The best exhibitions in Barcelona that you can’t miss

Barcelona is full of exhibitions between museums, art centers, galleries and spaces where culture manifests itself in its multiple 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.

Bubble Planet (from April 27)

Halfway between an immersive experience and a museum dedicated to bubbles, Bubble Planet will open its doors on April 27 in Barcelona after having swept cities such as Miami, Los Angeles and Milan.

This surreal journey will feature 11 themed rooms filled with bubbles of all possible characteristics and types, even created with technology and a Virtual Reality experience in which you will be a bubble.

💸 Tickets: starting at 14,90 €

Sorolla, a new dimension

The Centre d’Art Amatller opens its doors to an ambitious exhibition: the largest digital exhibition of the Sorolla Year. More than 1000 square meters of pure immersion in the life and work of the artist, the landscapes of Valencia, the blue and light of his paintings… All thanks to 360º projections, virtual reality and technological resources that make this experience a curious journey to the surface. In addition, the Sorolla Original room exhibits original works by the author on loan from different museums and art collectors.

Passeig de Gràcia 41

💸 Starting at 12,50 €

IA: Artificial intelligence

“IA: Artificial Intelligence” is an exhibition that aims to delve into the technological innovation that has marked a before and after in our time. It is co-produced by the CCCB and the National Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS). 

Through a tour that includes interactive art installations, a timeline with key milestones, reference works made with AI, the testimony of experts and newly created pieces, the exhibition explores the relationship between artificial intelligence and human creativity, and raises questions such as the role of AI in our daily lives or the opportunities and advances it entails. 

CCCB

🗓️ Until March 17.

America’s Cup Experience

Welcome to America’s Cup Experience, the first Official Outreach Center of the 37th America’s Cup Barcelona. Immerse yourself in the exciting history of theworld’s oldest sailing regatta and discover the equipment, rules and technology that makes it possible for the boats to fly over the water. With a 100-monitor multimedia gallery, immersive spaces and the 4K projection of “One Hell of a Battle”, you will experience the “F1 of the Seas” like never before. Located at Port Vell in Barcelona, don’t miss this unique opportunity and get your tickets now!

📍Moll d’Espanya, s/n. 

💸 Tickets: starting at 11 € 

Miró-Picasso

The exhibition “Miró-Picasso” is a unique joint project of the Museu Picasso de Barcelona and the Fundació Joan Miró that takes place simultaneously in both institutions. 

It consists of more than 250 works organized around six chronological and thematic axes, through which the works of two artists who transformed the art of the twentieth century are explored. The union of the work of both artists is a tribute to their friendship of more than 50 years, as well as to the key moments that united their careers. 

Fundació Miró and Museu Picasso.

🗓️ Until February 25.

Antoni Tàpies Foundation

don’t miss one of the most fascinating museums of modern and contemporary art in the city! The Fundació Antoni Tàpies houses more than 100 works by the renowned 20th century Spanish artist, known for his innovative style. In addition to works by Tàpies, the museum presents temporary exhibitions that highlight the work of emerging artists in contemporary art. Housed in an impressive building designed by architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, this is a must-see for art lovers in Barcelona is a must-see for art lovers in Barcelona!Get your tickets now and enjoy a unique and enjoy a unique cultural experience!

Carrer d’Aragó, 255

Sama-bajau, Nomads of the sea

This exhibition, organized by the Museu Marítim de Barcelona , explores the Sama-bajau ethnic group, a community adapted exclusively to marine life in the Sulu Sea, between the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. 

Over millennia, this fishing community has developed specialized skills in the sustainable exploitation of marine resources, now facing challenges such as geopolitics, conflict and discrimination. The exhibition offers a unique opportunity to explore the history, life and adaptation of the Sama-bajau to their unique marine environment.

Maritime Museum of Barcelona.

🗓️ Until March 17. 

Misplaced gestures

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Gestures out of place is an exhibition co-produced between La Escocesa and Castell de Montjuïc. The exhibition presents an attempt to bring certain processes and dynamics that operate and shape the Escocesa to Montjuic Castle. A partial assemblage of gestures and actions, which also speaks to us of the discomfort of this displacement.

The artists that make up this exhibition share the same space, a daily life traversed by multiple affections, affinities and desires. But also the will to build an associative project that is more than the sum of its parts, that has a horizontal structure and contains support networks. In which practices, and not so much discourses, are world makers.

Montjuïc Castle.

🗓️ Until March 24.

Pinocchio 3D

explore this unique immersive experience coming to Spain for the first time! A touching and amusing tribute to the story and the characters of The Adventures of Pinocchio one of the most beloved stories of all time. Delve into the history of this iconic character with original sketches of the first illustrations and enjoy an immersive 100m2 room that will transport you to a new world full of excitement. Don’t miss this opportunity to discover the magic of Pinocchio at Poble Espanyol in Barcelona.

📍 Poble Espanyol Barcelona

The course of events. An atlas of the Foto Colectania collection

This photographic exhibition, presented by Foto Colectania, brings together a selection of nearly 160 works chosen from among the more than 3,000 photographs by authors from the Iberian Peninsula in the foundation’s collection.  The exhibition, curated by Carles Guerra, is thematically structured in 24 sequences grouped in 8 Blocs, which recreate a dialectic between a single image and what we could qualify as an alternative development of events based on photographic sequences.

This arrangement, reminiscent of a photographic atlas, reveals an unusual capacity of photography as a device: the images collaborate with each other to produce new meanings and, ultimately, other events that a single photograph could not contain.

Foto Colectania Foundation.

🗓️ Until June 2.

Catalonia in miniature

discover the beauty of Catalonia! Visit the most emblematic monuments of the Mediterráneo in miniature and in a natural environment. Ideal for family enjoyment, offers free parking and picnic areas. Only 13 kilometers from the city, it is the perfect plan for a walk full of art and knowledge, in addition to contemplating the work of Antoni Gaudí. Get your tickets for now!

📍 Can Balasch de Baix, s/n (Torrelles de Llobregat)

The color of dreams

With this exhibition the Palau Martorell offers us an essential anthology to approach the artist Marc Chagall. The exhibition is composed of more than 150 works that cover his artistic career, many of them from private collections. At least 25 of the pieces have never been seen in our country. 

The exhibition is articulated around the themes that guided the artist’s work: the Russian and Jewish rites and traditions he discovered in his childhood, his deep spirituality, literature, his fascination with the circus and his passion for Paris, the city that welcomed him and, of course, love.

Palau Martorell.

🗓️ Until March 24.

Donation Pere Formiguera. The creative drive

The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya presents in this photographic exhibition the donation that Pere Formiguera’s family made of his work in 2016. After an intense work of cleaning, restoration, digitalization and inventory by the museum, the artist’s photographs are now exhibited in the museum as part of the photographic collection of this author, an outstanding member of the first generation of Spanish artists who adopted photography as a means of expression 

A multifaceted artist, historian of photography, collector and curator of exhibitions, Pere Formiguera’s work can be found in museums such as the MoMA in New York, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the MACBA or the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain in Paris.

National Museum of Art of Catalonia.

🗓️ Until April 21.

Facing the image – Chantal Akerman

Top Secret: cinema and espionage

Following a chronological-thematic itinerary, the exhibition starts from the relationship between these two figures: that of the filmmaker and that of the spy. It features nearly 300 pieces, including electronic devices and film costumes, historical artifacts, archival documents, photographs, drawings, paintings, posters, art installations and film fragments. 

These pieces come from the collection of La Cinémathèque française as well as from other museums, archives and private collections, and tell the story of iconic characters ranging from Mata Hari to Carrie Mathison or Malotru, via James Bond and Edward Snowden. 

Avenida de Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 6-8

🗓️ Hatsa on March 17.

Street Art at Banksy Museum

The Banksy Museum of Barcelona collects all these experiences of Banksy in the streets along more than 130 works of the artist. It does so by creating a framework perfectly suited to the street art environment. In it, the spectator walks through an urban scenography 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.

Trafalgar, 34

💸 Tickets: 8 €

Tutankhamun

This immersive experience transports us to 3,500 years ago to experience firsthand the journey of Tutankhamun’s body after an imaginary resurrection:  His departure from the tomb to the Valley of the Kings, the trial with the gods… a flight through the tortuous paths of the Book of the Dead, until reaching the judgment of Osiris and eternal life in the fields of lalu, the “afterlife” of the ancient Egyptians. 

This immersive exhibition blockbuster, led by Layers of Reality and the Sila Sveta studio, takes an immersive journey through the civilization of Ancient Egypt in a space of more than 2,000 m².

Dr. Trueta Street, 196

Modern Masters/ Contemporary Masters

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The independent museum Moco presents in these two permanent exhibitions the work of some of the artists who have been key figures 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… In the Contemporary Masters exhibition, the museum presents the work of those artists who, with their conception of art as a tool to generate change, managed to carve a niche for themselves in the art scene and thus get their message across. Some of these are Marina Abramović, Kehinde Wiley, Damien Hirst, Yago Hortal…

Carrer de Montcada, 25

Dinosaurs of Patagonia

“Dinosaurs of Patagonia” offers a deep dive into paleontological work, reconstructing the past and revealing the ancient history of our planet. Get ready for tocontemplate a replica of a specimen of Patagotitan majorum thirty meters long, and discover the skeletons of the most important dinosaurs found in the region.

This traveling exhibition, conceived by the Egidio Feruglio Museum of Trelew, in the Argentine Patagonia, consists of thirteen modules and fifteen skeleton casts that allow visitors to explore the peculiarities of Patagonian dinosaurs

 Tickets free with the ticket to Cosmocaixa