CASA SEAT closes the year with record visitors

CASA SEAT closed 2023 with a total of 214,900 visitors, the highest figure ever recorded in the space. More than 200 events have been organized in the city's young cultural enclave, becoming one more of the members of Barcelona's agenda, with a special prominence in Sant Jordi, the 48h Open House Barcelona and the Magic Days. Precisely, December 29 was the day with the highest number of visits, with almost 3,500 attendees.

Beyond the most anticipated events, throughout the year all kinds of events on mobility, music, art, literature and business, among others, have been scheduled, as well as sessions of the cycle The New Barcelona – Moments Estel·lars, organized by The New Barcelona Post and with the collaboration of CASA SEAT, Must Media Group and Barcelona Global. CASA SEAT has hosted national and international guests and experts such as Estopa, the Torres Brothers chefs, Lola Índigo and J.A. Bayona. There has also been space for young talents, with the participation of La Pija y la Quinqui or Julieta.

In addition, CASA SEAT has programmed various exhibitions, among which Pioneras, which paid tribute to the women who contributed to the development of the automotive sector; Ilustrando Barcelona, which captured multiple visions of the city on the cover of The Barcelonian; or Superficie Absoluta, an exhibition that explored the union of industrial design and contemporary art.

During this season, CASA SEAT has begun a new stage under the leadership of Cristina Vall-Llosada, who assumed the direction of the space in June. Vall-Llosada had previously been responsible for the Corporate Communication area of the Seat Group.

New year

The 2024 agenda at CASA SEAT is full of novelties. Among others, the space has programmed new cycles of monologues and concerts on the ground floor. The month of January will begin with a lot of music and some humor. From Blanca Paloma to Carmen, the space will face the year premiering a new cycle of monologues, CASA SEAT Comedy, by Cruïlla Comedy. The first edition will feature the participation of comedians Andrés Fajngold, Andrea Farina and Raquel Hervás.

But, above all, what there will be is music. It will start on Friday the 12th, in collaboration with the Liceu, with a meeting about the opera Carmen to explain all the secrets of this production. The bass-baritone Simón Orfila, who will play Escamillo; the soprano Adriana González, who will play Micaëla, and Víctor García de Gomar, artistic director of the Liceu, will visit the auditorium.

The month of January will begin with a lot of music and some humor, with the premiere of the new cycle of monologues CASA SEAT Comedy

A week later, on Saturday the 20th, baritone Enrique Monteoliva and pianist Iñaki Guezala will offer a recital of Franz Schubert's lieder song cycle Winterreise, in collaboration with Joventuts Musicals de Barcelona and Joventuts Musicals de Catalunya.

Finally, on Saturday the 27th in the morning, pianist María Parra will visit the CASA SEAT auditorium to present her latest album, Gea, live. Through 11 songs composed in 2020, the composer pays her particular tribute to Earth. As if that weren't enough, in the afternoon, singer Blanca Paloma, winner of Benidorm Fest 2023 and Spain's representative in Eurovision, will give a concert on the ground floor after the release of her first single Jaleo.