Hubert de Wangen, owner and manager of Kowasa, was born on October 10, 1938. A French national, he has resided in Barcelona for over 35 years. He spoke with us…
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This publishing house founded in 1965 by Sigfried Blume, father of its current director, Leopoldo Blume. We met at their headquarters, a lovely modernist home in the hills above Barcelona.…
Foto Colectania is a private, non-profit organisation founded in 2001, aiming at promoting Spanish and Portuguese Photography from the 1950s until today with its main collection and encouraging photography collecting,…
La Fábrica (“The Factory”) is a “machine” for launching cultural projects. We work in the world of art, literature and cinema for the largest Spanish cultural projects. We are private…
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao was the result of an extraordinary partnership between the Basque Institutions and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. More than a decade after its grand opening in…
La Fundació FORVM was created in 2008 when the city of Tarragona decided to offer its support to the collection of the Galerie FORVM, founded in 1981 by Chantal Grande,…
The Joan Miró Foundation opened to the public on 10 June 1975. It had its origins in Miró's first large exhibition in Barcelona, in 1968, at the Antic Hospital de…
Romanesque art—as well as an extraordinary collection of Gothic art—makes the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) one of Europe’s major museums and the largest medieval art museum in Spain.…
The Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, designed by the American architect Richard Meier, opened its doors to the public on November 28, 1995. However, the foundations of the MACBA…
From the beginning of the 19th century to to 1957, the Casa de la Caritat was a charity center dispensing clothes and food to people in need. It also functioned…