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Action: A provisional history of the 90s
Exhibition
Action: A provisional history of the 90s
Immerse yourself in the performance scene in Spain throughout that decade.

This group exhibition reexamines the era of the nineties from the standpoint of artists who defended action art as a space for critical reflection.
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Magnetic Fields, Takis
Exhibition
Takis
When energy is art

The Greek artist Takis pioneered new art forms using magnetism, light and sound.
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Views of 'A Short Century: MACBA Collection', 2019
Ongoing Display
A Short Century: MACBA Collection

This exhibition offers a chronological look at the MACBA Collection from 1929 to the present.
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Exhibitions

ExhibitionTakis
November 22nd, 2019 to September 13th, 2020
Takis
ExhibitionOn Riots, Grief and Parties
July 10th, to November 2020
On Riots, Grief and Parties
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Action: A provisional history of the 90s
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Activities

ActivityLow-Tech Music No. 4 (piano piece for someone who doesn’t know how to play the piano), 1995
Thursday 24 September 2020
Low-Tech Music No. 4 (piano piece for someone who doesn’t know how to play the piano), 1995
Music and live arts
ActivityCirco Interior Bruto Congress
September 19 and 20, 2020
Circo Interior Bruto Congress 16 Performative Conferences
Music and live arts
ActivityFestival u22
Saturday, 19 September 2020
Festival u22
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Ongoing display
A Short Century: MACBA Collection
Visit the Collection

Unmissable

Action: A provisional history of the 90s
This group exhibition reexamines the era of the nineties from the standpoint of artists who defended action art as a space for critical reflection.
Learn more about the exhibition
2020–21 Education Programmes
2020–21 Education Programmes

The education programmes for secondary, baccalaureate and training courses for the next academic year are now available. You can consult all the education projects and contributions (Spanish version to follow shortly).

Dissabtes MACBA
Dissabtes MACBA

Every weekend we will offer you recommended content on our website and social networks so that you can continue to enjoy contemporary art from home.

Summer Readings
Summer Readings

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.

L'Internationale Online

 

Austerity and Utopia  

New ebook available

2020

'Austerity and Utopia' is the first in a series looking at other potential narratives for mapping our current landscape through redefining the social, political and economic terms of engagement.  

Edited by L'Internationale Online With contents by Nav Haq, Pablo Martínez and Corina Oprea, Emilio Santiago Muíño, Athena Athanasiou, Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca, Max Haiven, Miguel A. López, Marwa Arsanios and Ayesha Hameed.

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The voice of the curator: Teresa Grandas talks about "Takis"
Over a 70-year career, Takis has created some of the most powerful, innovative – as well as playful – works of twentieth-century art. With these, he reinvented the formats of sculpture, painting and music in relation to energy.
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PROBES #27.2. Auxiliaries
03.08.2020
Son[i]a #316. Jennifer Walshe
22.07.2020
Son[i]a #315. Laagencia
09.07.2020
One always arrives to at something which one can no longer depict.
Dieter Roth