Exhibitions. New Stories. New Reflections. More Sound Experimentation. Bodies and Dance. Archives and Memory. Complicity. Conversations. The Possible Museum . MACBA 2022

In 2022… We will work against the pace imposed by hyper-productivity. We will give visibility to the Museum’s invisible tasks. We will investigate the work of artists who go beyond traditions and geographies. We will break the canons. We will approach creation from the domestic, the collective, the everyday… We will talk about unconquered peoples, diasporas and revolutionary movements. We will create new myths. We will reinvent history. We will open new narratives with known and as yet unknown stories. We will generate a programme of activities that questions, connects and dialogues. We will create new proposals and consolidate others that have become more necessary than ever. We will debate, cook, dance and wonder about possible Oases. We will reflect on ways of inhabiting and feeling the Museum so it becomes your possible museum.

A Possible Museum

«A Possible Museum is not only the Museum that could be but is not, the ideal projection of some unfulfilled desires. A Possible Museum is also what can be done, the framework of possibilities that open up, yet are still restricted by what already exists. It is neither the avant-garde impulse to produce anew while rejecting the past, nor the conservative instinct to perpetuate what is already established, but the affection with which we can take care of something for its own good, and not only, nor always, to make it grow.»

Notes for a Possible Museum

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PRESS CONFERENCE

Video presentation of the 2022 programme, with Elvira Dyangani Ose, museum director

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PROGRAMMES

Through different formats, time frames and intensities, public and educational programmes aim to connect with the Museum community. The projects work content derived from the Museum’s lines of research, pushing the boundaries to go further.

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POSSIBLE ARCHIVES

The Capella MACBA, the Convent’s Main Hall and the ground floor of the Study Centre will present projects related to the archive and its many possible readings and activations, at different times and in various formats, and in collaboration with other agents and institutions.

INDEPENDENT STUDIES PROGRAMME (PEI)

2023-2024

Where are the Oases?

This new edition of the PEI aims to analyse the notion of oasis as a space of ideological resistance and generation of shared knowledge. It will have a conceptual direction shared between Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Bolivian-German writer, curator and philosopher who is currently artistic director of the Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne; Kader Attia, an artist who grew up between France and Algeria, curator of the 2022 Berlin Biennale and founder of La Colonie, Paris, in 2016; and Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director of MACBA. In addition to thinking and planning the programme, this management team has established a collaborative network promoted by MACBA, the Akademie der Künste der Welt and La Colonie.