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Women Will Come 2026
An exhibition retelling the city’s history through women and their fight for change
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Art and culture worth your time – museums, galleries, dance, theater and the exhibitions everyone’s talking about.
Barcelona
arts & culture
Art and culture worth your time – museums, galleries, dance, theater and the exhibitions everyone’s talking about.
Events
Thursday, Aug 20
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Pere Portabella
A programme of screenings drawn from this Catalan filmmaker’s repertoire
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Gracia Festa Major 2026
Every August, Gràcia celebrates its week-long Festa Major
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Festa Major de Sants 2026
If Gràcia’s festa major leaves you wanting more, Sants is just around the corner
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Light Filtered Through the Cracks
MACBA’s exhibition looks back to when video became a tool for political intervention
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Minor White
An exhibition on one of the most influential figures in 20th-century American photography
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Declaration of Love to Lenin, Juana Dolores Romero Casanova
This incredible artist’s first exhibition held at La Virreina
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Echoes: Videos from the Han Nefkens Foundatio4n Donation
An exhibition on a donation of 18 video artworks by Han Nefkens Foundation
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Patrim’25: Look in Silence. That Blues Look
A snapshot of emerging artistic talent from the Universitat de Barcelona’s Faculty of Fine Art
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Joaquín Tusquets de Cabirol. Eloquent Form
An exhibition on the work of the Catalan photographer whose images capture postwar life
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Elisava
A sun-soaked photography project capturing the Poblenou coastline
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“Small, Middle and Big” Family Space
A family space for children to play, rest, read, draw and imagine together
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Summer Nights at Casa Amatller 2026
Discover Casa Amatller at night with an audio guide and glass of cava
Sunday, Aug 23
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Opening of the Baluard Garden
Soak up some of the city’s history at the Jardí del Baluard
Ongoing
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Kapwani Kiwanga
Fundació Joan Miró shows the work of artist Kapwani Kiwanga
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The Cult of Beauty
The CCCB’s latest exhibition delves into one of the most loaded ideas in culture
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Out of Focus, another Vision of Art
CaixaForum’s latest exhibition exploring blur and visual imprecision
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Like a Dance of Starlings
Reflecting on MACBA’s 30-year journey through a metaphor of starling murmuration
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Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
An exhibition led by two Palestinian artists featuring songs, poetry, installations and more
Places
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Collage
As well as being an established space for teaching English to children through the arts, Collage also runs creative writing course for adults.
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Free Time
Going against the grain of digitalization, this book store is keeping print alive for Barcelona’s die-hard paperback fans.
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Museu de Cultures del Món
The rich collection presents the diversity and art of non-Western cultures.
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Antifaz Comics
Comics as well as graphic novels, fantasy and horror fiction, DVDs and toys.
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Arte Bar
Americans Bruce and Alisa run a paint-and-sip art studio in the Eixample where anyone can pick up a brush.
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Casa de les Punxes
The “House of Spikes” is one of the city’s most impressive Modernist buildings.
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Casa Vicens
Gaudí’s first Modernist jewel in Barcelona, completed in 1883, is among the pioneer buildings in Europe’s Art Nouveau.
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MNAC
The ultimate place to admire, contemplate and learn about classical and modern Catalan art.
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Espronceda
An innovative contemporary art center, exhibition hall and workspace in Poblenou.
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Artevistas Gallery
Introducing the public to art in a non-elitist environment.
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Palau Macaya
In addition to a permanent exhibition on Modernisme, the space hosts many talks.
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Hemp Museum Gallery
Presenting the wonderful world of cannabis at its best.
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CaixaForum
Is it a museum, a gallery or an event space? The answer is all three, and much more besides.
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Gaudí’s Pedrera: The Origins
La Pedrera after dark – projections inside and video mapping on Gaudí’s façade.
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Camp Nou Experience
The Barça museum, with a viewing platform over the stadium being rebuilt around it.
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El Call
Visit Europe’s oldest synagogue.
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Espai [b]
A small Gràcia gallery that has backed contemporary local artists since 2003.
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Estudi Regomir
A studio full of sculptures and drawings by Josep Maria Subirachs.
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MEAM
Here you’ll find figurative art such as paintings and sculptures created by contemporary artists.
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Hibernian
Quiet, unassuming and tucked away within the bohemian barrio of Gràcia, Barcelona’s only secondhand English bookshop is more than meets the eye.
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La Puntual
Unassuming yet enchanting, it has played host to some of the most skilled puppeteers around, captivating local little ones since 2005.
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Tablao de Carmen
Tablao de Carmen blends traditional Spanish food, drinks and tapas with an intimate flamenco show.
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Monastery of Pedralbes
Visit this masterpiece of Catalan Gothic architecture for free on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6pm during the “magic hour.”
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Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts
One of Barcelona’s oldest collections of art, free of charge.
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Espai Casa Montjuic
Hiroshima revitalizes Poble Sec with a trifecta of spaces intersecting dance, theater, music and more.
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Norma Comics
A range covering all genres from manga and superheroes to horror and beyond.
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Fundació Joan Miró
The foundation holds 400 sculptures and paintings, many donated by the artist himself.
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Moco Museum
Barcelona’s Modern & Contemporary art museum in El Born, sister to the original in Amsterdam.
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Terranova
A publishing house turned bookstore and gallery space in Sant Antoni.
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Perfume Museum
The city has a hidden treasure – more treasure chest than museum.