Exhibitions in Barcelona
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I work the street. Joan Colom, photographs 1957-2010
The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) presents the first major exhibition devoted to Joan Colom, one of the most important Spanish photographers of the second half of the 20th century....
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CaixaForum examines the multi-faceted career of Le Corbusier (1887-1965), the Swiss-born architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer and giant of 20th-century modernist architecture.
On di...
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Danny Lyon: Conversations with the Dead
Barcelona's Colectania Photo Foundation dedicates an exhibition to influential New York documentary photographer Danny Lyon, a leading exponent of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 197...
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A Visit to the Romanesque. In the company of Antoni Tàpies
An installation in the Romanesque rooms of the Museo Nacional d'Art de Catalunya reveals how the art of that period influenced the work of Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012).
Works from Tàpie...
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The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya presents an exhibition highlighting the artistic legacy of Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012), the painter, sculptor and art theorist who was the best known post-wa...
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Post-war Barcelona 1939-1945: A photographic report
The exhibition at the Photographic Archive of Barcelona displays 116 images of life in Barcelona following the country's devastating three-year civil war.
Most of the photographs were taken by P&e...
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The work of Spanish photographer José Ortiz Echagüe (1886-1980) is the subject of an exhibition at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.
Considered one of Spain's most popular photogr...
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MACBA presents a major exhibition of almost 350 drawings produced by important New York conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner over a 50-year period.
Comprising a large and varied collection of drawings...
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Eulàlia Grau: I Have Never Painted Golden Angels
The MACBA presents an exhibition by Eulàlia Grau, a Catalan artist known for her avant-garde montages, collages and manipulated photographs.
Most of her art is created in response to what s...
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25 Jan-28 April. The Phantom Home exhibition at MACBA is a retrospective of the work of the Palestinian Bedouin photographer Ahlam Shibli, (born 1970).
Based in the city of Haifa in northern Israe...
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27 Oct-20 Jan 2013. MACBA presents the work of Iranian artists Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi who, in 2011, began collaborating on a series of works inspired by two very different but interconn...
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8 Nov - 17 Feb 2013. MACBA stages an exhibition that reflects upon the periodic "systemic crises" that have affected and shaped the world of contemporary art since the late 1950s.
Drawing from its...
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1 June - 10 February. This exhibition examines the different types of infections that have effected humans throughout the ages, as well as the medical breakthroughs in the battle against disease and i...
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16 March - 24 June. An exhibition at CaixaForum offers a chronological overview of the work of Spanish romantic painter Francisco Goya (1746-1828) and features almost 100 pieces. Regarded as the las...
