Latest Events in Barcelona(September Updated)

La Mercè in Barcelona is a festival dedicated to Mare de Deu de la Mercè, Barcelona's patron saint. Besides being a major civic event, it's also a vast festival made up of various festivals that bear witness to the cultural heritage of the Catalan capital: from the Mercè street art festival to popular culture shows, including BAM and the Mercè Festival, there are nearly 500 events every year. First officially held in 1902, this festival bids farewell to summer with a bang and welcomes the coolness of autumn.

As part of the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona (MACBA), this new collection exhibition explores how a vibrant life form spreads its wings, transforming its subjectivity into a liberating space. The exhibition abandons traditional chronological narratives, instead re-examining the collection through dialogue with new modes of being and action. It presents a multifaceted perspective, reaffirming the collection as a constantly growing, open, diverse, and ever-changing whisper.

On the occasion of MACBA's 30th anniversary, a new exhibition of the Collection will pay homage to the museum's trajectory. A celebration of its three-decade-long history of critical engagement with the transformative potential of artistic production and research, the project acknowledges the collection as an embodied constellation of works that come to life and engage with each other differently amidst a radically altered cultural landscape, marked by migration, political resistance, and new forms of collectivity.

MACBA is proud to present the first solo exhibition in Spain by Palestinian art duo Basel Abbas (born 1983 in Nicosia, Cyprus) and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (born 1983 in Boston, USA). They employ poetic techniques of sound, image, text, and performance to delve into collective memory, exploring stories of oppression, deprivation, and violence, as well as narratives of collectivism and resilience.