The most interesting exhibitions in Barcelona

The Star Wars galaxy lands in an exhibition bringing together some of the most surprising pieces devoted to the saga. Rebels Beyond the Galaxy offers a free tour of one of Europe’s most complete private collections, where every object tells part of the story of a universe that has fascinated millions of people for decades.

The Eclipsis exhibition offers a journey through the relationship between astronomy, history and science via one of the celestial phenomena that has inspired the greatest fascination over the centuries.

For the first time in Barcelona, Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera is dedicating a major exhibition to Anselm Kiefer, one of the essential figures of contemporary art. Under the title The Secret Life of Plants. Anselm Kiefer in the Colección Grothe, the exhibition brings together around forty works offering entry into a creative universe in which painting, sculpture, photography, installations and artists’ books engage in dialogue.

The exhibition L'entrada a un bosc offers a reflection on memory, absence and alternative ways of remembering. Curated by Marc Navarro, this show forms part of the series Digues, cosa. Joan Brossa i els poemes objecte and takes as its starting point two object poems created by Joan Brossa which, far from the solemnity of traditional monuments, propose a more intimate and critical way of relating to the past.

The exhibition Basel Abbas i Ruanne Abou-Rahme. Presoners de l’amor. Fins al sol de la llibertat presents for the first time in Spain the work of two of the leading voices in contemporary Palestinian art. Since 2007, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme have developed a multidisciplinary practice that combines image, sound, text and performance to explore how memory, identity and collective narratives are constructed.

“La Seat: Fàbrica de Transformacions” offers a broad look at one of the companies that most influenced the evolution of contemporary Barcelona. Beyond car production, the exhibition explores how the arrival of SEAT profoundly altered the economic, urban and social landscape of Catalonia and Spain as a whole during the 20th century.

The exhibition Joan Miró: Circles proposes discovering the Catalan artist's work through a simple but recurring form in his creative universe: the circle. Rather than following a chronological route, the exhibition uses this element as a starting point to connect works from different moments in his career.

The exhibition Técnicas del hierro. Del trabajo artesanal a la producción industrial invites visitors to look at iron from an unusual perspective: not as a cold or industrial material, but as a silent witness to human evolution. Before becoming beams, tools or design pieces, iron passed through workshops, furnaces and hands that learned to transform it blow by blow.

ICONS offers a journey through images that many people have seen at some time, although they may not remember exactly where. Palau Martorell brings together around 150 large-format photographs to enter the visual universe of Steve McCurry and revisit more than forty years of a career that has influenced the contemporary way of looking at the world.

The exhibition “Avinguda Gaudí, a living memory between Sagrada Familia and Hospital de Sant Pau” traces the history of one of Barcelona’s most recognisable avenues and reveals everything that exists behind its urban landscape. Architecture, memory and neighbourhood life meet along the route linking two great landmarks of Catalan modernism.

The Miradas de Gigante exhibition invites visitors to discover the history of Barcelona from an unusual perspective: that of Roc and Laieta, the giants of plaça Nova, which for more than a century have accompanied life in the Cathedral neighbourhood. The exhibition commemorates the 110 years of these emblematic figures, considered the oldest active giants in the city belonging to a neighbourhood association.

What is time and why do we feel it in such different ways? The exhibition The Invention of Time invites us to pause and look directly at one of the most elusive and decisive concepts of human experience. Through a journey that combines science and culture, the exhibition proposes thinking of time not only as a quantity that is measured, but as a construction that is lived, remembered and imagined.

The immersive Antarctica Experience exhibition brings audiences closer to one of the planet’s most remote territories through images, sound and audiovisual technology. The project was created by Luc Jacquet, director of March of the Penguins and an Oscar winner, after years of work on the Antarctic continent.

The Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona presents “Animals Invisibles”. Designed for all kinds of audiences, the exhibition invites visitors to discover real, extinct, legendary and imaginary creatures.