Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona

MACBA

The Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona ( MACBA ) is a contemporary art museum in Barcelona .

As early as 1959, Alexandre Cirici Pellicer founded an association to set up a museum for contemporary art in Barcelona. The museum itself was founded in 1988. On November 28, 1995, the building designed by the American architect Richard Meier opened in the El Raval old town .

The museum mainly contains art from the second half of the 20th century as well as works by many contemporary artists. In 2011, the daughters of the Catalan photographer Xavier Miserachs transferred the archive of the person who died in 1998 with over 80,000 negatives to the museum.

The museum changes its exhibitions every three to four months.

Curators

2008–2011 Chus Martínez

Special exhibitions (selection)

2011: Natascha Sadr Haghighian . De paso
2011: The Otolith Group
2011: Are you Ready for TV?
2010: # 01 Armando Andrade Tudela
2009/10: The Malady of Writing
2009/10: Ray Johnson
2009: Thomas Bayrle , retro perspective
2007/08: The MACBA at the Frankfurter Kunstverein

La Capella

Since 2006 the MACBA has been using the chapel of the former Angel Monastery as an additional exhibition space. This is only a few steps away from the main building. Above all, experimental installations are shown there. In 2011, for example, the installation De Paso by the German artist Natascha Sadr Haghighian could be seen there.