We have reached number 100 The MACBA Collection… week by week
In May 2020, after a lockdown that had kept us all at home, the MACBA Collection celebrated its reopening with Collectables, an open series that, week by week, invites us to share one of the works in the Collection.
While the first one featured the happy psychedelic culture of Sture Johannesson, subsequent examples have focused on identity and diversity, the city and unnecessary borders, feminism and ecology, possible revolutions and desirable museums. A desire to make the Collection more permeable and emphasise its vitality has guided our selection. We have focused on some of the Museum’s discursive guidelines, its temporary exhibitions, the rehanging of the permanent Collection, loans and works on tour, new acquisitions, MACBA works in the city’s public arena, the occasional farewell to some significant artist in the Collection and last but not least, whatever is happening and marking everyday life. Because, as we said at the beginning, sometimes art anticipates life.
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