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Loop Fair
Since 2003, Loop Fair has been the first and only art fair dedicated exclusively to moving images in contemporary art. Its 24th edition takes place at Almanac Barcelona from November 17 to 19, 2026. The format is the Fair's founding idea: each participating gallery presents a single work, installed in its own room and shown in full. A film cannot be hung on a wall and walked past, so instead of competing for attention in an aisle, each work is given the time, darkness and attention it needs. Collectors, curators and the public meet it on its own terms. Artists and galleries are selected by an independent committee of collectors: Jean-Conrad and Isabelle Lemaître, Josée and Marc Gensollen and Haro Cumbusyan.
The 2026 edition brings together artists and galleries from Europe, the Americas and Asia, including participants from Argentina, Brazil and Canada. Among the artists presented, Theo Eshetu (presented by Galerie Barbara Thumm) and Éric Baudelaire (presented by Barbara Wien) are both included in In Minor Keys, the international exhibition of the 61st Venice Biennale. The fair is honoured to feature a work by Ceal Floyer (1968–2025) (presented by Esther Schipper), the British conceptual artist who died in Berlin in December 2025. Floyer was known for works of radical economy, such as a slide projection of a light switch or a 52-minute video of a marker slowly blackening a sheet of paper; she used projection and video to make the act of looking at the subject itself.
Loop Talks
To Inhabit a Scene, curated by Lisa Long
For over twenty years Loop has brought artists, collectors, curators, producers and thinkers together to discuss how the moving image shapes the way we see the world. To Inhabit a Scene, curated for 2026 by Lisa Long, shifts the focus from the works themselves to the people building the infrastructure that allows time-based art to be made and encountered at all. The premise is that artists cannot carry their work into the collective imagination alone. As artificially generated slop floods our screens and the spectacle of disaster arrives at our fingertips, the case for carefully made, ambiguous, emotionally complete work grows stronger—and so does the case for the structures that carry it forward and far. Across four panels, the programme turns to what is being built, for whom, and toward what idea of the future, as these ecosystems multiply across the global majority. Invited institutions include Canyon, New York, HEK (House of Electronic Arts), Basel, Fondazione Prada, Milano and Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka, among others.
Loop Festival
Xiu Xiu. Artists’ Cinema and Barcelona’s Shared Spaces
Artists’ cinema offers a particularly sensitive medium through which to engage with space. For this edition, Loop Festival focuses on its sonic and aural dimensions, attending to forms of perception that often remain secondary within artistic and architectural discourses. The title Xiu Xiu (meaning whispers in Catalan), evokes modes of transmission that are intimate, subtle, and often at the threshold of audibility, exploring the conditions of inhabiting and sharing space and approaching architecture not only as built form but as a set of relationships shaped by coexistence, interdependence and responsibility. Xiu Xiu is conceived by curator Filipa Ramos and developed by Aitana Vélez and Eva Pobeda.
Across screenings, installations, performances and live formats, the programme moves through museums, cinemas, independent initiatives, universities and architectural landmarks, activating both familiar and overlooked spaces across Barcelona. This year's programme includes major premieres: Ben Rivers' new film Mare's Nest; the live performance Krakatoa by Carlos Casas presented with L'Alternativa; and a site-specific installation by Etienne Chambaud at the Museu de la Música. They are joined by works from artists such as Rosa Tharrats, Ona Balló, Natasha Tontey and Reetu Sattar. Xiu Xiu also features a collaboration between KADIST and Le Nouveau Printemps, curated by Filipa Ramos and Clément Postec, with works by artists like Cecilia Bengolea, Caroline Déodat, Joachim Koester, Choy Ka Fai and Xavier Marrades. On the occasion of the festival's opening at Tecla Sala, Maria Alcaide will present her new project La mirada catalana as the recipient of Catalunya's Premi de Videocreació 2025.
City Screen
City Screen is an artists’ films programme that welcomes local spaces across the city to present artists' films in different formats; galleries, studios and independent spaces throughout Barcelona take part in the program. Its aim is to offer a snapshot of Barcelona’s engagement with the film medium, showing the diversity of practices, artists and contexts that shape it. Bringing together more than a hundred artists from diverse geographies and practices, City Screen 2026 moves across territories in crisis, an investigation of the body as a site of political experience, and the idea of the screen as a threshold between perception and reality.
Loop Barcelona’s 24th edition features a visual campaign by graphic designers Ana Habash and Alex Viladrich, developed with artist Román Cadafalch.
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