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The best exhibitions to visit this August in the Creative District.

This August, the Poblenou Urban District unfolds a unique cultural offering. Discover the must-see exhibitions for art lovers to enjoy contemporary talent without leaving the city.

Load Gallery

The exhibition “Auntiescapes” by niceaunties can be visited until August 15th. Through AI-generated works and an interactive installation, it explores the body as a living landscape, a terrain that renews itself, remembers, and responds to invisible forces.


Fundació Palo Alto:

Until August 28th, you can visit the exhibition “Origins” in the Escoleta hall. This third edition of MAGBa, Barcelona’s Generative Art Exhibition, explores the roots of generative art and the languages that have helped define this artistic practice based on codes, algorithms, and autonomous systems. Free admission.


IAAC:

IAAC has closed the 2025–26 academic year with Architects of Change. Prototyping the Future, an end-of-year exhibition bringing together experimental prototypes developed by students from all master’s programs at IAAC. It will remain open until September 2026. If you would like to visit, please contact [email protected].


Piramidón, Centre d’Art Contemporani

Contaminated space: Iacopo Pinelli transforms small traces of his environment into sculptures and installations that explore the relationship between nature, memory, and space. These elements, modified and transformed into artwork, show how natural processes silently filter into architecture and daily life, making visible small things that often go unnoticed by the eye and that we only perceive when staring into space.
Until September 15th.


Museu de la Música:

A journey through the Belle Époque years that transformed Ricard Viñes into one of the main promoters of new French music. As part of the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of his birth.
Until October 2026.

A journey through the career and legacy of one of the country’s most prominent performers to commemorate the centenary of her birth.
Until October 2026.

An exhibition dedicated to the creative universe of Bernard and François Baschet, two artists and inventors who, starting in the 1950s, proposed a new way of understanding the musical instrument: sound sculptures.
Until January 2027.


Disseny Hub – Museu del Disseny

The exhibition recovers a selection of documents, photographs, and materials from the first editions of the Delta Awards. A small-format exhibition that allows visitors to revisit some of the objects and designs that helped define the domestic and industrial modernity of the era through records preserved in the archives.
Until September 4th

The exhibition analyzes iron as a key material in technological, industrial, and cultural development, while also highlighting its environmental impact.
Free entrance. Until September 6th.

The exhibition invites visitors to step into a universe where precision and instinct, tradition and avant-garde coexist, in a journey that claims architecture as one of the country’s great cultural expressions.
Until September 6th.

An exhibition bringing together some of the year’s most outstanding projects in the fields of architecture, interior design, city, and landscape, as well as architectural thought and criticism.
Until September 20th.