Exhibitions
Art Photo 2026, photography as a living and limitless territory
An edition that understands the image as an open space between memory, body and territory.
The 13th edition of Art Photo Bcn will take place from 8 to 10 May 2026 at the Disseny Hub Barcelona, consolidating a model that combines a fair, screenings, Photobook Market, public activities, workshops and a digital platform conceived as a living extension of the festival. For three days, the event will bring together national and international galleries, established artists and new voices, sector agents, collectors and diverse audiences around an expanded reading of contemporary photography.
The online programming, active until July 30, will extend the experience with viewing rooms, interviews, recommendations and its own audiovisual content, reinforcing the hybrid dimension of the project.
Johnny Miller, Gallery Buchkunst Berlin, Unequal Scenes, Manila Philippines, 2023.
The curatorial line of 2026 is articulated around the idea of photography as a porous territory: an open space where archive and document, body and landscape, memory and time coexist, as well as processes of visual research and new ways of narrating the real. From this perspective, Art Photo Bcn proposes a plural, non-hierarchical and critical reading of the current panorama, relating genealogies, contexts and generations.
The fair, curated by Isabel Lázaro, brings together 28 participants in the main section, 22 proposals in the Photobook Market and 8 projects in the Visionats, in addition to a public program distributed over three days and a line of specialized and family workshops. The edition also hosts the launch of the new L'Infinit Photography Award, promoted with Recaredo, and a digital platform with its own content such as Rasters , Trobades and Focus On .
Miquel García Roig, Taché, Atlantes of Tula. Morning Star.
One of the highlights of this edition is the presence of a constellation of female authors who cross generations and diverse contexts. Figures such as Cristina García Rodero and Graciela Iturbide establish a dialogue with a solid genealogy of international photography, while artists such as Ángela Copello, Mahala Nuuk and Katerina Belkina explore contemporary ways of thinking about landscape, representation and the construction of the image.
Participating galleries and institutions include SELTZ by Ritter Ferrer, Galeria Rafael Ortiz, Oda Arte, Taché Art Gallery, Pigment Gallery, Z22 Galerie, Galería Daniel Cuevas, Galería Marisa Marimón, Mind's Eye, ExtractArt, Galeria H2O, Le Mur Gallery, Buchkunst, Luminic Festival de Fotografia, Hangar, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Real Sociedad Fotográfica, Caroline Kist, LCI Barcelona, IDEP Barcelona, El Observatorio, IEFC and Recaredo, among others others
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