Exhibitions in Barcelona
August 2026
August 2026 at a glance: 0 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 26 more were on view across the city.
Was on view in August
El poble gitano de Catalunya: història i culturato 13 SeptMuseu d'Història de Catalunya
A landmark show on six centuries of Catalonia's Roma people: origins in India, the journey through the Balkans, persecution in Europe, and the voices of today's Gitano communities.
Kapwani Kiwanga. Changing Statesto 13 SeptFundació Joan Miró
The first major Spanish retrospective of 2025 Joan Miró Prize winner Kapwani Kiwanga: refined installations probing architecture, materials and power.
SOS Oceans!to 20 SeptMuseu Marítim de Barcelona
An interactive family show where the Patapum gang enlists visitors to solve a threat to the ocean, revealing how the kids' magazine is made.
Premis FAD d’Arquitectura i Interiorisme 2026to 20 SeptDisseny Hub Barcelona – Museu del Disseny
ARQUIN-FAD presents the finalists of the 2026 FAD Architecture and Interior Design Awards and the 38th Habitàcola Awards, spanning architecture, interiors, city, landscape and critique.
Antoni Tàpies: The Perpetual Movement of the Wallto 27 SeptMuseu Tàpies
Tàpies in the 1950s, told through four very different shows he staged that decade, linking his work to debates on modern architecture, industry, design and urban life.
Picasso Cyprus: Encounters with the Ceramics of the Mediterraneanto 27 SeptMuseu Picasso de Barcelona · Free
How ancient Cypriot art, with its hybrid human-animal figures and playful forms, fed Picasso's ceramics, shown alongside loans from Cyprus's Department of Antiquities.
Àngel Jové. De intactuto 27 SeptMuseu Tàpies
First major retrospective of Àngel Jové (1940-2023), an enigmatic Catalan artist moving between arte povera, informalism and conceptualism in drawing, photography and objects.
Like a Dance of Starlings: MACBA Collection — Thirty Years and Infinite Ways of Beingto 27 SeptMACBA – Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
The MACBA Collection's 30th-anniversary presentation: a non-chronological display that sets works from the collection in dialogue with new ways of being and acting in the world.
Vindran les dones. 150 anys de lluites als carrers de Barcelonato 27 SeptMuseu d'Història de Barcelona (MUHBA)
A feminist reading of Barcelona's last 150 years through some eighty women writers, artists and activists, from 19th-century anarchists to today's movements.
«Recuperado del enemigo» (Recovered from the Enemy). Deposits at the MNAC under Franco's dictatorshipto 4 OctMuseu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC)
How artworks safeguarded by the Republic during the Civil War became Francoist deposits at the museum, and the MNAC's own role in protecting and then administering them.
Ricard Viñes a París. Diari d’un pianistato 11 OctMuseu de la Música de Barcelona
Drawing on his diary and unpublished documents, this show follows pianist Ricard Viñes from arriving in Paris aged 12 to championing new French music in the Belle Époque.
Montserrat Torrent. Ready for the organto 11 OctMuseu de la Música de Barcelona
Centenary show on Barcelona organist Montserrat Torrent: archive writings, images, recordings and instruments tracing nearly 2,000 concerts and her legacy as a teacher.
The Cult of Beautyto 8 NovCCCB – 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.
Archive Drops: "We are the Shipyards"to 20 NovMuseu Marítim de Barcelona · Free
A small display of documents about the Royal Shipyards from the museum's archive, with Braille and audio-described material.
Extramural project. Dora Garcíato 29 NovMuseu 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.
Opening the Archive 08. Le gros orteil.to 29 NovFundació 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'.
Sim Acquisition, Drawing and Warto 31 DecMuseu 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.
Wounded Militiaman: The Recovery of an Irredeemable Paintingto 31 DecMuseu 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.
Gaudí-Miró-Gomis: Deconstructedto 10 JanCasa 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.
Invisible Animalsto 10 JanMuseu 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.
Spiral of Time – Plaça dels Àngels – MACBAto 11 JanMACBA – 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.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedomto 17 JanMACBA – 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.
Anna Moreno. The Third Twistto 17 JanMACBA – 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.
Dividedto 17 JanFundació 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.
Instrumental Baschet. La utopia ressonantto 31 JanMuseu 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.
A Journey Through Time at the Royal Shipyards of Barcelonato 31 MarMuseu Marítim de Barcelona · Free
The story of the Drassanes Reials from their 13th-century origins under Peter III to today: the world's largest surviving medieval shipyards.
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