Featured Events in Barcelonès in 2026 (May Updated)

The 2026 Formula 1 Barcelona Grand Prix will take place from June 12 to June 14 at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló. This event marks Round 9 of the 24-race 2026 FIA Formula One World Championship season. The 2026 F1 calendar features a record-breaking 24 Grands Prix across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas, running from the season-opening race in March through the finale in December, making it the longest and most extensive season in Formula 1 history. For the full 2026 F1 schedule, circuit maps, and ticket release dates, Trip.com will provide ongoing updates to help fans conveniently plan their race experience.

The Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix is one of the most highly anticipated events in the world of motorsports. Held at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, the race takes place in the beautiful city of Barcelona, Spain. The track itself is known for its challenging layout and fast corners, making it a favorite among both drivers and fans. The race is a part of the Formula One World Championship, with top teams such as Mercedes, Ferrari, and Red Bull taking part in the race. Some of the most skilled drivers in the world, including Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, and Sebastian Vettel, compete for the coveted title. With a capacity of over 140,000 spectators, the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix provides a thrilling atmosphere for fans to witness the excitement and adrenaline of motorsport at its finest. Information Source: fixturecalendar.com

"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.

The museum continues its series of projects themed around the civil war, such as the new permanent war gallery launched in 2021, and the "Museum Crisis!" exhibition focusing on the preservation of cultural artifacts during the conflict. Based on the museum's materials and related research, the National Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) will exhibit for the first time a selection of works from the Franco National Antiquities Preservation Agency (SDPAN). Founded in 1938, SDPAN's collection has been housed in this museum and other institutions, and its ownership remains a mystery.

As part of the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona (MACBA), this new collection exhibition explores how a vibrant life form spreads its wings, transforming its subjectivity into a liberating space. The exhibition abandons traditional chronological narratives, instead re-examining the collection through dialogue with new modes of being and action. It presents a multifaceted perspective, reaffirming the collection as a constantly growing, open, diverse, and ever-changing whisper.

In *The Third Turning Point*, the artist uses the format of a road movie to document the current state of a nomadic settlement built by Bouffier in the Algerian Sahara Desert in 1979. This settlement was commissioned by then-President Hooari Boumediene. The building represents Bouffier's utopian period, when his studio (RBTA) brought together architects, poets, painters, and others. This complex, originally planned to be built to modern standards, was ultimately unfinished, revealing the tension between the dreams of that time and the realities of modern colonial heritage.

The artist José Luis Rey Vila (born in Cádiz in 1900, died in Paris in 1983), using the pen name Sim, left behind one of the most vivid testimonies to the Spanish Civil War, particularly the Battle of Barcelona. As part of a series of exhibitions and projects commemorating the war, the National Museum recently acquired and will exhibit nearly one hundred paintings created by the artist during the Civil War. These works are of exceptional quality and highly expressive, some depicting the brutality and cruelty of war, vividly portraying its horrific aspects.

On the occasion of MACBA’s 30th anniversary, a new exhibition of the Collection will pay homage to the museum’s trajectory. A celebration of its three-decade-long history of critical engagement with the transformative potential of artistic production and research, the project acknowledges the collection as an embodied constellation of works that come to life and engage with each other differently amidst a radically altered cultural landscape, marked by migration, political resistance, and new forms of collectivity.

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.

The exhibition is a tribute to the most brilliant and international sculptor of Catalan Romanesque, the Master of Cabestany —for some a true Picasso of the 12th century— and to his masterpiece, the missing marble portal of Sant Pere de Rodes , in Port de la Selva (1160-1170). The show will also address the surprising life trajectory of this artist —between Tuscany, the French South, Catalonia and Navarre—, as well as the numerous open questions in relation to the sources and original intentions of his art.The appearance of a series of pieces from this set and the entry of five of them (a relief, two male heads, a fragment of clothing and the INRI plaque of the cross) into the MNAC collection have led to this ambitious and far-reaching exhibition, which aims to highlight the originality and “modernity” of this itinerant sculptor in the context of European Romanesque, as well as to draw attention to the extraordinary artistic dimension of the Benedictine abbey of Sant Pere de Rodes and its long and turbulent heritage history from the Middle Ages to the contemporary era. The monastery, nestled in an incomparable place, where nature is inseparable from art, has become a contemporary myth in the history of Romanesque art.