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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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