Latest Events in Barcelona(July Updated)

The Sala Montjuïc returns to Montjuïc Castle, bringing open-air cinema, live music, and a picnic atmosphere to summer nights. From July 10 to August 5, 2026, the Fossat de Santa Eulàlia transforms into a giant open-air cinema under the stars, screening recent releases, modern classics, art films, and special screenings. The Sala Montjuïc is one of Barcelona's most special summer events: enjoying open-air cinema against the backdrop of the historic Montjuïc Castle, just minutes from the city center. The experience begins even before the film starts, featuring live music, a leisurely dinner, and a relaxed atmosphere—ideal for couples, friends, or groups.

The first national retrospective of 2025 Joan Miró Prize laureate Capuvani Kiwanga will open on April 29th. The exhibition is a joint effort between the Stavros Niácos Foundation (SNF) and CUPRA. Kiwanga creates compelling interior architecture, exploring the materiality, economic exchange, and geological temporality that shape our relationship with space. This exhibition, conceived specifically for the Joan Miró Foundation, will fully reflect his exploration of space and control, offering a radical contemporary perspective on architecture and its power structures. Kiwanga's work exhibits an extremely precise and coherent internal structure. Her artistic practice interacts organically with architecture: the artist explores materiality, resource flows, the exchange economy, and the power structures that organize regions and groups. Building on her research into architectural structures and material circulation systems, in recent years Kiwanga has extended this paradigm to fields beyond the human time dimension, such as geology, thus enabling her to understand space and systems from a perspective beyond human timescales. Kiwanga is an anthropologically trained and internationally renowned artist. She has created a series of works that use refined installation art to deconstruct hegemonic narratives and analyze the relationship between power, architecture, place, and the body. The jury of the Joan Miró Prize praised her ability to transform complex historical and social processes into poetic and rigorous conceptual forms that engage in profound dialogue with Miró's radicalism and Celtic architectural ideas. This exhibition will bring together a series of the artist's previous works, as well as a large number of new works created specifically for the Barcelona exhibition. The exhibition will revolve around the following themes, focusing on three key areas: materiality, economic and cultural exchange and its structural tensions, and contemporary crises related to place, encompassing various aspects such as agriculture and housing. All of these aspects are directly related to the architectural perspective that runs through this year's exhibition project, positioning Kiwanga's work as a rethinking of how the world we live in is constructed.

"Light Through the Cracks" takes viewers on a journey through the diverse forms of collective creation that have emerged through video art from the 1970s to the present. At its heart lies the experience of Video-Nou / Servicio de Vídeo Comunitario (Community Video Service). This group, active during Catalonia's transition, viewed video not only as a technological medium but also as a political and social tool to foster self-organization, community empowerment, and counter-information dissemination. Starting from this historical juncture, the exhibition unfolds across different thematic areas, weaving together archives, practices, and strategies from other countries and international groups (regardless of their historical context or contemporary characteristics). The exhibition is not a linear genealogy but rather a series of experiences that blur the lines between art and activism, documentation and fiction, aesthetics and ethics.

The Gràcia Festival, officially Festa Major de Gràcia, is a renowned neighborhood festival held annually in mid-August in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, ​​Spain. It is famous for its vibrant street decorations and extensive community participation. During the Gràcia Festival, local residents meticulously decorate their streets, each with a different theme, using primarily recyclable materials. The festival showcases not only the community's creativity and solidarity but also includes concerts, dances, theatrical performances, traditional Catalan activities, and a variety of family-friendly events. A vibrant and creative celebration, the Gràcia Festival attracts a large number of tourists and locals alike, offering a fantastic opportunity to experience Barcelona's culture and community spirit.

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.