools, 2013

Check out more on Apertura at Artemadrid.com