Approximations. Guided tour
2025-03-01 - 2026-01-24 | Museu Tàpies
Introduction to the history of the building (the Montaner y Simón publishing house) and guided tour of the current exhibitions of Museu Tàpies

Programme 2025

Visit of the curator to the exhibition "Anna Malagrida. Opacities. Veiling transparency"
2025-09-20 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/Madrid)
As part of the programming of Barcelona Gallery Weekend, the Museu Tàpies invites us to a guided visit through the exhibition by Anna Malagrida. Opacitas: Veiling Transparency, accompanied by Patricia Sorroche, head of exhibitions at the museum and the show’s curator. Malagrida is represented by Galeria Senda. During the visit we will learn about the artist’s creative process and discover the conceptual reflections and concerns that have shaped her work.
This exhibition is centred on the notion of transparency as contemporary fiction, proposing a critical perspective on the limits between what is visible and what is hidden, between what is shown and what is veiled. Working alternatively in photography, video and installation art, Malagrida calls on us to reflect on urban space, nature and everyday gestures as scenarios of opacity and resistance.

Visit of the artist to the exhibition "Anna Malagrida. Opacities. Veiling transparency"
2025-09-20 11:00 - 12:00 | Museu Tàpies
As part of the programming of Barcelona Gallery Weekend, the Museu Tàpies invites us to a guided visit through the exhibition by Anna Malagrida. Opacitas: Veiling Transparency, accompanied by the artist. Malagrida is represented by Galeria Senda. During the visit we will learn about the artist’s creative process and discover the conceptual reflections and concerns that have shaped her work.
This exhibition is centred on the notion of transparency as contemporary fiction, proposing a critical perspective on the limits between what is visible and what is hidden, between what is shown and what is veiled. Working alternatively in photography, video and installation art, Malagrida calls on us to reflect on urban space, nature and everyday gestures as scenarios of opacity and resistance.

Anna Malagrida at the exhibition. Photo: Pep Herrero

Following the Sun: Guillem Jiménez / laSADCUM
2025-09-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Museu Tàpies
Oliver 04
This body essay is the staging of an investigation into digi-modernist poetics. It functions as a compilation of various gestural investigations that stem from the world Guillem Jiménez, choreographer and dancer from Barcelona, seeks to build through his company, laSADCUM. A portal to a fantasy world that takes certain bodily behaviours cultivated by capitalism and cyberspace to the extreme.
Through the use of satire, Jiménez proposes a character governed by the logics of pop magic, interns, techno-feudalism and a series of online and offline cultural conventions. Oliver is a kind of alter ego, not only of Jiménez, but of a whole system of bodies subject to the authorities that operate in the interstices of digital algorithms.

Guillem Jiménez / laSADCUM
laSADCUM is a Barcelona-based dance company led by choreographer Guillem Jiménez that, through the lens of dance and choreography, addresses certain poetics of the post-internet era.
laSADCUM have produced four performance pieces so far: two small-scale pieces (The Uncanny Valley, 2019, and The Lesson, 2020) and two large-scale pieces (Aclucalls, 2022, and Navaja, 2024). They have also carried out two exhibitions (Classmates, 2020, and Twink Twink Twink, 2022), workshops and curatorial programmes, as well as various collaborations with artists and institutions. They have received various awards, including the ActAward 2021 for best dance piece (The Lesson), 10 Sentidos 2021 for best dance piece (The Lesson), DansaCat 2024 for best music (Aclucalls), DansaCat 2024 for best choreography (Aclucalls), DansaCat 2024 for best show (Navaja) and Pedra Viva 2024 (Navaja).
laSADCUM’s work has been presented at venues such as the CCCB, Teatros del Canal, Festival Dansa València, La Casa Encendida, the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Dansa Metropolitana, Tanečno Festival, Teatro Réplika, Sala Apolo, Pluto and La Mutant, among others.
Guillem Jiménez, on the other hand, works as a performer (with Pedro Torres, Amaranta Velarde, Mar Aguiló and Benjamin Abel, among others) and as assistant choreographer and movement director (with Meritxell de Soto, Marina Fueyo and Gabriela Richardson, among others). This year he will premiere Duplex Studio (2025), a piece co-created alongside choreographer Luqui Lagomarsino, at Antic Teatre as part of the Grec Festival.

A session within the framework of the 2nd edition of the “Following the Sun 2025” cycle, curated by Gabriel Virgilio Luciani.

[Photo: Guillem Jiménez en Duplex Studio, @gergelyofner ]

Following the Sun. Sejal Parekh
2025-09-20 19:00 - 20:00
What Did You Say
What Did you Say is a sociological and sonic inquiry into the distortion of meaning and fact caused by deliberate or non-deliberate miscommunication or misunderstanding. Activated by the Indian-British artist Sejal Parekh, the performance—which functions more as a reckoning—confronts imperial mistranslations, the deliberate deafness of power and the symbolic violence of asking someone to repeat themselves in a language not their own.
The dynamic dialogues with several non-verbal communication phenomena, such as: the Sufi zikr, where breath carries meaning beyond the rational; Vedic chant, whose potency lies in vibrational memory; or Ashanti drum language, where rhythm speaks what cannot be said. Furthermore, the piece proposes a participative action, a take on a children’s game previously referred to in the United Kingdom as Chinese Whispers. The Sinophobic origins of the game’s title dialogues with other cultural bullyings and otherings, such as the Greek barbarian, with an onomatopoeic etymology mocking the sounds of those who did not speak Greek.
Tàpies’ Mitjó [Sock] will be activated as a listening device or witness through sounds of whispers and semiotics, which the audience should attempt to decipher by navigating the space around the sculpture. In the words of the artist: “What happens when whispers are given form, volume and permanence?” The corporeal gesture of collectively leaning in, attempting to understand, actively listening and accepting the sacred discomfort of not understanding, are the core elements of this spatial choreography.

Sejal Parekh is a cross-disciplinary artist. Through site-specific installations, video and sound work, she excavates the intricate topologies of hiraeth, a Welsh diasporic condition that transcends mere nostalgia, articulating instead a radical reimagining of spatial and cultural inhabitation.
Emerging from an intricate understanding of parallel world systems, where cultural dynamics are not merely observed but performatively dismantled, Parekh’s aesthetic strategy constitutes a fundamental archaeology of gesture. She recuperates and transforms objects, motifs and performative actions that were historically deployed to marginalise and stratify, transmuting them into nuanced instruments of critical refusal.
Sejal has an MA in Sculpture from Royal College Art, London. Her work has been shown at MACBA, Somerset House, Hope93, Ovada Gallery, SWAB Art Fair, Art Meets Apolo with Galería Senda and Stone Space Gallery. She has upcoming exhibitions at Barbati Gallery Venice, VHC Gallery India and the Souvenir for Loop Video Art Festival 2025.

A session within the framework of the 2nd edition of the “Following the Sun 2025” cycle, curated by Gabriel Virgilio Luciani.

Open day and guided tour on the occasion of La Mercè 2025
2025-09-24 10:00 - 19:00 | Museu Tàpies
As every year, on the occasion of the La Mercè 2025 festivities, the Tàpies Museum offers an open day, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and a free guided tour, at 5:30 p.m., to approach the exhibitions in course:
Antoni Tàpies. The Imagination of the World
Anna Malagrida. Opacitas. Veiling Transparency
André du Colombier. A Lyrical Point of Vue
and the project Extramurs 2025. Elena del Rivero. Transiting “la Quema”

La Mercè 2025 Image. Artistic Director: Lluís Danés

Joan Morey. Double Event
2025-09-25 18:00 - 18:30
In 2004, as part of an artistic project, Joan Morey tattooed “DECEPTION” on his left forearm. The choice of this word was not arbitrary, since it carries a semantic ambiguity, multiple layers of interpretation and a high potential for misunderstanding. Far from considering it a closed statement, he used it to highlight one of the structural conditions of art: its artificial, fictional and even tricky character, but, at the same time, its capacity to convey complex forms of truth.
Twenty years later, that inscription on the skin can be read as the symbolic beginning of an artistic journey based on ambiguity, plurality and openness. Far from seeking conclusive forms or a univocal language, Joan Morey has developed his work from unstable and, at times, contradictory positions. It is precisely in this oscillation where his power resides: in his ability to accommodate other voices, embody other bodies and channel demands—both his own and collectively—that critically question the present.
The performance DOUBLE EVENT (in progress since 2004) fits into this context, developed not as a finite work, but rather as a machine or an open production mechanism. Its title refers to the double event theatrical technique, which describes the simultaneous coexistence of two perceptive levels on stage: on the one hand, the fictional event, and on the other, the conscious recognition of the stage device. The performance therefore works as a system of transference and displacement, a kind of musical chairs, with witnesses and mirrors that challenge the notion of authorship and unitary presence and where body, time and gaze come into constant friction.

With the special collaboration of: Sílvia Arenas, Sònia Gómez and Ester Guntín.

Joan Morey (Mallorca, 1972) holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. Since the late 1990s, his artistic practice has included performances, videos and installations, as well as sound and graphic works, exploring the intersection between theatre, cinema, philosophy, sexuality and subjectivity. His work is characterised by a profound reflection on authority, power and the dynamics of domination, exploitation and inequality present throughout the history of humanity.
He has presented performances, works and site-specific interventions in many museums, art centres and galleries. His retrospective solo exhibitions include COLLAPSE. Desiring Machine, Working Machine, curated by Latitudes at the Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona – Fabra i Coats (Barcelona, 2018); COLAPSO. Máquina de representación [COLLAPSE. Representation Machine], curated by Alex Brahin, at the Claustro de San Agustín – Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá, 2019–2020) and COLLAPSE. Bachelor Machine, curated by Latitudes, at Casal Solleric (Palma de Mallorca, 2020).

Activity within the framework of the second edition of The Tàpies Chairs series, coordinated by Judith Barnés.

Conference I, You, World: Symbol and Universe
2025-09-30 18:00 - 20:30 | Museu Tàpies
Following on from the success of the first edition of the I, You, World: Symbol and Universe study days, held last year as part of the programme marking the centenary of the artist’s birth, the Museu Tàpies now presents the second and final edition of these study days. The aim is to delve into one of the most complex and essential aspects of Antoni Tàpies’ work: his ability to create a symbolic language that transcends material form and enters a realm that is both deeply personal and universally resonant.
By bringing together art theorists, poets and image specialists, those sessions spurred the development of fresh insights and multivoiced readings of Tàpies’ Sèrie Teresa [Teresa’s Series] (1966) and Cartes per a la Teresa [Letters to Teresa] (1974), two key works for understanding the dialogue between art, writing and existence in his career.
Tàpies’ oeuvre can be seen as a living essay that shapes a symbolic universe in which poetic vision and material form are in constant interplay. The focus on his Cartes per a la Teresa portfolio and Sèrie Teresa series brought to light the dialectic between sign and gesture, word and space, and the intersection of private life with the public construction of an artwork. This body of images and texts embodies an idea of art not merely limited to representation, but as an open process of exploration and symbolic creation, where each work becomes both meditation and communication extending beyond the artist himself.
The exhibition Antoni Tàpies: The Imagination of the World, currently on view at the Museu Tàpies, presents a selection of twelve works from Cartes per a la Teresa. Building on research shared in these study days, the show offers visitors a rare opportunity to explore the intersection of love letters, collage and lithography, expressed through a language that fuses cosmic gestures with the intimacy of the everyday. This ensemble reflects Tàpies’ gift for decoding and reconstructing shared life experiences, transforming them into spaces rich in meaning and open to multiple interpretations.
In this spirit, the I, You, World: Symbol and Universe study days reaffirm the Museu Tàpies’ commitment to placing the artist’s work within an interdisciplinary framework that allows it to be understood as a meeting point of personal history, symbolic vision, politics and aesthetic reflection. This broader perspective reveals how Tàpies’ art transcends its historical and cultural origins to become a universal expression in which the relationship between sign and world expands into the creation of a new universe.

PROGRAMME

SESSION 1
Date: 30 September 2025
6 pm. Welcome and introduction by Imma Prieto
6.10 pm. Talk: “An Education by Stone”, by Pedro G. Romero
6.50 pm. Talk: “Visual Letters: Overflowing Language, Matter, Affection and Gesture”, by Andrea Soto Calderón
7.30 pm. Poetry reading: “Uneasy Peace”, by Blanca Llum Vidal
8 pm. Open floor for questions
8.30 pm. Closing remarks

SESSION 2
Date: 1 October 2025
6 pm. Introduction by Judith Barnés
6.10 pm. Talk: “Essays on Love Without History”, by Raül Garrigasait
6.50 pm. Poetry reading: “Rag Days: Sequentiality, Epistolarity, Abstraction, Tàpies and Millares”, by Eloy Fernández Porta
7.30 pm. Debate
8 pm. Closing remarks

[Image: Antoni Tàpies. Original model (1971) for the series of lithographs, lithograph-collages and collages Letters to Teresa, 1974. © Comissió Tàpies / VEGAP, 2025]

Link to the first edition of the conference.

Museu Habitat: II International Meeting Countering Abysses. Poetics of Scale 2025
2025-10-01 - 2025-10-04
With two years of experience, the Museu Habitat program has opened several spaces for reflection, exchange, production and experimentation around the history and current affairs of the museum institution. The Museu Habitat has been built as a protean organism that seeks to bring together different types of communities and generate non-consensual spaces. The task of mobilizing meetings and actions has been carried out by a diverse team of artists, curators, activists and managers, which includes the research and mediation collectives Entrar Afuera, IDRA and Transductores.
The set of initiatives deployed has been complemented by two meetings and an exhibition. The first meeting, “Which museum?”, held in May 2024, started from a question that represents the germ of the program: which museum is possible and desirable today? And in 50 years? The second, “Turning spells”, stated that today it is no longer possible to reflect on the institution exclusively from its own foundations, be they physical or conceptual. Thinking and acting only from what happens within this normative building leads to inevitable sensory and epistemological frustration. For its part, through more than 120 works, the exhibition “Fabular paisatges” reflected on how exhibition devices are constructed, which stories are privileged and which stories are silenced. In line with these two meetings and taking into account the polarization that Fabular paisatges aroused, the Habitat Museum opens a new moment of synthesis and possible reformulations based on the seminar “Contrariar abisms. Poetics of scale”.
In December 2024, an assembly was held at the CAP Gornal, organized by the Entrar Afuera collective and mediated by Ràdio Nikosia, in which social and institutional agents converged. In this assembly, the notion of vertigo was taken as a clinical space, of personal experience and institutional challenge, from which to rethink roles and provoke experiences. In this sense, the general impotence that we all feel in the face of war, inequality, racism, gender violence and the devastation of nature, seems to lead us irremediably into the abyss, but at the same time it calls us, definitively, to resistance. This is posed as an urgent need.
In this context, the Habitat Museum proposes a dynamic of work on multiple scales, ranging from micro to macro and vice versa, and which delves into the interstices, into undefined options, that is, into what is located between gesture and action, between the personal and the social, between discourse and affections.
“Contrariar abismes. Poetics of scale” unfolds from three conceptual axes: exhibiting, narrating, fable-making. Exhibiting and narrating are two of the intrinsic tasks of the museum and both work in constant interaction. The decisions about what and how is exhibited construct a story that can and must be questioned permanently. In turn, fable-making is thought of here as a way of imagining other forms of narrating, but also as an exercise in confrontation with what has been fabled.
In this sense, the meeting seeks to resume and open up questions, contradictions and proposals with the aim of generating escape routes that can give rise to the necessary transformative movements and the construction of other spaces and ways of doing things.

Download the programme.

New vinyl of the series Tàpies’ Chairs 2024
2025-10-08 18:00 - 19:00 | Museu Tàpies
The Museu Tàpies presents the vinyl curated from the first edition of the series Tàpies’ Chairs, a collection of sound actions that took place as part of Tàpies Year. The first edition of this multidisciplinary series, brought together proposals by artists who worked with voice, spoken word and oral memory, using the Tàpies universe as a starting point for performative experimentation.
Actions, developed as part of the centenary of the artist’s birth, were created specifically for the museum and displayed diverse languages, ranging from music to text and gesture to sound, from unique perspectives. The first edition of the Tàpies’ Chairs series included the participation of MUOM, Félix Denuit, Biel Mesquida, Itziar Okáriz, Cabosanroque, Joana Gomila, Bartolomé Ferrando, Blanca Llum Vidal and Los Sara Fontán, Hugo Gómez-Chao Porta, Amidea Clotet (Cicle Difraccions), Eduard Escoffet, Mal Pelo and Niño de Elche.
The publication of this record responds to the desire to give continuity and permanence to a project designed to be experienced live. Capturing part of it on a physical medium such as vinyl, allows you to listen from a more intimate place, while prolonging the evocative power of the sound performances. By doing this, the Museu Tàpies reaffirms the value of listening and the sound archive, as active forms of transmitting artistic memory.
As part of the presentation, there will be an audition of the vinyl and the presence of some of the guest artists. In addition, anyone who wants to purchase the vinyl on this occasion will enjoy a special price of 25 euros (the official price is 30 euros).
Within the framework of Càtedra Antoni Tàpies – UPF d’Art i Pensament Contemporanis.

Rhythm and Substances
2025-10-14 18:00 - 19:00
As part of the exhibition Antoni Tàpies: The Imagination of the World, the Museu Tàpies presents the third activation in the cycle A Hatch in the Void, a series of events conceived by writer Marc Caellas to activate the materials presented in the exhibition, highlighting the epochal spirit in which we find ourselves.
This time, Caellas invites guitarist and improviser Juanma Trujillo to share a poetry and music recital that revisits the spirit of the historic evenings of the Club 49, a group of artists and intellectuals who, in the forties and fifties, renewed the cultural scene in Barcelona with talks, recitals and avant-garde actions.
The duet will recall essential voices of 20th-century poetry, such as Carlos Edmundo de Ory, Joan Perucho, J. V. Foix and Juan Eduardo Cirlot, establishing a living dialogue between word and sound. Reading and music will make up a shared space for discovery and experimentation, true to the transgressive spirit that characterised the Club 49 and to the way Antoni Tàpies saw art: as a constant questioning and as a window on the world.
This event offers the audience an intimate, immersive experience, one that invites listening in a different way, letting oneself be surprised and inhabiting a space where poetry and music not only meet, but enrich one another.

Opening of the exhibition: Germaine Dulac. Je n’ai plus rien
2025-10-16 19:00 - 21:00
Opening of the exhibition Germaine Dulac. Je n’ai plus rien, curated by Imma Prieto, director of the Museu Tàpies, and Imma Merino, film critic and university professor. The event will take place on Thursday, October 16, 2025, at 7:00 p.m., at the Museu Tàpies (Carrer de Aragó, 255, Barcelona).
Germaine Dulac. Je n’ai plus rien is the first monographic exhibition dedicated to Germaine Dulac (Amiens, 1882 – Paris, 1942) in the catalan and spanish context. The exhibition is based on a selection of films, texts, and archival materials—some previously unpublished—that allow us to explore the complexity of the cinematographic work of this prominent filmmaker and theorist of the avant-garde art. It also introduces the viewer to French cinematic impressionism, close to a certain narrative cinema, and facilitates the analysis of the critical tensions toward the heteropatriarchal hierarchies of her time, as well as experimental and documentary cinema from the end of her career.
The exhibition revisits more than thirty years of her career and offers a rigorous reflection on cinema, image, and the vindication of the female figure. It also reminds us of the eternal return of history and constitutes a denunciation of the rise of nationalism and the far right.
The retrospective expands with a film programme at the Filmoteca de Catalunya (from October 1 to November 23) and with the publication of the book Germaine Dulac. ¿Qué es el cine? (Wunderkammer / Museu Tàpies, 2025), which brings together, for the first time in Spanish, the filmmaker’s writings and lectures.
Admission to the general opening is free and requires no prior reservation.

Venus Jasper: Weeping Swamp
2025-10-18 13:00 - 15:00
Multidisciplinary artist, Venus Jasper, weaves together a new live performance stemming from their ongoing research Wetlands Worship; an exploration of swamp sentiments, climate grief, queerness and sacred ecologies. Born from speculative fiction modalities of storytelling and narrative deconstruction, the sonic aspect of the performance includes many samples of water, insects and metal, paired with a noise machine and haunting vocals. This future-facing folklore speaks of a rotting, turbulent sea and a journey to a mythic swamp-island where decay is sacred and rage has its rituals.
The artist based in Amsterdam, NL has received travel support from the Mondriaan Fund and will develop the piece during a week-long residency at Graner; an experimental movement and dance center in Barcelona where they will also spend time to investigating and queering the legacy of the Aloja and the Encantades—water spirits in Catalan folklore.
Venus Jasper (they/he) is a queer visual artist, singer-performer, educator, writer and curator – currently based in Amsterdam. In their counter-cultural and ritualistic work they envision spirited and sensuous post-capitalisms that spell the decolonization of the Anthropocene, rekindle more-than-human kinship, and forward (neuro)-queer and trans-historic perspectives on ecology, folklore, contemporary culture, spirituality and the self.
A session within the framework of the 2nd edition of the “Following the Sun 2025” cycle, curated by Gabriel Virgilio Luciani.

Book-Wall. Reading club 2025
2025-10-28 18:30 - 19:30 | Museu Tàpies
Within the framework of the exhibition Antoni Tàpies: The Imagination of the World, we have organised a reading group in collaboration with the bookshops Finestres, La Central and La Impossible. On this occasion, the selection of books—which, as always, will be made by the bookseller—will be related to themes present in the exhibition, such as popular culture, psychoanalysis and esoteric practices.
Llibre-mur [Book-Wall] (1990) is a work by Antoni Tàpies that lends its name to the series of reading clubs we have organised in recent years in collaboration with bookshops in the neighbourhood concerning our current exhibitions. Tàpies’ interest in books, both as objects and as sources of knowledge, and the fact that the museum premises formerly housed a publishing company, Montaner y Simón, make dialogues like this about writing, reading and art appropriate.

Programme
· Tuesday, July 15, 2025, 6.30 pm, at Museu Tàpies: La intrusa, by Irene Pujadas (L’Altra Editorial) with Olga Federico and Mireia Perelló, from the La Impossible bookshop, and the writer.
· Tuesday, September 16, 2025, at the Museu Tàpies: Gossos dempeus, by Eduard Olesti (Club Editor), with Cèlia Esteva, from La Central bookstore.
· Attention, change of date: Due to the strike called for October 15, the third session will be held on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, at 6:30 p.m., in the Museu Tâpies Library: we will discuss the work entitled “El setè cavall”, by Leonora Carrington (Extinció Edicions), with Àurea Perelló, from the Finestres. bookstore.
[Image: Antoni Tàpies. Llibre-mur (Book-Wall) 1990. © Comissió Tàpies / VEGAP, 2025]

Maladruà, with Estel Boada and Xavier Michel
2025-10-29 18:00 - 19:00 | Museu Tàpies
“Maladruà” is “maladroit.” It means “clumsy” in French. However, the interpretation of languages ​​and codes from different regions always plays a clumsy role when it comes to establishing immediate connections.
Estel Boada (Catalonia), singer and multidisciplinary artist, together with Xavier Michel (France), poetic performer of the absurd, will introduce us to the universe of André du Colombier through a perspective filled with humor, linguistic play, and experimentation with space.
The Maladruà activity is part of the RELÉ program of the ARTefACTe5 conference, a CLUB9 project promoting contemporary French performance. With the support of Espai nyamnyam.

Xavier Michel (Poitiers, 1990) holds a degree in Systems Engineering and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Villa Arson in Nice. For several years, he has developed a performative work in which he manipulates tool-sculptures in absurd and poetic productions. His practice draws on object theater, circus, dance, and music, giving rise to a polysemic and sensitive language. In recent months, he has been working in Barcelona, ​​where his work finds resonance and a certain affinity with the local art scene. He is currently in residency at Hangar-org.
Estel Boada (Barcelona, ​​1991), singer and multidisciplinary artist, defines herself as a contextual juggler. With a background in Fine Arts, she explores space, community, and voice through performance. Her work, marked by humor and absurdity with touches of fantasy, burlesquely reflects on her life as a “frustrated diva.” Interested in experimental education, contextual art, sound, music, and drawing, she uses action and humor as tools of critique. She has participated in numerous interdisciplinary art interventions and curated self-organized contemporary art series. She is also a composer and vocalist for various musical projects.

André du Colombier. A Lyrical Point of View. Installation view. Photo: Eva Guillamet

Leo Castro. Over half way
2025-10-30 19:00 - 19:30
“I always carry memory with me for a long time, in body and in thought, in any process of constructing a poetics or a fiction, which then end up being shared with lots of other strangers . . . Imagined landscapes, decisive conversations, those that are left halfway or unfinished because the thread leads somewhere else, the visual or drawn elements, I sketch them out. I talk about what’s left out but shapes the journey, which is no less beautiful than all that is finally validated.”
Revisiting thoughts and the body, with the space as a landscape, to recall the half of the way travelled so far.
Activity within the framework of the second edition of the action cycle The Chairs of Tàpies, led by Judith Barnés, head of public programs at the Tàpies Museum.

Leo Castro is an artist, performer and graduate in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona (1996). She trained as an actress from 1992 to 1996 at the Estudi Nancy Tuñón (Stanivslaski/Strasberg), and in dance in 1996, coming into contact with a range of contemporary techniques and creative talents: Benoît Lachambre, Ruth Zaporah, Mark Tompkins, Lisa Nelson, María Muñoz, Andrés Corchero, DD Dovilier and Julyen Hamilton, among others. In 1999 she founded Col·lectiu SIAMB, devoted to Improvisation and Contact Improvisation. She acts in productions by TVE, TV3, TVC and the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, as well as with the companies Senza Tempo, Sol Picó and Konic Thtr, and intermittently with the LaViuda company since 2002.
She began her partnership with the Mal Pelo company in 2004, and since then has worked with them as an actor and assistant director, as well as on audiovisual directing and creativity for the company’s stage and exhibition projects. She embarked on her own creative exploration in presenting the stage productions Amadou (2009) and Olivia (2012). In 2010 she started working with creative centre L’animal a l’esquena as head of videographic documentation of residency projects and the centre’s different artistic activities. From 2008 to 2016, together with Hermann Bonnin, she worked on productions for Teatro Español in Madrid, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya and La Seca / Espai Brossa, as movement director, stage director and acting coach. She worked as assistant director with the loscorderos.sc company on its pieces El mal menor, El cielo de los tristes and Ultrainocencia. Since 2013 she has worked as an audiovisual editor with film producer and distributor Fromzero. In 2015 she started teaching Performance Technique in Dance and Composition on the postgraduate course in Performing Arts at ERAM, University of Girona.

Poetics of Irruption. Visits in Dialogue
2025-11-04 18:00 - 19:00
The Museu Tàpies presents a series of visits in dialogue to explore the unique world of André du Colombier, one of the most enigmatic and fascinating artists of his generation. The exhibition André du Colombier: A Lyrical Point of View, curated by Adam Szymczyk, unfolds an artistic practice where language is put into tension to the point of becoming visual material, and words and signs take on their own, almost physical properties.
Du Colombier (Barcelona, 1952 – Paris, 2003) explored the frontiers of language with radical freedom. His artwork plays with repetition, the contrast between capital and small letters, the identity of commas and accents, and the possibility for words to refer solely to themselves. The result is a body of work that questions linguistic structures and puts the very meaning of communication into crisis, thus opening up space for the absurd, silence, music and poetry.
With this series, the Museu Tàpies aims to relate the world of du Colombier to the perspectives of contemporary creators and thinkers. Each session brings together two invitees—from the visual arts, literature and poetry—to share their subjective reading of du Colombier’s work and engage in dialogue with the public. These are not conventional guided visits, but rather encounters where words and the gaze are activated in a shared and lively manner, turning the exhibition into a collective and possibly transformative experience.

The visits in dialogue will be guided by:
· Alicia Kopf i Raquel Santanera (4/11/25)
· Míriam Cano i Oriol Vilanova (11/12/25)
· Ignasi Aballí i Eduard Escoffet (14/01/26)

Drawing Visit: "Antoni Tàpies: The Imagination of the World" with Oriol Vilapuig
2025-11-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Museu Tàpies
With what specificities does drawing operate in the formation of an image? What happens if we shift the focus of attention from the drawing to the one who draws, from the object to the action that produces it? Can we also interpret an image with our body?
We propose a visit in which drawing and, by extension, our body will lead us as a form of knowledge and connection. We will explore the work of Antoni Tàpies through the language of drawing, as an original and specific gesture. An action that produces an image through a filter, the body, which is extremely complex, fragile and sensitive. We will think of drawing as based on the bodily movements that produce friction between the support and the materials, in specific temporal and spatial conditions that generate an image as a result. This image, however specific and symbolic it may be, also describes a body that generates friction. Thus, drawing could be understood as a map, a cartography of gestures and behaviours, a sensory record shared between two bodies: that of an author who creates and activates it and that of a receiver who collects it with their own body, seeing as they also recognise themselves in the gestures that produced it.
We invite you to take part in a drawing activity where we will think through activating the frictions that are inherent in the gestation of an image through the work of Antoni Tàpies, based on material approaches such as gesture, speed, friction and matter, yet understanding them as a state linked to its emotional, political and spiritual conditions. A hands-on activity that invites us to explore the work of Antoni Tàpies through the language of drawing and its performative potential.

Oriol Vilapuig Morera (Sabadell, 1964)
Visual artist who mainly works with the language of drawing, his practice involves an essayistic approach. The question of images, their possibilities and rules, as well as their ways of appearing, are a constant in his work. His work also expands into the field of teaching through the performative possibilities of drawing and its modes of use. He teaches workshops as a lecturer in the Fine Arts degree at BAU – Centre Universitari d’Arts i Disseny de Barcelona and at Illa – Escola d’Art i Disseny de Sabadell. He has exhibited in a number of solo and group exhibitions. His work is part of several collections and has received critical acclaim.

Segni mossi. PURPLE training
2025-11-08 - 2025-11-09
Segni mossi is a research project created by Alessandro Lumare (visual artist) and Simona Lobefaro (choreographer) that focuses on the relationship between dance – as a projection in space and the emergence of our emotional side – and drawing – as an extension of the body and action, and as a means to trace the essence of experiences.
In this event, Segni mossi is presenting its training PURPLE, which is aimed at teachers, artists, educators and all those interested in art and education. The artists say that this training “tastes of bungee jumping, light breeze, and earthquake”.
“We will be magnetic dances, attractive colours. We will stretch movements, release signs. We will bounce between tempera, bodies, and environments. We will be magma, pumice, lava. Invisible like the wind, we will lift leaves, trees, and buildings. We will be traces in the storm”.

Stretch and scatter. Workshop for families with Segni mossi
2025-11-08 10:30 - 12:30
A workshop where bodies trace elastic trajectories and let themselves be carried by invisible forces. We’ll play with movements that stretch and return, then we’ll be swept away by the wind that moves objects, people and marks. An experience for families, between tension, lightness and sudden storms.

Segni mossi is a research project created by Alessandro Lumare (visual artist) and Simona Lobefaro (choreographer) that focuses on the relationship between dance – as a projection in space and the emergence of our emotional side – and drawing – as an extension of the body and action, and as a means to trace the essence of experiences.

"La Quema" [The Burning]: New documentary about Elena del Rivero’s creative journey
2025-11-14 18:00 - 19:00
As the climax of the second Extramural art project, Elena del Rivero. Transitar «La Quema» [Elena del Rivero: Transiting ‘The Burning’], the Museu Tàpies presents, as part of the programme of the Barcelona Loop Festival, the new documentary La Quema, produced by Impro Films, A Casa Do Pozo and The Paraclete, in collaboration with Mateo Feijóo, curator of the project Elena del Rivero: Transitar «La Quema».
The project La Quema follows Elena del Rivero’s journey and her earliest works, created in the seventies and eighties, from her studio in Madrid to the Galician village of San Pedro Fiz de Vilar. There, the paintings were exhibited in domestic settings—houses, stables, the local church or school—before they were given up to the passing of time… or to the fire. Through the artist’s reflections, the cooperation of the residents and the final ritual of the burning, the film portrays a process of letting go, memory and transformation, in which loss becomes the beginning of a new creative stage.
Like a diptych, this documentary is presented together with O carro e o home [The Cart and the Man], an audiovisual that is part of the legacy left by the ethnographer from Ourense Xaquín Lorenzo, Xocas, to the Museo do Pobo Galego, of which he was the founder and first chairman of the Board of Trustees. The original film—made in 1940, scripted by Xocas and directed by Antonio Román—recounts the life of the cart as a symbol of traditional Galician material culture. A work strongly influenced by Soviet cinema and the work of Robert J. Flaherty whose actors and actresses are the residents of the hamlet of Facós, in the Municipality of Lobeira (Ourense province), the birthplace of Xaquín Lorenzo.
In 1980, starting from a copy that appeared at the Museo Arqueolóxico Provincial de Ourense and is kept at the Museou do Pobo Galego, the ethnographer, together with film-maker Eloy Lozano, made a new cut with a less mock traditional soundtrack, with text and voiceover by Xocas himself. This second version, sponsored by the Museo do Pobo Galego, was recently digitalised in cooperation with AGADIC (Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais) and Filmoteca de Galicia.

Credits:

La Quema [The Burning]
Authors: Daniel Fuertes Perea, Gabriel Jesús García Duque, Gregorio Alejandro Blanco Rivas
Production: Impro Films
Year: 2025
Length: 100 min

O carro e o home [The Cart and the Man]
1940/1980, Galicia, 11 min, original language
Production: P.A.C.E.
Director and photographer: Antonio Román
Script: Xaquín Lorenzo and Antonio Román
Editing: Antonio Román and Carlos Serrano de Osma
Narrator: Ignacio Mateo
Sound: Laffon-Selgas
Laboratory: Arroyo

O carro e o home [The Chart and the Man] (1980 cut)
Production: Praia Lenta Films and Museo do Pobo Galego
Restoration: Eloy Lozano
Script and editing: Xaquín Lorenzo and Eloy Lozano
Text and voiceover: Xaquín Lorenzo
Background music: Eloy Lozano

fe sense obres morta és, by Albert Serra
2025-11-20
The Museu Tàpies has organised a series of screenings for the public presentation of fe sense obres morta és [faith without works is dead], the new film production by Albert Serra, which renders homage to the person and work of Antoni Tàpies. The initiative arose from the museum’s intent to expand understanding of the Tàpies’ legacy through “indisciplined” contemporary gazes, able to forge new narratives from his work. The proposal pertains to a line of programming that emphasises experimentation and dialogue between diverse artistic expressions.
In this context, Serra—an internationally recognised filmmaker, producer and screenwriter whose career is distinguished by formal freedom and conceptual radicality—has accepted the challenge of creating a personal, unrestrained and nontransferable approximation to the universe of Tàpies. The result is a film that does not seek to explain nor interpret, but rather to suggest, invoke and emotionally move us. It is a piece that is open and sensorial, opting for poetic evocation over direct representation.
In fe sense obres morta és, Serra delves into the most intimate and spiritual terrains of the production of Tàpies, exploring the material limits, symbolic charge and philosophical density of a unique gaze that is incorruptible and always provocative. The film sidesteps conventional narrative in constructing an immersive experience that dialogues with the artist’s thought and aesthetics, accentuating their present-day relevance, complexity and transformative verve. It is an audiovisual project that is much more than a portrait or exercise in interpretation: it is an autonomous artistic proposal that, with the world of Tàpies as its starting point, reveals hidden and unexpected aspects of it. It is also an invitation to approach Tàpies from new perspectives, through the language of film as a realm of reflection and interpretation.
With this screening series, the Museu Tàpies solidifies its commitment to contemporary creation and to the critical revision of Antoni Tàpies’ work, encouraging encounters between a diverse set of generations, disciplines and artistic sensibilities.

Fact sheet:
fe sense obres morta és
Albert Serra, Catalonia, 2025. DCP, Catalan, 52 min.

Albert Serra has a degree in Spanish Philology and Comparative Literature from the University of Barcelona. As a film director, he is considered one of the leading contemporary filmmakers internationally. His international debut was with Honor de cavalleria, which premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival; it was considered one of the best films of the year by the prestigious French journal Cahiers du Cinéma. In 2009 he returned to Cannes with El cant dels ocells, which was chosen for and won awards at various international festivals. He has also directed projects for museums: Els noms de Crist, presented at the MACBA exhibition Are You Ready for TV? (2010); and El Senyor ha fet en mi meravelles, for the exhibition The Complete Letters at the CCCB. In 2013 he wrote and directed the film Història de la meva mort, winner of the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival, and considered one of the best films of the year by The New Yorker. These recognitions situated him on the stage of world cinema. In 2016 he premiered La mort de Lluís XIV, which won the Prix Jean Vigo and received seven nominations for the Gaudí Awards. In 2019 he returned to Cannes with Liberté, a film about the libertines expelled from the puritan court of Louis XVI, wining the Special Jury Prize. In 2022 he directed Pacifiction, a hypnotic thriller shot in French Polynesia. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, competing for the Palme d’Or, and was chosen best film of 2022 by Cahiers du Cinéma; it also won the Louis Delluc Prize and received nine nominations for the César Awards.

Mireia Calafell. FE-RI-DES (WOUNDS)
2025-11-27 19:00 - 19:30
What does it mean to think through wounds? What is it like to experience life through them? Can poets write about scars without using metaphors? Is it even worth trying?

The beginning is marked by a chair placed next to another, that is, a meeting between friends and the opportunity to pronounce wounds. Mireia Calafell uses friendship as a means of talking and reflecting on scars through the reading of her own poems, along with the words of others. She is joined by Fina Birulés, Miquel Missé, Pol Guasch and other voices who deserve to be heard when we talk about wounds. All this accompanied by another friend, composer Clara Peya, and her piano.
This activity is supported and endorsed by the Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona. As part of the second edition of the action cycle The Tàpie’s Chairs, by Judith Barnés, head of public programs at the Museu Tàpies.

Mireia Calafell is a poet. She is the author of Poètiques del cos (2006), Costures (2010), Tantes mudes (2014), Nosaltres, qui (2020) and Si una emergència (2024). She has received several awards, including the Lletra d’Or for Best Book in 2014, the Josep Maria Llopart Award for Best Poetry Collection Published in 2020 and the Carles Riba Award in 2023.
Calafell is co-director of the La Sullivan cultural production company and was formerly co-director of the POESIA i + (2015–2016) and Barcelona Poesia (2018–2021) festivals.

[Photography by Àlex Espuny]

Imagined World: Audio Description as a View
2025-11-29 17:00 - 18:00
Imagined World is an inclusive experience to bring Antoni Tàpies’ work to people with visual disability through live, expressive audio description. The activity invites you to connect with art immersively, entering into a profound dialogue with the works in the exhibition Antoni Tàpies: The Imagination of the World.
The audio describer guides visitors with visual disability, first by situating them in the art venue and then with an introduction to the artist and the exhibition. After this, they explore some of the highlights, finishing with a brief chat between the audio describer and the visitors. An evocative, detailed and empathetic description enriches the experience of the art, exploring new ways to perceive and interpret it.
The activity is led by Aleix Castany Jaen, a person with impaired vision, a graduate in History of Art and Film Studies, art audio describer and actor.
Activity devised by Aleix Castany Jaen and Marina Saura Olivella.
Activity aimed at people with visual disability and those accompanying them.

Transformation. Activities for families
2025-11-30 11:00 - 12:00
Dynamic guided tour for families of the exhibitions Antoni Tàpies: The Imagination of the World and André du Colombier. A Lyrical Point of View.
How does an egg transform into a butterfly? And how does this happen in art? Can things also transform? Antoni Tàpies and André du Colombier shared a deep interest in the objects and the magic of transformation. Would you like to know how they expressed it?
During this activity, we will discover that the work of both artists is full of references to the objects, and we will listen to what they are telling us. But we will have to keep our eyes wide open to let ourselves be carried away by their magic!

Montaner y Simón, a publishing house with history. Itinerary 2025
2025-12-20 11:00 - 13:30
Guided itinerary that aims to introduce the history of the former Montaner y Simón publishing house through a visit to the Museu Tàpies, the former headquarters of the publishing house and the work of the catalan modernist architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, and to two buildings by the same architect in Barcelona that are closely linked to it: the Palau Montaner, now the headquarters of the Spanish government delegation in Catalonia, and the Casa Thomas, which today houses the Cubiñá design furniture store.
