Acquisitions programme2025
Eurostars Hotel Company
Fundació Vila Casas
Fundació Úniques
The 11th anniversary of Barcelona Gallery Weekend celebrates a new edition of the Acquisitions Programme, through which companies, foundations and private collections commit to incorporate into their collections works presented by galleries participating in Barcelona Gallery Weekend.
In the ninth edition of the programme, we welcome Eurostars Hotel Company: through its hotel chain, Grupo Hotusa demonstrates its cultural sensitivity with various initiatives. The aim is to contribute to society through culture, linking hotels with their destinations. The chain's hotels host exhibitions, cultural events, and artistic activities, establishing themselves as a platform for the promotion and dissemination of the current art scene. Eurostars Hotel Company has an outstanding art collection, which is enriched by a programme of acquisitions of works by renowned contemporary artists.
In addition, five other entities are renewing their commitment to the event:
We are pleased to announce that the Fundació Vila Casas, faithful to this initiative since its first edition in 2017, renews its participation in the ninth edition of the programme. This non-profit institution was founded by businessman Antoni Vila Casas (Barcelona, 1930-2023) in 1986 to promote Catalan contemporary art, and currently has four exhibition spaces and the programme Punts de Fuga, which takes contemporary art beyond them.
For the second consecutive year, we will have the Fundació Úniques: a private organisation dedicated to promoting contemporary art created by women living and working in the Catalan Countries. The aim is to expand their presence on the international scene and to encourage the consolidation of their professional representation through artistic and cultural programmes, the promotion of collecting and the encouragement of social activism.
Also, resumes its commitment, zardoz.club, a virtual gallery founded by Brazilian-Spanish collector and curator Tales Tommasini, who has been active in digital art since 2020. He has presented more than 30 exhibitions with works from his own collection, as well as curated shows of artists and institutions from around the world. Tommasini has commissioned digital art collections by artists such as Regina Silveira, Ana Maria Tavares, Novíssimo Edgar, Theo Firmo, Yuri Tuma, Pablo Pérez Sanmartín, and Elena Juárez.
Fundació Sorigué, which over the last 25 years has built up its renowned collection of contemporary art, is also joining in once again. At its headquarters in Lleida, the Foundació Sorigué organises temporary exhibitions, thus promoting contemporary creation and its dissemination. With the same objective in mind, it works on an active policy of loans, collaborations and co-productions
We will also feature The Manuel Expósito collection which began in 1996 and is characterised by an eclectic approach, both in terms of artistic genres and artist profiles. It brings together mainly pictorial and sculptural works by mid-career national artists, born in the second half of the 20th century, as well as ultra-contemporary emerging creators, with a focus on the new urban avant-garde, hyperrealism, pop and neo-baroque conceptualism, and a strong interest in ironic, paradoxical and critical discursive proposals.
The works acquired through the Acquisitions Programme will be freely selected by each entity and in direct relation with the participating galleries.