Latest Events in Barcelona(April 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.

Join TWICE《THIS IS FOR》WORLD TOUR IN BARCELONA at Palau Sant Jordi on May 12, 2026. Celebrate TWICE’s return to Europe with unforgettable music and performances. Don’t miss this chance—get your tickets now.

L'Antitêteis an anthology of poems by Tristan Tzara written between 1916 and 1932. The earliest poems coincide with the founding of the Dadaist movement by the poet, while the later ones were written as an active member of Surrealism. The work was first published in 1933 and reissued in three volumes as a bibliophile's edition in 1949 by Bordas éditeur in Paris. Max Ernst illustrated the first volume,Monsieur Aa l'Antiphilosophe, Yves Tanguy the second,Minuits pour géants, and Joan Miró the third,Le Désespéranto.

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.

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.

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.

MACBA is proud to present the first solo exhibition in Spain by Palestinian art duo Basel Abbas (born 1983 in Nicosia, Cyprus) and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (born 1983 in Boston, USA). They employ poetic techniques of sound, image, text, and performance to delve into collective memory, exploring stories of oppression, deprivation, and violence, as well as narratives of collectivism and resilience.

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.

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.