There are 7 exhibitions on in Barcelona worth the trip. I checked the dates, the venues and the opening hours one by one, on the museums’ own pages.
Last checked: 28 July 2026
27 March to 16 August 2026
Chez Matisse traces the French painter's trajectory and his influence on twentieth century avant-gardes, staged in the former Casaramona textile factory that now houses CaixaForum. At 6 euros, one of the cheapest major shows in Barcelona right now, free for under-16s.
17 April to 6 September 2026
About thirty photographs by Valérie Belin fill the temporary exhibition room at the Museu Picasso. She builds her portraits and still lifes entirely in studio, blurring photography and painting: not more Picasso, but a sharp dialogue of images.
30 April to 13 September 2026
Kapwani Kiwanga, the French Canadian artist who won the 2025 Joan Miró Prize, built this show for the Foundation's rooms, not a touring exhibition. Trained as an anthropologist, she looks at how architecture and materials shape power. Budget time to read the texts.
6 June to 27 September 2026
This show sets Picasso's ceramics, made in Vallauris in the 1950s, alongside older Cypriot pottery traditions. A narrower angle than the usual retrospective, worth it to see how much archaic pottery Picasso studied before reworking it into his own plates and jugs.
28 November 2025 to 27 September 2026
For the collection's thirtieth anniversary, MACBA dropped the chronological hang and grouped 49 artists, including Basquiat and Esther Ferrer, around themes instead of decades. The fastest way to see what the museum has actually acquired over thirty years.
12 February to 27 September 2026
The show reconstructs four solo exhibitions Antoni Tàpies held in the 1950s, the decade he moved from surrealism into matter painting: sackcloth, sand, marks scratched into a wall-like surface. Staged in the foundation's own historic building, not a generic venue.
20 February to 4 October 2026
This show tells the story of the so-called Francoist deposits: artworks seized during and after the Spanish Civil War that ended up in MNAC's storerooms, often without visitors knowing their origin. Small, but it faces a rarely explained part of the museum's history.
Dates and prices change, and this page may not reflect the latest updates: before you travel, always check the museum’s own page, linked under each exhibition, which is the most reliable source.