Exhibitions in Barcelona
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Rosemarie Castoro. Focus at Infinity
9 Nov-15 April. MACBA presents the first major retrospective dedicated to avant-garde American artist Rosemarie Castoro (1939-2015). Focusing on the period from 1964 to 1979, the exhibition document...
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Total Records: Vinyl & photography
22 Nov-11 March. Barcelona's Colectania Photo Foundation presents a photographic tour through classic 20th-century vinyl covers, the result of collaboration between musicians and prominent photograp...
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26 Oct-28 Jan. Exhibition highlighting Picasso's return to Barcelona from June to November 1917, after having lived for many years in Paris.
Earlier in 1917 the artist had been working in Rome wher...
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Francesc Torres. The entropic box
20 Oct-14 Jan. With the subheading [The museum of lost objects] this installation by Catalan artist Francesc Torres explores the role of the museum as a meeting point between history and culture.
T...
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Ramon Pichot. From Els Quatre Gats to La Maison Rose
29 Sept-21 Jan. Barcelona artist Ramon Pichot worked in his native city alongside fellow artists Ramon Casas, Santiago Rusiñol, Joaquim Mir and Isidre Nonell, before moving to Paris at the beginning o...
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21 Sept-25 Feb. The Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) dedicates an exhibition to the pioneering Barcelona poet Joan Brossa (1919-1998) and his interdisciplinary collaboration with artists, musicians,...
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Ismael Smith: the beauty and the monsters
23 June-17 Sept. This exhibition re-evaluates the career of eccentric artist Ismael Marí Smith who was born in Barcelona in 1886 but died in a psychiatric institution in New York in 1972.
Although...
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17 March-25 Sept. Exhibition highlighting Picasso's life-long fascination with interpreting portraiture and the human figure.
Picasso rarely worked to commission which granted him the liberty to pain...
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Torné Esquius: Poetics of the Everyday
7 April-9 July. Pere Torné Esquius (1879- 1936) was a painter, illustrator and cartoonist whose work defies categorisation although he is sometimes claimed by the noucentista, a Catalan modernist move...
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17 March-27 Aug.The CCCB and at Fundació Foto Colectania present a joint exhibition highlighting the role of the photobook in contemporary visual culture.
Curated by nine international experts, the...
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17 March-27 Aug. The CCCB and at Fundació Foto Colectania present a joint exhibition highlighting the role of the photobook - publications illustrated with photographs - in contemporary visual culture...
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Ramon Casas and the shadow puppets at Els Quatre Gats
30 June-19 Feb. Unusual exhibition of shadow puppets made by Spanish artist Ramon Casas (1866-1932) and his circle of modernist friends based at the Els Quatre Gats café in Barcelona.
On display a...
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Marianne Breslauer: Photographs 1927-1938
27 Oct-29 Jan. Exhibition of work by German photographer Marianne Breslauer (1909-2001) whose promising early career was curtailed by the Nazi regime due to her Jewish heritage.
Breslauer fled Ger...
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Lluïsa Vidal: Pintora del modernisme
23 Sept-15 Jan. The Museo Nacional d'Art de Catalunya dedicates an exhibition to the work of Lluïsa Vidal (1876-1918), one of the few women artists in the male-dominated Catalan modernism.
Vidal s...
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Picasso, Photography and Ceramics
23 June-30 Oct. The Museu Picasso presents a selection of photographs from its collection documenting Picasso’s work as a ceramicist.
The artist's interest in ceramics began when he moved to the s...
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The Thinking Machine: Ramon Llull
14 July-11 Dec. Exhibition exploring the legacy of the 13th-century philosopher Ramon Llull (1232-1316) and his enduring impact on the arts, literature, science and technology.
During his lifetime...
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Punk, its traces in contemporary art
13 May-25 Sept. Featuring the works of over 60 Spanish and international artists, this exhibition at MACBA examines how the rebellious punk movement has influenced contemporary art.
Installations,...
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Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design
23 March-28 Aug. Exhibition showcasing the work of over 120 African artists and designers, part of a wide-ranging research project steered by German curator Amelie Klein, assisted by the influential N...
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20 April-17 July. The work of self-taught photographer Toni Catany (1942-2013) has been labelled variously as “classical”, “traditional”, “neopictorialist” and “nostalgic”. The Mallorcan photographer...
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11 March-19 June. This exhibition of masterpieces from the Phillips Collection in Washington features 62 paintings from the important US museum of modern and contemporary art. The show is dedicated...
