2026 Season. Year Thirty
MACBA opened its doors for the very first time on 28 November 1995, giving the city of Barcelona its first public contemporary art museum. This milestone was achieved thanks to the desire and drive of the artistic and cultural community and civil society.
Thirty years later, the museum continues to support the need to generate new narratives, to make visible and accommodate other ways of understanding the world: for example, by bringing the first major exhibition on Pan-African contemporary art to the Catalan capital or providing a new interpretation of the MACBA Collection that pays tribute to three decades of collective work and dialogue between artists, audiences and institutions. In short, the museum has conceived a special 30th anniversary programme of activities and exhibitions that will continue throughout the year.
EXPANSION OF THE MACBA COLLECTION
exhibition
From 28 November 2025 to 28 September 2026
Like a Dance of Starlings
MACBA Collection: Thirty Years and Infinite Ways of Being
Exhibitions
6 results
Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica
Exhibition
From 6 November 2025 to 6 April 2026
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Exhibition
From 13 de February to 28 June 2026
Anna Moreno. The Third Twist
Exhibition
From 4 February to 5 July 2026
Stan Douglas
Exhibition
From May 14, 2026 to January 10, 2027
Light Filtered Through the Cracks
Collective creation in motion: from community video to contemporary collaborative practices
Exhibition
From 23 July 2026 to 11 January 2027
Aurèlia Muñoz. Ens
Exhibition
From 5 November 2026 to 29 March 2027
Murmurs. Twelve speculative actions for the Year Thirty
5 results
MURMURS
Twelve speculative actions for the Year Thirty
Activity
From 27 November 2025 to 27 November 2026
MURMURS I: Cérémonials, with Jorge Dutor and Guillem Mont de Palol
Collective performance for the 30th anniversary celebration of MACBA
Activity
Thursday, 27 November 2025
MURMURS II: Tres. Blackout #33, conducted by Arnau Horta
A concert to shut down the museum
Activity
Thursday, 11 December 2025
MURMURS III: YESSi PERSE ⛧ CYBERMEDIEVAL
Performance with laSADCUM and ARSinNOVA
Activity
Friday 23 and Saturday 24 January 2026
MURMURS IV: Cry of Oblivion: A series of videos selected by the Non-Identified Video Observatory
Q&A with Iñaki Álvarez, Dionís Escorsa O’Callaghan, and Maya Wolińska, moderated by the OVNI
Activity
Thursday, 12 February 2026
Activities on Panafrica
4 results
Antawan I. Byrd, Adom Getachew, Matthew S. Witkovsky and Elvira Dyangani Ose in Conversation
Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica opening event
Activity
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Visions of Panafrica
Film programme. A cinema without a geographical centre that reaffirms the cultural and political relevance of Pan-Africanism
Activity
From November 2025 to February 2026
Farah Saleh. Balfour Reparations (2025–2045)
Hacer Historia(s) VI
Activity
Thursday, 6 November 2025
Fred Moten Some Prœposicions (On, To, For, Against, Towards, Around, Above, Below, Before, Beyond): the Work of Art
School of Common Knowledge
Activity
Saturday, 15 November 2025
education
The educational proposal of Year Thirty is defined by the two singular exhibitions of the season. Firstly, the new presentation of the MACBA Collection. Secondly, “Project a Black Planet. Pan-African Art and Culture”. Both open up key issues in our contemporary world, such as the relationship between art and politics, decolonial discourses, multiple identities and the construction of collective memories.
Thirtieth Chronology by Clara Nubiola
Thirtieth Chronology by Clara Nubiola
Within the framework of Year Thirty, the artist Clara Nubiola was commissioned to interpret the MACBA’s biography in the form of a mural in the museum’s atrium. Entitled Thirtieth Chronology, the work is a large-scale intervention intended as a celebratory welcome to receive museumgoers, and it will be on display until November 2026. The mural brings together content and exhibitions, key dates and anecdotes, people and ideas from the free, subjective and relational viewpoint of the artist.
‘Sol y dar y dad’: Collective Learning for an Inadmissible Present
‘Sol y dar y dad’: Collective Learning for an Inadmissible Present
PEI 10th edition
In a global context of increasing criminalisation of solidarity, this edition of PEI asks how to share, activate, archive, document, inhabit and create collective histories and experiences that not only oppose silencing and annihilation, but also trace geographies of solidarity built through struggles and alliances of diverse subalternities.
SUSTAINABILITY
SUSTAINABILITY
This season, special emphasis will be placed on expanding, consolidating and transforming the museum’s relationships with Raval’s citizens and institutions, and MACBA will continue to collaborate on working networks in the field of sustainability, for example with the Climate Shelter Network (membership 2023) and the new 2024-2034 challenges of Sustainable Barcelona + (membership 2024). The aim is to continue participating in forums and spaces where good practices can be shared and exchanged.