Exhibitions in Barcelona
February 2026
February 2026 at a glance: 4 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 4 more were on view across the city.
Opened in February
Anna Moreno. The Third Twist5 FebMACBA – 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.
Antoni Tàpies: The Perpetual Movement of the Wall12 FebMuseu 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.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom14 FebMACBA – 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.
«Recuperado del enemigo» (Recovered from the Enemy). Deposits at the MNAC under Franco's dictatorship20 FebMuseu 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.
Was on view in February
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.
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.
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.
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