Creativity

This year, Barcelona Design Week adopts the motto PRO-TEST to champion design as a living process.
Creativity

Protesting without placards: Barcelona Design Week takes to the streets

Ainara Valadez Medina
A protest does not always need to be written on a placard. It can be an image, a sentence, an action, or even a painted shop shutter. It can begin, quite simply, with a question: what would happen if we did this differently? A question that also serves as the...
Visitors observing one of the artworks exhibited at the previous edition of SWAB. © Marc Medina
Creativity

Barcelona’s art scene held up to the mirror of SWAB

Ainara Valadez Medina
An art fair is typically understood through its most visible, commercial lens: a setting where galleries present their artists, collectors scout new acquisitions, and artworks are bought and sold. Yet a fair can also become something far more expansive than a mere marketplace. Just as an art gallery is never...
The new exhibition “Dalí Cybernetic Boulevard” at the Centre d’Arts Digitals de la Casa Amatller. © Provided.
Exhibitions

Almost a century later, Dalí returns to Barcelona

For years, Barcelona lived with an absence that was difficult to explain: Salvador Dalí, one of Catalonia's most universal artists, had neither a dedicated venue nor any lasting tribute in the city. Now, nearly a century after his first solo exhibition – held in Barcelona at Galeries Dalmau – the artist...