Barcelona is full of exhibitions between museums, art centers, galleries and spaces where culture manifests itself in its many forms. We can find from the creations of world-renowned artists to the most innovative proposals of emerging national artists with international projection.
For this reason, if you are wondering what exhibitions to see today in Barcelona, we bring you the most interesting art exhibitions in the city so you can make the most of Barcelona’s cultural offer.
Table Of Contents
- Miró Matisse: Dialogue between Titans
- Madola. A millenary fire
- Dones de paraula
- De Montmartre a Montparnasse. Catalan Artists in Paris, 1889-1914
- Pilar Aymerich. Lived Memory
- Paradox Museum
- AMAZÔNIA (from December 4th)
- 100 objects from IKEA that we would have liked to have at VINÇON
- Bubble Planet
- Inside Berlanga. Cinema, life and humor
- Antoni Tàpies Foundation
- Street Art at Banksy Museum
- Modern Masters/Contemporary Masters
Miró Matisse: Dialogue between Titans
This exciting exhibition explores the creative relationship between Joan Miró and Henri Matisse, two of the greatest figures of 20th century art. Entitled “Miró-Matisse: Beyond Images,” the exhibition brings together masterpieces by both artists, including pieces on loan from MoMA and the Reina Sofía. Visitors will be able to appreciate how these two artists influenced each other, revolutionizing painting with their vital energy and willingness to push boundaries.
📍 Location: Fundació Joan Miró (Avinguda de Miramar, 1, 08038 Barcelona, Spain.
📅Dates: Until February 9, 2025
Madola. A millenary fire
This exhibition explores Madola’s career over sixty years, an artist who uses ceramics to express the relationship between the everyday and the spiritual. The exhibition, curated by Caterina Almirall, reveals the connection between matter and spirituality in Madola’s sculptural work, exploring a mystery that transcends the visible appearance.
📍 Location: Fundació Vila Casas (Espais Volart)
📅Dates: Until January 19, 2025
Dones de paraula
“Dones de paraula” vindicates the use of the word from a female perspective, spanning from modern times (16th to 18th centuries) to the present day. The exhibition highlights women who “took the word”, such as St. Teresa of Jesus, and explores themes such as the transmission of knowledge, feminine wisdom and the denial of women’s voice. The exhibition underlines the importance of creating a genealogy of female authors of reference, vindicate the maternal symbolic order and make visible the historical discredit of the female word in all areas.
📍 Location: Museu Frederic Marès (Plaça de Sant Iu, 5)
📅Dates: Until May 25, 2025
De Montmartre a Montparnasse. Catalan Artists in Paris, 1889-1914
The exhibition “From Montmartre to Montparnasse” shows the life of Catalan artists in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century, between 1889 and 1914, bringing together works by more than 80 creators such as Picasso, Rusiñol and Casas, exploring their artistic experience in the world capital of modern art.
📍 Location: Museu Picasso Barcelona
📅Dates: Until March 30, 2025
Pilar Aymerich. Lived Memory
The exhibition “Pilar Aymerich. Memoria vivida” offers a retrospective of the renowned Spanish photographer, winner of the National Photography Award in 2021. The exhibition covers her career from the late 1960s to 2007, highlighting her work during the late Franco era and the Transition.Aymerich, born in Barcelona in 1943, is known for her committed photojournalism, capturing demonstrations, strikes and social movements with a humanist and feminist perspective. Her work is characterized by a strong narrative character and a deconstruction of traditional photojournalism.
📍 Location: Centre d’Art Tecla Sala (L’Hospitalet)
📅Dates: Until March 30, 2025
Paradox Museum is 70 exhibitions in one, 70 experiences that invite us to play with perception and optical illusions. A place to learn while having fun, thanks to scenarios that, in addition to creating the most curious paradoxes, invite us to photograph ourselves.
📍 Location: Pl. Urquinaona, 3
Tickets: From 14€.
AMAZÔNIA (from December 4th)
AMAZÔNIA is the masterpiece of one of the most famous photographers of today, the Brazilian Sebastião Salgado. Through more than 200 photographs (and an immersive soundtrack composed by Jean-Michel Jarre himself) this exhibition invites us to discover all the beauty of the Amazon rainforest and to become aware of its importance for our survival as humans.
📍 Location: Les Drassanes Reials.
💸 Tickets: From 10,50€.
100 objects from IKEA that we would have liked to have at VINÇON
A tribute to the mythical Vinçon, a decoration and furniture store in Passeig de Gràcia that closed almost 10 years ago but we still remember with affection. Organized by one of its managers, this exhibition, ideal for design fans, creates a dialogue between this legendary store and Ikea, what would happen if Vinçon had been the reference chain, instead of the Swedish franchise?
📍 Location: DHub Disseny Barcelona
🗓️ Dates: Until February 23, 2025
Bubble Planet
Halfway between an immersive experience and a museum dedicated to bubbles, Bubble Planet lands in Barcelona after having swept cities like Miami, Los Angeles or Milan.
This surreal journey has 11 themed rooms filled with bubbles of all possible characteristics and typologies, even, created with technology and a Virtual Reality experience in which you will be a bubble.
📍 Location: Espacio Inmersa. c/ Llull, 119.
💸 Tickets:Tickets: from 14,90 €.
Inside Berlanga. Cinema, life and humor
The exhibition “Interior Berlanga” explores various facets of Luis García-Berlanga’s life, from his films and international projection to his relationship with his fears and historical context. It offers a vision of the history of Spain through his work, addressing problems with censorship and personal issues such as fear of death, the future and women. Berlanga created his own universe that combines unexpected events, satire, costumbrismo and caricature, culminating in a staging that includes a symbolic Valencian bonfire.
📍 Location: CaixaForum
🗓️ Dates: Until April 20, 2025
Antoni Tàpies Foundation
One of the city’s most fascinating museums of modern and contemporary art, the Fundació Antoni Tàpies houses more than 100 works by the renowned 20th-century Spanish artist, known for his innovative style. In addition to Tàpies’ works, the museum presents temporary exhibitions highlighting the work of emerging artists in contemporary art.
Housed in an impressive building designed by architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, it is a must-see for art lovers in Barcelona.Get your tickets now and enjoy a unique cultural experience!
📍 Location: Carrer d’Aragó, 255
Street Art at Banksy Museum
The Banksy Museum of Barcelona collects all those experiences of Banksy in the streets along more than 130 works of the artist. It does so by creating a framework perfectly adapted to the street art environment. In it, the viewer walks through an urban scenery that will take him from city to city and from era to era to discover up close the emblematic and sometimes lesser-known works of this street artist.
📍 Location: Trafalgar, 34
💸 Tickets: Tickets: €8
Modern Masters/Contemporary Masters
The independent museum Moco presents in these two permanent exhibitions of the work of some of the artists who have been a key figure in the development of modern and contemporary art.
In Modern Masters Moco exhibits the work of icons of the history of modern art such as Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Yayoi Kusama… For its part, in the exhibition Contemporary Masters, the museum presents the work of those artists who, with their conception of art as a tool to generate change, managed to carve out a niche in the art scene and thus get their message across. Some of these artists are Marina Abramović, Kehinde Wiley, Damien Hirst, Yago Hortal…
📍 Location: Carrer de Montcada, 25