Extramurs [ Extramural] is an art project by the Museu Tàpies that sees the city as a place for intervention and mediation. Its multidisciplinary, plural approach is based on three broad conceptual areas: inter-institutional dialogue, dialogue with the public space and dialogue with the environment.
To take the experience beyond the walls of the museum, Extramurs relies on continuing collaboration with EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona and the Festival Grec. This alliance consists of rethinking the role of the institution from a more holistic perspective, through interventions and activities that respond to contemporary demands, encouraging new community narratives in urban space.
Held annually, each edition of Extramurs is presented in public on the occasion of the Festival Grec. Inspired by the concepts of situated knowledge, it encourages reflection on how we mediate our surroundings, and how we might inhabit the world in a more conscious, integrating way. At the same time, the gesture of considering the walls of public space as carriers of residents’ voices, spaces where collective discourses are materialised and shared experiences find new meanings, connects us directly with the thought of Tàpies.
The origins of Extramurs go back to the Serge Attukwei Clottey. Beyond the skin project, run by the Museu Tàpies in the summer and autumn of 2024, which stimulated reflection about migration, sustainability and identity through the work of the Ghanaian artist.
Extramurs 2025. Elena del Rivero. La quema. Curator: Mateo Feijoo
