31 October 2026
Kiefer's first major Barcelona show opens at La Pedrera on 2 October, a reason to go inside the Gaudí you've only photographed from the pavement. A week later the Fundació Joan Miró opens Spain's first show on designer Charlotte Perriand. KBr surveys three decades of Dana Lixenberg's American portraits; Ricard Viñes leaves the Museu de la Música on the 11th.
La Pedrera – Casa MilàOpens 2 October
Barcelona's first major Kiefer show: around forty paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs and artist's books, mostly from Hans Grothe's collection, inside Gaudí's La Pedrera.
Fundació Joan MiróOpens 9 October
Spain's first exhibition on Charlotte Perriand, the modernist designer who came out of Le Corbusier's atelier and stayed lifelong friends with Sert and Miró, the architect and the artist behind this very building.
KBr Fundación MAPFREOpens 1 October
Tupac and Biggie, Imperial Courts in Los Angeles, the village of Shishmaref in Alaska: three decades of Dana Lixenberg's large-format portraits made across the US.
Disseny Hub Barcelona – Museu del DissenyOpens 29 October
A survey of André Ricard, a pioneer of contemporary Catalan design, built around the everyday objects he conceived as tools to serve people and society.
CCCB – Centre de Cultura Contemporània de BarcelonaUntil 8 November
How ideals of beauty were built, from Antiquity to the cosmetics industry, and the bodies they leave out. Adapted from a Wellcome Collection show. Worth seeing before you next trust a phone filter.
Museu de la Música de BarcelonaCloses 11 October
Ricard Viñes's diary and unpublished documents follow the pianist from arriving in Paris aged 12 to championing new French music in the Belle Époque. Most of us, at 12, only managed the diary part.
MACBA – Museu d'Art Contemporani de BarcelonaUntil 17 January
Ricardo Bofill began a settlement in the Algerian Sahara in 1979 and never finished it. Anna Moreno's road-movie film The Terminal Beach goes looking for it, and anchors a show on utopian architecture.
CaixaForum BarcelonaUntil 10 January
Mike Kelley's wooden cave can only be entered on hands and knees. Around it, 37 works answer older images: Mangold turns a 1518 Pontormo drawing into a 5.5-metre painting; every label prints the old picture beside the new.
Disseny Hub Barcelona – Museu del Disseny
Rediscovers Asunción Bastida (1902-1995), the Barcelona couturier who was the only woman in the top circle of Spanish haute couture, showing collections from Madrid to New York.
MACBA – Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
A full survey of textile artist Aurèlia Muñoz, from early collages and embroideries to unseen large macramé structures, her iconic kite-sculptures and late handmade-paper installations.
CCCB – Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
The world's best-known photojournalism show returns: all 2026 World Press Photo winning images and multimedia projects from 42 photographers across six world regions.
Disseny Hub Barcelona – Museu del DissenyFree
For the Aurèlia Muñoz Year, three early textile works from the collection: the 1961 tapestry La Barcelona gòtica and two 1962 screen-printed jute table covers.
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC)
Ona Balló's sound installation in the Romanesque galleries, playing recordings from six Pyrenean churches whose apse murals now hang in the museum.
Fundació Joan MiróFree
Barcelona artist Victor Ruiz Colomer closes the Espai 13 season with work driven by thermodynamics and how Sert's building shapes movement through it.
Disseny Hub Barcelona – Museu del DissenyFree
ADG-FAD shows standout graphic design and visual communication from the 56th ADG Laus Awards, including the Grand Laus, Young Talent and the Laus d'Or winners.
Museu d'Història de Barcelona (MUHBA)Free
Touch-based travelling show on how local materials such as stone, earth, binders and wood can build a decarbonised, circular city, told through Ciutat Vella, l'Eixample and Sant Martí.
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC)
Nearly 100 newly acquired drawings by José Luis Rey Vila (Sim), a key visual chronicler of the Spanish Civil War: quick pencil and charcoal sketches of soldiers, bombings and civilians.
CCCB – Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
How ideals of beauty were built, from Antiquity to the cosmetics industry, and a case for the bodies they leave out. Adapted from a Wellcome Collection show.
Museu d'Història de CatalunyaFree
Women in rural and farming Catalonia, through Llerona farmer Rosa Pruna i Esteve and four decades of rights won since the EU's 1986 directive on self-employed women.
Museu d'Història de CatalunyaFree
Fifty years on from the 1975-76 Palau d'Esports recitals by Raimon, Lluís Llach and Pi de la Serra, told through photographs, period material and concert footage.
Museu Marítim de BarcelonaFree
A small display of documents about the Royal Shipyards from the museum's archive, with Braille and audio-described material.
Museu Tàpies
The museum's third Extramural edition: artist Dora García stages performances and interventions around Barcelona, treating the city as a space for critical thought.
Disseny Hub Barcelona – Museu del DissenyFree
30 pieces from the 29th Enjoia't Contemporary Jewellery Awards organised by A-FAD: 15 professional and 15 student works by makers from more than ten countries.
Fundació SuñolFree
University of Barcelona Fine Arts alumni from the 'Cicle de Retorn' project in dialogue with alumni in the Suñol Soler Collection, including Ignasi Aballí and Susana Solano.
Disseny Hub Barcelona – Museu del DissenyFree
A MATERFAD pop-up of eight fashion collections by Bau master's students, mixing biomaterials, 3D printing, light and craft to rethink fashion and nature.
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC)
Francisco Mateos's Civil War propaganda painting, irreversibly deteriorated, is shown alongside AI-generated imagery that recovers its original visual impact.
CaixaForum Barcelona
Works mainly from the "la Caixa" contemporary art collection that confront art history and tradition, titled after a Pasolini poem.
Museu Blau – Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona
Myth, life, extinction, de-extinction: animals we rarely see, from legendary beasts and extinct species to little-known living ones vital to healthy ecosystems.
Casa Batlló
Miró sculptures and prints and Joaquim Gomis's Gaudí photographs meet Tomorrow Bureau's AI, 3D-scan and animation installations. With the Fundació Joan Miró.
Museu Marítim de BarcelonaFree
Works and writings by ETSAB faculty trace how architecture, planning and landscape shaped daily life in Barcelona, with a focus on the sea.
KBr Fundación MAPFRE
Retrospective of Dana Lixenberg's three decades of large-format portraits in the US, from Tupac and Biggie to Imperial Courts in Los Angeles and Shishmaref, Alaska.
MACBA – Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Recent works by Anna Moreno on utopian architecture, centred on The Terminal Beach, a road-movie film about Ricardo Bofill's unfinished 1979 settlement in the Algerian Sahara.
Fundació Joan Miró
London artist and publisher Camilla Wills (Divided Publishing) takes over the foyer, part of the Espai 13 season from 6:12 pm to 5:48 pm.
MACBA – Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Edwin van der Heide's site-specific sound work, recording the ambient sounds of Plaça dels Àngels since July 2024 and playing them back as a shifting sonic portrait of the square.
MACBA – Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
First exhibition in Spain by Palestinian duo Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, centred on their audiovisual installation Prisoners of Love and its layered stories of resistance.
KBr Fundación MAPFRE
Sixth edition of KBr's showcase of emerging photographers from Barcelona's schools: Sara Bravo, Elena Bulet i Llopis, Meghan Mathews and Luca Gaetano Pira.
La Pedrera – Casa Milà
Barcelona's first major Anselm Kiefer show: around forty paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs and artist's books, mostly from Hans Grothe's collection, on memory, matter and knowledge.
Museu de la Música de Barcelona
The sound sculptures of Bernard and François Baschet, 1950s inventors who built electricity-free instruments from steel, aluminium, cardboard and inflatable cushions.
Fundació Joan Miró
Miró's newly donated drawing Untitled (1930) shown with his sketches for the series, likely inspired by Georges Bataille's essay 'Le Gros Orteil'.
Museu de la Música de Barcelona
For Casals' 150th anniversary, the first show of the archive from his last 18 years in Puerto Rico (1955–73), founding institutions, conducting and composing.
Museu de la Música de Barcelona
Installation by Gerard Valverde Ros and Marc Villanueva: a magnetic instrument for remixing recordings of Barcelona's 1989 Contemporary Music Week.
Fundació Joan Miró
Spain's first exhibition on Charlotte Perriand, the pioneering modernist designer from Le Corbusier's atelier and a lifelong friend of Sert and Miró.
Disseny Hub Barcelona – Museu del Disseny
A survey of André Ricard, a pioneer of contemporary Catalan design, focused on everyday objects conceived as tools serving people and society.
Museu Marítim de BarcelonaFree
The story of the Drassanes Reials from their 13th-century origins under Peter III to today: the world's largest surviving medieval shipyards.
MACBA – Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Collection display tracing Video-Nou and the Servei de Vídeo Comunitari, a collective that used video as a tool of political counter-information in Catalonia from 1977 to 1983.
MACBA – Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Collection display of videos by artists from around the world, donated by the Han Nefkens Foundation, where documentary and poetic moving images are shaped by texture, sound and materiality.
MACBA – Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Screenings of Pere Portabella's films from the MACBA Collection for his centenary: radical cinema made under censorship that rejects linear narrative and treats form as a political stance.
CosmoCaixa
Australian Museum show on 450 million years of sharks: ten life-size models from great white to Helicoprion, a megalodon jaw to touch, interactives and an oceanarium.
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.
