Latest Events in Barcelona(August Updated)

The artist José Luis Rey Vila (Cádiz, 1900 – Paris, 1983), better known as Sim, left one of the most vivid witnesses of the Spanish Civil War, in Barcelona. Within the line of exhibitions and projects dedicated to the conflict, almost a hundred drawings of this artist will be exhibited during the Civil War, which have recently been acquired by the Museu Nacional. It is a creation of great quality and expression, and it shows scenes of a great deal of rawness that show the effects of the war on its magnitude.

Lady Gaga Barcelona is set to be an unforgettable evening of music and performance at the iconic PalauSantJordi in Barcelona. On October 31, 2025, at 21:00, the world-renowned artist will grace the stage, bringing her electrifying presence and chart-topping hits to the vibrant city. Known for her powerful vocals, extravagant costumes, and captivating stage presence, Lady Gaga promises a show that will leave the audience in awe. The PalauSantJordi, a premier venue in Barcelona, offers an exceptional setting for this highly anticipated event. With ticket prices at 268 USD, fans will experience an evening of unparalleled entertainment, featuring a blend of her classic anthems and new releases. This event is not just a concert but a celebration of artistry and innovation, making Lady Gaga Barcelona a must-attend for music enthusiasts and fans alike.

A group exhibition that aims to reverse the dramaturgy of the museum by putting the artwork at the centre so we can address its will, its energy and its poetic intention. What would happen if we separated the artwork from the museographic context that surrounds it? Would it be possible to think of museography as a kind of aphasia, a loss of language? Would it be possible to break up the dramaturgy of the museum that guides us in how to move through its spaces, how to register the artistic experiences they offer us, and how to apprehend the sensations that emanate from them? If we assumed that this shift were possible, what other meanings might arise, allowing us to interpret the work in a different way, and also to reinvent the museum as an institution? If that were within the realm of possibility, could we respond directly to the will of the work, to its energy and desire, to its ‘poetic intention’? Martinican poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant states that the poem must never deny the “way of the world”: can the museum put the work of art and the ways in which it reflects the world at the centre of everything?

The exhibition Pleas of Resistance traverses more than twenty-five years of practice by the artist Carlos Motta, who consistently engages with the body and sexual dissidence as a terrain of experimentation and political contestation. His early explorations of photographic self-portraiture are shown alongside his most recent performances and video installations. The exhibition explores the magnitude of Motta’s artistic research and its implacable rigor in relation to the archive, interrogating its violence, its silencing and its desires. Motta’s work challenges the imposition of Eurocentric epistemologies – from the time of the conquest and colonial period in the Americas to the present day – and considers the legacy of religion as a perpetrator and disturbing vehicle of coloniality.

This photography exhibition by Joaquim Gomis brings together a selection from the extensive reportage that the great friend of Joan Miró and Joan Prats made of the Prats family's hat shop on Rambla de Catalunya. The Prats hat shop became an improvised cultural center and a magical creative center where anything was possible. The shop windows were transformed into exhibition spaces.

Francesc Galí i Fabra (Barcelona, 1880-1965), the author of the paintings of the dome that crowned the Palau Nacional, was one of the most important figures of Catalan art in the first half of the 20th century. Together with Pompeu Fabra, he refurbishd the Catalan artistic pedagogy during the Noucentisme period, becoming the master of a generation of artists from his School of Art, where he formed Joan Miró or Llorens Artigas, and the Escola Superior de Bells de la Mancomunitat de Catalunya. Galí also developed a fruitful artistic career as a painter, cartoonist, muralist, posterist and illustrator. His work goes through all Catalan modernism: Modernism, symbolism, Noucentisme and the avant-garde. Despite his merits, Galí chose to play an invisible role: to be an artist, to work in the shadow of his disciples and to take care of his legacy. This exhibition aims to make visible what was hidden. I want to see the footprint of the person who didn’t want to leave a trace. At the same time, the exhibition explores a chapter of the origins of the museum, in the context of the great expansion project that has the centenary of the International Exhibition of 1929.

"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.

The museum will present a large video installation at the Sala Oval (Barcelona, 1943). Created in New York City between 1980 and 1982, From the center is a fundamental work both in the artist’s career and in the history of video art. This work of great technical complexity and rich in meaning evokes the great megalithic monuments of antiquity, is an electronic "Stonehenge", in the words of the artist. Due to its quality and importance in the historical perspective of Catalan contemporary art, the Generalitat has recently acquired it for the National Collection of Contemporary Art and is already part of the MNAC collections. The twelve monoliths in a circle form a large transient panorama and offer a total of partial visions that, as a whole, represent a unique and complete contemplation of the world. The filming of all the images was made over two years from a single fixed point on the roof of a building in the center of Manhattan, on the Broadway corner of the Grand St. George. The sounds and music of each of the twelve channels were created by the artist, musician and sound pioneer Peter Van Riper (1942-1998). The sum of the twelve video and sound channels generate an intense and complex space.

Barcelona's much-anticipated annual music, dance, circus and theatre festival, The Grec, is about to begin. It has become part of the city's cultural landscape and is closely linked to the city's artistic life. This year, the 'Greek Theatre', as it is called, is more visible than ever, but you can still catch the event at numerous venues across Barcelona. This year's 'Grec Barcelona Festival' celebrates local artistic talent, including artists who have grown up under the patronage of the 'Grec Barcelona Festival' and now represent Barcelona around the world. It also pays tribute to world-class masters of the performing arts. Teatre Grec will take place in around 50 venues across the city during June and July, showcasing international productions, top local talent and unique experiences.

The exhibition will consist of a selection of large-format prints and paintings from Joan Miró's late period, depicting a series of subjects in a frontal position. Apart from showcasing Miró's unconventional approach to portraiture, it aims to highlight the importance he placed on the craft as a means of exploration and discovery. It will present a Miró who skillfully mastered the techniques of etching, aquatint, and carborundum, but who was never a slave to them. This flexibility allowed him to introduce gestures and techniques typical of painting into printmaking, and the painting itself was enriched by the materiality of the prints. This exhibition will also present part of the important collection of papers held in the Fundació Joan Miró archive.

Ludovica Carbotta (Turin, 1982) lives and works in Barcelona. Her practice investigates urban space and the connection between individuals and their environment. Through installations, texts, and performances, she reflects on concepts such as "place," "identity," and "participation." She is currently developing a concept called fictional site specificity, which reinterprets real places within fictional contexts and highlights imagination as key to the construction of knowledge.

The Gràcia Festival, officially known as the Festa Major de Gràcia, is a famous neighborhood festival held in mid-August every year in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, ​​Spain. The festival is known for its colorful street decorations and community involvement. During the Gràcia Festival, local residents will carefully decorate their streets, each with a different theme, and the decorative materials are mostly recyclable. This festival not only showcases the creativity and solidarity of the community, but also includes concerts, dance, theater performances, traditional Catalan activities, and a variety of family-friendly activities. The Gràcia Festival is a vibrant and creative celebration that attracts a large number of tourists and locals to participate and enjoy. It is a great opportunity to experience the culture and community spirit of Barcelona.

Del 16 de octubre al 14 de noviembre se desarrollará una nueva muestra colectiva de fotografía en Barcelona. Este año será la 3era muestra anual y volvemos al Centro Cívico Barceloneta C/Conreria, 1-9, 08003 Barcelona Saal Digital será el laboratorio encargado de las impresiones fine art. https://www.saal-digital.es/¡ No te pierdas esta oportunidad de mostrar tu trabajo participando en FOTO ARTE BARCELONA 2025 !Condiciones para participar en la muestra: • Las personas que estén interesadas en exponer sus trabajos podrán enviar sus trabajos fotográficos para participar de la selección hasta el 30 de agosto de 2025 a las 24hs. Los costos deberan ser abonados antes del 1 de septiembre de 2025 a las 24hs. • Para participar de la selección se debe enviar un máximo de 10 fotografías a mediante Wetransfer a través de este formulario. ( Guía para usar WeTransfer) • El día 16 de octubre se realizará la inauguración de la muestra que permanecerá abierta al público hasta el día 14 de noviembre inclusive. Al igual de la muestra de 2024 se desarrollará en el Centro Cívico Barceloneta. • Al finalizar la exposición la obra quedará en poder del fotógrafo/a. Si estás fuera de Barcelona la podremos enviar mediante correo a pagar por el destinatario. • Una vez seleccionada la foto, para confirmar tu presencia en la muestra, deberá abonarse el importe de participación antes del 1 de septiembre. Nosotros nos encargaremos del enmarcado y la impresión sobrepapel fine art Hahnemühle Photo Rag® 100 % algodón de 308gr. La fotografía se expondrá en una dimensión máxima de 60 x 40cm por lado(tamaño visible 59x39cm) de acuerdo a las características de la fotografía. Puedes enviar tus fotos hasta el 30 de agosto de 2025 a través de wetransfer en el siguiente formulario de inscripción. Una vez que te comuniquemos que tu foto ha sido aprobada tu pago deberá estar acreditado antes del 1 de septiembre de 2025 El costo de participar en Foto Arte Barcelona 2025, que incluye la impresión de la fotografía sobre papel fine art Hahnemühle Photo Rag® 100 % algodón de 308gr. (La fotografía se expondrá en una máxima dimensión por lado de 60 x 40cm (tamaño visible 59x39cm) enmarcada en madera color negra) , tu nombre y sitio web y o red social impreso en catálogos y cartelería es: Si expusiste en FotoArte Barcelona 2023, 2024 o participaste en alguna de las muestras de portfolios fotográficos en Barcelona: Foto única €100 . Por 2 fotos €90 c/u. Por 3 fotos €85 c/u. Si es tu primera vez en FotoArte Barcelona: Foto única €115 . Por 2 €100 c/u. Por 3 €95 c/u. Se aceptan pagos hasta el 1 de septiembre de 2025 inclusive Information Source: Jorge Gonzalez | eventbrite

I've got a terrible feeling about this show. Like somehow the whole thing is doomed. I have this recurring dream where I'm on stage, thousands of miles from home and the crowd has turned on me. There are thousands of them and they are all booing me and Sofia Vergara (from Modern Family) is there and so is Simon Cowell and he’s slamming his fist into a red buzzer and the sound splits the air like a gunshot and the ceiling rips open and confetti rains down like debris but the booing only gets louder and louder and louder and louder and then I wake up, and realise that all of that actually happened to me. This show has nothing to do with that story. I doubt I'll even mention it. As booed on America's Got Talent 'Offers nothing personal and almost no actual content.' ★★★★ Chortle (UK) 'Egotistical delusions.' ★★★★ The Scotsman (UK) 'Indescribable.' ★★★★ The List (UK) 'Disorderly.' ★★★★★ Isolated Nation 'When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve. And as they were eating, he said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, “Is it I, Lord?”' Matthew 26:20 Contains Coarse Language and Adult Themes. Runtime: 70 Mins (est) Social media links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reubensolo/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reubensolo Information Source: KEG Touring | eventbrite

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.

Katy Perry Barcelona is set to be an unforgettable event, taking place at the iconic PalauSantJordi in Barcelona on November 9, 2025, at 20:30. Known for her electrifying performances and chart-topping hits, Katy Perry promises an evening filled with spectacular music and captivating stage presence. Fans can expect to hear a mix of her classic anthems and latest releases, all delivered with her signature flair. The venue, PalauSantJordi, renowned for hosting world-class events, provides the perfect backdrop for this highly anticipated concert. Tickets are priced at 81 USD, offering an incredible opportunity to experience one of pop music's most dynamic artists live. This event is not to be missed by any music enthusiast looking to witness a night of high-energy entertainment in the vibrant city of Barcelona.

Joan Casellas (Teià, 1960), artist and performer, exhibited at Espai 10 in late 1979, before moving to the United States. Once settled in New York, like other Catalan artists of different generations, he photographed his circle of friends and their lives in the city. This exhibition will resonate and interact with the major exhibition on Joan Miró's contacts and projects in the United States, which will be held at the Fundació Joan Miró in the fall of 2025.

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.

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.

The museum will open a new space dedicated to the Master of Cabestany thanks to the incorporation of four sculptural fragments from the monastery of Sant Pere de Rodes, which were attributed to this master and his workshop, which were acquired by the Generalitat de Catalunya. The four pieces would have been part of the Biblical cycles that decorated the large altarpiece of the church of Sant Pere de Rodes, built in the second third of the 12th century and destroyed during the first third of the 19th century. As a result of the incorporation into the collection of these four sculptural fragments, the Museu Nacional has continued to work and research to locate other fragments of the large portal, which will also be part of this new space. In 2014 the museum dedicated an exhibition to the Master of Cabestany, which was the last of the exhibition, and presented four of the almost unpublished marble heads. Now, a new space will allow us to incorporate the latest research and to present a hypothetical reconstruction of the portal, as well as to offer a new interpretation of the function and context of this masterpiece. This new space is part of the cycle of projects related to the collection of Romanesque art that is being carried out by the MNAC in the context of the centenary of the rediscovery of the Romanesque murals and the formation of the main nucleus of the current collection of Romanesque art. Due to the complexity and special characteristics of this unique collection of works, these projects, which combine heritage, conservation and dissemination aspects of the collection, will be extended over a three-year cycle, from 2023 to 2025.

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.

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.

Thanks to the efforts of Picasso's personal secretary, Jaume Sabartés, and the artist Antoni Clavé, in 1955 the cousins Joan and Miquel Gaspar met Pablo Picasso in Vallauris, accompanied by Picasso's childhood friend Joan Vidal i Ventosa, Sabartés and Clavé. The trust that was generated between Picasso and the Barcelona gallery owners made it possible for the Gaspars to put on regular exhibitions about the artist in their gallery in Consell de Cent Street from 1956 onwards. Between 1956 and 1973, the year of Picasso's death, all relations established from Barcelona were through the Gaspars as connecting elements, as well as through Sabartés until his death in 1968, since the creation of the Museu Picasso de Barcelona in 1963. The exhibition presents the close friendship between Pablo Picasso and Jacqueline Roque, along with cousins Joan and Miquel Gaspar and their respective partners, Elvira Farreras and Ena Alba. The commitment to the artist and his work, together with the love that Picasso felt for Barcelona, was crucial in the role that it played for the Picasso legacy in our city.

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The Museum continues with the programmatic line on the Civil War begun with projects such as the presentation of the new permanent war rooms in 2021 or the exhibition Museum in Danger!, around the process of safeguarding works during the conflict. Based on the information from the museum and the research carried out, the MNAC will present to the public for the first time a set of works from its collection that come from the deposit made by the SDPAN, the Francoist National Heritage Defense Service created in 1938. The works from the SDPAN were deposited in this and other museums, and it is unknown to this day who was their owner.

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.