Week of Art 2025 – Visitas Inesperades

Presented by: ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture

Venue: Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer, Vilanova i la Geltrú

Dates: 4 December 2025 – 1 February 2026

ESPRONCEDA. Institute of Art & Culture is participating in the Setmana de l’Art de Catalunya 2025 thanks to a collaboration with Galeries d’Art de Catalunya (GAC), which selected a work by the artist Emmanuel Beyens —loaned by ESPRONCEDA— to be part of the exhibition project Visites inesperades.
The artwork can be visited from 4 December 2025 to 1 February 2026 at the Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer, one of the two venues hosting this edition of the project.

A collaboration that renews ESPRONCEDA’s connection with Emmanuel Beyens

Emmanuel Beyens, a Franco-Belgian artist who exhibited at ESPRONCEDA as part of his Crazy Purple project, has maintained a strong relationship with our centre ever since. During that exhibition, ESPRONCEDA incorporated into its collection one of his most significant works, “Anàlisi tècnica fatal. La dona estirada sobre un gràfic de cotització”, created in 2016 in oil on canvas.

The piece is part of the Crazy People series, in which Beyens explores contemporary human vulnerability, the grey zones of existence, and the psychological states emerging on the margins of nightlife. In this work, the artist presents the body of a woman lying on a stock market graph, a scene that can be interpreted as an allusion to the suicides linked to major financial crises. His pictorial language blends figuration and irony, ultraviolet tones and a psychedelic atmosphere that evokes nightclubs and the lighting of urban nightlife.

The artwork in dialogue: “Visites inesperades” at the Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer

Curated by Montse Frisach, Visites inesperades proposes a journey in which contemporary works from GAC galleries temporarily infiltrate the museum’s permanent collection, establishing unexpected aesthetic and conceptual dialogues.

Beyens’ painting opens the exhibition itinerary in the Pinacoteca room, where it creates a powerful visual contrast with the neoclassical sculpture “Lucrècia” by Damià Campeny. Both pieces connect through a universal theme: suicide as a limit point of the human condition, although approached from different contexts and artistic languages. This dialogue expands with other works in the room, weaving a narrative that links eras, sensibilities, and interpretations of the body and tragedy.

ESPRONCEDA at the Setmana de l’Art

Participation in this project reaffirms ESPRONCEDA’s commitment to contemporary art, interinstitutional collaboration, and the promotion of both local and international artists. We extend our thanks to Galeries d’Art de Catalunya, curator Montse Frisach, and the Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer for hosting this work and enabling Beyens’ practice to dialogue with new perspectives and contexts.