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A Barcelona local's guide to the city's contemporary art scene
Published Jul 5, 2026
Photographer and DJ, long-time Poblenou resident. Documents the galleries tour buses skip and the afterhours spots that never make Time Out.
Background: Contemporary art and underground nightlife
Credentials: Exhibited at local galleries, plays at small Barcelona venues
Barcelona's real contemporary art scene lives in the smaller foundations, city-run centres, converted factories and artist-run spaces the tour groups skip. Here is where locals, curators and collector
Local tip
The foundation set up by Antoni Tàpies himself, housed in an old modernista publishing house by Domènech i Montaner and topped by Tàpies's iconic wire sculpture "Cloud and Chair". Excellent temporary exhibitions of contemporary and modern art, calm, well-curated, rarely crowded.