National Heritage. New Temporary Exhibition at MNAC

Núria Güell closes the first cycle of the public programme Geysers (curated by Montse Badia) with a lecture entitled NATIONAL HERITAGE. New temporary exhibition at the MNAC, 2024. The artist makes public her extensive research into the little-known function of museums as custodians of works of art that undergo some judicial process. A search inside […]

About censorship, cancellations, frictions, controversies and self-censorship

When we talk about censorship, we often think of prohibition or cancellation, of the knots that scandalized the Church in the past and that now continue to block the algorithms of Facebook and Instagram; in the criticism of religion, in Andrés Serrano’s Piss Crist or in the political revolt of Pussy Riot. But history also […]

Crowded Museums

This intervention is part of the Geysers programme Raquel Friera’s work is based on performative strategies, historical re-readings, the presentation of parallelisms and slight shifts that configure critical views on relevant issues of the current moment. In her previous works, the artist has made re-enactments of classic performances (by Bas Jan Ader, John Cage or […]

Green Teams vs Green Washing. Gallery Climate Coalition i la responsabilitat ambiental

  ‘Green teams’ vs. ‘green washing’ We live in a world of contradictions: we talk about equality in societies that are increasingly unequal, we talk about empathy and we don’t stop producing weapons while we let people fleeing their countries drown very close to our shores … The world of art also experiences this paradoxical […]