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

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

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.

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

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 André Ricard, a pioneer of contemporary Catalan design, focused on everyday objects conceived as tools serving people and society.

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.

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 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.

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.