Latest Events in Barcelona(November Updated)

"I learned to swim on dry Land" is an exhibition by the artist and essayist Coco Fusco, which explores the confrontation between art and power in post-revolutionary Cuba. Through poetry, performance, and activism, the exhibition recovers the voices of dissident creators such as Virgilio Piñera and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara. With unpublished documentation and references to the U.S. and its policies, Fusco offers a reflection on language, censorship, and cultural resistance.

On the occasion of MACBA’s 30th anniversary, a new exhibition of the Collection will pay homage to the museum’s trajectory. A celebration of its three-decade-long history of critical engagement with the transformative potential of artistic production and research, the project acknowledges the collection as an embodied constellation of works that come to life and engage with each other differently amidst a radically altered cultural landscape, marked by migration, political resistance, and new forms of collectivity.

From July 10, 2025 to January 11, 2026 you can listen toSpiral of Timefrom the museum’s exhibition space. Asite-specificwork that, since July 2024, has been recording the ambient sounds of Plaça dels Àngels, constructing a sonic and temporal narrative of this space. Sound is intangible and ephemeral, yet it can be one of the most defining characteristics of the places it inhabits. Spiral of Time is a site-specific work created by artist, composer, and researcher Edwin van der Heide (Hilversum, 1970) that explores sound and its relationship with space and time.

The exhibition of the Catalan artist Tinta against Hitler in Barcelona is the presentation of the discovery of the only Catalan and Spanish artist who worked massively for British and Allied propaganda during the Second World War. From 1941 to 1945, Mario Armengol Torrella (San Juan de la Abadesses, 1909 – Nottingham, 1995) drew about two thousand cartoons or cartoons in the service of the British Ministry of Information against the Third Reich and the Axis to publish them in newspapers and magazines in London and New Zealand, New Zealand. The exhibition will present a selection of the originals preserved by the author and the family, which, together with the publications in which many of these cartoons will appear, will become one of the world’s largest collections of political satire of the most horrific conflict in history. It is a spectacular fresco, so far unknown, as Armengol’s illustrations are found alongside those of the UK’s largest and most influential cartoonistscartoonists, such as David Low, Giles and Illingworth. In them you can see almost all the fronts of the war and the most prominent figures of this brutal battle. In addition, this is a style that draws from the intense tradition of Catalan cartoonists and satirical publications from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In Armengol, this tradition crystallizes in a work of great artistic, versatile and modern quality, which goes beyond the style of the time, points to the current comics and continues to challenge us in the limits of humor in dramatic and brutal contexts.

In the summer of 1914, Santiago Rusiñol began writing "Glossary" and published a series of articles in "L’Esquella de la Torratxa" entitled "The Spark of War." In these collaborations, he unhesitatingly supported France, believing it to be the best vehicle for European art and civilization in the face of the threat of German expansionism. This exhibition, featuring 70 drawings from the National Museum's Painting and Print Department, reassesses the rich legacy of one of Catalonia's finest public collections of works on paper. It also helps to understand how the cartoons or jokes that appeared to illustrate periodicals during World War I became a cathartic exercise for artists and readers, who used them to overcome the fear and uncertainty surrounding the outbreak of international conflict.

Curated by MACBA director Elvira Dyangani Ose, along with Antawan Byrd, Adom Getachew and Matthew S. Witkovsky, Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica is the first major international exhibition to examine the cultural manifestations of Pan-Africanism from the 1920s to the present. It is a project developed jointly with the Art Institute of Chicago, the Barbican Centre in London and the KANAL–Centre Pompidou in Brussels. This collaboration has made the magnitude of the exhibition possible, with nearly 350 pieces by 100 artists touring the four institutions until spring 2027.

Marwa Arsanios (Washington, DC, 1978) is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher based between Berlin and Beirut. Her practice addresses structural and infrastructural issues, such as the transformation of architectural spaces during conflict or artist-run spaces. Through film as a form and space for connecting struggles, she explores themes such as property, law, economics, and ecology from specific locations. For the series, Arsanios presents the fifth installment of her series Who is Afraid of Ideology?, a co-production with the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin) and the Artium Museoa (Vitoria-Gasteiz). She explores the history of property in an Ottoman territory to rethink our relationships with the usufruct of land and its legacy.

Join TWICE《THIS IS FOR》WORLD TOUR IN BARCELONA at Palau Sant Jordi on May 12, 2026. Celebrate TWICE’s return to Europe with unforgettable music and performances. Don’t miss this chance—get your tickets now.

This exhibition offers a multifaceted, open-to-interpretation account of the key events that motivated the founding of the Center for Contemporary Art Studies (CEAC). The exhibition will explore the circumstances and people who drove modernism in Catalonia, emphasizing the figure of Joan Prats, who was instrumental in the creation of the Fundació Joan Miró-CEAC. It will also reflect on the impact of the Civil War and the Franco regime, and the desire to recover the ideals of the modern movement of the 1920s and 1930s. The exhibition will address key moments in the history of the Fundació, such as the 75th anniversary of Joan Miró, the exhibitions dedicated to the artist in Barcelona in 1968 and 1969, and the construction of the building designed by Sert. Following this, a section will be dedicated to the early years of the CEAC's operation until Miró's death in 1983. The tour will continue with the transformation of the Foundation from the 1980s onwards, a period in which key elements include the expansion of the building and the changes brought about by Olympic Barcelona. Finally, the exhibition will culminate with a tribute to the artists who have been part of the Foundation's recent history, highlighting their creative processes.

This exhibition offers a multifaceted, open-to-interpretation narrative that reviews the key factors that motivated the founding of the Center for Contemporary Art Studies (CEAC). The exhibition will explore the circumstances and people who drove modernism in Catalonia, emphasizing the figure of Joan Prats, who was instrumental in the creation of the Fundació Joan Miró-CEAC. It will also reflect on the impact of the Civil War and Franco's regime, and the desire to recover the ideals of the modern movement of the 1920s and 1930s.