Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2024
From September 19-22, we celebrate our 10th anniversary with a new opening the artistic season in 27 contemporary and modern art galleries in Barcelona and its surroundings, which will present the work of more than 30 national and international artists:
3 Punts Galeria - Jan Schüler | ADN Galeria - Eugenio Merino, Julio Anaya | Ana Mas Projects - Michael Lawton | àngels barcelona - Lúa Coderch | Artur Ramon Art - Jordi Ortiz | Bombon Projects - Lara Fluxà | Chiquita Room - Louis Porter | Dilalica - Beatriz Olabarrieta + Mario Santamaría | ethall - Rasmus Nilausen | FUGA - Nieves Mingueza | Galería Alegría - Jorge Diezma, Philipp Röcker | Galeria Marc Domènech - Esther Boix | Galeria Uxval Gochez - Yeonsu Lim | galeria SENDA - Gino Rubert | Galeria Valid Foto BCN - Masao Yamamoto | House of Chappaz - Carles Congost | L21 Barcelona - Fabio Viscogliosi | Mayoral - Group exhibition (Barcelona 1978 – 1992) + Catalina León | Pigment Gallery - Sito Mújica | Prats Nogueras Blanchard - Richard Wentworth | ProjecteSD - Jochen Lempert | RocioSantaCruz - Lionel Sabatté | Sala Parés - Michael Kenna + Toni Catany | SUBURBIA CONTEMPORARY - Gianluca Iadema | Taché Art Gallery - Lluis Lleó | Victor Lope Arte Contemporáneo - Beate Höing | Zielinsky - Claudio Goulart
+ CHECK OUT THE EXHIBITIONS PROGRAMME: https://www.barcelonagalleryweekend.com/programme.php?lang=eng
An extensive agenda of commented visits by artists and curators, performances, talks, family visits and guided tours will complement the general programme in the galleries and partner institutions.
Exhibition view. Galería Alegría: Alberto Peral and Luis Bisbe during BGW2023. Photo: Eva Carasol.
Barcelona Gallery Weekend: PROFESSIONALS PROGRAMME AND ACQUISITIONS
Aimed at collectors, curators, art advisors, critics and representatives from local and international art institutions, BGW’s Professional Programme includes exclusive visits to the galleries, studios, art collections and partner institutions to introduce them to the city's artistic offer, as well as social gatherings to foster synergies and strengthen relationships.
In addition, BGW2024 will also feature a new edition of the Acquisitions Programme, aimed at private collections, foundations, and companies that commit to acquire artworks at the participating galleries. So far, the following entities have already confirmed their participation: Fundació Vila Casas, Fundació Sorigué, Fundació Úniques, MIA Art Collection and The Social Hub.
Commented visit by the artist Patricia Dauder at ProjecteSD gallery, BGW2023. Photo: Eva Carasol.
Barcelona Gallery Weekend: A WALK BY CURATOR…
We are pleased to announce the third edition of “A walk by…”, a programme in which seven local curators propose seven strolls, seven ways of approaching the exhibitions at the participating galleries through their particular points of view.
Check the curators’ profile. Their text-guides will be available here soon: https://barcelonagalleryweekend.com/route.php?type=3
+ Xavier Acarín, independent curator, professor at EINA and PhD student at Goldsmiths, University of London
+ David Armengol, independent curator and director of La Capella, Barcelona
+ Cèlia del Diego, independent curator and head of Institutional Relations at MACBA (Barcelona)
+ Carles Guerra, researcher, independent curator, associate professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and member of the Collège Photographie et images animées and CNAP, France
+ Sofia Lemos, independent curator and writer
+ Patricia Sorroche, curator and head of exhibitions at the Museu Tàpies
+ Linda Valdés, curator and founding member of the research platform Equipo re.
*Photo: A walk by curator… archive photo, BGW2023. Eva Carasol.
Pia Camil, Carolina Caycedo, Catalina León, Cinthia Marcelle, and Marga Ximénez: Mater
The first exhibition in Mayoral’s new contemporary art space -coinciding with the 35th anniversary of the opening of its first gallery- showcases works by artists Pia Camil, Carolina Caycedo, Catalina León, Cinthia Marcelle, and Marga Ximénez, highlighting their ability to challenge traditional materials and techniques to explore new possibilities. As stated by Chus Martínez in the exhibition text, "Today we know that spiders dream. But many of the artists who have worked with fibers, threads, looms, and fabrics already knew it." Mater features nine large-scale works that critically address contemporary socio-political themes such as migration and hyper-consumption.
Laercio Redondo: Sobre un fondo que se destaca
In this new series of works, the Brazilian artist Laercio Redondo continues his investigations into disobedient and dissident personalities, who are often underrepresented or simply erased from canonical accounts.
Redondo is particularly interested in hidden or little-studied chapters in the official history of Modernism. The trajectories of the Spanish artist Maruja Mallo and the French-American dancer, actress and singer Josephine Baker are the starting point for the creation of these pieces, made in collaboration with Birger Lipinski.
Tom Johnson: Logical music
Logical Music explores the relationship between image and music in the work of Tom Johnson (Colorado, USA, 1939), a musician and composer who has tirelessly explored to broaden the boundaries of the arts and pave new paths. With a career spanning over five decades, he is the author of a musical oeuvre that transcends the strictly auditory, delving into the realms of the visual, verbal, and mathematical. The exhibition includes unpublished drawings from his Imaginary Music series (1974), alongside a selection of drawings from the Kirkman's Ladies series, where mathematics and musical composition define the visual work.