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
- Titanic: The Official Exhibition - The Voyage Continues (from April 17)
- Goya Universe: between light and darkness
- Zurbarán (on natural)
- Fernando Botero: a universal master
- Chris Ware - Drawing is thinking
- La Infamia, the history of slave-owning Catalonia
- La Cubana. 45 anys jugant a fer teatre
- Dones de paraula
- Paradox Museum
- AMAZÔNIA (last weeks)
- Inside Berlanga. Cinema, life and humor
- Antoni Tàpies Foundation
- Street Art at Banksy Museum
- Modern Masters/Contemporary Masters
Titanic: The Official Exhibition – The Voyage Continues (from April 17)
A history lesson without sacrificing the fun part. This is what the official exhibition of the Titanic offers, which docks in the city to show us 200 original objects rescued from the shipwreck, recreation of the ship’s rooms (such as the luxury cabins), an immersive film about the sinking and a virtual reality experience that introduces us to the corners of the most famous ocean liner.
Location: Espacio Inmersa. c/ Llull, 119.
📅 Dates: from April 17
Tickets: from 11,90€.
Goya Universe: between light and darkness
Universo Goya: entre la luz y la oscuridad offers a twist on the art of the Aragonese genius, with an immersive format suitable for all ages and audiences. Thanks to his original engravings, digital art, objects and scenarios that recreate his time, a huge immersive room and a virtual reality experience, we can enjoy the painter’s entire artistic career and understand the influence he has represented throughout the History of Art.
Location: Centre d’Art Amatller. Passeig de Gracia, 41
📅 Dates: every day
Tickets: from 10,5€.
Zurbarán (on natural)
An exhibition that highlights the great genius of the Baroque. Among its great attractions are the three versions of St. Francis of Assisi as seen by Pope Nicholas V, a masterpiece of Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664) and that are brought together for the first time.
Location: Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC)
📅 Dates: until June 29, 2025
Tickets: 12€.
Fernando Botero: a universal master
Recently deceased, Fernando Botero (1932-2023) was one of the most relevant artists of the 20th century. Palau Martorell brings together more than 110 of his works, mostly unpublished: sculptures, oil paintings, watercolors, sanguines, charcoals and pencil drawings. The exhibition also places special emphasis on the influence that Spain had on his art.
Location: Palau Martorell. c/ Ample, 11
📅 Dates: until July 20, 2025
Tickets: 12€.
Chris Ware – Drawing is thinking
Chris Wave (1967) is one of the most innovative authors of modern comics. This exhibition invites us to go chronologically through the work of the cartoonist through his drawings, but also through animations, objects and sculptures. The exhibition is complemented by the option of collaborating in his work by drawing a cartoon, a collaborative space inspired by Barcelona and based on the author’s Building Stories.
Location: CCCB: Carrer de Montalegre, 5
📅 Dates: until November 9, 2025
Tickets: from €6
La Infamia, the history of slave-owning Catalonia
Over time, awareness has grown about the involvement of Catalan merchants in the trade of enslaved people between Europe and America. Today, this dark episode in the history of Catalonia is increasingly recognized, although there are still many gaps about its real impact.
To shed light on this issue, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona presents the exhibition “Infamy”, an exhibition that explores in depth the role played by Catalan merchants in the Atlantic slave trade and how the capital generated in territories such as Cuba and Puerto Rico boosted Catalonia’s economic development in the 19th century.
Location: Museu Marítim de Barcelona
📅 Dates: From 21/02/2025 to 05/10/2025
Tickets: General 10€, reduced 5€, regular discounts
La Cubana. 45 anys jugant a fer teatre
Much loved by the public and always praised by the critics, the theater group La Cubana has been making us laugh out loud for 45 years with their totally unpredictable shows and timeless classics like the series Teresina S.A. Room 3 of the Palau Robert is now filled with all its magic, with an exhibition that reviews the history of the group telling us the story of all their projects and exhibiting clothes, scenery, posters and all kinds of objects of their theater and television shows, all very do it yourself.
📍 Location: Palau Robert. Passeig de Gràcia, 107
📅Dates: Until May 25, 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
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 (last weeks)
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.
📅Dates: Only until April 18.
💸 Tickets: From 10,50€.
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