Festivals and Films
Barcelona What's on
17 May-8 Oct 2006. To mark the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the Centre de Cultura Contempornia de Barcelona (CCCB) presents an exhibition documenting the lasting effects of the...
Barcelona What's on
24 March-4 Jun 2006. The work of 1996 Turner Prize-winner Douglas Gordon is featured in this exhibition entitled What you want me to sayI am already dead at the Fundaci Joan Mir. Glasgow-born Gordon u...
Barcelona What's on
Ancient Persia: the forgotten empire.
8 March-11 June 2006. The CaixaForum hosts an exhibition of over 500 artefacts, weapons, items of jewellery, sculptures and wall paintings from the Persian Aquemnida empire, which flourished between 5...
Barcelona What's on
Picasso. The Passion for Drawing.
9 Feb-7 May 2006. Over 254 drawings, paintings, sketchbooks and sculptures have been brought together for this exhibition at the Museu Picasso marking the 125th anniversary of Pablo Picassos birth. Th...
Barcelona What's on
The poster art of Toulouse-Lautrec.
7 Feb-17 April 2006. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec only became interested in advertising poster art late in his artistic career, and his total output of posters comes to little more than 30 works. This mo...
Barcelona What's on
17 Nov 2005-31 March 2006. The Monumental Ensemble of the Plaa del Rei is hosting a photography exhibition which spans almost 150 years of Barcelonas history, as seen through the camera lenses of fore...
Barcelona What's on
Caravaggio and European Realism.
8 Oct 2005-15 Jan 2006. This exhibition at the Museu Nacional dArt de Catalunya in Barcelona focuses on the influence of Caravaggios art on European painting. Born in Milan in 1571, Michelangelo Meris...
Barcelona What's on
Art Nouveau the legacy of Seigfried Bing.
7 Sept 2005-29 Jan 2006. In 1895 Seigfried Bing, a Parisian art dealer, opened a new gallery in the French capital which he filled with the latest in furniture, glassware, jewellery and ceramics as we...
Barcelona What's on
26 Nov 2005-26 Feb 2006. The Joan Mir Foundation presents this history of collage From Picasso to Rauschenberg with works selected by Diane Waldman, former senior curator and deputy director of the Gu...
Barcelona What's on
Literatures of Exile at the CCCB
28 Sept 2005-29 Jan 2006. The writers, intellectuals and artists who fled Barcelona in January 1939 ahead of Francos advancing troops are given voice in this fascinating exhibition at the Centre de Cu...
Barcelona What's on
22 Oct-2 Nov 2005.
Now in its 44th edition, the Barcelona International Boat Show will host some 170,000 visitors, professionals and aficionados. Since its inception, the event has the key forum for...
Barcelona What's on
12 Oct 2005-15 Jan 2006. The first retrospective devoted to Austrian artist Gnter Brus in Spain, the show covers the whole body of his work from the 1960s to his most recent post-actionist paintings....
Barcelona What's on
Until 25 September 2005. Spencer Tunick is known for lining up and photographing thousands of nudes in various poses and places around the world. The New York artist started with natural landscapes i...
Barcelona What's on
13-15 Sept 2005.
Surfing and Boardings only specialist trade event this year rides the wave to Fira de Barcelona. Over 300 companies took part in Surf Shop UK in 2004, with manufacturers and retailer...
Barcelona What's on
26 Jan-25 September 2005. One of Spains finest Art Nouveau buildings the Aymerich, Amat and Jover mill now houses the Museu de la Cincia i de la Tcnica de Catalunya. The museum plays host to both pe...
Barcelona What's on
26 May-25 September 2005. This exhibition looks at the view of Westerners, Europeans in particular, as seen from the Islamic East in days gone by and the present. In the late 1800s and early 1900s man...
