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Fifteen architects and landscape designers reinterpret miniature gardens as 3D-printed ceramic works and living planters. The installations create a route through the Botanic Garden where design and plant life meet.
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Fifteen architects and landscape designers reinterpret miniature gardens as 3D-printed ceramic works and living planters. The installations create a route through the Botanic Garden where design and plant life meet.
A blocked novelist, his pragmatic partner and an arriving plumber unsettle one another’s assumptions. This contemporary comedy at Sala Pangolí connects creative frustration with the work of maintaining a relationship.
The Argentine comedian brings his solo show to Teatre Borràs. His Barcelona date offers a Sunday evening of observational stand-up for audiences interested in the Spanish-language comedy circuit.
Sala Pangolí presents a play examining withdrawal and loneliness among young people. Social pressure, online connection and the fear of failure shape a story about struggling to find a place in the world.
Lúa Coderch uses sculpture, action and audiovisual work to examine imagination and the act of seeing. The Can Framis installation asks how new perspectives might emerge when familiar visions are exhausted.
Impressions and stand-up meet in Edu Mutante’s comedy show. Personal stories and recognisable public voices give the performer several ways to pull the audience into the conversation.
Cómplices revisit their catalogue in a theatre-scale concert designed around a closer connection with listeners. The programme also leaves room for songs associated with Teo Cardalda’s earlier musical work.
Jordi Galceran’s farce follows a young woman whose attempt to discover her boyfriend’s secrets produces much larger complications. Eixample Teatre stages the chain of misunderstandings as an evening comedy.
Jazmín Abuín draws on her Galician and Canadian family background in a late-night comedy show. The apparently gentle persona leaves space for sharper observations and the less agreeable thoughts underneath.
Three friends decide to conceal aspects of their lives at a speed-dating event. Laurent Baffie’s comedy builds its complications around their elaborate plan, in a Spanish-language production at Eixample Teatre.
Blurred images and unfinished forms become tools for looking differently at modern and contemporary art. CaixaForum brings together painting, photography, video and installation around the expressive possibilities of uncertainty.
Guessing Barcelona’s rental prices becomes an interactive game show. Ana Polo and her guests turn housing frustration into shared comedy, with the audience competing to identify the most implausible asking prices.
Housing, mobility and neighbourhood life shape this exhibition on Barcelona’s next decade. The Casa de l’Arquitectura presents urban projects through practical questions about how the city may change.
Alice’s journey is retold through contemporary and neoclassical dance, without spoken dialogue. Sant Andreu Teatre offers this family production for audiences from age four, making language a smaller barrier to the story.
The Badalona-born flamenco singer performs at the Auditori Fòrum as part of Suite Festival. This concert brings a long musical trajectory into a dedicated auditorium setting on the eastern waterfront.
Pablo Alamá uses irony and personal performance to challenge assumptions about trans identities. Sala Fènix recommends this solo show for ages fourteen and above; the title signals its deliberately direct approach.
Led Varela brings his new stand-up show to Teatre Borràs. The Venezuelan-Uruguayan comedian’s observational style moves from online audiences and podcast conversations into a full theatre performance.
Two young women navigate precarious work, unaffordable housing and an uncertain future. Luna Navajas and Ana Luna Moya place friendship at the centre of their response; recommended from age fourteen.
Extinct creatures, elusive living species and imagined beings share this natural-history exhibition. It connects biodiversity with cultural memory, asking what disappears when animals can no longer be seen or studied.
Pietro Quadrino inhabits multiple bodies and voices in a physical-theatre performance inspired by medieval tales. Minimal scenery leaves the transformations to the actor, with an age recommendation of sixteen and above.
Museu Tàpies’s recurring programme invites artists to test how we perceive everyday life. The autumn sessions use different creative approaches to loosen habitual ways of looking; choose the contributor as well as the date.
Two men on a boat become the starting point for Joaquín Daniel’s darkly comic examination of power. The play questions belonging, inherited beliefs and the manufacture of enemies; recommended from age sixteen.
Local businesses, wine and gastronomy meet around Girona and Consell de Cent. Admission is listed as free, while tastings and purchases may cost extra; the organiser has not yet announced the hours.
Jordi Vidal creates an alter ego for an intimate tribute to Guillermina Motta, accompanied by Jordi Cornudella at the piano. El Maldà’s small scale suits a programme of songs, irony and theatrical character.