Featured Events in Barcelona in October, 2025 (June Updated)

The artist José Luis Rey Vila (Cádiz, 1900 – Paris, 1983), better known as Sim, left one of the most vivid witnesses of the Spanish Civil War, in Barcelona. Within the line of exhibitions and projects dedicated to the conflict, almost a hundred drawings of this artist will be exhibited during the Civil War, which have recently been acquired by the Museu Nacional. It is a creation of great quality and expression, and it shows scenes of a great deal of rawness that show the effects of the war on its magnitude.

The exhibition Pleas of Resistance traverses more than twenty-five years of practice by the artist Carlos Motta, who consistently engages with the body and sexual dissidence as a terrain of experimentation and political contestation. His early explorations of photographic self-portraiture are shown alongside his most recent performances and video installations. The exhibition explores the magnitude of Motta’s artistic research and its implacable rigor in relation to the archive, interrogating its violence, its silencing and its desires. Motta’s work challenges the imposition of Eurocentric epistemologies – from the time of the conquest and colonial period in the Americas to the present day – and considers the legacy of religion as a perpetrator and disturbing vehicle of coloniality.

"I learned to swim on dry Land" is an exhibition by the artist and essayist Coco Fusco, which explores the confrontation between art and power in post-revolutionary Cuba. Through poetry, performance, and activism, the exhibition recovers the voices of dissident creators such as Virgilio Piñera and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara. With unpublished documentation and references to the U.S. and its policies, Fusco offers a reflection on language, censorship, and cultural resistance.

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Lady Gaga Barcelona is set to be an unforgettable evening of music and performance at the iconic PalauSantJordi in Barcelona. On October 31, 2025, at 21:00, the world-renowned artist will grace the stage, bringing her electrifying presence and chart-topping hits to the vibrant city. Known for her powerful vocals, extravagant costumes, and captivating stage presence, Lady Gaga promises a show that will leave the audience in awe. The PalauSantJordi, a premier venue in Barcelona, offers an exceptional setting for this highly anticipated event. With ticket prices at 268 USD, fans will experience an evening of unparalleled entertainment, featuring a blend of her classic anthems and new releases. This event is not just a concert but a celebration of artistry and innovation, making Lady Gaga Barcelona a must-attend for music enthusiasts and fans alike.

This photography exhibition by Joaquim Gomis brings together a selection from the extensive reportage that the great friend of Joan Miró and Joan Prats made of the Prats family's hat shop on Rambla de Catalunya. The Prats hat shop became an improvised cultural center and a magical creative center where anything was possible. The shop windows were transformed into exhibition spaces.

This exhibition offers a multifaceted, open-to-interpretation account of the key events that motivated the founding of the Center for Contemporary Art Studies (CEAC). The exhibition will explore the circumstances and people who drove modernism in Catalonia, emphasizing the figure of Joan Prats, who was instrumental in the creation of the Fundació Joan Miró-CEAC. It will also reflect on the impact of the Civil War and the Franco regime, and the desire to recover the ideals of the modern movement of the 1920s and 1930s. The exhibition will address key moments in the history of the Fundació, such as the 75th anniversary of Joan Miró, the exhibitions dedicated to the artist in Barcelona in 1968 and 1969, and the construction of the building designed by Sert. Following this, a section will be dedicated to the early years of the CEAC's operation until Miró's death in 1983. The tour will continue with the transformation of the Foundation from the 1980s onwards, a period in which key elements include the expansion of the building and the changes brought about by Olympic Barcelona. Finally, the exhibition will culminate with a tribute to the artists who have been part of the Foundation's recent history, highlighting their creative processes.

This exhibition offers a multifaceted, open-to-interpretation narrative that reviews the key factors that motivated the founding of the Center for Contemporary Art Studies (CEAC). The exhibition will explore the circumstances and people who drove modernism in Catalonia, emphasizing the figure of Joan Prats, who was instrumental in the creation of the Fundació Joan Miró-CEAC. It will also reflect on the impact of the Civil War and Franco's regime, and the desire to recover the ideals of the modern movement of the 1920s and 1930s.

Thanks to the efforts of Picasso's personal secretary, Jaume Sabartés, and the artist Antoni Clavé, in 1955 the cousins Joan and Miquel Gaspar met Pablo Picasso in Vallauris, accompanied by Picasso's childhood friend Joan Vidal i Ventosa, Sabartés and Clavé. The trust that was generated between Picasso and the Barcelona gallery owners made it possible for the Gaspars to put on regular exhibitions about the artist in their gallery in Consell de Cent Street from 1956 onwards. Between 1956 and 1973, the year of Picasso's death, all relations established from Barcelona were through the Gaspars as connecting elements, as well as through Sabartés until his death in 1968, since the creation of the Museu Picasso de Barcelona in 1963. The exhibition presents the close friendship between Pablo Picasso and Jacqueline Roque, along with cousins Joan and Miquel Gaspar and their respective partners, Elvira Farreras and Ena Alba. The commitment to the artist and his work, together with the love that Picasso felt for Barcelona, was crucial in the role that it played for the Picasso legacy in our city.

Ludovica Carbotta (Turin, 1982) lives and works in Barcelona. Her practice investigates urban space and the connection between individuals and their environment. Through installations, texts, and performances, she reflects on concepts such as "place," "identity," and "participation." She is currently developing a concept called fictional site specificity, which reinterprets real places within fictional contexts and highlights imagination as key to the construction of knowledge.

The Museum continues with the programmatic line on the Civil War begun with projects such as the presentation of the new permanent war rooms in 2021 or the exhibition Museum in Danger!, around the process of safeguarding works during the conflict. Based on the information from the museum and the research carried out, the MNAC will present to the public for the first time a set of works from its collection that come from the deposit made by the SDPAN, the Francoist National Heritage Defense Service created in 1938. The works from the SDPAN were deposited in this and other museums, and it is unknown to this day who was their owner.

The exhibition of the Catalan artist Tinta against Hitler in Barcelona is the presentation of the discovery of the only Catalan and Spanish artist who worked massively for British and Allied propaganda during the Second World War. From 1941 to 1945, Mario Armengol Torrella (San Juan de la Abadesses, 1909 – Nottingham, 1995) drew about two thousand cartoons or cartoons in the service of the British Ministry of Information against the Third Reich and the Axis to publish them in newspapers and magazines in London and New Zealand, New Zealand. The exhibition will present a selection of the originals preserved by the author and the family, which, together with the publications in which many of these cartoons will appear, will become one of the world’s largest collections of political satire of the most horrific conflict in history. It is a spectacular fresco, so far unknown, as Armengol’s illustrations are found alongside those of the UK’s largest and most influential cartoonistscartoonists, such as David Low, Giles and Illingworth. In them you can see almost all the fronts of the war and the most prominent figures of this brutal battle. In addition, this is a style that draws from the intense tradition of Catalan cartoonists and satirical publications from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In Armengol, this tradition crystallizes in a work of great artistic, versatile and modern quality, which goes beyond the style of the time, points to the current comics and continues to challenge us in the limits of humor in dramatic and brutal contexts.

The exhibition is an intergenerational dialogue between Joan Miró and American artists, showing how their creative practices mutually enriched each other and contributed to the development of 20th-century art. Through this exchange, the exhibition will reconfigure our understanding of the place of Miró's work in art history: the usual focus on France will shift, and the United States will become central to his artistic evolution. This new narrative will not only revisit Miró's legacy but also highlight the relevance of many women artists of the period. These artists were essential in redefining contemporary art, whether as role models for other artists or as protagonists of innovative movements such as gesture painting, abstraction, and action painting.

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