http://macba.cat MACBA's Exhibitions RSS en Wed, 22 May 2013 3:51:18 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://macba.cat/css/img/logo_macba.png http://macba.cat OMA Technologies webmaster@macba.es (Webmaster Macba) info@omatech.cat Arts Society & Culture http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ Este RSS está pensado para ser usado con un programa que gestione podcasts. Más información en Podcastellano.com y en Podcast-es.org /exhibition-sous-nos-yeux With the project Sous nos yeux! (Before our eyes), MACBA continues the line of activities centred round the Mediterranean regions of– North Africa and the Middle East, – and the emergence of new forms of civil society in the context of the Arab world… Sun, 15 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-collection-2013 The forthcoming presentation of the Collection arises from an innovative concept that sees a new relationship between three major institutions in Barcelona. As a result of an agreement between MACBA and the Fundació La Caixa, and in collaboration wit… Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT /macba-collection The 1980s and 1990s saw substantial changes taking place in the sphere of international politics. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the end of the opposition of two political and economic systems, while an incipient globalisation expanded th… Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /expo-twin-miralda Until 30 June, on show on the ground floor of the MACBA Study Center is the archive of the project Twin Tastes & Tongues by Miralda (Terrassa, 1942), a project that explores the relationship between Barcelona and Shanghai, cities twinned since 2001. Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-lawrence-weiner The art from the second half of the twentieth century onwards would not have been the same without Lawrence Weiner's crucial contributions. An American with strong links to Europe, Weiner has played an exceptional role in expanding the notion of art… Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-eulalia-grau I Have Never Painted Golden Angels is a survey of Eulàlia's 'paintings' – as the artist herself calls her works – that helps us revisit them today with a renewed interest. The exhibition does not follow a strict chronological order. It is constructed… Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-ahlam-shibli The exhibition includes nine photographic series produced by Ahlam Shibli during the last decade. Most of the works are accompanied by legends assigning each photograph to a specific time and place in an investigative process that often implies long… Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-critical-episodes Fissures traces some of those spaces of disorder from which we construct ourselves as contemporary subjects. This section includes drawings and installations by artists like Peter Friedl, Anne-Lise Coste, Matt Mullican, Erick Beltrán, Paul McCarthy… Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-fissures Oriol Vilapuig accompanies one of his drawings with a quotation from Emile M. Cioran, the Romanian thinker who defends the idea of fissure and disorder as a possible form of conscience. Peter Friedl projects a similar idea in his video Dummy, 1997: a… Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-voyeurism In the last decades, our visual and perceptive way of confronting facts has changed radically. The conventions of cinema, TV screen and video have encouraged us to become observers and voyeurs. Back in the seventies, Dan Graham pioneered a way of rel… Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-avoid-content Urged on by the filmmaker Pere Portabella, Joan Miró – who was quite old by this time – erased the mural he had painted at the Barcelona headquarters of the Col•legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya, with the help of the building’s cleaning staff. The year… Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-first-globalisation In 1965, Hans Haacke used art to explain physical processes like the condensation and evaporation of water, in works such as Condensation Cube, which is significant in this regard. It was a period in which the art community assimilated a fundamental… Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-seep Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi have been collaborating together under the name Pages since 2004, involving various joint projects and the publication of a bilingual magazine in Farsi and English. They are based in Rotterdam and work both in Ir… Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-tosquelles As a visual artist, Angela Melitopoulos produces videoessays and documentaries around the concepts of migration, mobility and memory. She has collaborated with Maurizio Lazzarato, a Paris-based Italian philosopher and sociologist, known for his work… Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-work-power-control Andreas Siekmann reflects on the effects on the public space of the relations that have been eroding any kind of ideological dissent since the eighties and nineties. His installation Aus: Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (From: Company of Limite… Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-luis-claramunt The first retrospective of his work, this exhibition reveals an artist who uses drawing, photography and self-published books to write innumerable pages in which the history of literature becomes an essential counterweight to the history of painting. Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-icsid In 1971, the ICSID Congress was held at Cala de Sant Miquel, a bay on the north-west coast of Eivissa, away from the usual urban venues. In the context of Franco's dictatorship, dominated by repression, censorship and lack of freedom, Eivissa was sti… Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-filming-beaubourg- … Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-le-corbusier In the year 2000, a documentary film by José Luis Guerín, which would become a referent for the new documentary cinema produced in Barcelona, unfolds in the manner of a frieze around the urban transformation that, after a process of cleansing, would… Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-matta-clark In 1977, a year before his death, Gordon Matta-Clark initiated a turnaround that would take him beyond his 'building cuts', by then already well enshrined in the art institutions. That year the artist participated in Documenta 6 with Jacob's Ladder,… Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-capella-gabriel-mascaro The Renaissance-style space of Capella MACBA will host the presentation of the video Ebb&Flow. A Onda Traz, O Vento Leva, by Brazilian artist Gabriel Mascaro (Recife, Brazil, 1981), the winner of the 2011 ArtAids Foundation Grant for audiovisual prod… Thu, 31 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-rita-mcbride McBride began working in the mid-eighties, a period in which sculptural language was undergoing a process of redefinition. The legacy of Minimal sculpture and the overcoming of institutional critique (which had started in the mid-sixties with artists… Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-collection-macba-la-caixa The narrative thread of the exhibition begins with Juan Muñoz. Waste Land, 1986, Muñoz's peculiar approximation to the poem by T.S. Eliot, presents a theatrical space for a latent dramaturgy that involves the viewer, as is the case in the installatio… Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-far-trees Lejos de los árboles (Far from the Trees) could have been born and publicized as a denunciation of the atavisms and inertias that still survived in the developmental Spain of the 1960s, but, actually, it revisits one of the central themes of the 20th… Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-military-series Aleksandr Sokurov (Podorvikha, Siberia, 1951) belongs to a typology of filmmakers who have advocated the presence of cinema in museums. Many contemporary film directors, such as Jean-Luc Godard, Pedro Costa and Apitchapong Weerasethakul, have been th… Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-the-inverted-mirror The Inverted Mirror presents both Barcelona-based collections together outside of their respective venues for the first time. This survey of art from the late 1940s to the present includes painting, sculpture, photography, and video and is organized… Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-international-center The CIFB opened in October 1978 in the Barri Xino, Barcelona's old town red light district, later renamed the Raval. It occupied a three-storey building, on the site of an old pasta factory, whose façade was decorated, after the rehabilitation of the… Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT /expo-the-persistence-of-geometry [Text available temporarily only in Spanish.] La persistencia de la geometría muestra conjuntamente obras de las colecciones de arte contemporáneo de la Fundación "la Caixa" y del Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). La exposición, fruto… Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-constitucion-1812 MACBA will participate in the project curated by Jorge Díez 1812­_2012. A Contemporary Vision. This initiative includes an extensive multidisciplinary programme of cultural activities from a range of different fields such as public art, illustration,… Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-the-museum-of-affects The Museum of Affects exhibition brings together four important European museums: Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona; the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpe… Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-volume The Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) presents the first collaborative exhibition combining works form the collections of "la Caixa" Foundation and MACBA Collection, as a result of an agreement between "la Caixa" Foundation and MACBA Foun… Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT /expo-sejla-kameri-anri-sala Within the framework of the MACBA Collection, the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) will present 1395 Days Without Red (2011), a collaborative project by the artists Šejla Kamerić and Anri Sala, with the collaboration of Ari Benjamin Meye… Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-muntadas Muntadas' work Between the Frames: The Forum (1983-1993) will be presented as part of the exhibition Volume. The artist defines the piece as follows: "An extensive vision of the artistic system of the 1980s". Between the Frames is a large installatio… Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-collection-2011 The current showing of the MACBA Collection deals with the consolidation of artistic modernity in our cultural context. It begins with architectural rationalism and the explosion of pictorial Informalism in the 1950s, when matter abstraction took cen… Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-in-the-labyrinth The exhibition by Àngels Ribé covers a period of her production from the late 1960s to the mid-eighties. This project is part of a line of work at MACBA that wants to recuperate aspects of the artistic trajectory of some of our most relevant artists. Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-natascha-sadr Back in Barcelona, the rattle of hand luggage on the city pavements shares its protagonism with the bottle of water. Both these objects interact in Haghighian's installation at the Capella MACBA: a trolley bag slowly running over a one-and-a-half-lit… Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-museum-of-parallel-narratives The exhibition Museum of Parallel Narratives presents a selection of works from the Arteast 2000+ Collection of the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, the first-ever collection of postwar avant-garde Eastern European art, and seeks to discover what sort… Sat, 14 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-pep-duran A Chain of Events, an installation by the artist Pep Duran (Vilanova i la Geltrú, 1955) specifically made for the Capella MACBA, should be seen as a work-essay. Made in two parts – Retaule laic (Secular Altarpiece, 2010–11) and Peça escrita (Written… Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-the-modern-and-the-present The way of presenting the MACBA Collection at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona has significantly evolved during the last few years and is currently experiencing a quantitative and qualitative change. Quantitative because the space dedicated… Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-the-otolith-group The work of the Otolith Group, founded in London in 2002 by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, reflects on the perception and nature of documentary practice through films, texts and activities related to media archives. Expanding on the documentary genr… Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-ready-for-tv This project has several extensions: a website, a Twitter account, a publication, a Vimeo video channel, the e ducational project Zero TV. Follow the updates on Twitter. This is an exhibition that explores the paradoxical aesthetic and public spac… Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT /the-shadow-of-speech-macba-collection This presentation from the MACBA Collection at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea (Seoul) is the result of the research that has given form over the last few years to the museum's programmes. It encompasses the entire chronological span… Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-collection-23 In the new presentation of the MACBA Collection, which includes works never exhibited before, the traditional linear criteria of chronological order has been deliberately substituted for an arrangement of a more flexible and fluid character. The juxt… Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-latifa-echakhch All the exhibitions at the Capella MACBA share the common denominator of having been specifically produced to be shown in this space. Our purpose is not to promote a link with the architecture but to foster an awareness of the creation, through a par… Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-benet-rossell In 1964, he moved to Paris, where he lived for many years. While based there, he travelled widely and spent long periods in other countries, including India and Nepal. Also in Paris at that time were Joan Rabascall, Antoni Miralda and Jaume Xifra, cl… Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-gil-wolman The French artist Gil J Wolman (1929–1995) was a pioneer in researching the intersection and alteration of visual and textual languages. This show, the first monographic exhibition of Wolman's work ever held in Spain, consists of about 250 works and… Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-dorothee-and-konrad-fischer Konrad Lueg – Artist Konrad Fischer (Düsseldorf 1939–1996) influenced the Conceptual art of the 1960s and seventies in many ways. In the beginning of the sixties, Fischer studied painting with Bruno Goller and Karl Otto Götz at the Art Academy in… Sat, 15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-armando-andrade-tudela This exhibition heralds a new approach to considering the production of work in the setting of the Capella MACBA. All the exhibitions will share the common denominator of having been specifically produced to be shown in this space. Our purpose is not… Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-john-baldessari Born in National City, California, in 1931, John Baldessari is undoubtedly one of the most influential artists of our time. He has challenged the conventions of artistic practices by employing language and imagery in unexpected ways. The exhibition… Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-rodney-graham Canadian artist Rodney Graham's exhibition entitled Through the Forest provides insight into the development of his complex body of work. The roots of Graham's work, which is influenced by 1970s Conceptual art and its way of thinking, lie in the adap… Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-malady-of-writing The Malady of Writing is a project different from what we are accustomed to viewing. It is a collection of books, opuscula, pamphlets and single pages written by artists that together constitute a singular library. While traditionally a distincti… Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-ray-johnson The North American artist Ray Johnson (Detroit, 1927 – New York, 1995) is one of the most unknown yet most influential artists of his generation. This exhibition, the first to be dedicated to the artist in Spain, presents a retrospective of his colla… Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-john-cage His name is highly familiar, but his work not widely or well known. John Cage (1912-92) defined such a radical practice of musical composition that he changed the course of modern music in the last century and shaped a new conceptual horizon for post… Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-modernologies This project examines modernity as a promising socio-political movement which, basing itself on industrialization and technology, on the principles of human rights and democracy, on the right to self-determination, on the principle of education for a… Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-collection-22-bis The exhibition opens with documentation relating to the Barcelona presentation of the show “Contemporary American Painting in the Collections of the New York MOMA”, which was held at the Palau de la Virreina in 1995, as part of the 2nd Spanish-Americ… Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-on-the-margins-of-art On the Margins of Art is a new exhibition bringing together documents, editions and other materials from its collection. Curated by Guy Schraenen, this exhibition presents a broad overview of the various ways in which artists from the second half of… Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-time-as-matter The exhibition Time as Matter will occupy three floors in the museum from May 15 to August 31, though the works on Floor 0 will be on public view from May until the end of 2009. With a view to showing the works acquired by the MACBA Collection in… Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-collection-22 The exhibition Time as Matter will occupy three floors in the museum from May 15 to August 31, though the works on Floor 0 will be on public view from May until the end of 2009. Buy your tickets here. Time as Matter opens with documentation re… Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-reading-room-brazil Coinciding with the exhibition on Cildo Meireles, the Study Center presents a wide selection of documents related to contemporary art in Brazil, that brings together documents coming mostly out of the Center’s own holdings. For this presentation, doc… Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-cildo-meireles Without seeking to be a retrospective, the Cildo Meireles exhibition offers a survey of the work of the artist through his large-scale installations, drawings and objects created between 1967 and 2008. Cildo Meireles (Rio de Janeiro, 1948) is the in… Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-thomas-bayrle This exhibition offers an overall vision of the praxis of German artist Thomas Bayrle (Berlin, 1937) from the end of the 1960s until now. The beginnings of his work were conceived in a key historical, moment in the recent history of Europe, at the en… Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-rabascall The exhibition by Joan Rabascall (Barcelona, 1935) organised by the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona focuses on the works created by the artist from the beginning of the 1960s until the early 1980s, an era in which the use and manipulation of im… Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-universal-archive This exhibition analyses the idea of a document in the history of photography on the basis of the study and staging of a number of debates about the genre during the 20th century. With the aim of assessing various hypotheses about the meanings and me… Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-beyond-the-object Beyond the Object: Works from the MACBA Collection is the title of an exhibition organised and curated by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona and produced by the Government of Catalonia's Ministry of Culture and the Media, which is being pres… Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-nancy-spero Nancy Spero (Cleveland, Ohio, 1926) is one of the pioneers of feminist art and was a key figure on the dissident New York scene of the 1960s and 70s, along with artists like Martha Rosler and Adrian Piper, to whom the MACBA has already devoted indivi… Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-collection-21 On view in the current presentation of the MACBA Collection in the Capella are a number of classic works of international minimalism by Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Robert Mangold, Daniel Buren and Larry Bello, which are articulated with those of Catalan… Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-possibility-of-action During the summer months the MACBA Documentation Centre will present an exhibition devoted to the exploration of musical notation, loosely understood as a support for both musical and visual transmission. Historical and contemporary scores have been… Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT /expo-francesc-torres A pioneer of the language of installation art, Francesc Torres (Barcelona, 1948) critically reflects on the diverse manifestations of culture, politics, memory and power through his multimedia installations, which give him a unique place in the art o… Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-collection-3 The MACBA is showing a part of its Collection in the halls on the Museum's ground floor. After a brief introduction with Paul Klee and Alexander Calder, the display begins chronologically, featuring works arising in the context of the immediate post-… Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-nomeda-gediminas-urbonas The work of Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas –born in Lithuania in 1968 and 1966 respectively– takes the form of projects in which they explore the conflicts and contradictions thrown up by the new economic, social and political conditions in the former… Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-lothar-baumgarten This monographic exhibition by Lothar Baumgarten (who lives and works in Berlin and New York) brings together a series of photographic works, with single images as well as sequences forming part of this complex presentation. While not considering its… Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-alice-creischer The "experimental method" of the images on display here repeats again and again a situation to which there is no solution. It makes out that it's able to build an instrument: an instrument to compensate the osmotic pressure of wealth when considering… Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-asier-mendizabal Asier Mendizabal (Ordizia, Guipuzkoa, 1973) is one of the Basque artists of the new generation who pays most attention to the relations between form, discourse and ideology. His oeuvre could be described as a critique of ideology based on the mise en… Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-archives-and-documents The history of contemporary art cannot be fully appreciated without magazines, artist editions and books, documents, catalogues, archives of artists and all types of documentary material, original or reproduced. The Study and Research Center of MACBA… Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-franfurter-kunstverein On the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2007 with the Catalan Culture as guest of honour, the Frankfurter Kunstverein and the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) are proud to announce a joint curate exhibition of works from the MACBA col… Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-be-bomb This exhibition analyses the dialogue between different spheres of post-war political and cultural life in the United States and France, documenting a particular period between 1946 and 1956 and encompassing from the euphoria of the liberation and re… Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-joan-jonas This is the first retrospective exhibition in Spain of the work of Joan Jonas (New York, 1936), one of the pioneering artists in performance art, experimental film and video installation. The exhibition consists essentially of four installations that… Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-theater-without-theater A Theatre Without Theatre examines the relationships and interchanges between the theatre and the visual arts during the 20th century. Starting out from the theories expounded by Vsevolod Meyerhold, Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett and Tadeusz Kantor,… Fri, 25 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-carlos-pazos This exhibition of works by Carlos Pazos (Barcelona, 1949) takes a look over more than 30 years of the career of this artist. Far from the conventional format of retrospective exhibitions, Tell me nothing does not follow any linear or formal evolutio… Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-manolo-laguillo This exhibition, produced by MACBA, will explore a large part of the work of Manolo Laguillo (Madrid, 1953), specifically the part that concentrates on representation of Barcelona. And it will do so from the hypothesis of the close relation between h… Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-collection-19 This new presentation of the MACBA Collection is related to the A Theatre without Theatre temporary exhibition and develops some aspects not addressed in that production; it highlights the notion of theatricality in Spain and constitutes a chronologi… Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-collection-2007 The current presentation of the MACBA Collection is set up chronologically so that the public can better understand the historical period that explores the post-modern condition. We begin in the 40s and 50s when the idea of Utopia was coming to a clo… Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-janet-cardiff-georges-bures-miller Since the early nineties Janet Cardiff (Brussels, Ontario, Canada, 1957) and George Bures Miller (Vegreville, Canada, 1960) have been working together on works in which they use sound and voice as raw material and main subject. Through techniques of… Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-janet-cardiff-george-bures-miller The Forty-Part Motet, 2001 (A reworking of Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis, 1573) , is the most noteworthy installation shown in the Exhibit "The Killing Machine and Other Stories" as it offers an exceptional experience in audio perception. This piece… Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-pablo-palazuelo This will be one of the most complete exhibitions of Palazuelo's work to date. It contains about 350 pieces –some of which have never been shown to the public before– and takes us on a journey through all the periods of his career as an artist, with… Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-gego With Lygia Clark and Mira Schendel, Gego is undoubtedly the most important South American artist of the second half of the 20th century. The three artists started out from a constructivism with European roots until they reached their present aestheti… Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-collection-18 The presentation of the Collection of this year reflects the main lines the Museum has followed throughout these last ten years and sets out to review predominant models in the narration of modern art in the second half of the 20th century. This is o… Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-galeria-cadaques The Cadaqués Gallery has been important to the region of Catalonia since the 1970s (from local, national, and international perspectives), as it lead, produced and diffused contemporary art of the moment. This fall the MACBA is organizing a presentat… Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-george-brecht This exhibition presents the art of George Brecht (New York, 1926) from his early works in 1957 to the present. It is the first major retrospective of this artist in almost thirty years, largely due to his reluctance to make a formal presentation of… Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-peter-friedl “What interests me about a new concept of genre is how it can create a difference to the old politics of identity. It offers the freedom to look at things more differently, which becomes again interesting in a political and aesthetic prospect. Things… Fri, 26 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-vinyl This exhibition focuses on a special area of artistic creation in the 20th century. It shows in visual and acoustic presentation long-playing records of visual artists, reflecting the variety of sound and language experiments at the limits of music. Wed, 17 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-herbert-collection The MACBA presents the most extensive show to date of the Annick and Anton Herbert Collection (Ghent, Belgium), which is not yet widely known by the public. This exhibition, which will take up most exhibition rooms of the Museum, includes one hundred… Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-the-macba-collection During the winter months the MACBA Collection is presenting a selection of works on the floor 0 of the Museum. These series of works illustrate the confrontation of the discourses that dominated the artistic debate from the fifties. The collection… Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-jo-spence This exhibition sets out to present an exhaustive journey around the work of Jo Spence, from the mid seventies until her death in 1992. It takes a broad approach to her work in order to reconstruct her process from political and educational concerns… Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-ignasi-aballi The work of Ignasi Aballí, produced over the last fifteen years, is the object of a critical review in this exhibition, which will be presenting the key moments. His work is formulated in a similar way to the shape of a tree, where the subjects and c… Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-gunter-brus This exhibition, which will be the first Günter Brus retrospective in Spain, will cover the whole body of work of this Austrian artist from the sixties to the present. His heterogeneous career will be laid out chronologically, showing his development… Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-robert-whitman Robert Whitman was born in New York in 1935. He studied literature at Rutgers University from 1953 to 1957, and history of art at Columbia University in 1958. In the late fifties he began to present performances, including his innovatory works Americ… Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-collection-17 During the summer months the MACBA Collection is presenting a selection of over 160 works distributed in different parts of the museum. On floor 0 visitors will find a broad chronological reading of the collection, which spans the period from the fif… Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-stanley-brouwn the covering of distances, the moving from a to b, is one of the most essential, everyday human activities. since 1960 the work of stanley brouwn has concentrated on this activity. a retrospective presentation of his work from 1960 to the present is… Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-alexander-sokurov Until the end of September, MACBA present's for the very first time the complete triology "The Military" directed by the russian filmaker Alexander Sokurov. Spiritual Voices. From the Diaries of War, 1995 "The Military" Series Length: 5h 45' L… Mon, 30 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-francis-als Francis Alÿs (Belgium, 1959), who trained as an architect, has lived in Mexico City since the 1980s. His walks through the city, the conversations he has overheard, and the stories that come up as he wanders around make up the main source of his acti… Fri, 27 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-desacuerdos Desacuerdos. Sobre arte, políticas y esfera pública en el Estado español (Disagreements. On art, politics and the public sphere in Spain) is a joint research project by the Arteleku-Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa, the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barce… Thu, 03 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-robert-frank Robert Frank is one of the contemporary photographers whose particular way of looking at everyday life revolutionised the language of photography in the post-war years. Throughout his career, he has resolutely questioned and redrawn the boundaries of… Tue, 08 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT /expo-vito-acconci This exhibition looks at the singular career of Vito Acconci from the mid sixties to the early eighties and includes poetry, performance, photography, film and video, a selection of installations, models and architectural projects. Vito Acconci (Ne… Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-juan-luis-moraza Gnomon is a qualitative clock, a time appropriation machine that demonstrates the synchronicity which exists between the time of the solar instant and the symbolic time of an archaeological memory. As the day advances, the style of the clock marks th… Thu, 04 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-paola-yacoub-michel-lasserre With the two-fold aim of showcasing current trends in contemporary art, and introducing the public to the physical and cultural dimensions of the museum, MACBA focuses once more on artworks and projects produced specifically using digital media. As p… Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-collection-16 In societies not possessed of a founding myth, the idea of identity is verified less by reference to a great na(rra)tion or a territory than by the weave of relations between subjects. Needless to say, we cannot understand the poetics of relation wit… Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-how-do-we-want-to-be-governed Institut Barri Besòs Opening: September 22, 2004, at 7:30 pm. Exhibition: until October 7, 2004 Palo Alto nau XYZ Opening: October 7, 2004, at 7:30 pm. Exhibition: until October 21, 2004 Centre Cívic de La Mina Opening: October, 21 004… Wed, 22 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-art-utopia In 1897, Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) published his essay, Restricted Action (L'action restreinte) in Divagations where he describes the limits and the concentration of poetic action. At the end of the nineteenth century, after the death of Victor H… Thu, 03 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-antoni-tapies Seen in perspective, maybe I could say that what is happening to me is what happens to those writers who deep down are always writing the same book. With the possible variations that my work might have suffered from my long career, I consider the who… Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-dias-and-riedweg This exhibition provides a broad overview of the careers of Mauricio Dias (Rio de Janeiro, 1964) and Walter Riedweg (Lucerne, 1955) and includes seven installations they did together between 1994 and 2003 –the last one, Voracidad máxima, 2003, produc… Wed, 19 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-collection-15 This presentation of the MACBA Collection is a historical structuring of the art of the last fifty years, represented through over one hundred and sixty works which occupy most of the three-story museum building. Works not previously exhibited are in… Wed, 12 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-adrian-piper This exhibition, organised by the Generali Foundation in Vienna, brings together a broad spectrum of the work of Adrian Piper, artist, writer and professor of philosophy, born in Harlem, New York, in 1948. After a small selection of paintings from he… Fri, 17 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT /macba-collection-14 This presentation of the MACBA Collection is a historical structuring of the art of the last fifty years, represented through over one hundred and sixty works which occupy most of the three-story museum building. Works not previously exhibited are in… Thu, 17 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-francisco-lopez Over the last twenty years Francisco López has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. Destroying boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environment… Sat, 07 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-robert-filliou The exhibition Robert Filliou. Genius without Talent covers thirty years of creative work by the French artist Robert Filliou (Sauve, 1926 – Les Eyzies, 1987) and comprises more than 180 works. Guest Curator: Sylvie Jouval Coproduction: Museu d'… Fri, 11 Apr 2003 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-richard-hamilton Although Richard Hamilton (London, 1922) is best known as the father of Pop Art, his work within this movement is just one small stage in an artistic career spanning over fifty years and in which he has worked in the most varied fields, styles and te… Fri, 07 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-dora-garcia A work for internet by Dora García, produced for: El Reino. Una Novela para un Museo (The Kingdom. A Novel for a Museum). El Reino is the museum of the artist’s dreams, creating a series of suppositions so that situations which he has prophesied… Thu, 20 Feb 2003 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-joan-hernandez-pijuan Through about one hundred and forty works – paintings, drawings and engravings –, the exhibition brings together the milestones in the evolution of the artistic career of Joan Hernández Pijuan (Barcelona, 1931), from the seventies to the present day… Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-blinky-palermo The exhibition, which includes a hundred or so works by Blinky Palermo, is the first retrospective of his career to be put on in Spain. The selection includes works done between 1964 and 1977, such as the paintings, engravings and ‘painted objects' h… Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-muntadas-on-translation On Translation: Museum is the most recent project in the seriesdeveloped by Antoni Muntadas under the generic title On Translation. Begun in Helsinki in 1995, this group of twenty-seven works analyses the concept of ‘translation' from a wide-ranging… Thu, 28 Nov 2002 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-collection-13 This was the most complete presentation of the MACBA collection that had ever been organised before that time. Over a period of almost two months, 250 works were displayed throughout all three floors of the Museum, offering new narratives for the his… Wed, 18 Sep 2002 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-zexe Antoni Abad online project shown at the MACBA as part of the parasitization of the building, the collection, and the digital and analog networks of communication and information exchange that the museum uses. Z is a freeware fly with variable beh… Tue, 17 Sep 2002 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-sonic-process Sonic Process: A New Geography of Sounds, which takes a look at the electronic music of the last ten years from the perspective of its hybridisation with the methodologies of the visual arts. The main aim of Sonic Process. A New Geography of Sounds… Fri, 03 May 2002 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-txomin-badiola The product of a dialogue between the artist and the museum, this exhibition will bring together for the first time the outstanding works done over the last fifteen years by Txomin Badiola (Bilbao, 1957), one of the leading artists of his generation. Fri, 15 Mar 2002 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-raymond-pettibon The show of the work of the American artist Raymond Pettibon (Tucson, Arizona, 1957) includes a broad selection of drawings, video screenings and materials from the artist's archive. His creations reveal his fascination with sixties American count… Fri, 08 Feb 2002 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-david-golblatt This retrospective exhibition will be the first presentation in Spain of the work of David Goldblatt. It includes about two hundred photographs by the South African author, who has collected half a century of meticulous observation of the reality of… Fri, 08 Feb 2002 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-collection-12 -… Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-onnasch-collection The MACBA will show, for the first time in Spain, an extensive selection from the private collection of the German art dealer Reinhard Onnasch. This collection is a synthetic vision of some of the most important international aesthetic trends of the… Thu, 08 Nov 2001 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-out-of-print Out of Print presents over seven hundred works and documents covering a broad spectrum of materials drawn from the Archive for Small Press & Communication (ASPC) at Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen (NMWB). The archive dates back to 1966, with the ope… Fri, 26 Oct 2001 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-antagonisms An exhibition analysing the political aspects and the element of activism in the artistic practices that have emerged from the second half of the fifties up to the present day. The repertoire of this show questions the aesthetic artefact and posits i… Thu, 26 Jul 2001 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-conexion-remota A selection of net.art, by Roberta Bosco and Stefano Caldana on the occasion of: Antagonisms. Case Studies. This selection is not based on a need to monumentalise net.art and much less to objectivise it or turn it into a fetish. Its aim is to est… Thu, 26 Jul 2001 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-documentary-processes This exhibition, which formed part of the Barcelona Art-Report 2001. Experiències project, presented a selection of photographic and audio-visual works through which we can examine the changes in what is categorised as documentary based on its hybrid… Wed, 13 Jun 2001 00:00:00 GMT /macba-collection-11 This exhibition was presented on the 2nd floor and followed the chronological sequence of the museum’s holdings. It began with painting and projects by Hans Hofmann (The Chimbote Project) and mobiles by Alexander Calder, both of which are representat… Sat, 02 Jun 2001 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-the-un-private-house This exhibition, within the context of Barcelona Art Report, 2001. Experiències, brings over 30 recent architectural projects for spaces and proposes different reflections on the theme of the house and privacy in today's culture. The projects embody… Thu, 31 May 2001 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-archaeology-of-engagement The Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona has invited the Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn (Bern, 1957) to create a work specifically for the MACBA. The result is now being presented under the title Archaeology of engagement. Hirschhorn's work could be… Fri, 18 May 2001 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-dieter-roth The exhibition Dieter Roth - The skin of the world + some other things at MACBA was the first large presentation of work by this influential artist in Spain. Dieter Roth (Hannover 1930 – Basel 1998) utilised all possible media, from painting, sculptu… Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-albert-rafols-casamada This show presented a selection of almost a hundred works in various formats. Laid out in chronological order, it covered the work of Ràfols-Casamada from the mid fifties up to the present day: drawings, collages, pictorial objects, sculptures, visua… Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-pere-portabella This expository project about the career of Pere Portabella (Barcelona, 1929), showed the different stages of his filmography as a director and producer since the Fifties. His work provided an opportunity to take an in-depth look into the practices o… Fri, 02 Feb 2001 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-tacita-dean This exhibition presented a selection of nine filmic works shot in 16 mm., two sound pieces (one of which, Jukebox 2, is a new production), as well as drawings and photographs of several projects carried out by one of the most relevant artists of her… Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-prinzhorn-collection This exhibition presented a selection of over 200 drawings and notebooks done by mental patients between 1890 and 1920. The collection takes its name from the psychiatrist and art historian Hans Prinzhorn (1886-1933) who, in the early twenties, had t… Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-zush The exhibition provided an opportunity to experience some aspects of the artist´s creative process at first hand thanks to a workshop-laboratory of ideas at the visitors´ disposal and the presence of the artist, who invited the spectators to create t… Fri, 15 Dec 2000 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-oyvind-fahlstrom São Paulo, 1928 — Stockholm, 1976 The Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) is producing an exhibition of the work of Öyvind Fahlström, which will be inaugurated on the 17th of October this year. This is a touring exhibition which will sub… Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:00:00 GMT /exhibiton-philipe-thomas This retrospective exhibition on Philippe Thomas (Nice, 1951 - Paris, 1995) pursued various paths and clues – in the literal, detective sense of the term – that reveal Thomas' artistic project as it developed from the late 70's until 1995, year of hi… Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-collection-10 Together with other works presented previously, this show included new acquisitions that reflected the MACBA’s direction and lines of work at the time. The MACBA Collection continued its quest to shape a critical memory of art from the second half of… Wed, 05 Jul 2000 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-visible-world Swiss artists Peter Fischli (1952) and David Weiss (1946), began working together in 1979 in Zurich, where they are still based. This exhibition presented a selection of works produced during their twenty years of artistic collaboration. Using video,… Fri, 16 Jun 2000 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-alicia-framis When it was presented in Barcelona, Loneliness in the city explored the issue of the cultural diversity of the Raval district, with the involvement of artists and people from various other disciplines, but relying above all on contributions from the… Wed, 03 May 2000 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-force-fields This exhibition proposed a new reading of the art produced between 1920 and 1970, approximately. Taking the first mobiles by Alexander Calder and the work created by Georges Vantongerloo after 1945 as its thematic key, the show traced an ongoing conc… Wed, 19 Apr 2000 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-pep-agut This project was Pep Agut´s critical response to the notion of the retrospective exhibition. With a title derived from the film Der Stand der Dinge (The State of Things, 1983) by the German director Wim Wenders, the show was structured as a false ret… Fri, 24 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-camilo-jose-vergara In 1977, Camilo José Vergara (Santiago de Chile, 1944) started documenting the ghettos of the United States. Vergara has spent over fourteen years photographing certain neighbourhoods, and has documented parts of the South Bronx, Harlem, Central Broo… Fri, 24 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-collection-9 This exhibition replicated the structure used on previous occasions, dividing the Collection into three different chronological periods. The 1940s to the late 1960s was the first period covered, in which visuality was the predominant paradigm on whic… Sat, 05 Feb 2000 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-michelangelo-pistoletto This retrospective exhibition ranged in content from a pair of self-portraits painted in 1960, in which the images are framed inside a gold and a silver surface, respectively, through to the artistís most recent interventions, grouped under the title… Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-superyo-congelado Produced and organized by the MACBA, this retrospective exhibition will offer for the first time a complete vision of all of the different facets of the art of Luis Gordillo (1934), including paintings, drawings, photographs and collages. Curated by… Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-martha-rosler Martha Rosler (Brooklyn, New York, 1943) has played a key role in the development of new models of artistic practice orchestrated around the desire to work politically, that is, to find new forms of interaction between art and social forces. Her work… Wed, 20 Oct 1999 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-dau-al-set This exhibition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the group and magazine Dau al Set, and was presented at the MACBA to coinciding with the dates when the group had its first major exhibition, in December 1949, at the Institut Français of Barce… Wed, 20 Oct 1999 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-raymond-hains An exhibition by Raymond Hains is constructed rather like a narrative; a narrative made up of moments, readings, discoveries, of a kind of objective chance. This retrospective show is a production of the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona and the… Thu, 30 Sep 1999 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-collection-macba-8 The art of the eighties and nineties in the MACBA Collection presented a selection of works from the last two decades of the 20th Century, clearly showing some of the new avenues that opened up during this period in Spanish and international art. Mon, 20 Sep 1999 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-collection-7 23 July to 13 September (2nd floor) 23 July to 3 October (1st floor) This presentation of the collection took up the first and second floors of the museum. It was opened to the public on 23 July 1999. The second floor closed on 13 September and… Fri, 23 Jul 1999 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-mas-alla-de-la-abstraccion El Lissitzky’s contribution to the abstract art of the twenties is well known and has been analysed in a whole series of articles, books and catalogues. Yet his experiments in the fields of photography, photomontage, graphic design and exhibitions in… Fri, 02 Jul 1999 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-gerhard-richter In 1961, Gerhard Richter (Dresden, Germany, 1932) settled in Düsseldorf, where he came into contact with Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, Konrad Leug and Blinky Palermo at the Academy of Fine Arts. Not long after his arrival, he destroyed most of his earl… Fri, 23 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-perejaume The very title of this Perejaume retrospective, Dis-exhibit, seeks to comment ironically on the incessant production of images that characterises the world today and the space itself of the museum. However, at the same time, it announces a new activi… Fri, 23 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-collection-6 This presentation came as a response to the museum’s interest in building a collection that gave priority to the originality and innovative character of approaches originating in Catalonia, while also mentioning the international context in which the… Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-grup-de-treball This exhibition offered a comprehensive overview of the collective creation carried out by Grup de Treball in its three-year lifespan (1973-1975). Grup de Treball is recognised as one of the most important collectives in the Spanish and Catalan con… Wed, 10 Feb 1999 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-william-kentridge This exhibition constituted a very complete exploration of the work this South African artist (Johannesburg, 1955) had been developing over the previous ten years. Kentridge alternates between drawing and print-making with incursions into the world o… Fri, 29 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-susana-solano-muecas This exhibition offered an extensive overview of the work produced by the sculptress Susana Solana (Barcelona, 1946) in the course of the eighties and nineties. The twofold idea of the show was to transcend the fragmented readings of her work that ex… Thu, 28 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-out-of-actions Out of Actions. Between performance and the object, 1949-1979 was a historical overview that analysed the relations between action, performance and the creative process. The exhibition included works produced by 150 artists from Europe, the Unite… Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-gary-hill Since the early seventies, North American artist Gary Hill (Santa Mónica, California, 1951) has carried out his work at the intersection of two fields: visual arts (performance and sculpture) and writing (literature and philosophy). Gary Hill trains… Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:00:00 GMT /home-screen-home “HOME SCREEN HOME” “Home Screen Home” presents video works made for the television screen, ranging from critical tapes of the sixties and seventies to recent music videos and commercials. Makers include Sadie Benning, Kathryn Bigelow, Donigan Cumm… Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-off-sonic The four multimedia installations that MACBA presented at the exhibition Off-Sonic prioritised the sound generated by electricity as an essential part of their artistic approach. Carsten Höller worked from the perspective of this sound as a music… Mon, 15 Jun 1998 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-documenta-7 Documenta 7 was held in the German city of Kassel in the summer of 1982. One of the artists selected for the event – curated by Rudi Fuchs – was Miquel Barceló, who was then virtually unknown on the international art scene. The exhibition held at… Fri, 03 Apr 1998 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-miquel-barcelo The MACBA exhibition on Miquel Barceló (Felanitx, Majorca, 1957) took visitors on a journey through the main thematic series produced by the artist between 1987 and 1997, the period corresponding to his first trip to Africa and his subsequent immersi… Fri, 03 Apr 1998 00:00:00 GMT /collection-lasts-years This exhibition marked a change in the direction of the Museum. Recent Years had been the title of a section of the previous exhibition of the MACBA holdings, Discovering the Collection, which included works produced between 1987 and 1997 in an essen… Mon, 09 Mar 1998 00:00:00 GMT /exhibitions-fabrications Fabrications was an innovative exhibition on architecture conceived and produced jointly by MACBA, MoMA, the Wexner Center for the Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition presented sixteen life-size architectural interventi… Tue, 10 Feb 1998 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-artificial The exhibition Artificial. Contemporary figurations brought together works by twenty artists who took a range of different approaches to exploring the relationships between artistic expression and commonplace objects from everyday life and their sedu… Wed, 21 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-jordi-colomer The video installation Simo (1997) was an important turning point in the career of Jordi Colomer (Barcelona, 1962). In it, the artist included the human figure for the first time by means of a narrative featuring Simo – an antihero alter ego based on… Tue, 20 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-gordon-matta-clark -… Fri, 16 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-gordon-matta-clark-1969-1978 Gordon Matta-Clark (New York, 1943-1978), the son of Chilean surrealist painter Roberto Matta, became famous through his “Cuttings” (building transformations by means of cuts or the extraction of fragments) and produced a substantial body of drawings… Fri, 16 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT /discovering-the-collection This selection of the MACBA Collection took up two floors of the Museum, as well as the atrium and the hall, and was the most extensive public showing of the MACBA holdings that had been held to date. It set out to analyse the history of contemporary… Fri, 24 Oct 1997 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-last-gaze -The Last Gaze brought together twenty works by leading artists from the modern age, produced at the end of what was, in most cases, a long and intense life. The exhibition consisted of a selection of self-portraits of old age, in which the artists f… Fri, 17 Oct 1997 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-catalan-painting-70 Curated by Elvira Maluquer, Painting from the Seventies in Barcelona. Surface and colour reconstructed a moment in history in which a wealth of diverse artistic expressions flourished in Barcelona, when many kinds of trends and directions coexisted a… Fri, 19 Sep 1997 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-set As part of the Formes de Flandes project – which was the result of a cultural exchange between Flanders and Catalonia in 1997-1998 – the exhibition SET presented works by seven artists from the collection of the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst in Ghent. Wed, 17 Sep 1997 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-new-landscapes-new-territories New Landscapes, New Territories was a showcase of 25 architectural and landscape intervention projects that illustrated the new emerging relationships between built spaces and their urban and natural surroundings. The traditional connections betw… Wed, 16 Jul 1997 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-tony-cragg In 1978, Tony Cragg (Liverpool, 1949) began to create sculptures out of pieces of plastic from all kinds of everyday objects, in an attempt to order the detritus that builds up in urban societies. He initially arranged his collections on the floor, b… Wed, 16 Jul 1997 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-on-kawara Whole and Parts, 1964-1995 was the most comprehensive retrospective exhibition that had ever been held on the work of On Kawara (Kariya, Aichi-ken, Japan, 1933), who is considered one of the key figures of conceptual art. The exhibition brought to… Thu, 01 May 1997 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-mask-and-mirror As Claude Lévi-Strauss once claimed, “a mask denies as much as it affirms.” Masks have a strange ability to make that which is invisible (desires relating to being) visible, refuting the evidence. Similarly, mirrors play with reality, reversing it wi… Wed, 23 Apr 1997 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-dialogues-collection As part of the Dialogues with the Collection programme of small exhibitions that set up a dialogue between works from the MACBA Collection and other artworks, Félix de Azúa presented a reflection on the line in science and art. “In geometry, a lin… Sat, 12 Apr 1997 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-josep-lluis-sert After spending two years in Paris, where he had built the Pavilion of the Republic for the International Exposition, Josep Lluís Sert (Barcelona, 1902 – 1983) decided to go into exile in New York. On reaching the city in the summer of 1939 he met man… Fri, 04 Apr 1997 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-introversions The MACBA thematically presented part of the Collection for the very first time, the aim of which was to show the diversity of readings contained in a single work of art and the variety of angles from which it could be presented. Introversions cl… Fri, 07 Feb 1997 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-mike-kelley Mike Kelley was born in 1954 in the city of Wayne, near Detroit (Michigan). He studied at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor (1972-76) and, later, at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia (California), where he attended classes given b… Fri, 24 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT /multiple-identity The exhibition Multiple Identity brought together a substantial selection of works from the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, which houses the world’s largest collection of twentieth century North American art. Visitors were able to see som… Fri, 20 Dec 1996 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-pepe-espaliu This monographic exhibition on Pepe Espaliú (Cordoba, 1955-1993), curated by Gloria Picazo, was organised around three recurring motifs in the artist’s work: the mask, the skull and the turtle. The main thesis of the exhibition was inspired by one of… Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-situacionists The Situationist Internationale (SI) was a transnational movement of artists and theorists who have exerted an ongoing and decisive influence on the European political and cultural scene since the sixties. Founded in 1957 by former members of avant-g… Wed, 13 Nov 1996 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-eugenia-balcells Eugènia Balcells (Barcelona, 1943) embarked on her artistic career in the mid seventies in Catalonia, in a context dominated by Conceptual Art. In 1968 she had moved to New York where she completed her education and began to exhibit her installations… Fri, 18 Oct 1996 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-en-reserva-special-books Artists' books, conceived as rare and special artistic objects that are the product of an always fruitful alliance between writers and artists, have been a highly specific field within contemporary creation. These unique books published in more or le… Fri, 18 Oct 1996 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-vassily-kandinsky This was the second retrospective held in Spain – the first in Barcelona – on the great Russian artist and pioneer of abstract art Vassily Kandinsky (Moscow, 1866 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1944). It comprised of a total of 36 works from the Centre Pompido… Fri, 11 Oct 1996 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-new-abstract-paintings This exhibition consisted of over forty large-scale works by twenty-nine international painters from countries such as Germany, the United States, Denmark, England and Spain. Most of these artists had started working in the late sixties, when paintin… Fri, 11 Oct 1996 00:00:00 GMT /expo-georges-rousse Since the early eighties, the work of Georges Rousse (Paris, 1947) has been characterised by its interplay of photography, painting, sculpture and architecture. In 1986, an interest in derelict or abandoned places and what they reveal about the c… Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-views-of-the-museum Given that the use of the interior and exterior of the Museum as an exhibition space was one of MACBA’s challenges in its first year, fourteen local and international artists – who were known for their exploration of the relationship between artwork… Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-light-construction This exhibition, produced by MoMA’s architecture department, was based on a selection of thirty buildings that differed greatly in terms of scale and use but exemplified one of the characteristic features of the architecture of the nineties: lightwei… Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-holdings-collection-2 The aim of this second selection of works from the MACBA Collection was to show how certain Dada and surrealist features run through a considerable number of art works produced at different periods in time and in diverse geographical areas. The f… Fri, 07 Jun 1996 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-juan-usle The work of Juan Uslé (Santander, 1954) draws on a long expressive pictorial tradition that emerged with the first avant-gardes in the early twentieth century, but it is also influenced by today’s complex visual culture (photography, film, television… Fri, 07 Jun 1996 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-macba-1960-1963 On 21 June 1960, the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona opened its doors to the public for the first time in the dome of the Coliseum cinema, the premises that FAD had made available to its director Alexandre Cirici i Pellicer when no more appropr… Thu, 28 Mar 1996 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-ferran-garcia-sevilla This exhibition consisted of a substantial selection of the Déus (1981) series of paintings, which Ferran García Sevilla (Palma de Majorca, 1949) had presented for the first time in Barcelona’s now-defunct Galería Ciento in January 1982. Two months l… Fri, 15 Mar 1996 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-fragments In the eighties and nineties, reflections on contemporary photography triggered a heated and controversial debate that mainly revolved around the status of photography as an artistic medium within the contemporary art scene, although it also touched… Fri, 15 Mar 1996 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-escultura-creacions-paralleles This exhibition put the spotlight on the enormous importance of the parallel media that support a sculptor’s work. Metaphors of the real included a series of large drawings by sculptors (deliberately excluding sketches and design drawings) and a… Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-laura-kurgan Laura Kurgan’s installation at MACBA was based on research around the presence of contemporary location and positioning information technologies applied to architecture. A GPS (Global Positioning System) of the type commonly used in the fields of map… Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-holdings-collection-1 This exhibition, which coincided with the opening of the Museum and its first year of existence, was the first public presentation of a selection of works from the MACBA Collection. By then, the Collection already consisted of works from the holdings… Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:00:00 GMT /reading-rooms Siah Armajani (Teheran Iran, 1939) has lived in the United States since arriving there in 1960. After studying philosophy, architecture and mathematics, in 1967 he became interested in vernacular North American architecture, and at the same time cont… Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:00:00 GMT /exhibition-open-days After the completion of the museum building and before launching the museum’s activities in earnest, it was considered a good idea to hold a number of open days so that the general public in Barcelona could get to know the building first hand. From 3… Sun, 30 Apr 1995 00:00:00 GMT