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Acquisitions Programme 2026: FILS

Fundació Vila Casas adds 'Golf Party' (2026) and 'Buy, Obey, Submite, Consume, Conform' (2026) to its collection. Both works by Joan Pallé are part of «Fantastic Planet. El planeta salvaje», his exhibition in ADN galeria.

This small-scale sculptures draw on the codes of maquettes and figurative sculture to explore their narrative potential. Through this reworking of codes, techniques and languages, the artist develops a freer and more intuitive practice that reclaims artisanal authorship and the narrative value of forms, while employing an acerbic sense of humor as a tool for critical ...

Acquisitions Programme 2026: Eurostars Hotel Company

Eurostars Hotel Company acquires Vuelo (eres tú) (2026), a work by artist Laía Argüelles Folch that is part of the exhibition «Lo que tiene vuelo» at Chiquita Room.

In «Lo que tiene vuelo», drawing on materials found or rediscovered both within and beyond the artist's archive, as well as on revisited places, the work returns to old traces, familiar paths, or rewritten words in order to reposition themselves around them and, from that point, engage in ...

Acquisitions Programme 2026: Manuel Expósito Collection

The Manuel Expósito Collection acquires Carrying San Sebastián (1992), a work by artist Pepe Espaliú, at ProjecteSD gallery.

In Expósito’s words, “it is a pleasure to add a video by Pepe Espaliú, an iconic reference in the context of HIV, to the collection. Carrying San Sebastián is a work about vulnerability, care, and the need to support one another. Pure contemporary art history!”

Pepe Espaliú
Carrying San Sebastián, 1992.
Video, sound, colour. Duration: 21 min 27 sec.
Photos courtesy of ProjecteSD.

Ed Templeton: Tomorrow Never Comes

In collaboration with Foto Colectania, BERSHKA presents Ed Templeton's first solo exhibition in Spain. The show, on view at Barcelona's emblemic Espai Metrònom from September 10 to 20, brings together different stages of his photographic practice and offers a journey through more than three decades of images defined by proximity, observation, and everyday life.

As part of the programme of Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2026, Elisa Medde, ...

Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2026: participating galleries and artists

From September 17th to 20th, we will gather to celebrate the 12th edition of Barcelona Gallery Weekend across 25 contemporary and modern art galleries in Barcelona and L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, featuring the work of more than 50 national and international artists.

The exhibitions programme, which will combine long-term and Flash⚡︎ exhibitions —on view for only four days— will be complemented by an extensive agenda of activities for all audiences, as well as a specific PRO programme for collectors and professionals and the Acquisitions Programme, aimed at private entities ...

Podcast GRAF x The Collector is Present

From May 14 to 17, the fourth edition of The Collector is Present arrives —a programme of exhibitions, meetings, and conversations resulting from the collaboration between collectors and gallerists of Barcelona Gallery Weekend.

Once again, GRAF and Barcelona Gallery Weekend have produced a new podcast to continue exploring the motivations behind engaging with art, acquiring a piece, or starting a collection, as well as the importance of collecting within the contemporary art ecosystem.

On this occasion,

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Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2026: participating galleries

From September 17th to 20th, we will celebrate the 12th edition of Barcelona Gallery Weekend in twenty-five art galleries in Barcelona and L'Hospitalet, featuring works by more than fifty national and international artists.

The general exhibition programme will run alongside thirteen Flash shows ⚡︎, available from 17 to 20 September only, and an agenda of guided visits, talks, presentations, performances, family activities and other events for all visitors.

✚ The ...

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Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2026: open call

Open call for the 12th edition of Barcelona Gallery Weekend, to be held from 17 to 20 September 2026.

If you are an art gallery based in Barcelona or L'Hospitalet and would like to take part in the season’s opening event, check the terms and conditions and submit your proposal before February 6th.

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Acquisitions Programme 2025: Fundació Sorigué

Fundació Sorigué incorporates LUCE's Toldo masías (2025) into its collection, which is part of the exhibition 'Searching Where There Is Nothing' at ProjecteSD.

In this second solo exhibition by LUCE (Valencia, 1989), a large number of works on paper and small-format pieces are brought together to form a mural space that functions as a cartography, a record of LUCE's practice, a narrative of his journeys through the city. All this is combined with larger-scale ...

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Acquisition Programme 2025: Fundació Úniques

As a part of the Acquisitions Programme, Fundació Ùniques acquires part of the Secrets (2025), series by Laura Llaneli at ADN Galería.

Secrets collected during 2021 and 2024 in the performances 'Hace tiempo que no te susurro' (It's been a long time since I whispered to you) and 'The Whispering Cabin'. The micro SD memory cards contain the confessions whispered during the performances. This series brings together for the first time, as a conceptual piece, this collection ...

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Acquisitions Programme 2025: Colección Manuel Expósito

The Colección Manuel Expósito acquires the work Exudate #72, by artist Eva Fàbregas that is part of the exhibition SWELL at Bombon Projects.

Eva Fàbregas works with soft, malleable materials through a practice that encompasses tactile engagement, physical intimacy, and sensorial relationships with multiple forms of somatic experimentation with and through objects. Her sculptures evoke organs, glands, prosthetics, and non-human life forms such as corals ...

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Acquisitions Programme 2025: zardoz.club

As a participant in our Acquisition Programme, zardoz.club adds two pieces to its collection:

La Grieta La Revelación, 2022-2024, by Raisa Maudit at House of Chappaz part of the exhibition ‘Una asenció en espiral. Mirar enrere des de la fi’

Maudit’s work sets out to create a new code for the possibility of breaks in hegemonic dogma, leakages into our hygienically contained environments defined by digital surveillance and democratic ...

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Acquisitions Programme 2025: Eurostars Hotel Group

Eurostars Hotel Company has added Flamencos Delta del Ebro (2025) to its collection, a work by artist LUCE that forms part of the exhibition Searching Where There Is Nothing at ProjecteSD.

LUCE‘s artistic practice is born linked to his walks through the city and its periphery. His work mainly translates into subtle site-specific interventions, in photographic compositions that document their actions, in works on paper as well as pieces created from objects he finds ...

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Acquisitions Programme 2025: Fundació Vila Casas

The Fundació Vila Casas adds to its collection “It's you” (2023-2025), a work by Susanna Inglada presented at the Palmadotze pop-up during Barcelona Gallery Weekend.

An immersive proposal in which the artist moves away from the representation of the human body to explore an organic universe. Inspired by the testimony of a Wayuu weaver from Colombia, who conceives of nature as a living being with which to maintain a relationship of respect and care. This vision ...

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Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2025: participating galleries and artists

Save the date! From 18 to 21 September we are celebreting the 11th edition of Barcelona Gallery Weekend. The season opening event will take place in 24 contemporary and modern art galleries located in Barcelona and L'Hospitalet de Llobregat.

⚡New FLASH programme⚡
The general programme of exhibitions will be complemented by the new FLASH programme, featuring 9 shows that will only be open to the public between 18 and 21 September.

As every year, an extensive agenda of meetings, guided tours, performances, presentations, ...

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Apropos Pòdcast GRAF - The Collector is Present x Barcelona Gallery Weekend

The Collector is Present is back for another year, the programme resulting from the collaboration between collectors and gallerists of Barcelona Gallery Weekend, who during the weekend of May 8th - 11th, develop a joint project in the galleries.

Continuing the annual collaboration between GRAF and Barcelona Gallery Weekend, we have taken this opportunity to start the GRAF Apropos podcast. With an exquisite moderation, Andrea Gumes, with long experience in radio and communication, has accompanied ...

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Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2025: participating galleries

From 18th to 21st September we celebrate Barcelona Gallery Weekend's 11th edition in 24 contemporary and modern art galleries in Barcelona and L'Hospitalet, featuring the work of more than 30 national and international artists:

3 Punts Galeria · ADN Galeria · àngels barcelona · Bombon projects · Chiquita Room · Dilalica · ethall · Fuga · Galería Alegría · Galeria Marc Domènech · galeria SENDA · House of Chappaz · Mayoral · Palmadotze · Pigment Gallery · Prats Nogueras Blanchard · ProjecteSD · RocioSantaCruz · Sala Parés · SELTZ ...

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We're joining The Spider!

Introducing The Spider: a new platform connecting europe’s leading Art Weeks and Gallery Weekends

A new platform is set to transform the European art landscape. The Spider is an innovative network designed to connect and unite some of the most influential Art Weeks, Weekends, and Gallery Weekends across Europe. The initiative brings together key events, including Stockholm Art Week, Amsterdam Art Week, Antwerp Art Weekend, London Gallery Weekend, Zurich Art Weekend, Berlin Art Week, Barcelona Gallery ...

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Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2025: open call

Open call for proposals for the 11th edition of Barcelona Gallery Weekend, to be held from September 18th to 21st, 2025.

If you are an art gallery and want to be part of the 11th edition of the opening season event, download the terms and conditions here and submit your exhibition proposal before February 7th.

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Acquisitions Programme 2024: Fundació Sorigué

The Fundació Sorigué acquires Tarrt (2024), a piece by the artist Lara Fluxà that is part of the exhibition Firefly at Bombon Projects gallery.

Since 2000, the Foundation has built up one of the most important collections of contemporary art in Spain, with artworks by more than 450 national and international artists. The collection ...

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Acquisitions Programme 2024: MIA Art Collection

1 www collage b&w (2024) by artist Nieves Mingueza, featured in the exhibition winters while waiting at FUGA, joins MIA Art Collection.

Mingueza's project explores online gender abuse through the reuse of found photographs as transitional objects, assigning them new meanings, contexts and audiences, while reflecting on the ethical considerations of using these artefacts in artistic practice.

MIA Art Collection is a private art collection aimed ...

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Acquisitions Programme 2024: Manuel Expósito Collection

'After Joan Miró. El sol abrazando' (2024) by the artist Julio Anaya becomes part of Manuel Expósito collection.

The artwork is part of Of Flesh and Ether: Picasso, Miró and Tàpies at ADN Galeria, in which concepts such as ‘authorship’, ‘authenticity’ and ‘property’ are put under suspicion, but also others such as ‘conservation’ and ‘transmission’.

Initiated in 1995 with artists from the second part of the 20th century, the
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Acquisitions Programme 2024: Fundació Úniques

We are delighted to announce that ‘Tot plegat’ (2024) by Laura Zuccaro, artist represented by Chiquita Room, is now part of the Fundació Úniques collection.

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Acquisitions Programme 2024: zardoz.club x Tales Tommasini

zardoz.club is the digital + contemporary art collection and virtual gallery founded in 2020 by Brazilian-Spanish collector and curator Tales Tommasini, dedicated to digital art. He has presented more than 30 exhibitions with works from his collection and from artists and institutions around the world and commissioned digital works by artists such as Regina Silveira, Ana Maria Tavares, Novíssimo Edgar or Theo Firmo, among others.

We are pleased to announce that zardoz.club has incorporated the following ...

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Acquisitions Programme 2024: Fundació Vila Casas

It is a pleasure to announce that the Fundació Vila Casas, participating in the Acquisitions Programme 2024, is incorporating the artwork Zuulm (2004), by the artist Lara Fluxà, into its collection. The piece is part of ‘Firefly’, the exhibition that the artist is presenting at Bombon Projects gallery ...

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CUR8: the mobile app for descovering Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2024

Launched in Paris in 2024, CUR8 offers a curated selection of the best contemporary art shows near you, making it easier to find and explore new exhibitions.

For its 2024 edition, Barcelona Gallery Weekend and CUR8 have partnered to offer the best visitor experience. CUR8 helps visitors locate BGW’s exhibitions on an interactive map, save their favorites, and get directions to visit them.

You can install CUR8 for free on the App Store or on ...

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The Collector is Present, 2nd edition: 9_11 May, 2024

From May 9th to 11th, we celebrate the second edition of The Collector is Present, the programme resulting from the collaboration between collectors and gallerists of Barcelona Gallery Weekend.

14 gallerists ...

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Barcelona Gallery Weekend: 10th anniversary

From 19th to 22nd September 2024 we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Barcelona Gallery Weekend in 27 contemporary and modern art galleries in Barcelona and L'Hospitalet, presenting the work of more than 30 national and international artists.

The exhibitions programme will be complemented by comented visits, meetings, the curator's walks or guided tours, among other activities, aswell as an specific programme aimed at collectors and professionals, and an Acquisitions ...

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Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2024: call for proposals is now open!

Open call for proposals for Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2024, to be held from 19th to 22nd September.

If you are an art gallery and want to be part of the 10th edition of the opening season event, check the terms and conditions here and submit your exhibition proposal before February 9, 2024.

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PODCAST: Site-Specific Conversation x BGW2023

CaixaForum+ releases the podcast that brings together the seven conversations between artists and gallerists of Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023, organised by Site-Specific Conversation.

In these encounters, we explore the working relationships and emotional ties established between artists and their gallerists, taking Patti Smith's novel Just Kids ...

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Site-Specific Conversation x Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023 #7

Site-Specific Conversation offers a series of conversations with artists and gallerists participating in Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023 that are weekly published during the summer.

The proposal once again takes a novel, this time written by Patti Smith, Just Kids, to focus on "growing up together" and delve into the beginnings, professionalisation, coexisting with the demands of the art market and collaborative dynamics, among other aspects.

In the last conversation of the series, we spoke with Anne-Lise Coste and Alex Nogueras, co-director alongside Rebeca Blanchard ...

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Site-Specific Conversation x Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023 #6

Site-Specific Conversation’s collaboration with Barcelona Gallery Weekend continues with a series of conversations that will be published weekly over the summer.

Once again, the event centres on a novel this year: Just Kids, by Patti Smith. In doing so, it ...

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Site-Specific Conversation x Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023 #5

Site-Specific Conversation’s collaboration with Barcelona Gallery Weekend continues with a series of conversations that will be published weekly over the summer.

Once again, the event centres on a novel this year: Just Kids, by Patti Smith. In doing so, it ...

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Site-Specific Conversation x Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023 #4

Site-Specific Conversation’s collaboration with Barcelona Gallery Weekend continues with a series of conversations that will be published weekly over the summer.

Once again, the event centres on a novel this year: Just Kids, by Patti Smith. In doing so, it highlights the process of ‘growing together’ and delves into artists’ beginnings, professionalisation, coexistence with the art market’s demands, and collaboration dynamics, among other elements.

We talk to artist Patricia Dauder and gallerist Silvia Dauder, the director of
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Site-Specific Conversation x Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023 #3

Site-Specific Conversation offers a series of conversations with artists and gallerists participating in Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023 that will be published weekly during the summer.

The proposal once again takes a novel, this time written by Patti Smith, Just ...

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Site-Specific Conversation x Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023 #2

Site-Specific Conversation offers a series of conversations with artists and gallerists participating in Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023 that will be published weekly during the summer.

The proposal once again takes a novel, this time written by Patti Smith, Just ...

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Site-Specific Conversation x Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023 #1

Site-Specific Conversation offers a series of conversations with artists and gallerists participating in Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023 that will be published weekly during the summer.

The proposal once again takes a novel, this time written by Patti Smith, Just Kids, to focus on "growing up together" and delve into the beginnings, professionalisation, coexisting with the demands of the art market and collaborative dynamics, among other aspects.

We are kicking off the series with gallerist
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Barcelona Gallery Weekend: THE COLLECTOR IS PRESENT. The Collector is Present: May 19_20, 2023

THE COLLECTOR IS PRESENT is the new spring event at BGW galleries, a parallel programme within Barcelona Gallery Weekend that focuses on the role of the collector and his or her relationship with the gallerist through a special agenda developed as a result of the collaboration between them.

For the first edition of The Collector is Present, 24 collectors have been invited by 17 gallerists to intervene in their programmes for a weekend (May 19-20th). As a result, The Collector is Present brought together a special programme of exhibitions, interventions, meetings, dialogues ...

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