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An afternoon with an idea

Current art and cultural exhibitions, with their actual visiting hours. Start with the work that interests you, then check the current session and any separate museum admission or reservation requirements.

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The Cult of Beauty

An afternoon for questioning what we call beautiful. Take the exhibition’s questions out into the Raval afterwards.

Today · 10:00€8
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Like a Dance of Starlings

The final week of MACBA’s collection presentation. Choose a few works to stay with, rather than racing to see the lot.

Today · 10:00€13.50
On the house
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Vacances a Escòcia

ACS Bac de Roda presents a photography exhibition inspired by holidays in Scotland. The neighbourhood venue offers a free, smaller-scale stop that can sit alongside a walk through Poblenou.

Fri 2 OctFree
On the house
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[In]visible Technology

Palau Robert looks back over two decades of mobile technology and its social consequences. Projects in health, mobility and agriculture make the subject tangible, while the exhibition also invites questions about the future.

Until 27 SeptFree
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Antoni Tàpies: The Perpetual Movement of the Wall

Four exhibitions from the 1950s provide new ways into Tàpies’s work. The museum connects his changing methods to architecture, publishing and urban life, making context as important as individual objects.

Until 27 Sept€15
On the house
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Rubió i Tudurí: Lessons in Landscape

Six themes introduce the ideas of architect and landscape designer Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí. The free exhibition links Barcelona’s gardens and public spaces to present-day questions about climate and city life.

Until 27 SeptFree
On the house
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Jean-Luc Godard: La fraternitat de les metàfores

Film fragments, working notebooks and archival material trace Godard’s ways of thinking through images. La Virreina’s exhibition rewards a slower visit, allowing time for the audiovisual works as well as the documents.

Until 4 OctFree
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Espais esportius, memòria viva

Historic photographs reveal the sports facilities that helped shape Barcelona’s identity. The Olympic Museum exhibition looks beyond famous competitions to the spaces where the city’s sporting life developed.

Until 7 Feb€6.30
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Una força del passat

Works from the Fundació La Caixa collection explore how contemporary artists revisit earlier images, myths and forms. The exhibition treats quotation and reinterpretation as ways to think about the present.

Until 10 Jan€6
On the house
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Award-Winning Architecture

Photographs, documents and audiovisual material trace the FAD architecture awards and their predecessors. The Oliva Artés exhibition offers a free way to connect Barcelona’s built environment with changing ideas of architectural quality.

Until 27 SeptFree
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International Brigades and multilingualism

How did volunteers speaking different languages live and work together during the Spanish Civil War? This Montjuïc exhibition examines language learning and literacy through archives, memoirs and contemporary newspapers.

Until 30 Mar€12
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Jardins de saló

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.

Until 4 OctCheck price
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Lúa Coderch at Can Framis

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.

Until 11 Oct€10
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Out of Focus: Another Vision of Art

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.

Until 27 Sept€6
On the house
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Barcelona 2035: A city to live in

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.

Until 13 DecFree
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Invisible Animals

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.

Until 10 Jan€6.50
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Barcelona: Diversity, Intensity, Complexity

The Casa de l’Arquitectura uses Barcelona to explore what makes a contemporary city. Three themes connect the people who live here with everyday relationships and the challenges of collective urban change.

Until 13 DecFree
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Barcelona Plain: The city in miniature

An extensive 3D-printed model turns metropolitan Barcelona into a tool for understanding urban change. The accompanying display explains its construction, making the model’s craft part of the visit.

Until 13 DecCheck price
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