A*LIVE 2026: The Kitchen Network. Episode 4 by Luiza Prado

The Kitchen Network. Episode 4  by Luiza Prado Antic Teatre, Barcelona Date: 24/3/2026, 8 pm Welcome to The Kitchen Network! The Fourth episode takes place in Barcelona! Unfolding as an episode in the last reality TV food competition on earth, this performance uses humour to examine the divide between online food cultures and their disconnection […]

Water cartographies

We don’t just have a close relationship with water: we are water. 70% of our bodies and 71% of the planet are water, but only 2% is freshwater. Water is a finite resource that circulates, regenerates, and transforms, but cannot be created. The natural cycle can no longer keep pace with global demand: if in […]

A*LIVE 2025: “Bodies of Evidence” with Adam Broomberg & Ido Nahari

Date: Thursday, 16 October 2025, 19:30 h Location: MACBA, Auditorio Meier, Barcelona  The lecture “Bodies of Evidence” with Adam Broomberg & Ido Nahari analyzes the circulation and functioning of violent images of past and present genocides. From Gaza to Namibia, Nahari and Broomberg review the visual techniques of demonization and glorification in war imagery to […]

LUX. A journey through the imagery of light

Light permeates myths, revolutions, and landscapes, an ancient symbol of knowledge and transformation. Electricity saw it spread to the rhythm of cities, shaping ways of life and dreams. In art, light reveals and reinvents the world. This online exhibition commission by the Xarxa de Museus d’Art de Catalunya invites you to explore imaginary  world of […]

A*LIVE: Radical Cuteness

The 11th edition of A*LIVE, the multi-layered, transversal and expansive public event programme of A*DESK in collaboration with the Museu de l’Art Prohibit, on 6/11/2024 at 7:30 p.m. In the ongoing debate about access to knowledge, censorship, fake news, distraction tactics, screen dependency, and the decline in critical thinking, A*LIVE 2024 delves into the concept […]

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 […]

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 […]