Exhibitions in Barcelona

Disseny Hub Barcelona – Museu del DissenyFree

ADG-FAD shows standout graphic design and visual communication from the 56th ADG Laus Awards, including the Grand Laus, Young Talent and the Laus d'Or winners.

Museu d'Història de Barcelona (MUHBA)Free

Touch-based travelling show on how local materials such as stone, earth, binders and wood can build a decarbonised, circular city, told through Ciutat Vella, l'Eixample and Sant Martí.

KBr 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.

KBr 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.

La 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.

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 d'Història de CatalunyaFree

Women in rural and farming Catalonia, through Llerona farmer Rosa Pruna i Esteve and four decades of rights won since the EU's 1986 directive on self-employed women.

Fundació SuñolFree

University of Barcelona Fine Arts alumni from the 'Cicle de Retorn' project in dialogue with alumni in the Suñol Soler Collection, including Ignasi Aballí and Susana Solano.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 d'Història de CatalunyaFree

Fifty years on from the 1975-76 Palau d'Esports recitals by Raimon, Lluís Llach and Pi de la Serra, told through photographs, period material and concert footage.

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 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.

Disseny Hub Barcelona – Museu del DissenyFree

30 pieces from the 29th Enjoia't Contemporary Jewellery Awards organised by A-FAD: 15 professional and 15 student works by makers from more than ten countries.

Disseny Hub Barcelona – Museu del DissenyFree

A MATERFAD pop-up of eight fashion collections by Bau master's students, mixing biomaterials, 3D printing, light and craft to rethink fashion and nature.

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.

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.

CaixaForum Barcelona

Works mainly from the "la Caixa" contemporary art collection that confront art history and tradition, titled after a Pasolini poem.

Museu Marítim de BarcelonaFree

Works and writings by ETSAB faculty trace how architecture, planning and landscape shaped daily life in Barcelona, with a focus on the sea.

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.

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'.

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.