Exhibitions
Barcelona Dibuixa transforms the city into a large space for shared creation
More than forty cultural facilities are participating in the seventeenth edition of the festival, which on October 17th and 18th invites you to experience drawing as a form of thought, expression and collective discovery.
Drawing to see differently, to explore the environment and to discover everything that can arise from a spontaneous gesture. Barcelona Dibuixa returns this weekend with a new edition that claims drawing as an open, accessible practice linked to everyday life. On October 17th and 18th, the city becomes a large shared workshop where artists, citizens and visitors can experiment with line, imagination and movement, without the final result being the main objective.
In its seventeenth edition, the festival consolidates the will to explore new ways of understanding and practicing drawing, moving it away from the idea that it is a skill reserved for those who master a technique. Drawing before thinking, doing it with the hands and the body, observing what surrounds us or letting the imagination guide the gesture are some of the proposals that define this experience. Drawing is thus presented as a form of attention and connection with the environment, capable of uniting emotion, thought and action.
The initiative deploys its activities in more than forty cultural and local facilities, which open the doors to workshops and experiences led by leading artists. Museums, civic centers, libraries, art schools and heritage spaces become settings for sharing creative processes and discovering new ways of relating to images. Each activity proposes a particular path, but they all share the same idea: the value of drawing does not lie solely in what remains on paper, but also in everything that happens while it is being created.
The poster for this edition is the work of Camille Vannier, who poses a direct invitation to draw without fear and without stopping. His proposal claims the freedom to create without worrying excessively about the quality of the result, as an impulse to throw oneself into the experience and leave insecurities behind. An attitude that synthesizes the spirit of the festival and that places the creative process, play and experimentation at the center.
A city drawn between Saturday and Sunday
The program is spread over two days. On Saturday, October 17, from four to eight in the afternoon, the activities will take place at the Museum of History of Catalonia, the Terra Museum, the Espai Jove la Fontana, the Espai Avinyó, the Coll-la Bruguera Civic Center, the Barcelona Historical Archive, the Llotja Art School and the Picasso Museum. Also participating are the Espai Canals Junyer and La Gossa, the School of Comics; La Capella and the Intercultural Association Diàlegs de Dona; the Urgell Civic Center, the Montjuïc Castle, the Museum of Natural Sciences, the Music Museum-L'Auditori, the Design Hub Barcelona (DHub), the Teatre Lliure at Palau Robert and KBr Fundació Mapfre.
On Sunday 18 October, from ten in the morning to two in the afternoon, the festival expands its route with an extensive network of cultural spaces. In addition to the Museum of History of Catalonia, the Terra Museum, the Picasso Museum, the Montjuïc Castle, the Museum of Natural Sciences, La Capella, the Music Museum-L'Auditori, the DHub and KBr Mapfre Foundation, the Can Framis Museum of the Vila Casas Foundation, the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes, the College of Architects of Catalonia (COAC), the Ignasi Iglesias-Can Fabra Library and the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) are also included.
The day also reaches Eina, University Center for Art and Design; the Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia; MACBA; the Julio Muñoz Ramonet Foundation; La Escocesa; the Ethnological and World Cultures Museum, at the Montjuïc headquarters; the Tàpies Museum, with the Institut Escola Eixample; the Museum of the Carriages of the Cemetery of Barcelona; the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion; La Farinera del Clot; the Joan Miró Foundation; Can Fontanet; the Jaume Fuster Library; Fabra i Coats, Museum of the History of the City; La Model; El Born, Museum of the History of Barcelona, and the Frederic Marès Museum.
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