Opening of the exhibition: Germaine Dulac. Je n’ai plus rien

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 The exhibition is based on a selection of films, texts, and archival materials—some previously unpublished—that allow us to explore the complexity of the cinematographic work of this prominent filmmaker and theorist of the avant-garde art.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.