art

With Catalonia under direct rule it falls to Spanish culture minister to decide whether to return 44 art treasures taken from Sigena monastery

The exhibition is an examination of a possible dystopian Earth through the eyes of a Catalan artist

Located in the Nau Gaudí space in the seaside town of Mataró, the exhibit starts a dialogue about humans and architecture

The route aims to promote modernist art, and also includes international cities like Glasgow, Riga and Turin

The collection features artists like Dalí, Miró, Picasso, Tàpies, Brossa and Duchamp

The first Street Art Festival sees 12 national and international artists decorating the small Catalan town of Torrefarrera

The Japanese artist’s installation kicks off SónarPLANTA and offers “an unprecedented spatial experience”

The 15th edition of the Barcelona LOOP festival opens its doors from May 18–27, presenting a retro-perspective of international video art production. The festival will show the works of video artists from the 60s, 70s, and 80s in different formats at more than 80 venues around Barcelona. According to Carolina Ciuti, the LOOP festival coordinator, the aim of this year’s edition is to “build bridges between the past and the present” in order to understand modern audiovisual art. The festival’s program was elaborated under the supervision of the renowned Catalan historians of audiovisual art and new media in Spain, Eugeni Bonet and Antoni Mercader. An Andy-Warhol-exhibition as well as a six-hour video marathon of the works of Paul McCarthy are among the festival’s highlights.