Itineraries

A special series of audio capsules that will accompany you on your visit to the museum, drawing a thematic itinerary through a selection of works and key moments of MACBA.

Six authors talk about recognition, vulnerability, the body, the lack of freedom and rebellion. Texts by Tanya Barson, Hélène Cixous, Tamara Díaz Bringas, Maite Garbayo-Maeztu, Abigail Solomon-Godeau and Jo Spence.

Podcast by Cabello/Carceller, Aura Cumes, Marysia Lewandowska, Oyèrónké Oyèwùmi, Griselda Pollock and Eulàlia Valldosera.

Jenny Holzer, Eulàlia Valldosera, María Ruido, Dara Birnbaum and Alice Creischer accompany us on a journey marked by the domination and abuse of power of capitalism, taking a stand against a system that exploits women even more.

We are celebrating 25 years of the MACBA now. And Ràdio Web MACBA has been there for 14 of them, accompanying it and nourishing its archives with orality, knowledges and learnings with a collection of more than 800 podcasts.

We wanted to get the opinion of several professionals who collaborate on our books and we asked them to tell us which five MACBA publications they would choose, speaking from their own perspective.

The museum building was opened to the public: it was visited by 30,000 people. The works on show included 14 from the various collections of the MACBA Consortium and four works belonging to ”la Caixa” Foundation.

A selection of texts by Hèctor Parra, Tom McCarthy, Michael Wellen, Eugeni Bonet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Angela McRobbie, Josep M. Martí Font, Georges Didi-Hubermann and Carol Rama.

“The Mediterranean has been a machine to create and spread the civilization.”  

Costas Douzinas

In this itinerary we present some associations between different contents of the museum in which literature is present as a source of inspiration, starting point or field of work.

«I sometimes think of music as a succession of sounds which on reaching the listener's ear turns back on itself and retraces its path, in orderly disorder, until re-entering the mind of the person who thought it up». Walter Marchetti

An itinerary through the "city" by artists and architects like Laguillo, Domènec, Thomas Bayrle or Jordi Colomer, among others.

The borders between art, activism and biopolitics become blurred when trying to analyse, from the point of view of the museum, the ways in which society has dealt with AIDS since the 1980s.

The phrase "The medium is the message" (1964) by Marshall McLuhan highlights both the interest generated by the mass media and how these condition our perception of reality and the information that reaches us. 

"Sometimes, a place or a shared curiosity can be enough to create a community." Julia Ramírez-Blanco

"I believe the poet today must broaden his field, get out of books and put himself forward with all the means provided by society itself and which he can use as unusual vehicles, infusing them with an ethical content which society does not confer on them. " Joan Brossa

This itinerary goes through a series of works by women artists that reveal the tensions that have existed throughout the history of contemporary art in relation to different cultural, social and political contexts and which have a strong feminist character. 

In the same way that Joan Fontcuberta created a Russian cosmonaut called Ivan Istochnikov and gave him a false life, many artists have incorporated fiction in their work.

Rosemarie Castoro, Sigalit Landau, Carol Rama, Eulàlia Grau and Gego are some of the women artists that have gone through the museum and have left their mark. 

This itinerary includes some works from the MACBA Collection, created to be exhibited in a public space.

This itinerary draws from the content of our website in relation to one of the museum’s main topics for debate: post-identitary theory.

These two dates evoke memories of two extremely important political moments: the student revolt of 1968, and 1989, which marked the end of communism and the beginning of an era of technological revolutions.

A walk through works of the MACBA Collection which can be found in the city of Barcelona

A set through some materials which are focused on the queer theory and feminism and the gender philosophy.

From your own screen, you can access Cildo Meireles’ multisensory installation, stroll around the 101 photographs of Hans-Peter Feldman’s piece.