Latest Events in Barcelonès(December Updated)

Like other major cities in the Christian world, Barcelona holds a carnival during the last week before Lent. The Barcelona Carnival is primarily a lavish feast of indulgence, taking place before the start of Lent. During the seven-day carnival, people traditionally eat hot dogs and various meats. There are also fun hot dog-eating contests. The main event of the carnival is the parade held at different times of day and night. Jugglers, bands, dancers and singers in elaborate costumes dance to lively music, and various mobile stages participate in the parade.

"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 With unpublished documentation and references to the U.S. and its policies, Fusco offers a reflection on language, censorship, and cultural resistance.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 Alimentaria Barcelona exhibition is a platform for many operators in the sector who are aware of the importance of an event taking place with the active support of all food trade and distribution channels The Alimentaria Barcelona exhibition is a platform for many operators in the sector who are aware of the importance of an event taking place with the active support of all food trade and distribution channels. Information Source: Alimentaria Exhibitions | expotobi

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Santa Lucia Festival returns to Barcelona, ​​bringing a vibrant Christmas atmosphere and authentic traditions to the city. This over 200-year-old festival, located opposite the Barcelona Cathedral, is a must-visit for lovers of nativity scenes, Christmas decorations, and handicrafts. The Santa Lucia Market, with 285 stalls spread across various areas, is the city's most iconic Christmas market and one of the oldest in Europe. The market also offers family activities, live music, and the highly anticipated giant Theo statue.