Exhibitions in Barcelona

Museu d'Història de Catalunya

The Spanish Civil War through combatants' personal diaries: fears, routines, drawings, poems and songs, with the notebooks treated as an exceptional historical source.

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC)

The MNAC's first major Josep Maria Jujol show, curated by artist Perejaume from the architect's newly donated archive, with works by Gaudí, Taut, Tatlin and Matisse.

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.

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

20th- and 21st-century art responding to the atom and the bomb, from early physics and mysticism to nuclear protest. Adapted from the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris show.

Museu Tàpies

For Pere Portabella's centenary: his lifelong friendship with Tàpies, from the early Franco years on, as a model of alliances between art and politics.

Museu Tàpies

Cristina Lucas traces four industrial revolutions, from coal to AI, as battlegrounds of power and colonialism, with triptychs made from each era's materials.

Museu Tàpies

South African artist Penny Siopis links personal and collective memory, apartheid and colonial repression across painting, drawing and film.

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.