Events

  • S . O . P. : SOME OTHER PLACE : Performance by the artist Sara Sguotti, 29/02 @8:30pm

    S . O . P. SOME OTHER PLACE Performance by the artist Sara Sguotti DATE: 29/02/2024 H: 20.30 LOCATION: Espronceda, Institute of Art & Culture     The performance is presented in the framework of the European project Theatre in Palm.   SYNOPSIS This new choreographic creation tries to identify the forms of the relationship betwee performer, space, and...

  • How Art can shape our eco-social future, 29/02 @6:30pm

    How Art can shape our eco-social future DATE: 29/02/2024 H: 18.30 LOCATION: Espronceda, Institute of Art & Culture Moderators: Savina Tarsitano and Alessia Gervasone     The roundtable is part of the European project E-ART, co-creation, circulation, and promotion of sustainability, and is organized within the framework of the current exhibition “Voices”-  II Edition of the Cultural Diplomacy currently...

  • “VOICES”, 15th February @7PM

    CULTURAL DIPLOMACY PRESENTS THE EXHIBITION: “VOICES” 15th February @7PM     We are glad to invite to you to discover the exhibition entitled “Voices”, curated by Savina Tarsitano in cooperation with Victoria Tissot and Mohamed Benhadj towards the dialogue among International and local artists selected for the II edition. With the exhibition “Voices” in the contest of the II...

  • Espronceda collaborates with Fundació l’Olivar in Temples del Zenit VR Experience

    Overview In a remarkable fusion of art, technology, and culture, the Espronceda Institute of Art and Culture has helped Fundació l’Olivar to present a unique virtual reality (VR) experience in the “Temples of the Zenith” project. Spearheaded by the artistic vision of Enric Pladevall, this collaboration marks a new era in artistic exhibitions. Artistic Vision: Temples of the Zenith...

  • Rebirth-day 2023, 21st Dec, 12-19h

    Rebirth-day, 21st Dec, worldwide day of change   On the occasion of the closing of the international sustainability festival Drap-Art’23, and in conjunction with the Cultural Diplomacy project in partnership with the German Consulate in Barcelona, we invite you to celebrate with us on 21 December the Rebirth-Day promoted by Cittadellarte and Michelangelo Pistoletto, an annual event that sees...

  • NUBIA & NEB, 19th Dec.

    NUBIA & NEB, 19th Dec. –  Jornade de portes obertes       Are you ready to transform your neighbourhood? Your vision can be the spark that ignites change! Participate in our unique initiative where your ideas come to life. With just a few simple steps, you can turn your dreams into a tangible design. Choose a category that...

  • The Hackathon, 16th December @8:30AM

    The Hackathon, 16th December 8:30 AM //C. de Santander, 45 · Barcelona, CT   UNLEASH THE ART OF DATA: TRANSFORMING CULTURE WITH INNOVATION     REDIFINE CULTURE WITH TECH Are you ready to embark on a journey that fuses technology and culture to pioneer a new digital era? The “Disrupt Open Culture” Hackathon is your gateway to explore the...

  • Kids Guernica & Third Paradise: Jornadas Dedicadas – Cultural Diplomacy

    Kids Guernica & Third Paradise: Jornadas Dedicadas – Cultural Diplomacy 08.12.2023 – 12.12.2023     In the framework of the 2nd edition of the project Cultural Diplomacy, Art, Peace and Solidarity, in collaboration with the German Consulate in Barcelona, the exhibition of the large canvases of Kids Guernica inspired by the work of Pablo Picasso will be presented in...

  • NUBIA Lab Metavers NAVAS , 19/12/23 @7pm

    NUBIA Lab Metavers NAVAS 🗓️ 19/12/2023 // 19h   Dues setmanes de co-creació en colaboracíó amb Pla Comunitari de Navas, s’organitzarà una convocatoria per escollir 5 participants. Les dues setmanes de co-creació son presencials, als matins, de 11 a 14h els dies laborables, i es coordina amb el col.lectiu Be Another Lab. Tot el grup de 5 persones treballen...

  • Salon of Espronceda, Talk with a Special Guest. – 27.11 @6pm

    Salon of Espronceda, Talk with a Special Guest. – 27.11 @6pm   We are happy to invite you to the Salon of Espronceda –Talk with a Special Guest. – 27.11.2023 6pm – Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture – The project arised from the need to connect people in the fields of art, culture, literature education, science, politics, in...

  • TIP – HYBRID RESIDENCY – Live online & Onsite Performance. 17/11, 20h

    TIP – HYBRID RESIDENCY – Live online & Onsite Performance. 17/11, 20h     Join in to see and enjoy the performances created by the Hybrid Residency artists during their 2-week residency. 10 artist from 12 countries, that is amazing 120 talented emerging theatre and performing arts artists, work together live and online during two weeks and create together new and thought...

  • 2nd Festival International PASTE UP, 17th Nov. 12 – 20h

    2nd Festival International PASTE UP, 17th Nov. 12 – 20h   We are happy to invite you for the 2nd edition of Barcelona International Paste Up Street Art Fest, an initiative created by the BCNPasteUp collective, which aims to spread the culture of Paste Up through a festival on an international scale, with Barcelona being a reference point for the world...

  • NUBIA COMUNITAT DINÀMICA, 22 i 23 de novembre 2023

    NUBIA COMUNITAT DINÀMICA:  Nova comunitat de públic creatiu i participatiu. 22 i 23 de novembre 2023 11:00 a 16:00 Incloent experiències immersives LOVE VIBES i visita al CCCB / Intel·ligència artificial / Common-AI-verse. (Cal inscripció per participar en les activitats immersives.) Més informació del programa a la web: www.nubialabs.com/ca   Dia 22 de novembre: D’11 a 16h. 11h-11h30. Recepció...

  • BIOWAVES, by Soliman Lopez. // NOV 7- 9 2023

    BIOWAVES, by Soliman Lopez. // NOV 7- 9 2023   We are glad to collaborate with Solimán López in #biowaves presented for the first time at #puzzlex2023 For PUZZLE X 2023, the artist Solimán López and his Studio in collaboration with Dr. Zina Cinker, Cache DNA and Twist Bioscience, propose a new concept of human-nature heritage. BIOWAVES aims to...

  • Radiorator by the artist Agustina Palazzo, 26th OCT @20h

    RADIORATOR – PERFORMANCE BY AUGUSTINA PALAZZO 26th Oct. 20H, at Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture   Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture is happy to present the performance Radiorator by the artist Agustina Palazzo, in the framework of the European Creative Europe project Theatre in Palm. Radiorator is a sound experimentation performance, the result of the expanded perception...

  • WeSTEAM, Empowering women through STEAM. 26th Oct

    WeSTEAM: Empowering women through STEAM 26th Oct, C/ de la Igualtat, 33, 08222 Terrassa. Aula S02, CITM – Image Processing and Multimedia Technology Center (UPC)     In the context of the Erasmus+ WeSTEAM project that has seen the collaboration of several organizations such as Ars Electronica, Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sineglossa, Changemaker Educations, and Espronceda, Institute of Art&Culture...

  • [IMMENSIVA CONFERÈNCIA] + NUBIA LAB

    + NUBIA LAB INCUBACIÓ 18th Oct, Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture OCT 18 10h – 13:30h 10h30-*11h Discurs inspirador. Soliman López/ Lissette Lemus sobre el projecte Common-AI-*Metaverse. 11h-*12h30 presentació de NUBIA Lab Incubació a càrrec d’Alejandro Martín, projectes seleccionats i alguns mentors 12h30-*13h15. Presentacions institucionals. Generalitat Cultura Digital ICUB, EIT C&C i Universitat. 13h15-*13h30. Conclusions.

  • Common AI Verse, Opening OCT 17th

    Common AI Verse, Opening OCT 17th 17th October – Opening at CCCB Barcelona https://common-ai-verse.com Common-AI-Verse is defined as a sensory journey for the collective construction, in collaboration with different intelligent agents, of a common space in the Metaverse. Through interaction with the space and the different artificial intelligences (organised by elements that compose them in each of the stages),...

  • DUST MIGHT, 6th of October, @7PM

    DUST MIGHT, 6th of October, @7PM,  by Gabriel Ribeiro // Curated by Ian Galvão ”Those were the hottest days of summer, when dust mites compulsively ate the edges of a poem until they reached the center. Here, the sun that gradually reveals images of lives invisible to the naked eye is the same sun that annihilates them. The herbs...

  • Auge 2nd Artathon, 21.09, at 15:00 (EEST // Latvia time)

    DEMOCRACY AND PUBLIC HEALTH ARTATHON When: October 18th from 10:00 to 14:00 CET Prize: 2 prizes of 600 euro Register here: https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSef0BS…/viewform Please answer: How did you hear about this event? – Other – and put “Espronceda”. The link to the zoom call: https://zoom.us/j/98937549356 Who decides – us or the algorithms? Are social media inclusive? These are, among others, the questions...

  • IMMENSIVA Expanded Experience Show I. 20/09 to 29/09 @7:30pm

    IMMENSIVA Expanded Experience Show I. Gallery opening 20.09 @ 19:30h / Exhibition days 21.09 – 29.09 (EXCEPT 25.09, La Merce) – First edition of a selection of immersive and interactive projects by national and international artists: “Morir de pie”, Maia Basso (CAT), Alba González (CAT). “Dragove”. Ida Kvetny (DK), Ding Ding (CHI), Carlos G. Reche (CAT).   Morrir de...

  • Nubia Lab – Incubació

    BASES: OPEN CALL NUBIA LAB – INCUBACIÓ   APPLY NOW: CONVOCATÒRIA OBERTA: NUBIA LAB INCUBACIÓ 2023 (google.com)   NUBiA LAB INCUBACIÓ consists of a local creative/ artists incubation program to help the development of innovative projects while being mentored and invited to workshops in the technological and artistic field by several mentors, in addition to a subsequent exhibition and...

  • Ars Electronica Garden Barcelona 2023 – Love Vibes

    Love Vibes – A Journey of Dance, Unity and Connection  Love Vibes will be participating in Ars Electronica 2023 Postcity event as a Garden Partner Exhibition from 6th to 10th of September. Love Vibes, powered by Espronceda Institute of Art and Culture, combines Virtual Reality, dance, and subjective truth. It reacts to live music, immersing participants dynamically. Diverse visuals...

  • Lithium Republic XYZ – Territorio Virtual. 01/09 @7:30pm

    Lithium Republic xyz – Territorio Virtual Ensayos virtuales sobre entornos en crisis 19.30 h 1/09/2023     Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture of Barcelona will host the presentation of the project Lithium Republic XYZ – Virtual Territory promoted and created by architect Cristian Espinoza and curator Merlina Rañi. The event will offer an overview of the project and an analysis of possible developments...

  • Efemeralnfinite

    EFEMERAINFINITE  by Estelle Garcia Blanco, Basile Richon and Lorenzo Lunghi Curated by Savina Tarsitano   Opening: July 26th at 7:30pm Performance: L’Antennista by Lorenzo Lunghi at 20.00 Exhibition from July 27th to Aug 02nd Opening Hours: from Tuesday to Friday from 16.30 to 19.30 and by appointment   The exhibition investigates the interdisciplinarity of artistic languages, from design, sculpture, video and...

  • DEAMBULANTES, opening 13.07 @7:30pm

    As part of Art Nou: NECTAR / ESPRONCEDA ART PRIZE Opening from Tuesday to Saturday from 5pm to 7:30pm and by appointment at renata@espronceda.net The prize with the Nectar residency was created by Espronceda Institut of Art & Culture together with its partners in order to create new alliances, and above all to create a connection between the rural and the urban world. Espronceda...

  • NAILA KUHLMANN, Peace of Mind. 06th of July at 7pm

    Espronceda Institute for Art and Culture, in collaboration with Be Another Lab, eagerly welcomes Naila Kuhlmann, a talented researcher and artist specializing in conveying embodied experiences of those with Parkinson’s disease. This event coincides with the world Parkison Congress in Barcelona (https://wc2023.org/), where Kuhlmann is actively involved. The gathering will feature a screening of Kuhlmann’s work with Piece of Mind...

  • Digital Talk – Hybrid Body in Performing Arts

    Digital Talk – Hybrid Body in Performing Arts When: 04.07.2023 / 5pm Where: Zoom   The fusion of performance and new technologies has made it possible to expand the expressive possibilities of live performances with immersive and interactive elements. During this panel, the artists involved will present their research in relation to the performing arts and explore the relationship...

  • CONVENCIÓN ANUAL NEB LAB 2023 – Ecosistema Cultura Sostenible

    CONVENCIÓN ANUAL NEB LAB 2023 – Ecosistema Cultura Sostenible. 29 of June 2023 Inscriptions here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScNvDGbgIX3bUapZg-fuF0B2CiHFeR5WdRZwLWo4EPrb9W4Bg/viewform?usp=sf_link   Schedule 10h30-11h00. Welcoming Guests 11h-11h10. Introducing NEB Lab – Sustainable Culture 11h15-11h30. Presentation of Sustainable Culture Ecosystem actions. Savina Tarsitano 11h30-12h00. Institutions that promote communities: Fundació Catalunya Cultura, Fundació Epica. 12h-12h15. Coffee break. 12h15-13h. Institutions with social impact: Volungo, 13h-13h30 – Debate...

  • RADIOME, 6th of June – 19h

    NUBIA LAB INCUBACIÓN PRESENTS: RADIOME is an interactive experiment in spatial sound and sense of place. It invites audiences to align with Earth’s cardinal points –using mobile phones as antennas– to “listen in” on life and create collaborative soundscapes. Binaural sound-environments; audio-reactive projections; and a live performance which responds to the audience are the elements that make RADIOME. The...

  • CONFERÈNCIA INTERNACIONAL IMMENSIVA

    PROGRAM: WEDNESDAY 7TH. From 10h30 to 16h30. 1OH30-11H00. Receipt of participants/cafe. 11h00-11h30. Key speaker. Open Conference Eleonora d’Ascenzi. Immersive Storytelling and Transformative Design. Making a mark through a non-conventional perspective. 11h30-12h. Innovation and social impact. Several speakers. Guest institutions: Neapolis, epic Foundation. 12h-12h30. Coffee and networking. 12h30-13h00. Programs of support for immersive and interactive projects. Presentation of the activity...

  • Open Call for National Artist Teams

    Open Call for National Artist Teams 24.5.2023  to 11.6.2023 It´s all about helping you to make better use of digital media to move ahead with your artistic career.  National Artist Teams (NATs) are first and foremost artists focused on collaborating inside their local/regional groups and as importantly between the 7 PMP partners’ artists located in 6 different EU countries....

  • HUMANVERSE by Martin Romeo, May 26

    Espronceda Institute of Art and Culture of Barcelona will host the presentation of the project “Humanverse” by the artist Martin Romeo, winner of the Italian Council (11th edition, 2022). Happening on May 26, 2023, 7:30pm. The Humanverse project is presented within the broader framework of the European project “Theatre in Palm”, co-financed by the European Union, which aims to support emerging artists in the field of performing arts and...

  • NUBIA WORKSHOPS 2023

    On 18 and 19 May, espronceda will present interactive and immersive workshops on new technologies. The workshops will be given by:   Matthew Yee-King is a British electronic musician, percussionist and researcher based in London, who performs music as Yee-King. He is known for his background in science and genetics applied to music, including his celebrated 2001 release of...

  • European Theatre LAB + Theatre in Palm Local Event

    European Theatre LAB and Theatre in Palm Local Event two events in the context of the European project THEATRE IN PALM   EUROPEAN THEATRE LAB: Stepping in someone else’s shoes; The Library of Ourselves; A social VR station for research on empathy through embodied Storytelling. VR experience by BeAnotherLab collective. THEATRE IN PALM LOCAL EVENT: CICLIC audiovisual live performance...

  • Dialogue

      Cultural Diplomacy – How Art Serves as a Diplomatic Force Nine artists, most hailing from Ukraine where a totalitarian regime seeks to wipe out their culture and story come together to express that their voices cannot in fact be silenced. Come witness the power of art and creative expression, especially in the face of aggression and fear. For...

  • The Salon of Espronceda – “Damaged Cultural Heritage in Ukraine”

    We are delighted to present, in the occasion of the Cultural Diplomacy project, together with the German Consulate of Barcelona, the webinar: Salon of Espronceda – Talk with a Special Guest, under the topic “Damaged Cultural Heritage in Ukraine” with the guests Victoria Tissot, curator of the project “Vesna”, presented at the National Art Museum of Catalunya founder of the art association “Embajada del Arte de Ucrania” and Maddalena...

  • Kids Guernica and Third Paradise >Rebirth Forum 2018

      This project arrived in Cuba for the first time in 2015, at the Biennial of Art of Havana, and thanks to the management of the Embassy Rebirth / Third Paradise Cuba, an initiative of the Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. ENCATC member, Savina Tarsitano, one of the ambassadors of the Third Paradise in the world and also promoter and...

  • PALKONNECT OPEN CALL – December 2022

    OPEN CALL Deadline: 15 December 2022     We are happy to invite you to register yourselves and your artwork as part of the Digital Open Art Studio Platform, created as part of the project PALkonnect (funded by the Erasmus + Programme). The platform is giving you the opportunity to promote widely your work and creation all over Europe. The...

  • THEATRE IN PALM – OPEN CALL

      Theatre in Palm, international project funded by Creative Europe, in which Espronceda is glad to participate, is hosting a digital residency on 6–10 February 2023. The residency is aimed at emerging theatre artists or performing arts students, recent graduates (0–5 years), people interested in gaining new professional competences and making new openings in the field of performing arts, and other newcomers...

  • Cultural Diplomacy and Art

    Cultural Diplomacy – 1st Edition   Towards new Alliances in the world of Culture Diplomacy and Art, together artists, civil society practitioners, students, and young professionals from around the world to explore the role of art in societal transformation, before and after Covid-19, new models of cooperation to improve our society and to implement in the best way the...

  • GALAXY NETWORK 2022

        Click here to buy a ticket!  Entrance: Free with donation at door! Contact us for special viewings: marc@espronceda.net   The Galaxy Network VR Exhibition – 2022 is coming to Barcelona! A fresh program of international award-winning experiences. The Galaxy Network is a community of art institutions united by a common goal to showcase and promote high-quality VR...

  • FARNESINA Digital Art Experience ; Immersive Exhibition

    Collective exhibition curated by Stefano Fake and Savina Tarsitano in the occasion of Loop City Screen   Grand Opening: 10.11.2022 from 19.30h to 21:30h Exhibition Dates: from 11.11.2022 to the 25.11.2022 Opening Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 16:00-20:00   FARNESINA – IMMERSIVE ART EXPERIENCE Immersive Art is an art form that aims to immerse the viewer inside the work of art itself....

  • Swab Espronceda Art Prize ; 2022 Artistic Residency Award

    SWAB / ESPRONCEDA Art Prize 2022 Artistic Residency Award Prize under the artist direction of Savina Tarsitano curated by Maribel Navarro Opening 05/10/2022 – 19:30h Exhibition dates: 06/10 – 15/10   Featuring the winner artists: Andrés Waissman (2019) Santiago Paredes (2021) We are pleased to present the 3th edition of the Swab – Espronceda Art Prize. The collaboration was born with...

  • Ars Eletronica Festival 2022

    ARS ELECTRONICA Festival 2022 Linz and Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture are pleased to present: NUBIA, Metaverse Platform: INTRONS project As a platform for art, technology, and society, Ars Electronica has always understood bridge-building between disciplines and industries not as a burden but as a promising and essential task. The extent of Ars Electronica’s collaborative networks became more visible than ever...

  • Nubia Event, 14 – 30/09/2022

    Once again we open our gallery to create and display different metaverses using the physical and digital worlds in the context of NUBiA. On the same occasion there will be several workshops given by different professors of Catalan Universities and International Artists From 14 September to 30 September (Tuesday to Sunday from 17.00 to 21.00). Presentation: 13th of September...

  • BCNUP FEST, 16, 17, 18/09/2022

    Primer Festival Internacional de Paste Up Barcelona, 2022  Barcelona International Paste Up Street Art Fest, es una iniciativa creada por el colectivo BCNPasteUp, que quiere difundir la cultura del Paste Up a través de un festival a escala internacional, siendo Barcelona un referente de las capitales mundiales del Arte Urbano.     Espronceda Urban Art prize en el marco...

  • FINISSAGE & Performance by Cercle de Fades, 22.08.2022

    We are happy to invite you to the finissage of the collective exhibition On the Flip Side. On the occasion, the group Cercle de Fades will present the artistic performance “something has been said”. “something has been said” is a sound performance about the search of the speech. This piece presents an experimental journey to find a method of...

  • Collective Exhibition: On The Flip Side

    We are pleased to present the 6th edition of the Art Prize with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels and the 1st edition of the Art Prize with the Faculty of Fine Arts of Barcelona. Opening: 26.07.2022 7:30pm The collective exhibition will be presented on the occasion of the Art Nou Contemporary Art circuit. Espronceda ERBA-ESA Prize,...

  • The Light of the Stones – Talk with Savina Tarsitano

    Enjoy letting yourself go on a journey between photography and poetry, on 13 June at 19:30h, during a visit to the exhibition in the presence of the artist Savina Tarsitano, where the artist will talk about her artistic process and how the project was born. An interdisciplinary project, the result of the meeting between the Italian artist Savina Tarsitano...

  • New perspectives for a future collaboration between the art world and the academic world, focused on emergent artists

    On the occasion of Art Nou, we are pleased to present on 14 July the round table on the importance of creating alliances in the art world to help young artists in their artistic careers. The round table is part of the Salon d’Espronceda project, and to give young artists a voice, the 4 finalists of the prize with...

  • Finissage & Artist Talk: Arriba, Abajo, Al Centro y Adentro

    On Friday 15th July at 6pm the finissage of the Néctar / Espronceda Prize exhibition will take place, with a debate with the artists, in the presence of Olga Sureda and Savina Tarsitano, in a guided tour of the exhibition. Then, on 26 July, still within the framework of the Art Nou circuit, there will be the inauguration of...

  • ARRIBA, ABAJO, AL CENTRO Y ADENTRO

    Opening: Jul 7, 7pm Exhibition days: Jul 8 to Jul 15. Mon to Fri 2pm to 8pm. Saturday 10am to 2pm. Arriba, abajo, al centro y adentro is a group exhibition showing the projects developed by artists Nadoe (South Korea), Alberto Alejandro Rodríguez (Cuba), Ana Karen Rodríguez (Mexico) and Laura Such (United Kingdom) in the framework of Nectar Artist-in-Residence...

  • Kids Guernica International Award

    We are very honoured to collaborate during the last year with the International Peace Project Kid’s -Guernica. On the 26th Of April on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the Civil War in Guernica, there will be the award ceremony for the Peace project and among them Kid’s-Guernica. Savina Tarsitano will be present at the ceremony to represent Kid’s Guernica and to take...

  • Immensiva 2022 Show

      SIGIL – IMMENSIVA 2022 SHOW   Sigil, a collective exhibition by IMMENSIVA, curated by Alejandro Martín.  From 05.04.2022 until 22.04.2022 Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture presents the collective exhibition “SIGIL“ of the artists involved at Immensiva Art Residency 2022, organized by IMMENSIVA and curated by  Alejandro Martín. An experiment in digital transcendence, using mixed reality: high definition...

  • Virtual Visualisation of Real Emotions

    24 February at 7 p.m. Virtual Visualization of Real Emotions is a collaborative and educational art and virtual reality project that has investigated the emotional impact of isolation, especially on young people in the Navas neighbourhood of Barcelona, with the aim of addressing the effects of the health crisis experienced in 2020. Through a participatory educational programme, participants took...

  • Episode 5 – Guernica Remakings, connecting through making

        Dr Nicola Ashmore has worked at the University of Brighton in the UK, since 2007. Her post-doctoral research has changed understandings of the value of Pablo Picasso’s Guernica through the investigation of its collective translation through a series of 21st century international remakings. The international importance of this research has been acknowledged through three awards from the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, Global Challenges Research Fund. The research has advanced the important dialogue...

  • en horas bajas an exhibition by Juan Antonio Cerezuela 24.11.2021 @7pm

    en horas bajas  an exhibition by Juan Antonio Cerezuela curated by Alterdúo – Arianna Esposito and Marco Tondello Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture Inauguration: November 24, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. Guided tour by books: December 04, 2021 at 5:30 p.m. From November 24th to December 10th, 2021 C / d’Espronceda, 326 , Nave 4 y 5, 08027 Barcelona...

  • HUMAN SIGNS by Yuval Avital – LOOP BARCELONA: CITY SCREEN 2021

          For the first time since its creation, the monumental artwork by Yuval Avital that brings together more than 200 artists from around the world will be presented at ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art & Culture on the occasion of LOOP BARCELONA: CITY SCREEN 2021, one of the most important festivals ofvideo art in Europe held in Barcelona...

  • The Salon of Espronceda – Urban Art and Society – Presentation of B-Murales/Espronceda Art Prize

      We are pleased to present the B-Murales project to reflect together on the relationship between urban art and society, and how it connects with the local community in the context of social change projects. On this occasion we meet the artist Emily, artist in residence of Espronceda and winner of the 1st edition of the Espronceda / B-Murales...

  • Galaxy Network VR Exhibition – Beyond the Metaverse – 26.10.2021

      The Galaxy Network VR Exhibition – Fall 2021 is coming to Barcelona! Galaxy Network is a group of organizations from different fields (companies, universities, exhibition venues, cultural institutions, event organizers) that we want to show immersive experiences to our audience with the aim of creating and coordinating various exhibitions of VR top quality experiences that will be shown...

  • “NATIONAL IDENTITY” – Group exhibition curated by THECOART – 13.10.2021

      theCOart prides itself on exhibiting “National Identity”, works in a range of media, seeking to provoke cross-disciplinary debate on South Africa's multicultural identity. Although practices, processes and personal philosophies may differ, all the artists have a common goal: to create relevant and technically proficient art. EXHIBITING ARTISTS:  ZANELE MUHOLI  ROGER BALLEN  ANTON KARSTEL  MIA...

  • SWAB / ESPRONCEDA Art Prize by Paula Cortazar & Luke Kelsey – 5th of October, 18h00

      We are pleased to present the exhibition of Paula Cortazar (Monterrey, Mexico, 1991) and Luke Kelsey (Wales, UK, 1985), winners of the second edition of the SWAB / ESPRONCEDA Art Prize. The artists made their stay in Espronceda at the end of this summer and the work on display is the result of their artistic residency. Cortazar and...

  • Olea. Digital-bio codifications. Solimán López. 2021

    OLEA is a unique olive oil, the result of development between different disciplines and coordinated by the artist Solimán López. In collaboration with the Twist Bioscience laboratory, which has been in charge of the DNA synthesis of the smart contract for the OLEA cryptocurrency (programmed by Blue Room Innovation) and which will later be encapsulated in silica to be...

  • Ars Electronica Garden Barcelona, Espronceda Expo: Being Corporeail again

    BEING CORPOREAL AGAIN Opening: September 7th, 7 p.m. Dates: from September 8th until September 19th, 2021 Time: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Venue: Carrer d’Espronceda 326, Nave 4,5 & 10, Barcelona Entrance: free. No prior registration required ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture, following its mission of international cooperation and creation of innovation synergies, participates for the second consecutive year...

  • Venice VR Expanded: Barcelona Satellite

    From September 1 to 19, 2021, the Venice VR Expanded returns at ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture The preview for the press will be on August 31 More than 40 immersive projects, 9 hours a day and 8 simultaneous stations … The future has arrived!     For the second year in a row, the Venice Biennale...

  • Conversations by Marina Amaral, Maria e Andre, Adrien Cavallin & Elise Vlaminck. Thursday, 29th of July.

      With Conversations the artists highlights various current issues: from the limits of society in imposing a status of success, appearance, competition, from the problem of existential and territorial “borders”, the relation between the urban and emotional space, the bewildered gaze, a window on our daily routine of life, the origin and aesthetics of the materials found in nature,...

  • Exhibition – Sustainable Views – 20.07.2021 @7pm

      Exhibition Date: from July 20th to 24th, 2021 Opening: July 20th from 7 pm to 9 pm. Gallery opening hours: Monday to Saturday | 4 pm to 8 pm   SUSTAINABLE VIEWS Curated by: IF – Imagine the Future Alessia Gervasone, Alice Porasso, Roberta Petrone, Noemi Givone Toro, Elain Carmen Bonsangue Winner artists: Giacomo Graziano & Riccardo Grando,...

  • Fuera(de)forma – collective exhibition – 08.06.2021

      We are pleased to invite you to the opening of Fuera(de)forma next Thursday July 8th at Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture from 18:30h, a group exhibition showing the projects developed by artists Victor Gonçalves (Brazil), Josephine Lau Jessen (Denmark), Patricio Tejedo (Mexico) and Lena Wurz (Germany) in the framework of Nectar Artist-in-Residence Program. Fuera(de)forma  invites us to explore, play, question and reconsider the path, the materials and the values of the new...

  • NewImages Festival, Cannes XR and Tribeca Festival join forces to create XR3: the virtual exhibition of the best of VR creation!

    NewImages Festival, Cannes XR and Tribeca Festival join forces to create XR3: the virtual exhibition of the best of VR creation! From June 9 to 20 and from July 6 to 15, 2021   TICKETS HERE —> https://4tickets.es/espronceda/public/janto/   Leading international events in the field of immersive creation, NewImages Festival, Cannes XR and the Tribeca Festival are banding together...

  • IMMENSIVA Residence Show 2021

        We invite you to the exhibition resulting from the artistic residency of IMMENSIVA 2021! The inauguration will be on Tuesday, June 22 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. It will be on display from June 23 to 30, on weekdays from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The second phase of the residency, which took place from May...

  • IMMENSIVA International residences 2021

    IMMENSIVA International residences 2021. From 1 May to 20 June 2021 Following the collaboration with international partners: universities, art centres and leading professionals, and this year expanding the network, a process of pre-residencies has been organised in 12 international cities: Barcelona, Paris, London, Milan, Istanbul, Innsbruck, Helsinki, Rotterdam, Montreal, NYC, Atlanta and Los Angeles. During the period from May...

  • Episode 2 – The Salon of Espronceda –Talk with a Special Guest by Savina Tarsitano 07.07.2021

      Art galleries, contemporary art, the importance of residences for both emerging and established artists, what was the impact of Covid-19 on galleries, artists? We talk about all this with our guests at the Espronceda Salon, especially about the city of Tokyo with a look also to Taipei. On 7 July we move to Japan to talk with Sachiko...

  • Webminar: Towards Contemporary Art for Sustainable Villages 21.06.2021

      The debate will focus on: the role and value of artists/arts in a time of crisis, and the importance of cultural collaboration in accordance with the 17 sustainable goals of the Agenda 2030. The idea to create a team working to carry out this project in villages based in Asia and Europe born during this difficult period of...

  • New Images Festival

      Espronceda Gallery presents two virtual reality experiences New Images Festival and La Comedie Virtuelle by the Gilles Jobin company Espronceda programming tass this spring Defining it as one of the most innovative galleries in Barcelona would not justify it. Inc. Because, in recent years, Espronceda Center of Art and Culture has consolidated as one of the benchmarks of...

  • La Comedie Virtuelle

      “La Comedie Virtuelle” by Gilles Jobin Cia: June 12, 13, 19 and 20. The Comédie Virtuelle is a multi-user virtual reality experience that allows the public to visit the Future Comédie de Genève, the new building of the oldest theater in Geneva that will open its new facilities next year. The public will be able to move around...

  • Melting Memories – Refik Anadol

      From 5 to 9 June, Espronceda – Institute of Art & Culture will present Refik Anadol’s project “Melting Memories”, that offers new insights into the representational possibilities emerging from the intersection of advanced technology and contemporary art. By showcasing several interdisciplinary projects that translate the elusive process of memory retrieval into data collections, the exhibition will immerse visitors...

  • AI4FUTURE 3rd & 4th June

        “Worldbuilding” is an activity typically associated with the creation of landscapes, spaces and universes in video games. However, it also can be and it is understood as the process of making up a coherent sense of place and time in narratives, stories, texts, and plays. It is a complex endeavour that combines several types of creativity at...

  • IMMENSATHON: Into The Human Labyrinth. Collective Exhibition 20.05.2021

    May 20-21, 2021 Inauguration on 05/20/21 at 6:00 p.m. Open until 10pm. On 05.21.21 from 6pm to 10pm. Address: Carrer d’Espronceda 326, nave 5, Barcelona Free entry (limited capacity)   From IMMENSIVA, with the collaboration of Garage Stories and Be Another Lab, we are pleased to announce that the IMMENSATHON exhibition will open on Thursday, May 20 and will...

  • Episode 1 – The Salon of Espronceda –Talk with a Special Guest by Savina Tarsitano, 13.05.2021@6pm

    When? – 13.05.2021 at 18h   Where?  – Live broadcast on Facebook esproncedabcn – At our centre Carrer D’Espronceda 326 Nave 10 08027 Barcelona, Spain. Metro: Navas. You can reserve your place at eventbrite  Get notified when the Livestream begins on Facebook     For the first episode of the SALON OF ESPRONCEDA, Savina Tarsitano is inviting Alexandra Christev and Vladimir de Vaumas,...

  • Flores de Plutón – 28.04.2021 @6PM

      Jessica Moroni seeks with her works, with her drawings and sculptural pieces of large dimensions that to the eye become fragile and disturbing in their forms and intense in their chromatism, the reconnection with nature and the natural environment. In Flores de Plutón, the author creates a cosmic place, without taboos, a place that speaks of a generational crisis,...

  • Workshop: Temporary states – zeitgeber exhibition 17.04.2021

    In this workshop, the german visual artist and art educator Jessica von Helmolt proposes an activity aimed at families interested in experimenting with momentary impressions within a specific environment.   Through different senses, participants will play with the perception of external agents such as light, music, rhythms, fragrances, flavors and textures. The  experiences made with these influences will be...

  • Zeitgeber

    In chronobiology, the german term Zeitgeber refers to any external influence that can act as a component on the biorhythm in a living being, synchronizing it with the environment. Among the most powerful Zeitgeber are light, ambient temperatures, noises and food consumption. In this exhibition, the artist Jessica von Helmolt deals with external influences that affects living beings and...

  • IMMENSIVA INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCES 2021

      PRE-RESIDENCES, 1st to 15th May 2021 in several areas/ cities:  Milan, Paris, London, Innsbruck, Rotterdam, Istanbul, Helsinki and NYC. INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCE, 17th May 2021 to 20th June 2021 in Barcelona.   ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture, is launching an international Open call for artist residences that is happening in two phases, a local interconnected residence during...

  • Art, Rural Culture: Relationship between memory and Sustainability : Talk with the artist Josechu Tercero with the special participation of the artist Nathalie Rey Moderated by Savina Tarsitano 20.03.2021 @6pm

    Among the characteristics of contemporary art is how establishing relationships between individuals, cultures, civilizations, thoughts, traditions and populations, in a dialogue of reciprocity and respect. We live in a chaotic, technological society that goes fast, runs almost never slowing down or stopping, but it is also true as Albert Camus said: “If the world wer clear, art would not...

  • El Pajonar by Josechu Tercero – 11.03.2021 @7pm

      FREE TICKET HERE   Josechu Tercero presents under the title El Pajonar, an approach in the form of homage to the world of dry stone constructions in rural areas, from different spaces of plastic and visual creation. His natural restlessness and curiosity lead him to investigate the half-abandoned rural environments of the land of his ancestors, La Mancha,...

  • Convocatoria para Estudiantes de Universidades de Bellas Artes – 2021

    CALL Residence for artists 2021 Call for Students of Fine Arts Universities Deadline April 25, 2021 The scholarship for an artistic residency for students of academies and universities of fine arts was born from the idea of ​​Espronceda on the importance of the concept of collaboration to create new alliances between universities, art market, galleries and art centers. The...

  • JOURNEY OF LIGHT by Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art 19.02.2021 @6pm

      We are happy to announce the exhibition that opens the year 2021 in ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art & Culture in collaboration with Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art JOURNEY OF LIGHT In opening the site-specific solo exhibition “JOURNEY OF LIGHT” of the artist Massimiliano Moro in Espronceda, the curator Mohamed Benhadj is welcoming everyone to come aboard for a journey in...

  • Open Call – IMMENSATHON : Humans, technology and the future: what do they have in common?

      Humans, technology and the future: what do they have in common?   The call is open to participate in the Immensiva HackLab, in collaboration with Garage Stories and Be Another Lab, HackLab aimed to explore and work with emerging media to create experimental pieces that help us reflect on the complexity of human relationships and speculate on a future where technology helps...

  • AI4FUTURE

    AI4Future is a Creative Europe’s project which involves three different European countries: Italy, Spain and Netherlands. It aims at enhancing the understanding and dissemination of A.I. related technologies for the active and creative participation of young activists to the European cultural scene, allowing them to work with artists for a joint creation of a new urban community awareness. The...

  • ART OF CONFINEMENT – Collective exhibition by the Astillero Espacio Cultural 10.12.2020

            ESPRONCEDA -Institute of Art & Culture is pleased to present the exhibition “Art of Confinement” by the Astillero Espacio Cultural of Barcelona. The collective exhibition born thanks to the idea of Carles Guitar. According Espronceda’s philosophy to open its doors to local artists and local associations translate its spirit of collaboration and cooperation with local...

  • el mar / la mer

        Exhibition of the artist Nathalie Rey curated by Olga Sureda Dates: 26th to 5th December 2020 Exhibition opening: November 26 at 6pm until 9pm. Reservation on eventbrite. Gallery hours: from Tuesday to Sunday | 16.00 – 20.00   In el mar / la mer, various recurring topics in Nathalie Rey’s work – such as children’s imagination, shipwreck...

  • Art For Social Change Towards the Art of Demopraxia – LOOP CityScreen BCN 2020

    In occasion of the Festival Loop CityScreen BCN 2020, this year at Espronceda we would like to present a project exhibition based on the project Third Paradise/Rebirth of Michelangelo Pistoletto and Cittadellarte, based on the importance of the art for social change. The exhibition will bring together the best artistic practices of social transformation that are significant, strong and...

  • HYELTW? by Ovidiu-Valeriu Bojor

    We are pleased to announce that “HYELTW?” by Ovidiu-Valeriu Bojor will take place at the ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art and Culture in Barcelona between 12-15 Nov, 2020. This event is an X-ray of Ovidiu-Valeriu Bojor’s background. Ovidiu-Valeriu Bojor is a multidisciplinary artist. His work is an exploration about how the art takes shape and how it shapes the world....

  • SUPER LAB : “Energy”

    We invite you to discover “Super” Project. WHAT IS SUPER ?A collective exhibition based on participation and collaboration.For this edition, the topic is “Energy” : a theme free of interpretation and medium (illustration, painting, photography, digital art, performance …) WHAT IS THE EVENT ?  Collective exhibition around the theme “Energy”. Interactive experiments A Virtual Gallery to discover online but also in...

  • Crisis of Now – CONTEMPORARY ASIAN PHOTOGRAPHY – Part III – 26.10.2020 @7pm

    Crisis of Now – CONTEMPORARY ASIAN PHOTOGRAPHY – Part III  Is a series of unpublished photography exhibition that analyzes the culture and artistic practice of contemporary art from the perspective of Asian creators. Crisis of Now. Part III premieres in Barcelona and brings together the work of Wei-li Yeh, Liu Ho-Jang and Ting-Ting Chen. Part I traveled in 2018...

  • Design of user centric immersive narratives

     Hands-on workshop that follows Garage Stories’ own methodology based on the principles of design thinking to provide creators with tools to design their first VR experiences.  During the workshop, participants will explore the unique characteristics of the medium so as to build projects with a clear message and a strong value proposition; and the outcome will be a...

  • Immersive experience introduction by Eyesberg Studio

      EYESBERG STUDIO Eyesberg Studio is a multimedia art studio specialized in the transformation of spaces into immersive and interactive works of art such as Videomappings, interactive installations, light installations or immersive Fulldome projections. Being the means to reach the viewer, technology plays an essential role in Eyesberg’s identity. Through the immersion of the viewer in the work of...

  • LA CULTURA COMO NEXO ENTRE LA EMPRESA Y LA SOCIEDAD

      Holger Sprengel, the co-founder of ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art & Culture participated in the Goethe-Institut of Barcelona in a meeting where the relationship between culture and business was debated, a fact that determines the artistic landscape of a country. These two worlds have complementary realities that revert to society through sponsorship, patronage and other models of collaboration. We...

  • Image Technology Echoes by Lauren Moffatt – 16.10.2020 @7pm

      In the immersive experimental fiction Image Technology Echoes by Lauren Moffatt, we enter a quiet gallery inside a cavernous museum space. The gallery is empty, except for an older man and a younger woman. The pair are having a stilted conversation about the painting they are looking at: a large expressionist canvas depicting a stormy ocean. This odd exchange seems...

  • Quintessence Dome SHOW

    Open to the public, limited capacity SEPTEMBER FRIDAY 11th 18h-19h30. Connection with MILAN with the project. Are You there LUA? Anna Pompermaier, Stefan Maier, Martin Romeo 19h30 > 20h45h: Anamníseis. Ursula Pfligersdorffer 20h45 > 22h00: Scrödinger’s cat. Cenk Guzelis, Mohsen Hazrati, Raisa Pimentel. SATURDAY 12th 19h > 20h: Hieronymus Garden Of Digital Delight. Lukas Kochendörfer 20h > 21h: WONDERS. Moon Ribas, Felix Schoeller,...

  • Ars Electronica Garden. Barcelona Solar Orchard Garden

    Thursday, 19h30-22h. OPENING ARS ELECTRONICA SOLAR ORCHARD GARDEN. Open to the public. Screening STARGAZER project in the Dome. Ars Electronica 2020 is taking place not despite but because of Corona. From September 9 to 13, the Festival for Art, Technology and Society will simply ask the question, what to do now? And for the first time, this will be...

  • TeyAlTool, a project by Mohsen Hazrati at Burning Man 2020 supported by ESPRONCEDA

    ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture and co-founder Holger Sprengel supported the resident artist Mohsen Hazrati in participating in the virtual edition of Burning Man 2020. We’re happy to announce the participation of our artist Mohsen Hazrati at the virtual edition of Burning Man 2020. Burning Man is an event held annually since 1986 in the western United States. Since...

  • Design of user centric immersive narratives

      Hands-on workshop that follows Garage Stories’ own methodology based on the principles of design thinking to provide creators with tools to design their first VR experiences. During the workshop, participants will explore the unique characteristics of the medium so as to build projects with a clear message and a strong value proposition; and the outcome will be a...

  • Immersive Experience Introduction

      EYESBERG STUDIO Eyesberg Studio is a multimedia art studio specialized in transforming spaces into immersive and interactive works of art such as Videomappings, interactive installations, light installations or immersive Fulldome projections. Being the means to reach the viewer, technology plays an essential role in Eyesberg’s identity. Through the immersion of the viewer in the work of art, it...

  • Venice VR Expanded. Barcelona Satellite programme – 31.08.2020

    Get your tickets now! Venice VR Expanded. Barcelona Satellite programme. 77th Venice International Film Festival 2nd to 12th of September 2020. ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture in Barcelona, is honored to collaborate this year with Venice Biennale as the only partner in Spain to bring to Barcelona the amazing program of the 77th VIFF VR Expanded 2020,...

  • B-murals and ESPRONCEDA Collaboration

    In February 2020 ESPRONCEDA selected some of its former resident artists to participate in a collaboration with B-Murals, sponsored by Addidas: the project Change is a team sport. Caught by surprise by the Covid19 pandemic, the project had to be adapted, but finally, in June and July the participant artists could finish their murals at Nau Bostik, headquarters of...

  • SUPER : OPEN CALL – “ENERGY”

      OPEN CALL – COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION TOPIC : ENERGY DEADLINE : 25 OCTOBER 2020 What is « ENERGY » for you ? Super invites you to give your interpretation of the word « Energy ». Open to everybody and free of support (photo, video, design digital, poem, paintings…) this exhibition will take place at Espronceda, Institute of Art & Culture in Barcelona from 5...

  • QUINTESSENCE DOME LAB : OPEN CALL

    BASES INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL QUINTESSENCE DOME LAB Open Call for residency in advanced technologies application and artistic immersive/ interactive productions. Espronceda, Institute of Art and Culture, Barcelona, in cooperation with MIRA Festival, Helsinki XR Center, MEET Digital Culture Center Milan, .3 Institut of Advanced Architecture Innsbruck and UCA, announce 5 residency grants to participate in the creative residency “Quintessence...

  • Kids Guernica & Third Paradise : Art for Change and Peace

      ART WEBINAR On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition of Kids-Guernica and the Peace International Project, Espronceda is delighted to present the Art Webinar: Art for Change and Peace: Before, During and After Coronavirus 23rd of July at Barcelona: 16h Tokyo: 23h Havana: 10h London: 15h The Webinar will be transmitted LIVE on Our Youtube Channel....

  • LAVS festival

      Mataró, Barcelona, ​​June 2020.- This Saturday, June 27, the LAVS Festival will be held in Mataró, between 5.30 and 10 p.m., a pioneering multidisciplinary proposal whose common thread is the relationship between image, sound and new technologies. Experimental video, multimedia installations, virtual reality and electronic music go hand in hand in this event that will take place in...

  • Cannes XR Virtual

    After the successful Location Based Entertainment for selected guests last Friday, we’re happy to announce that the Cannes XR access was extended until next Saturday (04/07) and it’s open for general public from Tuesday to Saturday by appointment only through he following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cannes-xr-barcelona-public-visitation-tickets-111607045678 The Marché du Film of the Cannes Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Kaleidoscope, The Museum of...

  • Output:TargetDisplay:Display01-VR Live Stream by Mohsen Hazrati

    Mohsen will describe his experience of his art residency at Espronceda – Institute of Art & Culture- and of working together with a group of artists during the IMMENSIVA VR/AR Residence 2020. After this first stage, the covid-19 lockdown in Spain obligated the artist to reschedule his return to Iran and Espronceda offered him a space in its residency...

  • Webinar Art Forum

    A series of webinars with participants in Italy, Belgium and Spain will address relevant issues of the art world during these new times we’re all immersed at. Art Forum is a project by Espronceda and Nu Art. More information coming up soon.

  • A tasck of wonders by David Almeida

    David Almeida Bachelor of Arts from the University of Brasília, Almeida’s research develops through multiple languages like drawing, object, photography, installations, performance and, above all, painting. His production has as its axis the issues of space and walking body, exploring the visuality of the intimate space, the studio, the city, and the natural landscape. He investigates the boundaries between...

  • Entangled, by Ann Mackowski

    “Entangled” explores how we communicate physically with space and with our memory, and the ways in which our own subjective experiences are inexorably intertwined with the mapping process. The installation is inspired by the world of electrical and washing lines and cables in the Gracia district of Barcelona, an area Mackowski became fascinated by during previous visits. Realised in...

  • INTER_WE

      ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art & Culture Museu del Disseny de Barcelona present INTER_WE An art symposium on GENDER LIQUIDITY Barcelona Tuesday, 30th January 2018, from 3 to 7,30 pm Curated by Fabian Vogler and Valentina Casacchia Focus of the arts symposium is the Liquidity of Gender and the work on current developments in German legislation changes to add...

  • B-Murals & Espronceda collaboration

    06/05/20 at Naubostik The center of Urban Art, B-Murales, is pleased to announce its new residence that will feature the presence of artists Nicolás Romero Ever (ig: @eversiempre), Octavio Sierra (ig: @ooss_ooss_ooss) @colectivolicuado and @ mur0ne those who, within the framework of the project ” Change is a Team Sport “ will be installed in our space to work...

  • Reconfiguraciones, by Andrea Siervo

    This linear, organized and fragmented search suppresses, from their freedom, their own conventions, the contradiction between their own limits and the limits of the canvas degrades them to a mere organization: being chosen or decreed, the lines and their limits refuse what the artist expects of them. This contradiction creates a balance, which is articulated through play and the...

  • Immensiva VR/AI Residence 2020 SHOW

    Espronceda, Institute of Art and Culture has organized during February 2020 the first VR / AI Residence IMMENSIVE, where international artists who work with virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR), program in code, use sensors, look for big satellite data and interact with other new technologies, share residence for three weeks to co-create interdisciplinary projects in groups and advised...

  • Transcendence, talk by Maria Almena

    The creative director of Kimatica Studio will present the talk “Transcendence”: new media performances and altered states of consciousness next Monday, at 19h, at nave 10 of Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture as part of the Immensiva VR/AI Residency. The capacity of the public is limited to 40 people. The door opens at 19h, the speech will start...

  • I’m ok, by Mr. Zen

    “I’M OK” The Keyword is “The Acceptance” The acceptance is the best way to be happy. We all find out the goal of life as the happiness. And we try to do everything to reach the goal but forget the best way for reaching by getting the acceptance things both positive and negative that come through our lives. If...

  • VR/AI Residency opening and programe

    Program of the VR/AI Residence 2020: FEBRUARY 4th, Tuesday: 18h>>21h. Inaugural Talk (by invitation only) 5th, Wednesday: 10h>>14h. Kick-off Workshop. Fundació Epica. 6th, Thursday: 17>>19h. Hangar Open Day 17-19h (free visit) 7th, Friday: 11>>20h free visit during open hours. CCCB. Gameplay exhibition. 10th, Monday: 18h. Talk by Maria Almena. Kinetika. 11th, Tuesday: 16h>>19h. Workshop VR projects. Nuromedia 12th, Wednesday: 11h. Visit Fab Lab....

  • Optical Syllabary, by Nora Schmel

    The ‘OPTICAL SYLLABARY’ exhibition is a collection of typewriter poetry and collage works that explore subjective connections between language and visual perception. An experimentation of how we connect meaning to words when graphic elements are added or taken away, and how the narrative of an image changes when our understanding is influenced by words. As there was a protagonist...

  • Observations, by Mirthe Blussé

    Through her work Mirthe Blussé seeks to connect people with their imagination and memories, using an abstract language to translate her own experiences and emotions into a bigger, universal image that leaves room for personal interpretation. Her gestures and marks serve as the direct, tactile imprints of her existence – and the existence of others when they add their...

  • Vivmos cercanos a un paraiso, by Berto Martínez Tello

    We see vegetation painted green phthalo on lemon yellow. It seems to draw a garden. In a picture there are woman silhouettes inside a lake. The idea of ​​a paradise is evoked. There is another painting with a black sky, the vegetation, indifferent, maintains its color. In many paintings there is no person, no naked bodies, no animals. Is...

  • The Seed Song

    The SEED SONG is an exhibit by artist Lisa Rubin of intricate and multi-layered hand made collages. This show traces the progress of several recent series, inspired by cycles of the natural world, powerful divine female figures, and the hidden life potential contained within the seed. Lisa’s highly symbolic work, made from collections of hundreds of recycled magazine images,...

  • Quotidians, by the Cuks collective

    28/11/19 @19h Everyone knows what we are referring to. “Lemons, pots, notes, intensities, trees, tiles, forgotten.” 7 perceptions 7 everyday motifs. About the artists: Anna Bussot Joan Sorolla Montse Artés Clara Rossy Teresa Seguí Mireia Cifuentes Marta Juvanteny Event on Facebook  

  • Object, by Lionel Pennings

    Lionel Pennings, Belgian emerging artist is the winner of the third edition of the ARBA-ESA/ESPRONCEDA Award Prize (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels in cooperation with the city of Brussels), Lionel Lennings.  The exhibition “Object” is the result of his artistic research, curated by Savina Tarsitano. On the 13th will be the opening in presence of the artistic...

  • A black line across the page curated by Valentina Casacchia

    19/11/19 @19h30 As part of the Loop City Screen program of 2019, Espronceda Institute of Arts and Culture presents November 19-23 “A black line across the page” a project curated by Valentina Casacchia, including artists: Francesca Banchelli, Carlos Caballero, Keren Cytter, Alice Guareschi, Annika Larsson , Bruno Marrapodi, Lorenzo Montanini, Sharon Paz, Beatrice Scaccia. In November 2018 a group...

  • Character & mask-making workshop with Nora Schmel

    CHARACTER & MASK MAKING WORKSHOP inspired by THE GUERRILLA GIRLS WORKSHOP LEADER: NORA SCHMEL Inspired by Female Artists #2 At this two days workshop we study the feminist activist artists, The Guerilla Girls, and make our own characters and masks for a hypothetical activist scenario. The aim of this workshop to get familiar with alternative ways of activism and...

  • EXÉGENIS POÉTICA by Siuro, curated by Maribel Navarro

    The work is born from the sensitivity of recognizing, in each thing, the extreme fragility of existence and its inherent transience. In this work everything coexists, but not as a fusion of opposites but as an approach to make poetry and life be intertwined to the point of barely distinguishing. Dream world, landscapes of humanity with more interest in...

  • Dark and Stormy – collective exhibition curated by Paul Pretzer

    Participant artists: Marie Aly Katharina Arndt Fritz Bornstück Stefanie Gutheil Philip Grözinger Julius Hofmann Andrey Klassen Jan Muche Daniel Thurau Paul Pretzer This group show includes works by contemporary German artists who are interested in obscure, absurd and dark imagery. It is rooted in a tradition that goes back all the way to Hans Baldung Grien, Otto Dix and...

  • Big Bang Espectacle gastropoètic – by La Decimonònica

    10 & 12/10/19 @20h   We at Espronceda are very happy to present for the third year the new theatre work Big Bang. The cooperation with the Catalan artist, theatre director Albert Mestres began three years ago on his idea to bring theatre in a contemporary art space to dialogue with visual art, performance and food. The artistic research has...

  • Symposium Towards a new role of the curator. 09/10 from 17h to 20h.

        The idea to realize this Symposium was born thanks to the collaboration and cooperation between Espronceda Institute of Arts & Culture, On Mediation_Platform on Curatorship and Research from the Universitat de Barcelona, in a common reflection on the current role of the curator and its value along with Barcelona Gallery Weekend.   The main objective of the...

  • Beyond the Object on the Creative Spectrum

    The exhibition Beyond the Object. On the Creative Spectrum is the result of the collaborative work between sculptor Raffael Lomas and photographer Tai Lomas in which, through an artistic dialogue, the process of creation goes beyond the merely objectual to generate new multidisciplinary relationships that, in turn, provoke new conceptual approaches to the art work. Taking as a starting...

  • Qhapaq Ñan – path of wisdom

    Healing: Individuals work on conflicts and internal emotional blockages, such as family relationships, attachments and detachments, ancestors, etc. Individual healing consists in finding the origin of the inner physical, mental, energetic and emotional problem, through the understanding and awareness, the psychological part of the individual is healed. Subsequently, the process of internal assimilation is continued, through the Inca ancestral...

  • Craptalism, by Tom Campbell

    19.09.19 @19h30 Craptalism, or Cacatalismo in its Spanish version, is Tom Capbell’s latest body of work.   Campbell will be exhibiting drawings, painting and sculptures in large format that he has made during his residency at Espronceda.   Tom has been coming to Barcelona for the past few years so some of this work is a culmination of previous...

  • The Lights of the Stones, by Savina Tarsitano and Dinu Flamand

    10/09/16 @19h30   The Lights of the Stones is a joint project by the Italian artist Savina Tarsitano and the Romanian poet Dinu Flămând. The European exhibition brings into light the “shadows” of Savina Tarsitano grown into lyrics in Dinu Flămând poems. On the occasion of the of the launch of the poetry book of Dinu Falamand “Ombres I...

  • Papier Mache Large Scale Workshop with Tom Campbell

    Come and work as a team and make a large scale sculpture in a day with artist Tom Campbell. This fun workshop will focus on consensus decision making and team building during which a large scale sculpture will be made. Open only to 6 participants so please book early by emailing vitor@espronceda.net. The order of emails sent will be...

  • People, by Clara Lotter Dittmer 27/08/19 @19h

    With, People, Clara Lotta Dittmer aims to explore the mystery and the complexity of human being and existence. Her main interest is to describe and observe the story and voices of people, and their daily lives on the streets. Any emotions, fears, joys or feelings that are behind a face. Clara wants to explore Barcelona, lose herself in its...

  • On Stage by Manuel Canelles

      Co-curators: Roberta Melasecca, Ilaria Termolino, Savina Tarsitano Observation: by Laura Safred On stage is a project by Manuel Canelles. It reflects on language matter, the identity of the perception and on the construction of perceived reality: what we enjoy does not necessarily correspond to (our idea of) reality. The project investigates the relationship between reality and its representation...

  • Performing Mechanisms by Netai Halup. 04/07 @19h

    04/07/2019 @19h In Performing Machineries, Netai Halup explores the performativity of their sculptures and how these can be manifested through poetic forms and mostly through sculptural theatricality, being this the main topic of the show. The different installations and site-specific sculptures are placed in the space creating a narrative that one could interpret it as ‘acts’. Like in a...

  • Mindspaces Open Call – submissions until July 4th

    http://mindspaces.eu/open-call/   MindSpaces is a Lighthouse project belonging to the STARTS initiative. The main goal of the Starts is the inclusion of artists in innovation projects funded by the research program Horizon 2020. To encourage collaboration of research projects and artists, STARTS funds STARTS residencies of artists in technology institutions and of scientists and technologists in the studio of...

  • Taller Bordado Creativo con Martín Eluchans

    Five-hour workshop where basic and intermediate embroidery techniques will be worked on, creativity unlocking exercises, investigation of textile art references and development of a creative project. Martín Eluchans – Centro Espronceda residency program – interdisciplinary artist, his works include sculptures, lithographs, stages and his latest project Borders and Limits: a proposal where he uses the technique of embroidery revealing...

  • Selk’nam: Cielos del Infinito

    From expressions of historical memory construction – with new visual, audio-visual, sound readings and linked to new media – the processes of territorial / cultural re-appropriation, the construction of identities and imagined territories. Taking as its starting point the tragic history of the Selknam people, originally from Isla Grande of Tierra del Fuego – the southernmost end of South...

  • Art Lover Ground BCN #13. May 25th @3pm

      Born in London in 2015, Art Lover Ground regularly runs live performances and art events mainly in London, Barcelona, ​​and recently adding a new city: Madrid. Our event has hosted between 500 and 700 attendees per edition. The next Art Lover Ground of May 25 will be held in an industrial building, using several of its spaces: from...

  • Speculative Species – Arte VR en la Era del Antropoceno. 20/06 @19h

    20/06/2019 @19h   Artists: Bianca Kennedy & The Swan Collective (DE), Juan Le Parc (ARG/FR), Jakob Kudsk Steensen (DK/US), Lara Torrance (UK/US). Curated by Tina Sauerlaender (DE), Peggy Schoenegge (DE) and Erandy Vergara (MX/CA). Espronceda, Center for Art & Culture, is proud to present the exhibition Speculative Species, the first Virtual Reality Art exhibition in its Barcelona venue. In...

  • Trace Monotype Drawing Workshop with Jennifer Ghormley

      This is a printmaking process, but does not require a printing press. We will trace over existing images, drawings or photographs to create textured drawings. Then we will add color with watercolor, gauche, or colored pencil for more interesting artwork. You can work in a series, or each piece can be unique.   About the artist event on...

  • Emoción y Ruptura, por Rocío Maldonado y Mercedes Roglá. 08/05 @19h30

    08/05 @19h30   The two artists residents of Barcelona, ​​Rocío Maldonado and Mercedes Roglá establish a dialogue between their works in a daring joint exhibition in which the past and present trajectories of the artists are mixed in a powerful artistic experience, full of meanings and sensations. On the part of Rocío, we are invited to appreciate “La Ruptura”,...

  • New Faustian World

      With the cooperation of Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Barcellona, Espronceda Center for Art & Culture, Barcelona is pleased to present NewFaustianWorld, the book by Italian art curator Raffaele Quattrone published by 24 ORE Cultura – Gruppo 24 ORE, a leading Italian newspaper. It will be shown also the documentary created by Piero Passaro, and produced by Theater 7/2 Productions, ...

  • Badass

    EXPO & HAPPENING Género. Sexualidad. Identidad. __________ Pop Up Art Shop – ALL DAY LONG SHOWCOOKING & Taste 13h-17h By Humble Vegan Charla SEXO ANAL 16h -17h by Alba Povedano ( Sex Academy ) CINE FORUM 17h-19h con Julia de Paz y Carmen Aumedes moderado por Riti de Pineda MUSICA: Las gatas que tiran palante – 19h -20:30h https://www.instagram.com/lasgatasquetiran/...

  • Survey Sea, curated by Valentina Casacchia 11/04 @19h

    Thursday, 11/04/19 What according to many thinkers today is one of the greatest crises in modern Europe does not lie upon economic terms, rather on its difficult relationship with the past. The only place where the past can live is the present, and if the present no longer feels its past as alive we find it difficult to eventually...

  • Medicina Ancestral Inca 11>14/04

      https://www.textilesqero.com BARCELONA, vive una experiencia Unica!,  Sabiduría, Rituales , Ceremonias y mas! con Rolando Pauccar Calcina, siente el llamado de la Pachamama. mas información visita  : www.textilesqero.com   La Medicina Ancestral Inca, tiene como objetivo dar soluciones de sanación que renuevan la energía, reintegran el espíritu y apertura un camino espiritual de forma consiente así lograr alcanzar tus...

  • Arquitecturas Cambiantes, by Cecilia Lima. 04/04 @19h

    04/04/2019 @19h             In movements of incursion through the streets of the city, aimlessly and with desires to break the ordinary, “Changing Architectures” is a way of repatriating spaces and transverting physical, political and historical cracks. Crossings by the irregularity of the affections and collisions with the body of the city. The individual exhibition...

  • Arte y Tantra: Workshop & Presentación de películas. del 21 al 31 de Marzo

    The international art group ArtExtasia from Hungary will visit Espronceda and offer a series of free and paid programs between March 21 and 31: 21/03, 19h30. Introductory lecture on Tantric Art + screening of the film: “Continumente amando”, 108 minutes. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6754546/ FREE EVENT 3/27, 19h30 Lecture: “El Eros in Art”+ screening of the film: “Las Caras de la Grandiosa” 101 minutes....

  • Roundtable “The Best Practice in Art and Education”. 06.03 @19h

    06.03.19 @ 19h   Espronceda is very proud to present is first debate on: The importance of art in the field of education, social change, social responsibility the best practice from Tokyo to Barcelona. The second part will be in Tokyo by the Italian artist and Espronceda co-founder Savina Tarsitano Nowadays the role of contemporay art is more and...

  • Esferas II – La constante cosmológica. by José Ignacio Díaz de Rábago. 07 > 23/03/19

    Expanding particles, planets, stars, galaxies, the universe, the multiverses… the understanding or perception of these elements is almost immediate, but the layers of meaning and sensations caused by the installation “Spheres II, The Cosmological Constant”, by Díaz de Rábago, go much beyond that point. The effort to build the project out from the paper in such an ambitious plan,...

  • Cruixent, 16/02 @2pm

    Espronceda opens the doors for a unique artistic experience. This Saturday, February 16 from 2 p.m., a collective exhibition opens the day with 18 young visual artists. During the day there will be different performative proposals that go from the theater to the experimentation with new technologies. Admission is free and we hope you come. Performance (comissioned by LAS...

  • La Relación entre Arte, Performance y Lenguaje Corporal. Roundtable 08.02 @19h

    On the 8th of February Savina Tarsitano will be moderating the roundtable on: “The relationship between art, performance and body language: towards new challenges, borders and alliances” in presence of Enzo Pezzella artistic coordinator of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and ISAC (Institut Supérieur des Arts et Choreographie) of Brussels, Manuel Fanni Canelles, coach, director and visual artist,...

  • I cried over spilt milk. By Leen Van Dommelen & Charlotte Flamand, 07/02 @19h30

    07/02 @19h30 We, at Espronceda, are very proud to present the second edition of the Prize Espronceda/Arba-Esa on the importance of best practice in the contemporary art and the role of the residency for the young artists at the beginning of their career. Espronceda and the Royal Art Academy of Brussels are collaborating together for the past three years...

  • finissage Huella. Nil Nebot 25/01 @19h

    25/01 @19h TALK WITH THE ARTIST moderated by Ilaria Termolino “I am an imperfect animal. In reality, the true artist is nature”. The artist will invite the public to interact with the installations through a performance that will lead us to rediscover his world of rocks, accompanied by the flamenco guitarist Detmar Breuker. Event on Facebook About the artist

  • Huella. Nil Nebot. 11/01 @19h

    Friday, 11/01/19 @19h On January 11 at 19h, Espronceda Center for ART & CULTURE (Carrer D’Espronceda 326, Barcelona. Metro: Navas) inaugurates Huella. Nil Nebot, solo exhibition by the Catalan artist Nil Nebot. The exhibition is curated by Ilaria Termolino, who uses the potential of art to encourage a reflection on the importance of the ecological issue. Nebot reveals, through...

  • Workshop “Apprehending and trimming Naturgemälde” with Marta de los Pájaros

    15/12/18 @11h   Collage workshop linked to the exhibition Anthropocenic Naturgemälde Reflective outlines on our relationship with nature. Addressed to restless minds that feel engaged to intertwine knowledge with creativity. Hands-on session in which all participants will explore Alexander von Humboldt’s marvelous vision of nature in order to draw on and share, throughout collage, their own approach regarding the...

  • Jungles book launch 14/12 @19h30

    14/12 @19h30   We hope to see you in the presentation of the new book: Jungles. Marcos Navarro, Mia Cassany and the team of Mosquito Books will be present for this joyful night. Live painting. Event on facebook

  • Anthropocenic Naturgemälde by Marta de los Pájaros, 13/12 @19h30

    Thursday, 13/12 @19h30   Anthropocenic Naturgemälde Reflective outlines on our relationship with nature We live in an era that draws on a neologism –Anthropocene- in order to define itself; a geological period determined by the impact of human intervention upon the planet’s different ecosystems. In the last few centuries, we have been lead by a persistent polarization between science...

  • Taller Aprehender y Recortar Naturgemälde / Marta de los Pájaros

    Apprehending and trimming Naturgemälde Collage workshop linked to the exhibition Anthropocenic Naturgemälde Reflective outlines on our relationship with nature. Addressed to restless minds that feel engaged to intertwine knowledge with creativity. Hands-on session in which all participants will explore Alexander von Humboldt’s marvellous vision of nature in order to draw on and share, throughout collage, their own approach regarding...

  • Camera obscure experience_Motors & So with Guilhem Senges, 01/12 @11h30

    Saturday, 01/12 @11h30 On the occasion of the exhibition “Motors & So” and the mechanic installation “Inventari Sonoro III”, which puts a spotlight on the Mercedes Van / Dark Room, the artist Guilhem Senges invites you to share the experience of the camera obscura in live … and some vermouth to celebrate 🙂 Schedule: 11.30 to 13h > Large format...

  • Motors & So by Guilhem Senges

    22/11/2018 @20h   Espronceda Centre for Art and Culture is pleased to present the retrospective exhibition “Motors & So” of the sculptor and photographer Guilhem Senges, in which the artist experiments with different mediums in order to create a harmonious interplay between vision and hearing by bringing together analog photography, sound installations and interactive installations.   Senges translates the...

  • Curry Talk – finissage Dreamscape, by Vitor Schietti

    Friday/ Viernes, 09/11 @20h Talk with the artists Vitor Schietti, and special guest Mark Redden, about their creative process. Special vegetarian curry dishes for the first 30 participants for only € 5! About the artists: Vitor Schietti Mark Redden Event on facebook

  • The Voice of Places by Davide Gambino, Savina Tarsitano & Maya Barsacq @ LOOP Festival

    13/11/2018 @ 20 h On the occasion of the sixteenth edition of the LOOP festival in Barcelona (12th – 22th November 2018) Espronceda Center for Arts and Culture presents “The Voice of Places” project curated by Valentina Casacchia related to places as architecture of emotions. The latest research of the artist and photographer Savina Tarsitano in collaboration with the...

  • Dreamscape by Vitor Schietti

    25/10/2018 @20h   For his first retrospective, Dreamscape, in the spaces of Espronceda Center for Arts and Culture, Barcelona, Vitor Schietti features a series of large works: From the Unreal to the Real, Extended Moments and Impermanent Sculpture, immersive screenings taken from his many travels around the world and captured by the technique of multiple and long exposure. The...

  • Algorithm finissage, by Mark Redden. 19/05 @20h

    This Friday you have a second chance to meet the artist during the closing of his show ALgorithm. From 20h to 22h we’ll be here to this art experience. Algorithm This new body of work is a continuation of themes and ideas cultivated over several years and expressed between the mediums of painting, drawing, and sculpture – a fluidity...

  • La Corda, by Albert Mestres, Jordi Font, Toni Mas and Eva Ortega, in cooperation with the exhibition Scene by Savina Tarsitano.

    9 & 10/10 @21h Espronceda Center for Art & Culture is proud to present the project of cooperation between theater and visual arts for the second consecutive year thanks to the collaboration of the artists Albert Mestres, Savina Tarsitano, Eva Ortega, Jordi Font, Toni Mas and José Menchero. Bringing the theater to a space of art means exploring the...

  • Algorithm by Mark Redden

    13/10 @ 17h   This new body of work is a continuation of themes and ideas cultivated over several years and expressed between the mediums of painting, drawing, and sculpture –  a fluidity of materials and formats that represents the universal appreciation Redden has for art making. His practice involves making images and objects that are worked over to...

  • Young Gallery Weekend

    Friday, 28th of September @20h This Friday we receive the festival Young Gallery Weekend. We are honored to host its opening on it’s forth edition, getting better each time. The schedule will go as following: 20:00h Opening20:30h Presentation ETHER ARTS PROJECT. Performance “Return to Multiverse” – Marta Pinilla 21:00h RAÚL DÁVILA “En la noche oscura del sentido” – Sound...

  • Tell my wife to eat my corpse and when she’s done eating my corpse, you’ll eat her BY Georg Pinteritsch 20/09 @19h30

    Thursday, 20.09 @19h30   When confronted with the representation of a visual landscape telling stories with no distinct beginnings nor endings, it’s hard to grasp an immediate understanding of what is before our eyes. Appreciation requires patience, investigation, and further down this path, it suggests acceptance. While at such a task, one may encounter cloths that conceal and reveal...

  • Art and Education: create with kids and families

    A workshop for children between 5 and 9 years old led by the artist Savina Tarsitano and application of methods from the Tutti Frutti School of Languages for Children, Brussels. Interested parties contact: info@espronceda.net, limited places. Event on facebook  

  • Roundtable “Año del Patrimonio Europeo de la Cultura”

    Monday, 10th of September @19h30 In occasion of the European Year of Culture Heritage Espronceda has the pleasure to present the first of a series of round tables linked with the culture heritage. The project is in cooperation with the artist Savina Tarsitano who is developing since more than 10 years an artistic research on the relation between contemporary...

  • Vesuvius by Dalia Baassiri, 05/09 @19h30

    Wednesday, September 5th, @19h30 Carrer d’Espronceda 326, nave 5. Barcelona Dalia Baassiri explores her world through daily activities that have their core of action in the household, understood as a home and a protective refuge. This process gets the artist to question the meaning of everyday life, the interiority of the human soul and the adversities of life: conflicts...

  • Earth Concerto no.4 “Mediterranean” by Kaoru Shibuta 09/08 @20h

      Earth Concerto n.4 “Mediterranean” is a poetic symphony composed by images, colours and harmony inspired by the natural and musical world by the city of Barcelona and the space of Espronceda: a perfect fusion between nature and Art. Kaoru Shibuta translates musical notes into images and contemporary installations. Bach’s, jazz music, the sound of nature is drawn into...

  • India & Pakistan. Who are you? Who am I? by Judith Döker, 26/07 @20h

    Opening on Thursday, 26th of July, at 20h The two nuclear powers India and Pakistan have a known hostile relationship towards each other. German artist Judith Döker chose not only to portray these two countries in a very personal way, but also to exhibit them: Side by side. This decision was influenced by the reoccurring questions Döker was asked...

  • SUMA by Mia Pearlman and Albert Marquès. 17_19_21/07/2018 @20h

      SUMA is collaborative project by American sculptor Mia Pearlman and her husband, Catalan jazz pianist Albert Marquès. SUMA, or “sum” in English, means both the aggregate of two or more quantities, and the substantive meaning of a matter. As a title, it refers to the way every culture and landscape contains the entire complex history of how it came to...

  • At the dawn of yet another age of Absurdity: Composition No. 5 by JAŠA, 04/07 @18h

      The composition continues. In light of our deep ambivalence about our global socio-economic situation, the question of the political commitment, in art and elsewhere, seems to be calling out for alternatives that do not shy away into the usual underground.The poetical, the individual act of defiance, a voice, sound, a repeating gesture as a poetical stance and standing...

  • Expo #Futurart, 14/06 @20h

    HOW THE 21st CENTURY ARTIST WILL BE Participants – Aura Pérez, expert in new technologies. – Jordi Barnadas, gallerist. – Pau Riera, auction expert. – Mario Rodríguez, independent artist. – Sofía Zuluaga, artists and art teacher. Moderator – Anna Pou, art historian. Objective Art has always been a profession with difficulties to adapt to the market. Artists, traditionally, have...

  • Finissage “The Secret garden of Samantha” & Jixmazz jazz concert, 09/06 @19h

    This Saturday we have two great events joined together: Starting at 19h you’re invited to participate in a talk with the globally known inventor of “AI sex doll” Samantha, Sergi Santos and our current artist-in-residence Olga Jürgenson, whose installation “The Secret Garden of Samantha” is currently on a view. The participants will comment on a rapidly growing market for...

  • “Fainted Skin” by JosepRamon Guillén, 07/06 @20h

    The expo “Fainted Skin” by Josep Ramon Guillén gathers sensitive nude photographs in black and white. A one-night expo in our artists’ loft, in Nave 10. Josep Ramon Guillén is an artist specialized in photography. Born in Barcelona in 1956, he has worked as a professional photographer “freelance” in many fields, such as industrial photography, advertising agencies, fashion, reports,...

  • The Secret Garden of Samantha by Olga Jürgenson, 31/05 @20h

    “His secret Garden is not like mine.” Nancy Friday, ‘Men in Love’  The idea for this installation and it’s series of paintings was inspired by the rising popularity and rapid development in artificial sex partners, as well as by a pioneer of research on women’s and men’s sexual fantasies Nancy Friday, who published them in books titled ‘My Secret...

  • Mesa Redonda Crear, Pensar, Transformar @ 24/05, 18h30 to 21h

    Espronceda – Center for Art & Culture – on the occasion of the European Year of Cultural Heritage – invites you to the round table: Create, Think, Transform: the Third Paradise experience in Cuba of the Rebirth project by Michelngelo Pistoletto and Cittadellarte. A space for the dialogue developed and organized by Savina Tarsitano, artist, member of the European...

  • Lenz a paso lento, by Christian Stefanovici & Juilan Wachendorf – 17/05 @ 20h

    An exhibition by the German artists: Christian Stefanovici & Julian Wachendorf. curated by: Felix Land   “Hold on, stop. I won’t go outside. It’s not for me. The color alone shows how (dreadful) it is – white, grey, blue. Simply cold.   The springtide flourishes the city. Life is created. People emerge again. Petals won’t fall lest butterflies are...

  • Act Utopia Lab 2nd edition

    Act Utopia Lab following its mission to promote disruptive innovation done by inter-disciplinary teams, with art driven perspective, organize a day of amazing conferences and a workshop Ideathron. The event is open to public, university students, researchers, entrepreneurs and artists. Tuesday 15th May, from 16h to 22h at Espronceda, Centre of Art and Culture, Barcelona. Program of the event:...

  • Industrie-Soundorchestra, 27/04 @ 20h

    Detlef Landeck, inspirado por el jazz americano y por el intérprete de la improvisación Butch Morris, desarrolló con Industrie-Soundorchestra el principio de la Conducción y la Improvisación estructurada y dirigida.   A partir de la percusión de Olaf Pyras se aportó el ritmo de percusión que generan los componentes de VW utilizados en los vehículos.   A su vez,...

  • Téchne H.H by Verónica Vázquez – 25/04 @ 20h

    Téchne H.H by Verónica Vázquez Opening 25th of April 2018 at 8:00pm (free event);   An exhibition of the acclaimed Uruguayan sculpture Verónica Vázquez curated by Alejandro Martin, in collaboration with Piero Atchugary. Espronceda, Center for Art & Culture and Piero Atchugarry gallery, is pleased to present the first exhibition of the Uruguayan artist Verónica Vázquez in Barcelona. The...

  • Course “Photographing the Unconscious” with Vitor Schietti

    In its sixth edition, the workshop “Photographing the Unconscious” arrives for the first time in Barcelona. The tutor Vitor Schietti and invited tutors propose a different approach to author photography. The focus is not so much on the techniques taught, although they are important tools, but in the creative process behind the access to the unconscious, and how to learn...

  • Kreatur by Andrea Wilmsen

    Kreatur by Andrea Wilmsen Opening 4th of April 2018 at 7:30pm (free event); In many cultures, the beehive was considered to be the ideal of a collective structure, while honey and wax provided metaphors for sweetness and productivity. The natural architecture that bees create in their canes is considered a perfect creation, inspiring architects, artists and scientists alike. However,...

  • Neosexual construction by Pol Gorezje

    Neosexual construction by Pol Gorezje Opening 4th of April 2018 at 7:30pm (free event); For centuries, society has insisted on maintaining a sexual order closely linked to morality, religion, anatomy and culture, where everything was perfectly and hermetically classified. People have been identified according to their gender category: male / female, gender: male / female, and of sexual orientation:...

  • Slam de Escritura e Ilustración

    WRITING AND ILUSTRATION SLAM Friday 23rd of March, 19:30h-21:00h Entrance: 8€ Beer as cortesy of Estrella Damm Organized by Live Writing, in collaboration with Espronceda, Center for Art and Culture. Collaborate: Estrella Damm, Sandra Bruna, Ediciones B, Miquel Rius, TimeOut, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Biz Presentations. The Espronceda art gallery will host a new edition of the original literary improvisation...

  • I had a flashback by Melissa Godoy Nieto

    I had a flashback by Melissa Godoy Nieto Opening 22nd of March, 7:30 pm (free event);   Melissa Godoy Nieto remembers her dreams very vividly almost every morning. So she started journaling them 2 years ago recognizing all the pieces they hold: memories, wish-fulfillment anxieties, struggles, fantasies, instincts, distortion, symbology, expressions of emotions. For the exhibition I Had a Flashback...

  • Anyway Bernardino by Layla D’Angelo @09/03, 19h30

    Opening 9th of March 2018, at 19h30 (free event) Laya D’Angelo’s art Works offer an invitation to the infinite. Hints of constructivism, op art and kinetic sculpture are combined in fragmentary iron constructions held together with magnets that can be subjected to unlimited reconstruction by the viewer. A touch of painterly illusionism turns squares into cubes in one of...