Exhibitions in Barcelona

Museu 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.

Casa 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.

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.

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.

Fundació 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.

Fundació Joan MiróFreePast

London artist Ghislaine Leung's Espai 13 show: works made to scores that follow the Fundació's own operating rules, on mutual dependence and fragile structures.

Museu d'Història de CatalunyaPast

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.

Fundació Joan MiróPast

The first major Spanish retrospective of 2025 Joan Miró Prize winner Kapwani Kiwanga: refined installations probing architecture, materials and power.

Disseny Hub Barcelona – Museu del DissenyPast

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.

Museu Marítim de BarcelonaPast

An interactive family show where the Patapum gang enlists visitors to solve a threat to the ocean, revealing how the kids' magazine is made.

Museu d'Història de Barcelona (MUHBA)Past

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.

MACBA – Museu d'Art Contemporani de BarcelonaPast

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.

Museu TàpiesPast

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.

CaixaForum BarcelonaPast

Starting from Monet's Water Lilies, a look at blur as an expressive tool, with works by Turner, Giacometti, Rothko, Richter, Thomas Ruff and Bill Viola.

Museu Picasso de BarcelonaFreePast

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.

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC)Past

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.

Museu de la Música de BarcelonaPast

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.

Museu TàpiesPast

First major retrospective of Àngel Jové (1940-2023), an enigmatic Catalan artist moving between arte povera, informalism and conceptualism in drawing, photography and objects.

Museu de la Música de BarcelonaPast

Centenary show on Barcelona organist Montserrat Torrent: archive writings, images, recordings and instruments tracing nearly 2,000 concerts and her legacy as a teacher.

Museu 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.

CCCB – 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.

Museu Marítim de BarcelonaFree

A small display of documents about the Royal Shipyards from the museum's archive, with Braille and audio-described material.

Museu 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.

Museu 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.

MACBA – 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.

MACBA – 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.

MACBA – 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.

Museu 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.

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'.