To invoke conflict
2026-09-10 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Madrid)
To invoke the gap, or the crack, the flaw, the difference, the penalized, the incongruity, the dissonance, the disappointment, the buried root, the shameful. To invoke conflict. But to do so as a window onto a truth, onto a dogma that suffocates, excludes, and blinds.

Truth, an interstice within the normative and hegemonic narrative, is interpreted through voice, guitar, rhythm, dance, movement, words, matter, sounds, and tradition. A theatrical attempt to materialize each truth, which is not singular but rather the truth of each individual.

With this newly created staging, the Barcelona-based musical duo offers us a pseudo-epistemological concert/recital/performance that reinterprets this crack by Antoni Tàpies, and from chairs that the duo’s singer himself, during his student years at Pompeu Fabra University, worked on as a guide and host.

Carla Motis and Vignesh Melwani are a Barcelona-based guitar and vocal duo who, since forming in 2019, have performed over fifty concerts throughout Catalonia, as well as in Madrid and Valencia. Over the years, they have drawn inspiration from jazz and bossa nova standards to reinterpret songs from a wide range of musical styles and cultures, adopting a minimalist and eclectic sound where fusion is not sought after but inherent and inevitable. While they have always infused their repertoire with critical, feminist, and queer perspectives, this is the first time they have presented original compositions created from this perspective.

Presentation of the book “El mapa del tresor”, a story inspired in Antoni Tàpies
2026-09-15 18:00 - 19:00
The Museu Tàpies hosts the presentation of The treasure map written by Alba Puig and illustrated by Àgata Gil, the book was recently published by Mediterrània in their Palomitas de Arte collection. The event will feature the author and illustrator, who will discuss the book’s creation process and their approach to the world of Antoni Tàpies.
A piece of paper with an X drawn on it seems to indicate the existence of a treasure. But what if things aren’t exactly what they seem? Based on this premise, The treasure map invites children to discover that the same image can give rise to multiple interpretations and that imagination is an essential tool for looking at the world.
Inspired by the work Ochre and blue stains, an Antoni Tàpies’s 1972 work, this story introduces young children to contemporary art through a narrative that fosters curiosity, creativity, and observation. The book is part of the collection Crispetes d’Art, a series of picture books that introduce children to the work of prominent artists through fiction and play.

Technical specifications

Text: Alba Puig Romañach
Illustrations: Ágata Gil Capeta
Publisher: Mediterrània (collection Crispetes d’Art)
Publication date: September 9
Size: 17.5 × 17.5 cm
Binding: paperback
Pages: 24
Recommended age: 3 years and up
Theme: art, painting and creativity
Price: €10
ISBN (Catalan): 979-13-88106-36-1
ISBN (Spanish): 979-13-88106-39-2

Book-Wall. Reading club 2026
2026-09-16 18:30 - 19:30 | Museu Tàpies
Within the framework of the exhibition Àngel Jové. De intactu, 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 the responsibility of the bookseller, will be related to the list of books published by the Anagrama publishing house that will incorporate illustrations by Jové on their covers.
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, June 2, 2026, at 6:30 p.m., at the Library of the Museu Tàpies: “Bajo el signo de marte“, by Fritz Zorn (Editorial Anagrama), with Cèlia Esteva, from the La Central. bookstore.

· Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at 6:30 p.m., at the Library of the Museu Tàpies: “El héroe de las mansardas de Mansard“, by Alvaro Pombo (Editorial Anagrama), with Olga Federico and Mireia Perelló, from the La Impossible bookstore.

· Wednesday, September 16, 2026, at 6:30 p.m., at the Library of the Museu Tàpies: “El sobrino de Wittgenstein“, by Thomas Bernhard (Editorial Anagrama), with Noelia Nistal, from the Finestres bookstore.

[Image: Exhibition “Àngel Jové. De intactu” by Museu Tàpies, Barcelona. Photography: Pep Herrero, 2026.]

Presentation of the catalogue Àngel Jové. De Intactu
2026-09-17 18:30 - 20:00
The presentation of the catalogue of Àngel Jové. De Intactu concludes the public program that the Museu Tàpies has organized within the framework of the temporary exhibition, a program that has been marked by polyphony, dialogue between disciplines and the desire to open new ways of approaching the figure of a creator with a production of many registers.
More than a record of the exhibition, this catalogue expands and unfolds the universe of Àngel Jové from a plurality of perspectives. Thus, the publication brings together contributions from leading voices in the fields of art, literature, and thought, creating a multifaceted reading that engages with the complexity of his work. The texts by Enrique Vila-Matas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Javier Antich, José Luis Corazón, Jesús Martínez Clarà, and Maria Josep Balsach offer complementary approaches to Jové’s trajectory: from the most intimate and literary dimension to the international reach of his practice; from a historical review of the Catalan artistic context of the 1970s and 80s to the philosophical, aesthetic, and poetic readings that explore recurring concepts in his work, such as illumination, trauma, the scream, and the horizon.
This meeting will be an opportunity to share the key aspects of a publication that extends the research begun by the exhibition and contributes to situating Àngel Jové’s work from new interpretive frameworks, making the catalogue a collective work that, true to the spirit of Àngel Jové. De Intactu continues to raise questions and generate dialogue.
The event will feature the participation of Imma Prieto, director of the Tàpies Museum; Maria Josep Balsach, curator of the exhibitionÀngel Jové. De Intactu and Enrique Vila-Matas, one of the voices included in the catalogue. As the culmination of the event, and of the public program linked to the exhibition, the poet, narrator, and literary critic Susanna Rafart will offer a reading of poems conceived as an activation of Àngel Jové’s poetic constellation.

Anna Irina Russell uno, dos, tres.
2026-09-18 19:00 - 21:00
Playing lies at the heart of Anna Irina Russell’s artistic practice. Throughout her work, she reclaims it as both a methodological framework and a mode of relation, resisting interpretations that reduce it to mere frivolity. As Antoni Tàpies observed in his 1967 essay El joc de saber mirar, “To play does not mean doing things ‘just because’ (…). Through play, as children, we learn to grow up. Through play, we cultivate our spirit and expand the horizons of our vision and our understanding.”
Russell’s work is deeply rooted in this sensibility. Play functions as a catalyst, shifting the habitual relationships between people, materials, and their surroundings. Often taking the form of large-scale soft inflatable sculptures that move and breathe, her practice unsettles the conventional hierarchy between artwork and audience, transforming participants into active agents: bodies that reshape the work even as they are reshaped by it.
In the sculpture Antoni Tàpies envisioned for the Oval Hall of the MNAC, he imagined an oversized sock that visitors could step inside—a hollow, perforated body conceived to be inhabited. With uno, dos, tres., Anna Irina Russell revisits this playful imaginary and brings its latent possibilities to life. The work invites us to enter Tàpies’ imagined sock and explore the inner workings of an artistic practice that is as much about learning to see through play as it is about the distinctly contemporary—and profoundly poetic—urgency of reimagining the relationships between living beings, objects, and space.

The artistic practice of Anna Irina Russell is articulated through soft sculpture and installation as a way of speculating on non-hegemonic communication processes, where air and breathing function as relational materials. His work proposes situations in which matter becomes communicative and subtly subverts the structures that usually organize the way we relate. Based on a trust in the expressive capacity of matter, his research focuses on inflatable structures that breathe, expand and waver on the threshold of collapse, attending to what resists words and overflows images: overflow, contagion and asphyxiation.
He graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona in 2015 and later took the Master in Sound Art in 2018. He is currently an artist in residence at La Escocesa (Barcelona), after having been at Hangar and Fabra i Coats. In 2025 he received the Because of Many Suns award from the Collezione Taurisano during Artorama (Marseille), and in 2022 he obtained the Miquel Casablancas Prize for the installation Contain · Overflow.
He has just inaugurated his solo exhibition The first flower is born in the air at the Can Mario Museum of the Vila Casas Foundation, curated by blanca arias. She has recently presented the solo exhibitions As elastic as a lung a Tabakalera (San Sebastian, 2025) i A contagion in Bombon Projects (Barcelona, ​​2025). He has also shown his work collectively in institutions such as the Fundació Joan Miró, Santa Mònica, La Panera, MACBA, La Casa Encendida, CCCB, among others. In 2024 he published Take a breath, an artist’s book published by Brillo Editorial.

Activity programmed as part of the Museu Tàpies series Following the Sun, entitled Uncovering the Gaze, curated by Carolina Ciuti.

Those Who Can Remember the Future. A series of artistic-poetic actions, part of the Blai Bonet Year
2026-09-22 18:00 - 19:00
The Museu Tàpies joins the commemoration of the Blai Bonet Year, participating in the series of artistic-poetic actions entitled Those Who Can Remember the Future, with the collaboration of the Museu Picasso and the Fundació Joan Miró as well.
Blai Bonet was a personal friend of both Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies. He explored the work of Pablo Picasso on various occasions, especially in the catalogue of the first Erotic Picasso exhibition in Barcelona. Drawing from this relationship, and as part of the commemoration of the centenary of the birth of this writer from Santanyí, the series Those Who Can Remember the Future explores the relationship between poetry and art, examining how the word combines with other disciplines, such as dance, music and performance, with a particular interest in researching the life of the gaze.
The session hosted by the Museu Tàpies takes as its title Here Pain is Made of Sweet Iron, and features the participation of the poets Carme Alegre, Júlia Febrer and Sergi Olivet, who join the dancer Mar Aguiló. As a kind of triptych, the three young poets and the dancer come into dialogue with the space and contents of the exhibition Antoni Tàpies: The Perpetual Movement of the Wall, which recently could be visited at the Museu Tàpies. The voices of Carme Alegre, Júlia Febrer and Sergi Olivet, and the weaving elegance of Mar Aguiló’s steps, offer a unique way to experience the exhibition space.
This activity has been developed jointly with the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes, organiser of the entire series.

Mar Aguiló
Born in Palma, Aguiló is a choreographer, dancer and artistic director. She trained at the École Atelier Rudra Béjart, Switzerland, and for the past sixteen years has performed with Spain’s Compañía Nacional de Danza, working with choreographers such as William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Johan Inger and Mats Ek.
As a creator, she has developed projects that explore the hybridisation of languages and the dialogue between dance and architectural and museum spaces. In this vein of work, she has collaborated with institutions such as Museo del Prado, Fundació Joan Miró, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and MACBA. Featured projects include Stella, Swan and Swans. She currently complements her career at the Compañía Nacional de Danza with the direction of the Palma Dansa festival.

Carme Alegre
Born in the district of L’Horta Nord (Valencia Region), Alegre studied English Philology at the University of València, and has a Master’s degree in Literary Theory from the University of Barcelona. In 2023 she was a nominee for the Salvador Iborra Young Poetry prize, and later participated in the anthology Solstici d’estiu released by Joves Poetes de la Mediterrània. Strappo seguit de Pare Aforístic o Galatea a la paret was her first book. Alegre makes a living teaching the past continuous and irregular verbs ad infinitum at an Official Language School.

Sergi Olivet
Born in Tarragona, Olivet has a degree in Literary Studies and is currently studying Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. In the field of music, he has created his own rap project under the name XTerra, releasing the EP La X del Mapa. He has twice been nominated for the Salvador Iborra Poetry Competition (2023 and 2025), and for many years has participated actively in politically-engaged venues, initiating cultural activities in Tarragona and Barcelona.

Júlia Febrer
Born in Sant Joan, Mallorca, Febrer understands poetry as a way to be in the world and read the world. This relationship gives rise to texts, photography and artistic installations. She has been the coordinator of Viure Poèticament (Manacor, 2025), a thematic series on the relationship between literature and other disciplines.
Her poetry book Arrel inoïda (Adia, 2025) was awarded the Ciutat de Manacor Miquel Àngel Riera Prize. This upcoming autumn she will release Llum de cendra (Viena, 2026), after having won the Martí Dot Prize in Sant Feliu de Llobregat.
Febrer currently works as a linguistic consultant and proofreader, but her writing is situated in the poetics of errors and gaps in language.

Open day and guided tour on the occasion of La Mercè 2026
2026-09-24 10:00 - 19:00
As every year, on the occasion of the La Mercè 2026 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 Perpetual Movement of the Wall
Àngel Jové. De intactu
and the project Extramural 2026. Dora García. Timelines / resurrection

[Image: Museu Tàpies. Photo: Pep Herrero]

Montaner y Simón, a publishing house with history. Itinerary 2026
2026-09-26 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.
This activity is organized as part of the programme of Barcelona 2026, World Capital of Architecture.

Approaches. Guided tour 2026
2026-09-27 12:30 - 14:00
Introduction to the history of the Tàpies Museum building and guided tour of the current exhibitions:

· Antoni Tàpies. The Perpetual Movement of the Wall
· Àngel Jové. De intactu
