Latest Events in Barcelona(July Updated)

The Tour de France 2026 starts in Barcelona, Spain on July 4, 2026, with a 19km team time trial. The first three stages are in Spain, with the third stage crossing into France and ending in Les Angles. The race will feature new climbs in the Pyrenees, Massif Central, Vosges, and Alps, with a unique two-stage finish at Alpe d'Huez late in the tour before concluding in Paris on July 26.

The Sala Montjuïc returns to Montjuïc Castle, bringing open-air cinema, live music, and a picnic atmosphere to summer nights. From July 10 to August 5, 2026, the Fossat de Santa Eulàlia transforms into a giant open-air cinema under the stars, screening recent releases, modern classics, art films, and special screenings. The Sala Montjuïc is one of Barcelona's most special summer events: enjoying open-air cinema against the backdrop of the historic Montjuïc Castle, just minutes from the city center. The experience begins even before the film starts, featuring live music, a leisurely dinner, and a relaxed atmosphere—ideal for couples, friends, or groups.

The first national retrospective of 2025 Joan Miró Prize laureate Capuvani Kiwanga will open on April 29th. The exhibition is a joint effort between the Stavros Niácos Foundation (SNF) and CUPRA. Kiwanga creates compelling interior architecture, exploring the materiality, economic exchange, and geological temporality that shape our relationship with space. This exhibition, conceived specifically for the Joan Miró Foundation, will fully reflect his exploration of space and control, offering a radical contemporary perspective on architecture and its power structures. Kiwanga's work exhibits an extremely precise and coherent internal structure. Her artistic practice interacts organically with architecture: the artist explores materiality, resource flows, the exchange economy, and the power structures that organize regions and groups. Building on her research into architectural structures and material circulation systems, in recent years Kiwanga has extended this paradigm to fields beyond the human time dimension, such as geology, thus enabling her to understand space and systems from a perspective beyond human timescales. Kiwanga is an anthropologically trained and internationally renowned artist. She has created a series of works that use refined installation art to deconstruct hegemonic narratives and analyze the relationship between power, architecture, place, and the body. The jury of the Joan Miró Prize praised her ability to transform complex historical and social processes into poetic and rigorous conceptual forms that engage in profound dialogue with Miró's radicalism and Celtic architectural ideas. This exhibition will bring together a series of the artist's previous works, as well as a large number of new works created specifically for the Barcelona exhibition. The exhibition will revolve around the following themes, focusing on three key areas: materiality, economic and cultural exchange and its structural tensions, and contemporary crises related to place, encompassing various aspects such as agriculture and housing. All of these aspects are directly related to the architectural perspective that runs through this year's exhibition project, positioning Kiwanga's work as a rethinking of how the world we live in is constructed.

The exhibition outlines the philosophical dilemmas that arise from this. It explores how the human imagination depicts scenes beyond our world in art, film, and literature, and, with the help of scientific evidence, envisions what might happen if habitable planets are discovered. It's a journey that inspires reflection on the existence of other life in the universe.

"Light Through the Cracks" takes viewers on a journey through the diverse forms of collective creation that have emerged through video art from the 1970s to the present. At its heart lies the experience of Video-Nou / Servicio de Vídeo Comunitario (Community Video Service). This group, active during Catalonia's transition, viewed video not only as a technological medium but also as a political and social tool to foster self-organization, community empowerment, and counter-information dissemination. Starting from this historical juncture, the exhibition unfolds across different thematic areas, weaving together archives, practices, and strategies from other countries and international groups (regardless of their historical context or contemporary characteristics). The exhibition is not a linear genealogy but rather a series of experiences that blur the lines between art and activism, documentation and fiction, aesthetics and ethics.