EL SOLAR, the creative hub of Poblenou Open Day

One of the highlights of the Poblenou Open Day program will be El Solar, a space of over 2,500 m² located at Carrer Llull, 124–128. There will be workshops, live music, an art market, and a wide range of food options, along with live art performances and the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Windows Art Circuit / WAC.

12 hours of non-stop live music brought to you by The Sound Society:

11:00 – 12:30 The Sound Society Selectors
12:30 – 14:00 ESD Sound
14:00 – 15:30 YamameMaru
15:30 – 17:00 Carla Valenti
17:00 – 18:30 Marie Prude
18:30 – 20:00 Gersound
20:00 – 21:30 Apelika
21:30 – 23:00 Raul Naro

The visual artist ID:MORA will accompany the music with his psychedelic-style visuals.

In the food area, several food trucks will be offering a wide variety of choices. Sweet Wönders will serve sweet and savory crêpes for all tastes; Deligotessen, tasty nachos and burgers; Chicanos will bring the authentic flavors of Mexico with their tacos and burritos; and Warike Project will serve their delicious alternative Peruvian street food. Additionally, Oatly will have its own stand offering coffee.

As for the workshops, a diverse group of artists will be leading hands-on experiences:

-Sonia Toneu, a muralist who moves between painting, graphic art, and digital media in public spaces, will lead a mural workshop.

-Taller dels Edus, artists who create stories through the craft of live screen printing, will offer a screen printing workshop in collaboration with Oatly.

-Ramón Paris, an artist who creates and supports storytelling through his illustrations, will conduct an illustration workshop.

Additionally, it will host the participation of artists from the tenth edition of the Windows Art Circuit:

-Antón Seoane: Multidisciplinary artist who develops projects in the industrial, graphic, and artistic fields. He has experimented with multiple creative disciplines such as photography and tattooing, but ultimately focuses on the decorative field, primarily working with aerosols. His work portrays the imagery of cinema and comics, two of his other passions.

-Dèlia Rodríguez: Emerging artist with two main lines of work. One explores innocence, intimacy, and refuge through playful and absurd elements, often related to personal experiences. The other focuses on archives and memory, using traces of the past to reflect on its continuous presence, an attempt to preserve what is at risk of disappearing.

–Juani Bengali: Juani Bengali is the creative project of Ana García López, an illustrator, designer, and architect currently based in Barcelona. She loves vibrant colors, playing with shapes, creating characters, and through art, bringing smiles.

-Plain jein: Muralist, illustrator, and graphic designer born and raised in Barcelona. For the past nine years, she has been a graffiti writer, but in the last three years, she has focused more on mural art, bringing her illustrations and strange ideas to the walls. She enjoys giving a voice to social issues with a touch of humor, aiming to either discomfort or comfort the viewer.

–PALOMA: Chilean artist whose work focuses on what can be created from collections of images. These “pictorial collages” reflect and interpret, through visual language, the idiosyncrasies of our society, bringing together and interconnecting the beauty of stories and the impact of images from the more plastic culture.

–Kst: Andrés de la Bastida (Kst) is an Ecuadorian visual artist born in Galápagos. An architect by training, he has developed as an illustrator and muralist, exploring the intersection between the traditional and the contemporary.

-KONAIR: Urban artist from Barcelona, known for his iconic representation of bitten popsicles in his works. His style merges elements of pop art, surrealism, and graffiti, creating vibrant and colorful images that adorn the streets of Barcelona. His work has significantly contributed to the city’s urban landscape, becoming a key reference in contemporary street art.

–Rockaxson: Passionate about visual creativity, he focuses his work on Street Photography, Paste-Up, and urban art. Through his lens and interventions, he seeks to capture the essence of the city and transform spaces with a unique perspective.

And to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Windows Art Circuit, a series of invited artists will also participate:

-Aleix Font: Through compositions that oscillate between minimalism and complexity, this Catalan artist explores the tension between chaos and structure, between the individual and the collective, inviting viewers to question how we inhabit space and build meaning.

-Asis Percales: Illustrator and draftsman born in Granada. His unique style combines his two passions: drawing and nature. Characters, creatures, and elements that sit between the grotesque and the beautiful blend together in his works, creating visual impact and evoking strong sensations.

-Geco: A multidisciplinary artist born in Barcelona, specializing in character design, animation, and illustration. His illustrations and murals are a colorful direct reflection of his passion and frustration with the contemporary world. His work carries a thoughtful message and subtle social critique, accessible to all audiences.

-El Dios de los Tres (Javier Navarro Romero): A multidisciplinary artist born in Barcelona and Madrid. He enjoys creating images, symbols, aesthetics, and stories from his distinctive, colorful, surrealist and baroque world, full of multicultural references and pop iconography.

-No Queda Tinte (Marina Salazar): Artist, designer, PhD candidate, and founder of No Queda Tinte, she lives in Barcelona. In love with kitsch aesthetics and second-hand figurines, her work is provocative and, in her own words, minimalistically baroque.

-Ricardo Nannini: His artistic career began in 2009 when he moved from Italy to Barcelona, where he left behind his career as a designer and entered the city’s artistic scene. The narrative in his work revolves around reflecting on constructs of image, convention, and their associated behaviors, drawing from elements of pictorial tradition, popular imagination, or mass culture.