Exhibitions
The Tàpies Museum opens a 2026 of metamorphosis and critical gaze
A season that goes through memories, revolutions and political friendships with Tàpies, Àngel Jové, Cristina Lucas and Penny Siopis as protagonists.
The Tàpies Museum has already unveiled its programming for next year, an exercise that reaffirms the will to rethink itself in the face of the cultural, social and technological challenges that define the present, as well as the complexities of a time immersed in a profound paradigm shift. Throughout 2026, exhibitions, public and educational programs, and new research projects will delve into the Tapia universe from renewed perspectives, opening up new spaces for mediation and conversation. With this commitment, the museum advances in the construction of a critical look at the historiographies that have marked its interpretation to date.
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Antoni Tàpies, Nocturne, 1952. Oil on canvas, 73×92 cm. Collection of the Tàpies Museum, Barcelona. © Tàpies Commission / VEGAP, 2025.
The 2026 season is seen as a changing map, crossed by voices that dialogue with the past and the future. Two exhibitions dedicated to Antoni Tàpies light the way: Antoni Tàpies. The perpetual movement of the wall , curated by Imma Prieto and Pablo Allepuz, which rescues that decisive moment in the fifties when matter became its own language; while Tàpies, Portabella. Politics of friendship investigates the force that is born when two deeply committed wills meet and turn reality into a critical space.
The museum also projects Tàpies' gaze towards India and, in parallel, rescues the power of Marta Palau in the United States, drawing threads that cross continents and memories.
With Àngel Jové. De Intactum , curated by Maria Josep Balsach, the visitor enters a fragile and fascinating constellation: that of a creator who, from discretion, shook up the forms and imaginaries of the new artistic practices of the sixties.
Àngel Jové, Untitled. Metaphysical Series, 1975. © Rafael Bartolozzi Collection, 2025.
Cristina Lucas, for her part, transforms the industrial revolutions into a sensory experience: a journey that can be heard, seen and even smelled, thanks to the collaboration with the Ventós Foundation. The exhibition proposes a journey through the four industrial revolutions that, since the 17th century, have modified the economic, cultural and colonial fabric of the planet. The first of them, driven by coal, opened the era of the steam engine and triggered a massive movement from the countryside to the city, forever transforming the perception of work, time and urban life.
And finally, Barcelona and the MTA will exhibit for the first time the universe of Penny Siopis. Her paintings, drawings and films weave an emotional cartography that travels north and south, revealing memories that persist, transform and, at times, tremble.
Thus, the 2026 programming becomes an open landscape where memory, matter and imagination dialogue with the same intensity.
