Exhibitions in Barcelona
January 2027
January at a glance: 1 exhibition opening, 12 closing, and 10 more on view across the city.
Opening in January
Closing in January
Gaudí-Miró-Gomis: Deconstructed10 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 Animals10 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.
- Una fuerza del pasado10 Jan
CaixaForum Barcelona
Works mainly from the "la Caixa" contemporary art collection that confront art history and tradition, titled after a Pasolini poem.
Barcelona School of Architecture in shaping everyday life in the city (1875–2025)11 JanMuseu Marítim de Barcelona · Free
Works and writings by ETSAB faculty trace how architecture, planning and landscape shaped daily life in Barcelona, with a focus on the sea.
Spiral of Time – Plaça dels Àngels – MACBA11 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 Freedom17 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.
Dana Lixenberg. American Images17 JanKBr Fundación MAPFRE
Retrospective of Dana Lixenberg's three decades of large-format portraits in the US, from Tupac and Biggie to Imperial Courts in Los Angeles and Shishmaref, Alaska.
Anna Moreno. The Third Twist17 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.
KBr Flama'2617 JanKBr Fundación MAPFRE
Sixth edition of KBr's showcase of emerging photographers from Barcelona's schools: Sara Bravo, Elena Bulet i Llopis, Meghan Mathews and Luca Gaetano Pira.
Divided17 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.
The Secret Life of Plants. Anselm Kiefer in the Grothe Collection24 JanLa Pedrera – Casa Milà
Barcelona's first major Anselm Kiefer show: around forty paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs and artist's books, mostly from Hans Grothe's collection, on memory, matter and knowledge.
Instrumental Baschet. La utopia ressonant31 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.
Also on through January
Charlotte Perriand. Free to Rethink the Worldto 28 FebFundació 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.
Picasso and architectureto 7 MarMuseu 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.
Vectors. Art digital per pensar el futurto 14 MarDisseny 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.
Asunción Bastidato 14 MarDisseny 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.
Aurèlia Muñoz. El tèxtil com a pretextto 14 MarDisseny 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.
André Ricard. Disseny en ústo 14 MarDisseny 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.
Aurèlia Muñoz. Beingsto 29 MarMACBA – 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.
- Soy Asurbanipal, rey del mundo, rey de Asiriato 29 Mar
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.
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.
The Atomic Ageto 17 MayCCCB – 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.
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