Yellow as the common thread where Art Week 2025 fills Catalonia with creation and dialogue

The color Yellow. This is the common thread, the backbone of the 2025 art week. Between November 27 and December 5, 2025, the fifth edition of the Art Week in Catalonia is celebrated and aims to give visibility to the visual arts and strengthen links between entities in the sector throughout the territory. Its main objective is to bring modern and contemporary art closer to the public, offering a platform that brings together a wide variety of activities that will take place in art galleries, museums and foundations.

Under the slogan "YELLOW IS CALLING YOU. ART IS WAITING FOR YOU", galleries and museums propose a journey where a single color becomes a mirror of feelings, ideologies and ways of understanding the world.

Promoted by Galeries d'Art de Catalunya (GAC), the Setmana de l'Art vindicates the strength of cooperation between public and private institutions to place the visual arts at the center of the Catalan cultural scene. The event reinforces the will to open art to all citizens and to expand the audiences that approach it, consolidating itself as an essential event to discover and rethink contemporary creation in the country.

The fifty activities that make up this year's program reinforce the dialogue between artists, galleries, museums and the public through various formats, turning Art Week into a true space for meeting and creative exchange.

The program combines, on the one hand, initiatives promoted by galleries, museums and foundations and, on the other, proposals designed directly by the association in collaboration with these same spaces. Highlights include the Unexpected Visits itineraries —which this edition reaches Vilanova i la Geltrú and Caldes d'Estrac— as well as the walking routes and Artbus routes that connect different municipalities in the territory, expanding the scope of the cultural celebration throughout Catalonia.

Highlights of the Catalan Art Week 2025 programme

Art Week returns with a rich and diverse program that articulates several axes designed to strengthen the dialogue between artists, galleries, museums and the public. Among them, Unexpected Visits stands out, which reaches its fourth edition as one of the most distinctive proposals of the project. This program creates a shared circuit where works from the collections of different galleries are inserted into the collections and spaces of the participating museums. The result is a game of correspondences and contrasts —of styles, disciplines and often of eras— that transforms the usual route of visitors and opens the door to new readings.

This year, the Palau de Caldes d'Estrac Foundation (from November 29 to February 28) presents works by Toni Catany, Wendy McAllister, Quentin Clemence, Onyis Martin, Antoni Clavé and Jaime Sicilia; while the Víctor Balaguer Museum Library in Vilanova i la Geltrú (from December 4 to February 1) incorporates pieces by Emmanuel Beyens, Zanele Muholi, Ramon Pichot, Marina Gasparini and Jordi Martoranno.

Another of the main axes are the walking routes and Artbus routes, which connect galleries with museums, art centers and other heritage spaces, offering a territorial immersion through a common thread. The proposals include routes in Barcelona —such as the one on November 27 between the Fundació Úniques, G Gallery and Matiz Gallery, or the one on December 3 between the Galeria Jordi Pascual, Rubén Torres Gallery and Villa del Arte Galleries—, itineraries in Sant Cugat (November 28, between the Galeria Canals, the Sala Rusiñol and the Grau Garriga Center) and an Artbus tour of Reus (November 29, between the Galeria Antoni Pinyol, Anquin's Gallery and the New Art Centre). On December 4, a new Artbus will visit the Artur Ramon Art galleries, Pigment Gallery and Sala Nonell in Barcelona.

The program is completed by guided tours of exhibitions, with commented tours that delve into the current exhibitions and collections. Among the participating galleries are Al-Tiba9 Gallery —with the exhibition by Fabrizio Corneli—, Artur Ramon Art (Francesc Gimeno), Canals Galeria d'Art (Subirachs) and Galeria Antoni Pinyol (Manuel Alcalà). The Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs also joins in, organizing visits to the exhibition dedicated to Jaume Amigó.

With all these proposals, the Catalan Art Week reaffirms its spirit of collaboration and the desire to bring visual arts closer to new audiences, turning the territory into a shared space of artistic discovery and reflection.