Open Day to celebrate Year Thirty! 

On 28 November we’re thirty years old, and that calls for a celebration! You’re invited to a long weekend of open days, where you can enjoy the new exhibitions Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica and Like a Dance of Starlings: MACBA Collection, guided tours and much more. See you there! Year Thirty kicks off with two essential exhibition projects. First, Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, the first major exhibition of Panafrican contemporary art in Barcelona. And secondly, the new Like a Dance of Starlings: MACBA Collection — Thirty Years and Infinite Ways of Being, which pays homage to three decades of collective work and dialogue between artists, audiences and institutions. This new interpretation of the collection brings together works by Josefa Tolrà, Esther Ferrer, Claudia Andujar, Àngels Ribé, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Matt Mullican, among others, to create a choral dialogue that defies the identities fixed by categories like gender, race, nationality or class. 

You will also be able to enjoy the new mural MACBA Trenta Timeline, created by Clara Nubiola, which presides over the museum’s atrium. This large-scale intervention offers a drawn synthesis of the MACBA’s thirty-year history: exhibitions, key moments, people and ideas that have shaped the museum. Conceived as a celebratory welcome, the mural will accompany visitors throughout the entire anniversary year, until November 2026.
 
We look forward to seeing you at this weekend of celebration, in which you can also immerse yourself in the work of artist Coco Fusco about activism, silence and power in post-revolutionary Cuba, and come along to Spiral of Time, a sound installation that records ambient sounds to construct sound narratives.  The guided tours of the exhibitions offer you a visit with dialogue to the three exhibitions:
 
– On Saturday at 6 pm, Like a Dance of Starlings. MACBA Collection: Thirty Years and Infinite Ways of Being 
– On Sunday at 11 am, Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica 
– On Sunday at 12.30 am, Coco Fusco: I Learned to Swim on Dry Land

Free entrance by advance booking  Round off your MACBA experience by taking art home with you. At our bookshop, MACBA Store Laie, you can find a wide selection of books about art, design, architecture, photography and current trends. Don’t miss the book Panafricanism, published on the occasion of this international exhibition.  MACBA Bar invites you to stop by during your visit; remember that you can get a 10% discount by presenting your stamped ticket at the museum reception.

See you there!