Barcelona,
Three vindictive exhibitions and linked to the revision of the colonial past will focus the Museum D´Art Contemporani Sample program of Barcelona. Macba in this 2025, recently presented by its director, Elvira Dyangani Ose.
As of February 21, the center will host the work of Colombian artist Carlos Motta and, since May 22, that of the Cuban-American author Coco Fusco: both propose a critical reflection on today’s socio-political contexts from the aforementioned approach Decolonial On the other hand, “project a black planet. The art and culture of Panáfrica ”, which can be visited since November 6, will be the first major international exhibition that will study the cultural manifestations of large -scale pan -Africanism, through pieces of about a hundred artists from eighty countries.
“Carlos Motta. Resistance prayers ”will review a quarter of a century in the career of this creator, a period that began with explorations of its photographic self -portrait and advanced with performances and video installations dedicated to matters such as forced migration, political violence, the question queerAIDS, civil rights struggles in Latin America and the Caribbean or dissent; Try to claim the silenced voices in that region and raise questions about the future options of implementing social justice.
Archinite of numerous artistic collaborations, one of the purposes of this author has been imagining rewritures of history and questioning official narratives of different kinds.
As for “I have learned to swim in dry”, by Coco Fusco, it will constitute the deployment in the MACBA of a set of interventions that will put on the fore and in question processes of cultural, political and economic colonization with the countercultural landscape in Cuba and United States as a backdrop. Fusco, one of the most active artists and intellectuals in regard to criticism of colonialism and the exploitation of indigenous and Afro -descendant peoples, invites the public to reconsider the past and the future granting prominence to justice and equality. Another of the axes of his journey has been the inquiry in the identity of the other.

The project “Project a black planet. The art and culture of Panáfrica ”will be curator by the director of the Macba, Elvira Dyangani OSE, along with Antawan Byrd, Adom gettachew and Matthew S. Witkovsky, and will address the cultural manifestations of Pan -Africanism from the twenties of the last century until now. It is an organized sample next to the Art Institute of Chicago, the Barbican Center in London and the Kanal Center Pompidou in Brussels; About 350 pieces can be seen in the four institutions until the spring of 2027. In the case of Barcelona, this exhibition will pay attention to the impact of Pan -Africanism in Catalonia, historical and recent.

In the last quarter of the year, the commemorative acts of the 30th Anniversary of the Museu will start, with a program of activities and special events that will begin on November 28, which was the exact date of its inauguration in 1995. The program will have as as El PEI Axes (Independent Studies Program) and the Special 30 Anniversary Collection, which will take over the previous presentation of the funds, “Prelude. Poetic intention “. This last assembly can be seen until September 15 and includes pieces of 140 authors, several of them not exposed so far.
The MACBA will have a total budget of 12,600,000 euros this year, of which 10,700,000 Last year, 2,500 people approached the center, their highest visitors in the last five years and upper in 4,000 to the previous year.
