Exhibitions in Barcelona

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.

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.

Museu Picasso de Barcelona

How Picasso's cubist space shaped modern architecture, from Guernica's 1937 pavilion and his Barcelona architects' college friezes to his influence on Le Corbusier.

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.

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.

Disseny Hub Barcelona – Museu del Disseny

For its centenary, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky's 1926 Frankfurt Kitchen and how industrial design reshaped housework, women's roles and the modern home.

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.

Disseny Hub Barcelona – Museu del Disseny

A survey of contemporary digital art by artists working with computational technologies, from generative art and live creation to critiques of the invisible infrastructure of the digital world.

CaixaForum Barcelona

Assyrian treasures from the British Museum trace the life of Ashurbanipal (669-631 BC): warrior, scholar, lion hunter and builder of a great library.

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.

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

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.