Until next May we can visit “Amazonias. The ancestral future”, an exhibition that highlights the natural and cultural wealth of that vast region and the importance of preserving it, due to its ecological impact beyond the American continent and through projects by native intellectuals and artists, but this space has already advanced us the new exhibitions that we will be able to visit in its facilities in 2025.
From April to November, the CCCB will host “Drawing is Thinking,” an exhibition that will chronologically review the career of the American cartoonist Chris Ware, who became known a quarter of a century ago thanks to the magazine Acme Novelty Library. Jimmy Corriganwhich followed the footsteps of a family from the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 until that moment; then they would arrive Making stories (2012), compendium of the lives of the inhabitants of an old building, without marked reading order; either Rusty Brown (2019), still in progress, in which it uses the fractal structure of snowflakes to link various characters marked by abandonment, melancholy and failure in the landscapes of Nebraska. In Barcelona we will be able to see original works, animations, objects and sculptural pieces that will allow us to examine their expressive and narrative resources, with the contribution of the writer Zadie Smith.
Already in May, and until September, the exhibition “In the moved air…”, curated by the thinker Georges Didi-Huberman, will arrive at the Center from the Reina Sofía Museum. This great collective has works by authors very diverse in generations and, a priori, also in interests, such as Francisco de Goya, Picasso, Tatiana Trouvé, Víctor Erice, Pasolini, Corinne Mercadier, Julio González, Alberto Giacometti, Harun Farocki, Henric Michaux or Unica Zürn, to trace the Lorca duende, the feeling of excess, that we can experience in the face of fascinating images, heartbreaking songs or unprecedented situations and that It transcends the individual to become a community commotion. In short, this proposal represents a complex essay, a political anthropology of emotion in a poetic key.
The exhibitions that will conclude the CCCB’s programming in 2015 will be “Mercè Rodoreda. A forest” and the international photojournalism exhibition World Press Photo 2025. The first will delve into the imagination of the Catalan writer, focusing on the radicality of her texts, on the themes that marked her career and, also, on certain common gestures in her novels and stories, such as spying, watching, watching people die, choke, drown, transform… Since their writing oscillates between the macabre and the innocent, the fantastic and the realistic, the montage tells us will remember the indissoluble union of many contrary concepts and will explore both the author and her work as if it were a forest, from its literary and vital roots and the experience of uprooting caused by exile to the vertebrae trunks of the experience of the war, the branches that tend towards great figures of Western culture – writers, painters and filmmakers; the cups that welcome new life (birds) and touch the sky; and seeds in the form of works by visual artists who will formulate pieces inspired by Rodoreda’s creations specifically for this project. This will be the case of Èlia Llach, Mar Arza, Cabosanroque, Oriol Vilapuig or Carlota Subirós, among others.
In Barcelona we will find original documents from the Fundació Mercè Rodoreda collection, historical materials, photographs, film fragments…
As for World Press Photo, next year the event will celebrate twenty-one editions and, once again, it will bring together unpublished images in Spain linked to current events and suitable for reflection on the directions of international society and politics. Your categories will be Individual photographs, Photographic reports, Long-term projects and Open format.
Regarding its activities, we can anticipate that the CCCB will convene throughout the year debates dedicated to science, the links between tourism and the city, feminism, ecology or geopolitics. Timothy Snyder, Anne Carson or Rebecca Solnit will pass through there. The participants in its international residency program will be the Zimbabwean writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga, the Filipino journalist Patricia Evangelista and the writer and linguist Yásnaya Aguilar.
