Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2018

The forth Barcelona Gallery Weekend has a wide-ranging programme in 28 art galleries of Barcelona and its surroundings. As a parallel programme, the event features a set of artistic interventions at unique places and a new programme, Artévete, which aims to bring the public closer to the experience of purchasing art. In addition, the BGW will offer guided tours and special activities  for professionals and for a general audience.

28 galleries, more than 50 artists: 
3 Punts, Amadeo Gabino / ADN Galeria,  Margaret Harrison / Àmbit Galeria d’Art, Joan Cardells / Ana Mas Projects,  Quisqueya Henríquez, Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Alana Iturralde, Engel Leonardo / àngels barcelona, Esther Ferrer, Tom Johnson / Arte Aurora Galería, Yamandú Canosa / Bombon Projects, Pere Llobera / Dada Objet Trouvé,  Albarrán Cabrera, J. Ortiz Echagüe, M. Ray, O. Steinert, L. Veronesi, M. Nagy / Die Ecke arte contemporáneo, Enrique Ramírez / etHALL, Marc Larré / Galeria Carles Taché, Javier Arce / Galeria Contrast,  Íñigo Navarro / Galería Cromo,  Laia Arqueros, Gina Thorstensen / Galeria Estrany-de la Mota,  Ignasi Aballí, Oriol Vilanova / Galeria Joan Prats , Pedro Cabrita Reis / Galeria Marc Domènech,  Vicenç Viaplana / Galeria Senda, Yago Hortal / Mayoral, R. Canogar, M. Cuixart, L. Feito, J. Guinovart, M. Millares,  A. Saura, A. Tàpies / L&B Contemporary Art, Pietro Capogrosso / N2 Galeria, Ken’ichiro Taniguchi / Nogueras Blanchard, Francesco Arena / Palmadotze Galeria d’art, Alfonso Borragán / Pigment Gallery, Ramon Enrich, Dominica Sánchez / ProjecteSD, Dora García / RocioSantaCruz , Sergio Vega / Sala Parés, Ruth Morán / Tasneem Gallery, Ernesto Leal / Zielinsky, Eduardo Marco

BGW Village
As a novelty this year, BGW will have a welcoming and meeting point for information and chill out. Open to the public at large, BGW Village is hosted inside the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, an emblematic cultural institution of the city.

Parallel program: Compositions
Curated by Glòria Picazo and Alexandra Laudo, will gather site-specific interventions by artists represented by the participating galleries in unique places of Barcelona and its surroundings. Compositions offers an alternative itinerary that encourages to explore the streets with new insight, establishing a dialogue between architecture, urban space and contemporary art.

Anna Dot & Aldo Urbano (Bombon Projects): |  | at Torres Venecianas
Glenda León (Galeria Senda): Every breath (Earth) at Casa Vicens
Mariona Moncunill (Palmadotze): Unfaithful meridian at Reial Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts de Barcelona
Jaume Pitarch (àngels barcelona): 2.200 minutes at Edificio del reloj, recinto de la Escuela Industrial
Teresa Solar (Galeria Joan Prats): Flotation line at the old factory Industrial Akroll

ARCOGalleryWalk
Once again this year, the BGW benefits from the collaboration of Fundación ARCO in order to offer the ARCOGalleryWalk guided tours—a programme of free visits to the participating art galleries and venues—to the general public. The aim is to support the approach between audience and artists and establish a relationship with the galleries involved in the event.

12 routes, limited capacity, previous registration at office [​at​] artbarcelona.es 

Artévete
The main newelty in the BGW2018 is the programme Artévete, a series of networking events, visits to galleries and social activities involving conversations with sector experts bringing their enriching personal experience to bear.

Artévete also aims to offer tools of understanding so the market can gain importance in the local context and be perceived as within the reach of all, showcasing its most accessible side and generating a unique creative coupling to shake up the sector and form a bridge between artists, gallery owners, institutions and potential purchasers.

With the collaboration of KOYAC.

Acquisitions programme

Blueproject Foundation, Cuatrecasas, Fundació Vila Casas and LA PLACE show their confidence in the event by committing buying artworks among those exhibited at the participating galleries.

BGW is promoted by Art Barcelona.
Direction: Susanna Corchia, susanna [​at​] artbarcelona.es  
Coordination: Mariña A. Pino, mapino [​at​] artbarcelona.es
Press: ITComunicación, Francesca Semenzato: fsemenzato [​at​] itcomunicacion.com, T +34 933621034