MACBA Museum

Guided visits to Birds-Kites by Aurèlia Muñoz

Led by Albert Gironès and Eva Paià

These Sunday visits focus on Aurèlia Muñoz's suspended Birds-Kites installation and the artist's dialogue between sculpture, textile and architecture. Led by Albert Gironès and Eva Paià, the sessions use the atrium installation to build a collective reading of Muñoz's practice.

Guided visits to Like a Dance of Starlings: MACBA Collection — Thirty Years and Infinite Ways of Being

By Avalancha

These weekly visits invite visitors to discuss Like a Dance of Starlings through shared observation rather than a fixed lecture. Led by Avalancha, they use the collection display to open conversation about subjectivity, freedom and the many narratives that cross the museum.

Guided visits to Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. Prisoners of Love and to Anna Moreno. The Third Twist

Led by Agnes Essonti, Albert Gironès and Eva Paià

These weekly visits connect the exhibitions of Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme with Anna Moreno through questions of memory, architecture and resistance. The docents use the immersive installation and the filmic desert project to build a shared reading of both shows.

Like a Dance of Starlings

MACBA Collection — Thirty Years and Infinite Ways of Being

This new presentation of the MACBA Collection for the museum's Year Thirty brings works into dialogue around identity, subjectivity and collective life. Rather than following a strict chronology, it opens a plural route through the collection and its many ways of being.

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme

Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom

The artists' first exhibition in Spain centres on an immersive audiovisual installation built from song, poetry and the memories of former Palestinian prisoners. Earlier works alongside it trace nearly two decades of practice shaped by resistance, dispossession and the politics of memory.

Anna Moreno. The Third Twist

Recent works by Anna Moreno use utopian architecture and speculative imagination to think about time, memory and unfinished modernist projects. At the centre is The Terminal Beach, a film about Ricardo Bofill's unfinished settlement in the Algerian Sahara and the colonial legacies that haunt it.

The Architecture of MACBA: Guided Tour of the Museum Buildings

Museum staff and architecture specialists guide visitors through MACBA as living cultural infrastructure rather than a static icon. The tour looks at how Richard Meier's building has been adapted over thirty years to new artistic practices, operational needs and public use.

Backstage at MACBA

Visit the Museum Stores with Sala 30

This recurring visit opens the museum's stores and conservation areas to the public. It explains how works are documented, preserved and prepared for exhibition, loans and research, while showing how a contemporary collection lives beyond the galleries.

Spiral of Time – Plaça dels Àngels – MACBA

This site-specific sound installation lets visitors listen to an evolving archive of Plaça dels Àngels recorded over several years. By moving through the recordings, the work turns the square's everyday rhythms into a changing sonic portrait of MACBA's surroundings.

Aurèlia Muñoz’s Birds-Kites

Three reconstructed sculptures from Aurèlia Muñoz's Birds-Kites series hang in the MACBA atrium as part of the centenary of the artist's birth. Designed to hover high in dialogue with light and architecture, the works reintroduce her expansive textile-sculptural language to the museum.

Building Emotions: Cinema and Architectures that Speak to the Human Condition

Activity by BARQ Festival

This BARQ Festival encounter brings architect Xevi Bayona and filmmaker Albert Serra together at MACBA to discuss how spaces and fiction move us. The conversation looks at the emotional force of architecture and cinema as ways of understanding human experience.

Total Democracy

Grec 2026

Los Voluble and guest performers combine live cinema, movement, digital folklore and political remix to revisit the Spanish democratic transition from an antimilitarist perspective. The show uses archival material, satire and music to question the contradictions of contemporary democracy.

La Mercè at MACBA Year Thirty

Open doors and various activities

For Barcelona's main city festival, MACBA opens free from morning to evening with exhibitions, activities, discounted books and food offerings across the site. The day is framed as a public celebration of the museum's thirtieth year and one of the last chances to see several current shows before they close.

Aurèlia Muñoz. Beings

This large retrospective follows more than fifty years of Aurèlia Muñoz's practice, from early collages and embroideries to large macramé structures, kite sculptures and paper installations. Organised with the Reina Sofía, it repositions Muñoz as a decisive figure in contemporary textile and sculptural art.