Artworks go on tour

Art can appear when you least expect it. In the dentist's waiting room, between mirrors in a hair salon, while having a coffee, or even in a cemetery. This is the premise of A Museum Outside the Museum, the project with which MACBA takes a part of its collection out of its usual exhibition spaces to install it in about thirty places throughout Catalonia. Photographs, videos, and other works by artists such as Fina Miralles, Joan Brossa, Colita, Bruce Nauman, or Ana Müller coexist with everyday life in spaces as diverse as the Lleida funeral home, Salvador Dalí's birthplace in Empordà, or, in Barcelona, the Biblioteca de Catalunya or the Öss Kaffe cafeteria. The initiative claims that contemporary art does not need to be hung between the four walls of a museum to surprise or move: it can also be found in the most unexpected and everyday places.