Latest Events in Barcelona(September Updated)

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.

In a context where certainty and objectivity give way to interpretation and uncertainty, Stan Douglas's work is particularly significant for its exploration of how technology and media influence perception and collective memory. Since the late 1980s, Douglas has worked on film, photography, and interdisciplinary projects, using images to explore the construction of reality and history. His work is notable for questioning linear narratives and revealing how historical processes are continually influenced by human behavior. This exhibition takes a retrospective approach, highlighting his influence on film analysis, his experimental explorations of other media, and his impact on generations of artists. The exhibition pays particular attention to the connection between his work and historical moments and its enduring relevance.

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.

Curated by Teresa Montaner and Marta Ricart, this new presentation is based on the inseparable pairing made up of the works and space that structure the route and give meaning to each room.Inspiration for the project comes from a portfolio of work that Miró produced in the latter half of the 1950s and beginning of the 1960s, preserved in the valuable archive of drawings that the artist donated to the Fundació Joan Miró. In these documents, which reflect on space and time as the cornerstones of Miró's practice, there beats an idea of a new way of relating people to art. The reorganisation rekindles this intuition to bring it into the present day: the exhibition will foster an experience built on the multiple relationships between the works, the space and people.