Left: "Pont de Lava", Xevi Bayona, 2024. Right: Still of "Pacifiction", Albert Serra, 2022
Activity
Thursday July 9, 2026
Building Emotions: Cinema and Architectures that Speak to the Human Condition
Activity by BARQ Festival
Encounters Between Cinema and Architecture
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MACBA hosts an encounter between architect Xevi Bayona and film-maker Albert Serra, an artist in the MACBA Collection and a landmark in contemporary European art cinema.
On the occasion of Barcelona 2026, World Capital of Architecture, the BARQ festival proposes a series of encounters between architects and film-makers. Building Emotions proposes we think about how forms, spaces and fiction can move us. Film director Albert Serra brings his irreverent, provocative universe, in which fiction becomes a terrain on which to explore the most profound, ambiguous and uncomfortable side of the human condition. Architect Xevi Bayona, in his work, shares a constant search for the atmospheric, fragility and the power of spaces to move us at a particular moment. Together they will discuss how to create experiences that appeal, transform and reveal new ways of understanding our surroundings and our own humanity.
Moderator: Pau de Solà Morales. Organiser: BARQ Festival.
participants
Xevi Bayona 
Albert Serra
Banyoles, 1975
artists
2 artists
This activity is part of Barcelona 2026, World Capital of Architecture
Looking at architecture through different eyes
As part of Barcelona’s year as World Capital of Architecture, and coinciding with the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the museum, MACBA is to organise and host a set of activities exploring the crossover between contemporary art and architecture.
