In this exhibition Daniel G. Andújar (Almoradí, 1966) investigates those utopias that, from the field of art, aspired to construct an aesthetics of the working class, what assaults were made on the revolutionary impetus by the normalising power, and what overflows and struggles remain [...]
Voices of great personalities and international associations speak to us about what is happening on the Planet and about the negative impacts these changes are having on Nature and the beings that inhabit it. Sixe Paredes, who finds himself in the middle of this [...]
The show Saudades de Sao Paulo. Photographs by Palmira Puig and Marcel Giró is a tribute to the photographic output of Palmira Puig (Tàrrega, 1912 - Barcelona, 1978) and Marcel Giró (Badalona, 1913 - Mira-sol, 2011) as well as a record of the lifetime of an extraordinary couple. Curated by Rocío [...]
Carlos Pérez Siquier (1930), a leading figure in the forging of photographic modernism and the professionalizing of this medium in Spain, enjoys a prominent place on the Spanish scene, firstly for his neorealism work and later as a pioneer of color photography. Pérez Siquier [...]
With the exhibition “To be again” Evru/Zush returns to the art scene after a forced retirement due to health issues. We find ourselves in front of a long series of small pencil drawings, on which he worked exclusively. In these works we find ourselves [...]
The black and white photographs by Chema Madoz are characterized by their sharpness and fineness. Simple objects of everyday life appear in his pictures. The photographer has manipulated them, often combining two objects, looking for associations or paradoxes. These sculptures created by the artist [...]
This is the thirteenth edition of Video Auteur Festival FLUX, characterized from the beginning by focusing the protagonism in the authors linked to Barcelona working in the field of video creation (video art, documentary, video installations, etc.). In this edition of the festival the [...]
Aires makes an statement with this exhibition’s title against the self-imposed pressure on artists who create in search of originality or those who end up seeing their art turned into a product whose value is solely imposed by the market. Thus, the strategy of [...]
A notable group of works by Aurèlia Muñoz (Barcelona, 1926-2011) will be entering the Museu Nacional, which will enable us to see the diversity and the originality of her techniques and the coherence and intensity of her poetics. The artist’s family has donated seven [...]
It is a pleasure to present Juan Uslé's fourth solo exhibition at Galeria Joan Prats, titled 'Unsettled', which shows his latest paintings and photographs. "Unsettled" means unstable, but also variable, restless, something that includes opposites, or a paradox. In Uslé's paintings, the stripes of [...]
The exhibition offers an approach to this historical moment from the perspective of photography, addressing radically different areas and views. In the exhibition, which was presented at the Les Rencontres d'Arles festival in summer, you can see vintage photographs by Alberto García-Alix, Ouka Leele, Pablo Pérez-Mínguez and Miguel Trillo. After several [...]
Laia Estruch works with the voice as an extension of the body that can combine issues linked to language, gender and social structures. In Crawl they come together in a swimming pool: an unstable setting that becomes a laboratory for sound experiments. This project [...]
AS_TR_Y is a “meta-haiku” that represents, at the same time, the idea of “as a try” and “ashtray”. Ashtrays are an object of special interest to Alejandro Palacín as an archetype of the object-function, as a symbol of the possibility of satisfying our needs [...]
Miró always expressed his admiration for Gaudí's work, valuing the architect's penchant for risk and improvisation. The two artists viewed nature as the root of all their creative endeavours. Gaudí used it as a source of inspiration for both his ornamental and structural elements. [...]
The first major retrospective exhibition of the work of the Barcelona photographer Oriol Maspons will present more than 40 years of intense activity in the fields of reportage, portraiture, fashion and advertising, contextualizing his production and providing support for the research in the recovery [...]
As artists, Zóbel and Chillida began to develop in a sort of isolation and in a problematic context. In the early 1950s Chillida conceived his first sculptures in plaster and stone, which would later result in works like Lurra 16 (Earth 16) (1978), Lurra G-326 [...]
After her first solo exhibition Seal Sounds Under the Floor in 2013, Alicia Kopf will present at the gallery her new project, Speculative intimacy. Her investigations have the particularity to generate materials in the field of visual arts and litterature in parallel to each other. The new [...]
In 1991, just under a year after the Fundació’s opening, Antoni Tàpies produced a series of works in Barcelona on synthetic textile mats that he used to cover and protect his studio floor. It was not the first time that Tàpies used this medium. [...]
The exhibition On Abortion is the first chapter of a long-term project titled A History of Misogyny from the photographer, a visual investigation of misogyny through historical and contemporary comparisons. In this chapter that she presents in Foto Colectania, Laia Abril documents and conceptualizes the dangers and damages [...]
3 Punts Galeria presents the first individual exhibition of artist Kiko Miyares (1977, Asturias, Spain) in Barcelona. We will exhibit about fifteen sculptures, most of them human representations that are duplicated, fragmented or distorted and that require the observer's eye to complete the altered [...]
Gabriel Cualladó (Massanassa, Valencia, 1925 – Madrid, 2003) is acknowledged as one of the leading figures in the movement to renew Spanish photography in the second half of the 20th century. His work exudes a personality of its own and stands out from the [...]
The character Benítez has chosen for his own immersion in the world of comics is Johnny Zipper (Juanito Cremallera) a character transferred, by its commercial author, from sado-maso to peluchosidad. The moral message is clear: shit is good (a billion flies can’t go wrong), [...]
The exhibition, curated by Llucià Homs, provides fresh insights into Guinovart’s artistic discourse while considering the fact that today, ten years after his death, he still connects with new generations of critics and curators, with works displaying immense topicality. The exhibition directs its attention to the [...]
"Man or Rabbit" shows us the latest artistic productions of this Mallorcan painter, where he recreates the real world from his personal perspective, which is often very disturbing. The great theme of his work is the reflection about the human condition: Bestard (b Palma [...]
Jaume Plensa (Barcelona, 1955) is an artist of materials, sensations and ideas. His references include literature, especially poetry, music, religion and thought. He considers himself, above all, a sculptor, although his creative process has included multiple disciplines. His work addresses the very condition of [...]
Once again, at the end of this year, at the Fundació Joan Miró, we celebrate the holidays with an art project created specifically for the occasion. This time we will be presenting a piece by Patricia Dauder arising from her research in astronomical phenomena, [...]
“The Bears” is a series of photographs portraying women who are part of Brown University’s rugby team. While being part of an intellectually exigent environment, these students have decided to also join a very physically demanding sport. A sport that will introduce them to [...]
Álvaro Sánchez-Montañés (Madrid, 1973), winner of the 2017 Fundació Vila Casas Photography Prize, presents the photography show Not like Chaos at the Can Framis Museum, curated by Glòria Bosch, director of art at the Fundació Vila Casas, and the photographer himself. The contrast between abandoned human constructions [...]
Ever since his career began in the late 1990s Jorge R. Pombo (Barcelona, 1973) has immersed himself in a continuous reflection on the practice of painting. In the current context, few artists have looked as deeply as he has into the creative processes of the old [...]
The exhibition provides a follow-up of the transformation process of the Plaza de la Gardunya between the beginning of 2005 and the spring of 2018. Or rather, from 2018 to 2005, that is, as a reverse chronology, from the present to the past. Obviously, [...]
Active since the years 90, Dora Garcia has been recognized internationally for her work incisive and rigorous based on extensive research on the diffuse limits between the real and its representation. Through performances, drawings, films, texts, expanded books or installations, García makes visible the [...]
Invoice es una instalación de vídeo donde tres cantantes interpretan una adaptación del canto gregoriano O Virgo Splendens, sustituyendo el texto original por la enumeración de las facturas emitidas durante el proceso de realización de la obra. Un rasgo distintivo del canto gregoriano es el escaso [...]
In 1966, Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012) began writing his memoirs. Motivated by his need to embrace militancy as a political strategy, he undertook a review of his personal biography and his career as an artist, a project that was completed in 1977 with the publication [...]
Night is sublime, day is beautiful. Immanuel Kant The Gravity of Place is a project made during an artist’s residency at Domaine de Kerguéhennec in Brittany. Kerguéhennec is a contemporary art centre that has over thirty sculptures installed in its surrounding landscape. The place, [...]
The exhibition brings together part of his most recent production, which includes sculptures and drawings, most of which are unpublished in Spain. With a particular cyclical vision of time, in which life and death are only two stages within the permanent transformation, Javier Pérez [...]
This exhibition presents the rise of a generation of photographers who demanded that ‘creative’ or fine art photography be accepted as an art in its own right by the institutional and artistic system during the 1970s and early 1980s. It ranges from the opening [...]
Gala (7th September 1894 – 10th June 1982), born into a family of intellectuals from Kazan (Russia), she lived her childhood in Moscow. Once she had settled in Switzerland, she met Paul Éluard, who she moved to Paris with and came in contact with the members of the [...]
This project questions two certainties that have framed the interpretations of art, knowledge and images: sharpness versus opacity, transparency versus secrecy, light versus blackout. The latticework offers all its disruptive power here: it is a space ready to look at, but at the same [...]
The 1980s and 1990s were peak moments for graphic design. After the death of Franco, with Spain’s full integration into Europe and the establishment of democracy, designers had the opportunity to participate in a process of creating and transforming the image of public institutions, [...]
Santiago Sierra’s work Political Prisoners in Contemporary Spain features 24 black and white photos of 74 political prisoners from different causes, with their faces pixellated. “The fact of having to visit penal institutions is in itself an indicator of the failure and powerlessness of society to [...]
The exhibition presents the work carried out by Daniel G. Andújar (Almoradí, Alicante.1966) on the occasion of his participation in documenta14 in 2017. The project is structured as a visual protest against violence and an update of the current representation of conflict, showing how [...]
“Nothing, absolutely nothing makes sense, if we don’t admit that people are not islands, independent of each other; every person is a piece of the continent, a part of the whole.” (Thomas Merton, 1955). In “We are not islands”,Ordóñez shows us more than twenty poetic landscapesclose [...]
Fundació Suñol presents the exhibition ACTE 39: Antoni Abad. measure X measure. 1992’2015, a project specifically set for Nivell Zero, which includes Antoni Abad’s work from the 90’s up until 2010. All these works are directly related to his own research about the idea of measurement [...]
A Sense of Wonder is an exhibition that brings together the latest projects by artist Carles Congost (Olot, Girona 1970). It includes videos that can be interpreted individually but which maintain many thematic connections that are common in his artistic practice (music, the world [...]
This solo exhibition of Domènec (Mataró, 1962) offers a retrospective of his work from the late 1990s to the present, including some new projects. Using certain emblematic buildings or monuments of modernity as referents, Domènec analyses the proposals of the modern movement and its legacy [...]
One of the characteristics of today’s global, hyper-communicated and hyper- populated world is that it has lost its human scale. Everything is grandiose, vertiginous and immeasurable. Cities bursting at the seams, thousands of millions of displacements per year, thousands of millions of pieces of [...]
Xavier Miserachs (Barcelona, 1937-1998) was the youngest member of a collective which in the late 1950s revived the creativity and innovation of applied photography, all trace of which had been lost after the Spanish Civil War. He brought about a break with the past in [...]
The exhibition includes the series of drawings entitled Sèrie Teresa (Teresa’s Series, 1966), together with the series of lithographs, litho-collages and collages Cartes per a la Teresa (Letters to Teresa, 1974), pays tribute to their relationship by celebrating a private language accessible only to [...]
