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Bonart 204 puts the Catalan utopia under construction and claims architecture as culture
The new edition in Catalan shares prominence with the third international issue of the magazine and unfolds an extensive journey through contemporary art, museums, exhibitions and the forty years of the Perelada Festival.
Bonart publishes issue 204 of its Catalan edition . A new issue that consolidates the magazine's editorial commitment to connecting critical thinking, contemporary creation and the international projection of Catalan culture, with a wide range of voices, interviews, reports and analyses on current artistic developments.
The cover of Bonart 204 is starring Le Large (2026), by RCR Arquitectes, in Paris, with photography by Isabel Vilalta and Gaudí typography by Ricard Giralt Miracle. An image that anticipates the monograph dedicated to architecture, one of the central axes of this issue, which claims the cultural dimension of architecture and explores the territories shared between this discipline and the visual arts.
The editorial, signed by Ricard Planas Camps, proposes Utopia Catalonia: the non-place under construction , a reflection that opens the magazine to the possibility of imagining new cultural and social spaces. The issue also includes an extensive opinion block with contributions from David G. Torres, Montse Badia, Xavier Barral i Altet, Josep Massot, Albert Mercadé, Ortèsia Cabrera-Espuny, Pere Parramón, Marta Pérez i Verge, Vicent Fibla, Fernando Castro Flórez, Marisol Salanova and Roberta Bosco, among other authors.
The critical look at contemporary artistic institutions and practices runs through much of these reflections, with articles dedicated to cultural rights, the social condition of art, museums, the contemporaneity of Girona and the role of festivals as spaces for creation and thought.
Architecture as a space for thought
The architecture monograph brings together texts by M. Clara Riera Escalona, Conxita Oliver, Josep Muntañola and Carles Toribio, who approach architecture from different perspectives. Among the contents, the international projection of Catalan architecture during 2026, the new life of the Seguin Island with RCR Arquitectes and the relationship between architecture and the museum stand out.
The blog also incorporates a reflection on the shared pedagogies between the historiography of art and design, with Assumpta Bassas Vila and Gemma Reixach Villegas, as well as contributions on Gaudí and his legacy, signed by Domènec Corbella, and a look by Mariona Seguranyes Bolaños at the Castle of Sant Ferran as a refuge for the arts.
The magazine also includes an interview by Ricard Planas Camps with Jesús Navarro, from MORERA. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Lleida, and a wide section of reports that moves between criticism, research and new forms of artistic production.
Malart
broadens the international view
The third international issue of Bonart, Malart , shares this new editorial stage with a cover starring Tangram I (2025), by Anna Irina Russell. The edition opens with The Happiness of Creation , by Fernando Cuevas Ulitzsch, within the Visions of Catalonia project, and unfolds an extensive tour of exhibitions and cultural institutions around the world.
Among the contents, the exhibitions of Aurèlia Muñoz at the MACBA, Charlotte Perriand at the Fundació Joan Miró, Anselm Kiefer at La Pedrera, Dana Lixenberg at the Fundació Mapfre, Pere Portabella and Vídeo-Nou stand out, as well as the proposals dedicated to Gaudí, Miró, Joaquim Gomis, André Ricard and Francesc Torres.
The issue also focuses on projects and spaces such as the Arranz-Bravo Foundation, Bòlit. Girona Contemporary Art Center, the Girona Cinema Museum, the Girona Art Museum, the Víctor Balaguer Museum, the Maricel Museum and the Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia, among many others.
The international perspective extends to exhibitions such as Barcelona Moderna. From Gaudí to Picasso , at the Kunsthalle München, and to projects that connect Catalan creation with other cultural contexts, such as the Lyon Biennial or the new cartographies of memory in Andorra.
Forty years of the Perelada Festival
Among Bonart's outstanding actions and projects, this issue includes the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Perelada Festival, which will have a monographic edition dedicated to its history and its role in contemporary culture.
The magazine also presents the latest initiatives linked to Bonart's international projection, with presentations in Medellín and Bogotá, participation in ArtsLibris Barcelona and the FIL in Guadalajara, the reactivation of the YouTube channel with a new series recorded in Bogotá and projects that connect art, gastronomy and cultural experience.
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