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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.