Exhibitions
La Virreina draws the exhibition map with its 2026 programming
Four thematic axes—from Godard's cinematic legacy to countercultures, language and political memory—articulate a plural proposal dedicated to art, cinema and contemporary thought.
The Virreina Center for Image presents its program for 2026 with a series of exhibitions dedicated to key figures in contemporary creation and critical thought. The program includes exhibitions focused on Jean-Luc Godard, Marion Scemama and David Wojnarowicz, Oier Etxeberria, Frederic Amat, Gràcia Territori Sonor, Alex Reynolds and Robert M. Ochshorn, Juana Dolores Romero Casanova, as well as an exhibition dedicated to the magazine De Calor , configuring a plural journey through the artistic, audiovisual and editorial practices of our time.
The exhibition program of La Virreina Center for Image for 2026 is organized around four thematic axes: seminal cinematographies, institutionality without institutions, the blind spots of history and words to disorder the world.
The first axis culminates a decade of research into film practices with a major exhibition dedicated to Jean-Luc Godard, the most complete to date after his death, in continuity with previous projects on key figures in experimental and auteur cinema. The second axis recovers a fundamental part of Barcelona's independent culture after 1992 through exhibitions on the magazine De Calor and the thirtieth anniversary of Gràcia Territori Sonor.
The third axis addresses two critical moments in American political history: on the one hand, the countercultures that emerged during the Reagan era, with figures such as Marion Scemama and David Wojnarowicz; on the other, the United States' policy towards Palestine at the end of Joe Biden's term, based on the film project by Alex Reynolds and Robert M. Ochshorn. Finally, the fourth axis explores the relationships between language, economics and poetry as a force of disorder and imagination in the exhibitions of Oier Etxeberria, Frederic Amat and Juana Dolores Romero Casanova.
