A walk by curator Gabriel Virgilio Luciani
Anecdote #1: Cross-pollination between bees and plants is a fusional miracle the relies purely on happenstance and randomness. Similar to what Lynn Margulis proposes in opposition to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, that which best knows how to collaborate and mutually benefit will better survive. Alberto Peral and Luis Bisbe choreograph an asymmetrical dance in a space that has just as much protagonism as their work. They collaborate in many senses: with themselves as artists and with the space creating a random harmony not dissimilar to natural systems that define our world. 1+1=3…
Anecdote #2: I heard a story the other day while I was in Los Angeles about a woman who insisted that Donald Trump should win the United States presidency again to spark a full-fledged revolution, upheaval and anarchical dismantling of the sociopolitical structure of the country. Marxist revolution proposes a similar pattern and achieves this through political propaganda. Again, we are visual beings. Anne-Lise Coste surely knows this. She summarises the power of propaganda and its link to a possible collectivisation of pressing issues such as #MeToo, LGBTQ+ rights and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Anecdote #3: Dialectic relationships take two to tango. Harmony can not be reached without the participation of at least two note-emitting beings. Berta Cáccamo enters, from a distant land, in a dialogue with Patricia Dauder connecting a specific period in Cáccamo’s fruitful career with Dauder’s obsession with the gaze; something she shares with Cáccamo.
Anecdote #4: Some months ago, workmate of mine mentioned that what humans really want to do is play; not work. If we had a universal salary and overthrew capitalism we could all stop working in the current neoliberal sense and dedicate time to pleasure, rest, self-care, interpersonal relationships and building a society more fluent in humanity. Jaime Hayon proposes a world that could very well reflect what that world would look like. Where entities mesh and mingle. Where fantasy rules. Where flora and fauna merge.
Anecdote #5: Apophenia; the phenomenon of making connections where there are none. A semiotic loop, a chronic distortion. Positionality and order —e.g. what comes first, next and last or what is next to what— influence our understanding of the world around us. As highly visual beings, we are visually susceptible to tricks and illusions; diegetic mishaps and glitches heard only within the context of a closed circuit narrative. Martín Vitaliti tackles roaring subject matters such as consumerism and subliminal messaging in his confrontational work. How successive images can coerce the brain into desiring products, lifestyles and dynamics we don’t have access to.
Seven local curators propose seven strolls through Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023 galleries.
The texts by Sara Catalán, Pilar Cruz, Mariella Franzoni, Sabel Gavaldon, Gabriel Virgilio Luciani, Zaida Trallero and Veronica Valentini will work as guides to discover the exhibitions through their particular perspectives. Available here from September 14th.
The sphere of research explored by curator and editor-in-chief of the digital contemporary art magazine exibart.es, Gabriel Virgilio Luciani, finds itself at a gaseous intersection between neo-corporealities, poetry, queer theory, magic and objectual affectivity. From 2016 to 2019, the majority of their practice was realised as curator of the distinguished artist-run space, CERA 13, founded by young artists who moulded a highly experimental and radical laboratory of reference in El Raval. In 2020 they finished their Master’s Degree in the Digital Arts Curation program at the Universitat Ramon Llull in Barcelona during which they worked for the director of the gallery Dilalica. Over the past eight years they have had their shows featured in Art Nou and Loop video-art festival and have curated and co-curated projects at THEFLOOR, CERA 13, TKM Room, l’Escola Massana, àngels barcelona espai 2, Tangent Projects along with Margot Cuevas, L&B gallery, Galeria H2O, Reial Cercle Artístic (as an invited curator for the ‘1+1+1’ curated edition of Loop), Mèdol - Centre d’Arts Contemporànies de Tarragona.
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat [MAP]:1. Galería Alegría. Alberto Peral & Luis Bisbe: Del que un diu / el que està així / només doble
2. NoguerasBlanchard. Anne-Lise Coste: Emoji peace dove Emoji red heart Emoji blue butterfly
3. Ana Mas Projects. Berta Cáccamo, Patricia Dauder: Triple recorregut
Itineraries
A walk by curator Pilar Cruz: Looking Kindly
I invite you to look, kindly and unstably. That is what this walk is about: fleeing from clichés, seeking and celebrating overflowing channels. Turning off the autocomplete function, which has little to do with our own desires and a lot to do with the desires of the algorithm. It is about getting rid of search filters according to labels and categories. And, generally, wiping out the entries in that Dictionary of Received Ideas, but not the one by Flaubert, no: the one imposed on us in the time of ChatGPT.
The first thing we will look at is the blow Lola Lasurt deals to the usual definition of an art curator. At Galeria Joan Prats, the artist curates by painting, with the work of ceramicist Esther Guillén as a starting point. Lola connects to Esther’s organic, abstract ceramic work and paints, influenced by the avant-garde artistic practices favoured at two politically unstable, intense times for the Spanish state.
The second blow to received ideas is dealt by the artists involved in the collective exhibition at 3 PUNTS, who provide their perspective of the extreme labelling society exercises on every individual, and how it forces us, or we force ourselves, to apply those categories. A tyranny of labels promoted by the control and privilege economies, by cognitive biases, or by social laziness.
At Mayoral, artist Jordi Alcaraz seeks to disappear as a creator (going against the weight of reason and discourse) in order to think with his hands and with materials. He puts his pieces in a place between the disciplines of painting and sculpture, creating works that force you to take a better look. They oblige you to be attentive and build your own space for approaching the work, deactivating the protocols according to which you tend to approach pieces that stand out due to their format or authorship.
Finally, Oriol Vilapuig bases his work at RocioSantaCruz on fragmented images of the body, denying it a single discourse and a homogeneous view of how it is represented and categorised. And in an act of disciplinary appropriation, this representation of the body is proposed within the visual sphere through the literary figure of digression (which introduces the possibility of opening up heterodoxies and diversions in the reading journey). Ultimately, on this route, we will have attempted to relocate a look that lights up the shifting areas of art. A kind look, which allows us to exercise knowledge from the marshes, and not from the buildings firmly founded on the rock of cultural tradition.
Seven local curators propose seven strolls through Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023 galleries.
The texts by Sara Catalán, Pilar Cruz, Mariella Franzoni, Sabel Gavaldon, Gabriel Virgilio Luciani, Zaida Trallero and Veronica Valentini will work as guides to discover the exhibitions through their particular perspectives.
Pilar Cruz holds a degree in Art History from the University of Zaragoza and a Master’s degree in Advanced Studies in Art History from the University of Barcelona. Since 2002 she works in various disciplines within contemporary art, including exhibitions, art criticism, coordination and management, teaching and educational projects. She has curated, among others, projects at Espai 13 - Fundació Miró, Caixafórum, Arts Santa Mònica, Paraninfo University of Zaragoza or Can Felipa, as well as for festivals such as Panoràmic, Off Loop, or Periferias. She was one of the selected curators in the first edition of Komisario Berriak. She has worked as a cultural manager for Art Barcelona-Galleries association, MACBA, Museu Serralves, or Porto 2001- European Capital of Culture, among others. She is currently part of the curatorial team at La Capella Centre d'Art, advisor to the Temporals project at ICUB and part of Club9 for the ARTefACTe performance festival, among other projects.
* Photo by Maria Dias.
Consell de Cent and surroundings [MAP]:1. Galeria Joan Prats. Lola Lasurt: Comissariat pictòric I: Esther Guillén. Un projecte de Lola Lasurt
A walk by Mariella Franzoni: Without Body, Without Bones.
Bloodless beings, without body and bone: that is what Ovid, the Roman poet, called them. Shadows are ambiguous, incorporeal presences, yet at the same time, they indicate the presence of material entities. Their essence is revealed in the darkness, but it is in contrast with light that they come to life, projecting shapes from animate or inanimate bodies. They defy tangibility and fade away at night. By showing themselves, they conceal. Simultaneously, the elusive immateriality of shadows – a veil over the corporeal – is presented in certain literature and poetry as the embodied spirit in the underworld. They are ghostly beings, often solitary and restless, from the spiritual plane, and they can also move, invisible yet perceptible, among the living. Summoned magically by the living, shadows appear as mythological, ancestral figures that inhabit mystical and religious stories and beliefs.
Whether as intangible, spectral entities, archetypes of the unconscious or Platonic allegories, shadows seduce us in an eternal dance and enchant our senses in primordial dualities: the tangible and the intangible, presence and absence, icon and object, sign and signified, reality and fiction, truth and lie, original and copy, event and narrative possibilities.
On this route around the streets of Barcelona, which connects four very different solo exhibitions, we will be led by our own shadows. Like Virgilian guides, wise yet wandering, these ghostly silhouettes will stop narrating our journey and direct it instead. At the same time, when we approach the four artists’ work, we will seek out other shadows: we will invoke the presence of the absent, we will attempt to touch the intangible, we will try to light up the dark without it fading, and we will find the spectral without fleeing from it (even if fear overwhelms us).
Our first encounter will be with the mystical, introspective world of Yolanda Tabanera, who is presenting Wild Salon at Artur Ramon Art: a project populated by shapes that emerge from artisanal processes and techniques, thus breathing symbolic life into materials that range from ceramic, esparto and glass to leather and metalwork.
Ghosts of memory and abandoned spaces are at the heart of Universale by Mar Hernández at Suburbia Contemporary: while weaving multiple chronological dimensions, the artist’s drawings present phantom architectures that blend memories and imagination.
With Reginald & Perrin, Antonio Ortega’s Last Paintings at Galería Uxval Gochez, conceptual artist Antonio Ortega surprises us with a radical shift towards painting, suggesting that the archetypal fiction of pictorial language can become a real place, for both philosophy and the individual (here is where the ghost of Derrida will be invoked).
Finally, artist-curator Fito Conesa puts forward a new linguistic-narrative and musical exercise with Vocativo at House of Chappaz, where a multi-screen video installation projects us at the turning point in the flow of time and space: the Jonbar Point. From here, varying, parallel consequences of a single event unfold, like shadows.
Seven local curators propose seven strolls through Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023 galleries.
The texts by Sara Catalán, Pilar Cruz, Mariella Franzoni, Sabel Gavaldon, Gabriel Virgilio Luciani, Zaida Trallero and Veronica Valentini will work as guides to discover the exhibitions through their particular perspectives.
Mariella Franzoni is an art curator, advisor, and cultural producer. With a background in Cultural Anthropology, Contemporary Art, Theory of Curating, and The Art Market, she holds an International Ph.D. with a dissertation titled: "The Economy of the Curatorial and the Field(s) of the Contemporary Art World". As an independent curator, she collaborates with artists and art organizations across Europe and Southern Africa. Notably, she curates the program "Tomorrows/Today" dedicated to emerging artists at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair. Mariella also shares her knowledge as an art advisor. Her upcoming art advisory initiative, The Good Art Advice, focuses on assisting art collectors in navigating the art world and creating meaningful art collections. She recently co-curated the first collectors program in Barcelona for the Cultivist (New York). Mariella has participated in curatorial and research residencie and seminars in venues such as Pompidou Museum, Kandinsky Library, CDAN, JAG Museum, MACBA, Venice Biennale, HKW Museum, amongst others.
From Eixample to Gràcia district [MAP]:3. Galería Uxval Gochez. Reginald & Perrin, últimas pinturas de Antonio Ortega
A walk by curator Sabel Gavaldon: Passatge Mercader and other underground passages.
Chris Marker distinguished between two opposing ways of looking at the world: Hollywood’s great classic cinema versus the Russian master Andrei Tarkovsky. The dominant camera angle in Western movies is a slightly low-angle shot. The figure of the hero stands defiantly against an indomitable landscape as it contemplates the sky above. The horizon stretches out before us with no apparent limits, just like the American Dream. In the Russian filmmaker’s work, meanwhile, the ground is the humble protagonist. The camera’s eye maps out the surface of the land. It sinks into the mud.
Patricia Dauder, whose exhibition at ProjecteSD opens this tour, is an artist who engages in this humbler way of looking at the world. Her work is rooted in a poetics of the subterranean, as she invites fungi, microorganisms and other environmental agents to take part in her creation. Here, the word creation does not mean the act of making something out of nothing. Instead, it refers to a reciprocal relationship – a conversation – in which the artist’s hands listen to the materials, as well as shaping them. In a gesture of humility, Dauder opens her process up to an ecology of relationships whose complexity resists passing through the bottleneck of interpretation.
This ecological perspective is also fundamental for artist Sandra Monterroso, whose exhibition we will visit at Zielinsky gallery. Born in Guatemala during the country’s civil war, Monterroso regards her work as a healing practice, taking time to repair the ontological fabric of those indigenous worlds suppressed by colonial modernity. Since the late nineties, her pioneering performance work bears witness to a history of violence that still haunts the present. Her textiles assign new meanings to pigments like indigo and cochineal, whose circulation as colonial products played a key role in the development of a new global order.
Monterroso’s colour fields have their counterpart in the group exhibition that we will visit at Marc Domènech gallery. It displays a selection of monochrome paintings ranging from post-war abstraction to the present. Monochrome is usually understood as the quintessential modernist gesture: an exercise of erasure that provides a tabula rasa, cutting the Gordian knot that tied painting and representation together to build a new aesthetic order based on the autonomy of art. However, a careful look at the surface of these canvases is enough to complicate this hegemonic narrative, as they invite us to travel along other underground passages.
The marks and inscriptions on Georges Noël’s canvases, for example, evoke the graffiti captured by Brassaï in the 1930s. Brassaï organised his enormous collection of photographs according to ethnological categories he invented, thus bringing the ethnographic impulse characteristic of colonial archives back to the metropolis of Paris. We must ask ourselves to what extent modern art is built from these encounters, clashes and contact zones with the colonial Other: its dark other side. Far from being linear, perhaps history (of art, too) is woven through these entangled, often underground passages.
Seven local curators propose seven strolls through Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023 galleries.
The texts by Sara Catalán, Pilar Cruz, Mariella Franzoni, Sabel Gavaldon, Gabriel Virgilio Luciani, Zaida Trallero and Veronica Valentini will work as guides to discover the exhibitions through their particular perspectives.
Sabel Gavaldon (b. 1985, Barcelona) is Head of Public Programmes at MACBA. Before that he was Curator and Head of Programmes at Gasworks in London, an organisation internationally known for its residencies programme for artists from Africa, Asia and Latin America. During that period (2018–2023), he presented solo exhibitions by Mercedes Azpilicueta, Adam Khalil, Ingela Ihrman, Bassam Al-Sabah, Libita Sibungu, Pedro Neves Marques, Patricia Domínguez, Eduardo Navarro and Gala Porras-Kim, among other artists. Together with Manuel Segade he was curator of the touring exhibition “Elements of Vogue: A Case Study of Radical Performance”. First presented at CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid (2017–2018), then at the Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City (2019–2020), this exhibition transformed the museum into a dance floor and made it available to a multitude of dissident bodies. He was a “la Caixa” Foundation Graduate Fellow at the Royal College of Art (2010–2012). In 2016, he was nominated for the ICI New York Independent Vision Curatorial Award.
* Photo: Belén de Benito
Passatge Mercader [MAP]:2. Zielinsky. Sandra Monterroso: La herida, la venda, la cura
A walk by curator Sara Catalán: Movement
‘This is a topological concern, where taking up space is an imprecise way of talking about a fundamental imprecision’. Fred Moten
‘A river in constant flow can never be identified, can never be identical to itself, for it is always differentiating. It can only be, paradoxically, identified as always-different’. Neville Starling
This walk is an invitation to deconstruct inherited perspectives, an opening-up to nomadic, relational thinking, to the constant flow of ideas and concepts, to movement, to exchange. I view it as a a tribute to the right to opacity and to become a new version of ourselves with every new stimulus, every experience, as advocated by Fred Moten.
Continuing on from the legacy of Deleuze and Guattari, this route is a rhizomatic call to explore the connections between different fields of knowledge and think in a non-linear, non-hierarchical way.
From exhibition to exhibition, piece to piece, aware of our multiplicity, the right not to be a single being: static, defined, fixed. We will flow continuously, creating a cartography of every moment, moments we share, and yet we don’t. Letting ourselves become landscape. Following a perspective antithetical to the theories that attempt to define us, we view ourselves, all of us, as equally incomplete, in a flow of transitions and learnings.
Galería Marlborough, where we will witness an affective cartography being traced between Anna Bella Geiger and Pedro Pinchas Geiger, will be a stop on our route where the art will become a dialogue that portrays affective bonds as the landscape of our story as people who interact and share each other’s presence. The non-performative presence that occurs when we live.
Then, at ADN, Bouchra Khalili exhibits the traces of other movements in the absence of the presence of the people who move. The systemic violence of different policies on migratory movement, the scars left behind. She shows the transformations that construct the before, during and after of ‘junctions’ like revolutions, migrations, ports and new technologies. Abdelkader Benchamma’s work, meanwhile, exists in a more intimate world, referring to our experience of our surroundings, our relationship with the objects around us. We will phenomenologically observe the potential malfunctions in our relationship with objects and people, spaces and atmospheres, reflecting as a group of separate individuals on the transformations that take place in this mutable reality.
Finally, at Victor Lope Arte Contemporáneo, Cesc Abad’s There Is a Light That Never Goes Out invites us to delve into our relationship with nature, while we are part of it, thus leading us on a search for truth, if such a thing exists. We will explore the right to be incomplete, the absence of organic integrity without the natural environment and other people.
Seven local curators propose seven strolls through Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023 galleries.
The texts by Sara Catalán, Pilar Cruz, Mariella Franzoni, Sabel Gavaldon, Gabriel Virgilio Luciani, Zaida Trallero and Veronica Valentini will work as guides to discover the exhibitions through their particular perspectives.
Sara Catalán curates The Over, a cultural platform that uses action and artistic presence to transform spaces, open minds, channel the artist's perspective and generate social impact. Initially itinerant, the project now includes an artist residency and project space, facilitating places for reflection, international encounters, dialogues and synergies with the city and its events. She is co-founder of the Barcelona Art Biennial, which will celebrate its first edition in 2024: a deconstructed biennial that happens with the city and in the city and permeates the cultural fabric. It includes, in a transversal way and without pavilions, artist residencies, the interaction of artists with the city and its inhabitants and the process of research and creation. She also builds relationships with other residencies around the world: Amsterdam, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Dakar... facilitating exchanges and collaborations between local and international artists, spaces for experimentation and encounters where the frontiers of art dialogue can be extended.
Photo: Archie Vienot
Around Enric Granados street [MAP]:1. Galería Marlborough. Anna Bella Geiger: Anna Bella Geiger i Pedro Geiger: cartografia afectiva
2. ADN Galeria. Bouchra Khalili, Abdelkader Benchamma. Fanning the spark of hope in the past. Structure
3. Victor Lope Arte Contemporáneo. Cesc Abad: Hi ha una llum que mai s'apaga
A walk by curator Veronica Valentini: Material fictions
What would a city without bricks look like? What is the relationship between science and handicraft? Who or what lives in a warehouse? Is the gallery an exhibition space or an artwork performance space? These are some of the questions raised by the exhibitions on Carrer de Trafalgar. Among material investigations, the culture of objects, poetic confabulations and historical family legacies, this route offers a fictional, material journey through the entrails of architecture, the actions of industry, a memorable artistic past and conceptual games.
At LAB 36, Venezuelan artist Oscar Abraham Pabón’s exhibition focuses on the pictorial contrast between the aesthetic purism of the gallery’s white walls and the constructive materiality of the city’s bricks. Indoor versus outdoor, and vice versa. The brick – the artist’s favourite object – becomes a surface for interpretation, for musical scores, for sculpture and for paintings, opening up as many imaginative channels as the practices it invites.
Having recently opened on Carrer de Trafalgar, Taché Art Gallery, run by Pablo and Charlie (sons of Carles Taché), continues the work by the long-standing Galeria Carles Taché, and presents the family’s private collection, which spans a long time period and a wide range of practices. In the exhibition, Miguel Ángel Campano’s abstract expressionism intertwines with Tony Cragg’s urban, geological sculpture, Sean Scully’s geometric abstraction, Antoni Tàpies’s spiritual materiality, Joan Brossa’s ‘Object Poems’, Michael Joo’s assorted media and technologies, Bosco Sodi’s paintings and sculptures and the photographs by Catherine Lee.
On the floor of Dilalica, Stella Rahola Matutes unfurls a carpet made from more than 2,000 pieces of glass, taken from the discarded pieces collected by the artist from artisans’ workshops. Sitting somewhere between an inventory of objects and a library of manual expertise, the exhibition is complemented by an interplay of images and light in dialogue with the shards that evoke the inside both of a human body and of glass.
In the exhibition Not Yet at Bombon Projects, artist Enric Farrés displays an installation consisting of conceptual pieces, including one made of frames and another of darts. All of them are works that, along with a title that evokes something about to happen, encourage us to (re)activate our imagination and find the formative power of images in the material component.
Seven local curators propose seven strolls through Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023 galleries.
The texts by Sara Catalán, Pilar Cruz, Mariella Franzoni, Sabel Gavaldon, Gabriel Virgilio Luciani, Zaida Trallero and Veronica Valentini will work as guides to discover the exhibitions through their particular perspectives.
Veronica Valentini practices artistic and situated curating of exhibitions and time-based programs, locally and internationally, under her name or in collaboration. She is the founder and director of the platforms BAR project and E.M.M.A.; she is a mediator of Concomitents, a national art programme aimed at citizens; and she also works as head of international research networks and residencies at Hangar, a center for artistic production and research in Barcelona. Her recent work focuses on themes and methodologies related to the creation of new audiences, cultural rights, accessibility policies, and co-responsibility in the design and management of cultural projects from an intersectional perspective.
Trafalgar street [MAP]:
A walk by curator Zaida Trallero: Fragility, time and mystery
It was supposed to last forever, but it didn’t. Objects fade away, and with them, so do their symbols, histories and attributes. The streets we roam today are not what they once were: they show signs of a new civilisation that destroys everything in its path. We’re in the centre of a city suffering, like many others, from the consequences of new globalised models. But we’re not going to stop and contemplate these flaws. We’re going to do the opposite and take on this route synchronically, at least on paper.
Fragility, time and mystery are concepts employed in all three exhibitions to question hegemonic discourses or uncertain futures. While fragility is represented by materials like talc or paper, time is approached in terms of both its physical quantity and our experience of it. Teresa Estapé, the artist presenting Children and Fools at Chiquita Room, chooses talc (the softest material on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness) to make jewellery that, due to its ‘brutalist’ appearance’, does not seem as fragile as it is. Though the pieces are supposed to be portable, their weight and fragile nature make them impractical to move. This is what makes Estapé’s jewellery pieces so interesting: they stop you, thus making you aware of your own body, which must be still. It is precisely in this stopping, in this lack of productivity, where the fragility of our time lies.
Just as fragile are the photographs, once said to be immortal, exhibited by Joan Fontcuberta as part of Jardins de Pols, at àngels barcelona. The artist reclaims the idea of ‘iconofagy’ as a ‘tool for critiquing the current era of images’. In this case, it is tackled from both an analogue and a digital perspective. Analogue, because it shows photographs that have been consumed by microorganisms over time. Their devouring effect has damaged and deformed the images and the memory they held. Digital, because AI has been used to create non-existent but photorealistic plant forms. By ‘feeding’ off millions of existing images, AI generates new results. The tragic fate of the analogue image and the productive euphoria of AI place us before an uncertain future: in this case, especially ‘in terms of the nature of the image, but also “natural” nature’, as the artist points out.
So, there is a certain mystery invading all three proposals, but it is Dis Berlin at Sala Parés who expresses this through plastic art. With motifs that evoke a rhetorical temporality, he creates a strange composition. And it is from this strangeness, from pictorial enigmas, that the artist encourages contemplation, a decelerated state, in order to take the world back and gain time.
Seven local curators propose seven strolls through Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023 galleries.
The texts by Sara Catalán, Pilar Cruz, Mariella Franzoni, Sabel Gavaldon, Gabriel Virgilio Luciani, Zaida Trallero and Veronica Valentini will work as guides to discover the exhibitions through their particular perspectives.
Zaida Trallero pursues her practice in a number of fields: curating, writing, research and cultural management. Since 2017, she has been a member of the trama34 cultural association and artists’ workshop (L'Hospitalet del Llobregat), where she runs projects such as Els col·leccionables del kiosk solitari; AF.FAIR. Another fucking fair; and Meta Monumental Market. She has worked with spaces and institutions such as La Capella (Barcelona), Casal Solleric (Palma de Mallorca), Salón (Madrid); Museu d'història de L'Hospitalet del Llobregat; Chiquita Room; Trastero 109 (Palma de Mallorca); Museu de l'Empordà (Figueres); Goethe Institut (Barcelona); Fundació Tàpies; Sant Andreu Contemporani; Arts Visuals Can Felipa; and La Casa Encendida (Madrid). She has also been a mentor for the Sala d'Art Jove. She is the co-founder of the online publishing initiative Site-Specific Conversation and she writes for artists’ publications and cultural platforms.
Between Sant Antoni and Ciutat Vella [MAP]:
Saturday 16th September, from 11:00 to 11:45 am.
Sunday 17th September, from 11:00 to 11:45 am.
Active visits for families with children by Alexandra Laudo, independent curator based in Barcelona and founder of Heroínas de la Cultura.
Limited capacity! Previous registration required at: bgw@artbarcelona.es
Recommended age: 7 to 12 years old.
Language: Catalan / Spanish, depending on the group's preference.- Start 11:00h
BGW Familiar: Children and Fools, by Teresa Estapé, at Chiquita Room
Saturday 16th September, from 12:30 to 13:15pm.
Sunday 17th September, from 12:30 to 13:15pm.
Active visits for families with children by Alexandra Laudo, independent curator based in Barcelona and founder of Heroínas de la Cultura.
At Chiquita Room, Alexandra will present Teresa Estapé's artistic practice, comment on the works on display and invite the children, as well as the adults accompanying them, to reflect on what they see through questions, games and other proposals.
Limited capacity! Registration: bgw@artbarcelona.es
Recommended age: 7 to 12 years old.
Language: Catalan / Spanish, depending on the group's preference.- Start 12:30h
ARCO GalleryWalks: from Balmes to Passatge Mercader
Saturday, September 16th, 11am. Reservations here. SOLD OUT
Sunday, September 17th: 11am. Reservations here. SOLD OUT
Meeting point: Galeria Joan Prats (Balmes, 54).
In collaboration with the ARCO Foundation, Barcelona Gallery Weekend is once again offering free guided tours to the participating galleries: seven walks guided by a local expert in which gallerists and artists will present their exhibitions first-hand. Each itinerary will take place twice during the weekend.
In Catalan/Spanish.
Limited capacity.
Route [MAP]:3. Zielinsky
4. ProjecteSD
ARCO GalleryWalks: From Gràcia to l'Eixample
Saturday, September 16th, 11am. Reservations here. SOLD OUT
Sunday, September 17th: 11am. Reservations here. SOLD OUT
Meeting point: House of Chappaz (Carrer de Ca l'Alegre de Dalt, 55, Baixos C)
In collaboration with the ARCO Foundation, Barcelona Gallery Weekend is once again offering free guided tours to the participating galleries: seven walks guided by a local expert in which gallerists and artists will present their exhibitions first-hand. Each itinerary will take place twice during the weekend.
In Catalan/Spanish.
Limited capacity.
Route [MAP]:
ARCO GalleryWalks: from Sant Antoni to Ciutat Vella
Saturday, September 16th, 5pm. Reservations here. SOLD OUT
Saturday, September 17th: 11am. Reservations here. SOLD OUT
Meeting point: Chiquita Room (Villarroel, 25)
In collaboration with the ARCO Foundation, Barcelona Gallery Weekend is once again offering free guided tours to the participating galleries: seven walks guided by a local expert in which gallerists and artists will present their exhibitions first-hand. Each itinerary will take place twice during the weekend.
In Catalan/Spanish.
Limited capacity.
Route [MAP]:3. Sala Parés
ARCO GalleryWalks: Eixample dreta
Saturday, September 16th, 11am. Reservations here. SOLD OUT
Saturday, September 16th: 5 pm. Reservations here. SOLD OUT
Meeting point: 3 Punts (Consell de Cent, 317)
In collaboration with the ARCO Foundation, Barcelona Gallery Weekend is once again offering free guided tours to the participating galleries: seven walks guided by a local expert in which gallerists and artists will present their exhibitions first-hand. Each itinerary will take place twice during the weekend.
In Catalan/Spanish.
Limited capacity.
Route [MAP]:1. 3 Punts
2. Mayoral
ARCO GalleryWalks: Enric Granados and surroundings
Saturday, September 16th, 11am. Reservations here. SOLD OUT
Saturday, September 16th: 1pm. Reservations here. SOLD OUT
Meeting point: Galería Marlborough (Enric Granados, 68)
In collaboration with the ARCO Foundation, Barcelona Gallery Weekend is once again offering free guided tours to the participating galleries: seven walks guided by a local expert in which gallerists and artists will present their exhibitions first-hand. Each itinerary will take place twice during the weekend.
In Catalan/Spanish.
Limited capacity.
Route [MAP]:2. ADN Galeria
ARCO GalleryWalks: L'Hospitalet
Saturday, September 16th, 5pm. Reservations here. SOLD OUT
Sunday, September 17th: 11am. Reservations here. SOLD OUT
Meeting point: Galería Alegría (Ronda de la Vía, 7, L'Hospitalet)
In collaboration with the ARCO Foundation, Barcelona Gallery Weekend is once again offering free guided tours to the participating galleries: seven walks guided by a local expert in which gallerists and artists will present their exhibitions first-hand. Each itinerary will take place twice during the weekend.
In Catalan/Spanish.
Limited capacity.
Route [MAP]:5. ethall
ARCO GalleryWalks: Trafalgar
Saturday, September 16th, 5pm. Reservations here. SOLD OUT
Sunday, September 17th: 11am. Reservations here. SOLD OUT
Meeting point: LAB 36 (Trafalgar 36)
In collaboration with the ARCO Foundation, Barcelona Gallery Weekend is once again offering free guided tours to the participating galleries: seven walks guided by a local expert in which gallerists and artists will present their exhibitions first-hand. Each itinerary will take place twice during the weekend.
In Catalan/Spanish.
Limited capacity.
Route [MAP]:1. LAB 36
3. Dilalica