Latest Events in Barcelona(January Updated)

Like other major cities in the Christian world, Barcelona holds a carnival during the last week before Lent. The Barcelona Carnival is primarily a lavish feast of indulgence, taking place before the start of Lent. During the seven-day carnival, people traditionally eat hot dogs and various meats. There are also fun hot dog-eating contests. The main event of the carnival is the parade held at different times of day and night. Jugglers, bands, dancers and singers in elaborate costumes dance to lively music, and various mobile stages participate in the parade.

Join TWICE《THIS IS FOR》WORLD TOUR IN BARCELONA at Palau Sant Jordi on May 12, 2026. Celebrate TWICE’s return to Europe with unforgettable music and performances. Don’t miss this chance—get your tickets now.

The Tour de France 2026 starts in Barcelona, Spain on July 4, 2026, with a 19km team time trial. The first three stages are in Spain, with the third stage crossing into France and ending in Les Angles. The race will feature new climbs in the Pyrenees, Massif Central, Vosges, and Alps, with a unique two-stage finish at Alpe d'Huez late in the tour before concluding in Paris on July 26.

This exhibition offers a multifaceted, open-to-interpretation narrative that reviews the key factors that motivated the founding of the Center for Contemporary Art Studies (CEAC). The exhibition will explore the circumstances and people who drove modernism in Catalonia, emphasizing the figure of Joan Prats, who was instrumental in the creation of the Fundació Joan Miró-CEAC. It will also reflect on the impact of the Civil War and Franco's regime, and the desire to recover the ideals of the modern movement of the 1920s and 1930s.

The exhibition is an intergenerational dialogue between Joan Miró and American artists, showing how their creative practices mutually enriched each other and contributed to the development of 20th-century art. Through this exchange, the exhibition will reconfigure our understanding of the place of Miró's work in art history: the usual focus on France will shift, and the United States will become central to his artistic evolution. This new narrative will not only revisit Miró's legacy but also highlight the relevance of many women artists of the period. These artists were essential in redefining contemporary art, whether as role models for other artists or as protagonists of innovative movements such as gesture painting, abstraction, and action painting.

Curated by MACBA director Elvira Dyangani Ose, along with Antawan Byrd, Adom Getachew and Matthew S. Witkovsky, Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica is the first major international exhibition to examine the cultural manifestations of Pan-Africanism from the 1920s to the present. It is a project developed jointly with the Art Institute of Chicago, the Barbican Centre in London and the KANAL–Centre Pompidou in Brussels. This collaboration has made the magnitude of the exhibition possible, with nearly 350 pieces by 100 artists touring the four institutions until spring 2027.

Joan Casellas (Teià, 1960), artist and performer, exhibited at Espai 10 in late 1979, before moving to the United States. Once settled in New York, like other Catalan artists of different generations, he photographed his circle of friends and their lives in the city. This exhibition will resonate and interact with the major exhibition on Joan Miró's contacts and projects in the United States, which will be held at the Fundació Joan Miró in the fall of 2025.

The first performance ofUbu Roi, by Alfred Jarry, in 1898, was a scandal. It dealt with an exaggerated and cruelly comic character that would later become a myth: “King of Poland, that is to say, from nowhere”, an “henorme” tyrant with greed, an infamous glutton and his “merdra”, which lets out all 6 letters from the first line. Thanks to this character, Jarry became famous at a very young age and even became a kind of celebrity. He adopted, in the most unforeseen circumstances, the role of Ubu with his accent, his extravagances, his manners, etc.

As part of the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona (MACBA), this new collection exhibition explores how a vibrant life form spreads its wings, transforming its subjectivity into a liberating space. The exhibition abandons traditional chronological narratives, instead re-examining the collection through dialogue with new modes of being and action. It presents a multifaceted perspective, reaffirming the collection as a constantly growing, open, diverse, and ever-changing whisper.

On the occasion of MACBA’s 30th anniversary, a new exhibition of the Collection will pay homage to the museum’s trajectory. A celebration of its three-decade-long history of critical engagement with the transformative potential of artistic production and research, the project acknowledges the collection as an embodied constellation of works that come to life and engage with each other differently amidst a radically altered cultural landscape, marked by migration, political resistance, and new forms of collectivity.