Exhibitions
Loop Barcelona 2025 where the festival transforms images into experiences
155 national and international artists, 74 galleries and three outstanding exhibitions exploring video art in the city of Barcelona.
Loop Barcelona has established itself as a global benchmark for video art, connecting artists, galleries, curators and professionals from all over the world. It includes the Loop Festival, with screenings, exhibitions, performances and talks in various spaces around the city, the Loop Fair, where galleries exhibit and market works by artists who use video as their main medium, and the Loop Symposium, a space for debate on artist cinema and contemporary audiovisual practices.
The 2025 edition, the 23rd, will be held from November 11 to 22 with the theme Miratges / Mirages , exploring how moving images generate illusory and powerful visions. This year's symposium focuses on collaborative practices within artist cinema under the motto “Trusting, Caring, Collaborating”. Loop Barcelona is not only an art fair, but also a meeting point, exhibition and reflection on the creative and conceptual potential of video art.
A new edition where the festival presents the works of 155 artists, both national and international, distributed in 74 galleries. Regarding the theme of the festival, artistic director Filipa Ramos points out that "artistic cinema and video have the capacity to generate visions and images that transform us, and we must be aware of the danger that illusions entail."
Three top Loop exhibitions
Strawberry Fields , by Julia Montilla, can be seen at the La Fabra Contemporary Art Centre until January 25. It is the winning project of the Video Creation Award, promoted by the Territorial Visual Arts Centres of Catalonia, Santa Mònica, the Department of Culture of the Generalitat and Loop Barcelona.
Julia Montilla (Barcelona, 1970) explores the figure of seasonal women and the problems arising from intensive agriculture, establishing a link between the colonial past and the current extractivist regime. The film's title refers to the Beatles' song of the same name, and the piece combines elements of visual essay, documentary and experimental cinema, portraying the physical and human landscapes of strawberry farming in Huelva.
AHH! , by Anna Cornudella, can be seen at the Can Framis Museum of the Vila Casas Foundation from November 11 to 22. The exhibition brings together several works by Anna Cornudella (Barcelona, 1991), characterized by the marked pictorial character of the moving image. According to the artist, “the plasticity of painting and of human and more-than-human bodies are protagonists of an imaginary that opens up to strangeness”. These representations become scenarios where visual poetics and the poetics of the word intertwine through the video clip format.
Torita-encuetada , by Elyla, can be seen at the Enric Miralles Foundation from November 11 to 22. In this video, the artist reinterprets traditional popular practices to question their meanings and the systems of power that sustain them, situating the queer body as “a space of resistance and regeneration.”
The project focuses on Torita-encuetada, an anti-colonial ceremony that evokes liberation from oppression through a fire-lit ritual, inspired by the Nicaraguan cultural tradition of the toro encuetado, a bull-shaped structure filled with fireworks. Elyla subverts this typically masculine symbol to introduce “a queer and playful reinterpretation.”
