Sala Parés

Well-established in 1877, Sala Parés is the first art gallery founded in Spain. It has three different spaces in a single building located at heart of the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, where the work of the 35 contemporary artists with whom the gallery works is exhibited. The Gallery usually holds individual exhibitions of its resident artists in three separate display spaces.

As for painting, it has both authors who work from contemporary figuration and realism, as well as others who express themselves in abstraction. There are also some artists from the gallery that focus on sculpture, photography and video art, as well as others who formulate their proposals from hybrid approaches with the intersection of various techniques and disciplines. Besides, Sala Parés organises extraordinary curated exhibitions on specific episodes in the history of Catalan art and on its most renowned historical artists. 

Sala Parés collaborates with museums, cultural institutions, universities, foundations and other international and foreign art galleries. The gallery also organises concerts, guided tours and various cultural activities.

Represented artists:

Carmen Alvar, Dominika Berger, Dis Berlin, Marcos Cárdenas, Toni Catany, Ángel Mateo Charris, Garikoitz Cuevas, Carlos Díaz, Leticia Feduchi, Carlos Forns Bada, Gorka García Herrera, Rafel Joan, Michael Kenna, Juan Carlos Lázaro, Juan Antonio Mañas, José María Guerrero Medina, Anna Miquel, Carlos Morago, Gloria Muñoz, Marcos Palazzi, Guillermo Pérez Villalta, Magí Puig, Alejandro Quincoces, Miguel Rasero, Xavier Rodés, Joseba Sánchez Zabaleta, Josep Segú, Gonzalo Sicre, Brigitte Szenczi, Manuel Velasco, Albert Vidal

After the exhibition ‘El Paisatge del sentiment’ (2023), we welcome a second show by the photographer Michael Kenna (Widnes, Lancashire, England, 1953) at Sala Parés. On this occasion, we establish a dialogue between a selection of the series that the British photographer has produced on Venice since 1980 and the pictures that Toni Catany (Mallorca, 1942 - Barcelona, 2013) dedicated to the Italian city. Although Kenna and Catany never met, they admired each other. The confluences between the two proposals are constant and, at times, even evident, and denote a shared sensibility. The convergences, both in the Venetian series presented in Space 1 and in the still lifes shown in the Space 3 of the gallery, highlight this invisible link between the two gazes. ‘Kenna-Catany. Venècia’ is the result of the connections between the two photographers raised in the exhibition that opened at the Toni Catany International Centre of Photography in Llucmajor (Mallorca) in mid-2023.