September 28–October 1, 2017
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Barcelona Gallery Weekend (BGW) is an event for art professionals and lovers, collectors and artists, with the aim of becoming the annual art meeting in Barcelona.
The third BGW has a wide-ranging programme in the 24 most prominent galleries of the city. As a parallel programme, the event features a set of artistic interventions at unique places and an exhibition that shows the private collections of the participating galleries. In addition, the BGW will offer guided tours and special activities for professionals and for a general audience.
In this third edition the BGW launches an Acquisitions Programme addressed to foundations or private companies that commit themselves to acquire at least one of the works that will be exhibited during the event. The partners of this edition are Blueproject Foundation and Fundació Vila Casas.
Our Friendship Programme invites individuals to be part of the event through donations. Each year, a renowned artist collaborates with the BGW by giving a limited edition artwork expressly made for this programme. In the previous editions, the collaborating artists were Joan Fontcuberta (2015) and Ignasi Aballí (2016), and this year we have the generous collaboration of the artist Àngels Ribé.
24 galleries and more than 50 artists
Twenty-three of the city’s contemporary and avant-garde art galleries will be opening their doors jointly to present the very best of their programmes. In addition, the BGW includes the Galeria Estrany-de la Mota as homage to his recently deceased gallerist.
ADN Galeria (Jordi Colomer) / Àmbit Galeria d’Art (Lluís Blanc) / Ana Mas Projects (Alberto Peral) / àngels barcelona (Martha Rosler) / Bombon projects (Diane Guyot de Saint Michel) / Dada Objet Trouvé (Dora Maar. André Lhote, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray) / etHALL (Sergio Prego) / Galeria Balaguer (Albert Gusi) / Galeria Barbié (Nathan Altman, Marie Blanchard, Robert Delaunay, Albert Gleizes, Josep Granyer i Giralt, Juan Gris, Henri Laurens, Fernand Léger, Jean Metzinger, Amédée Ozenfant, Joaquín Torres García, Georges Valmier, Geer Van Velde) / Galeria Carles Taché (Michael Joo) / Galeria Contrast (Rafel Bestard, Juliane Hundertmark, Íñigo Navarro) / Galeria Estrany-de La Mota (Ignasi Aballí, Patricia Esquivias, Pauline Fondevila, Douglas Gordon, José Antonio Hernández-Díez, Mariona Moncunill, Rasmus Nilausen, Gerard Ortín, Alex Reynolds, Francesc Ruiz, Richard Venlet, Oriol Vilanova, Marijke van Warmerdam, among others) / Galeria Joan Prats (Julião Sarmento) / Galeria Marc Domènech (Esteban Vicente) / Galeria Senda (Stephan Balkenhol) / Galeria Trama (Gonzalo Sicre, Ángel M. Charris / Mayoral (Joan Brossa, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Rene Magritte, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Joan Ponç, Ángeles Santos, Antoni Tàpies, Remedios Varo) / N2 Galeria (Isabel Muñoz) / Nogueras Blanchard (Richard Wentworth) / ProjecteSD (Iñaki Bonillas) / RocioSantaCruz (Jean Denant) / Sala Dalmau (J. FIN) / Tasneem Gallery (Ixone Sádaba) / Tat Art Barcelona (Vicky Uslé)
Parallel programme
Compositions
Compositions is a programme of four site-specific interventions by artists represented by the participating galleries, which will be located in unique venues.
This year the programme has been entitled Undergrounds because the four interventions will take place at urban subterranean spaces.
The curators Glòria Picazo and Alexandra Laudo have selected the following artists:
Patrícia Dauder (represented by ProjecteSD) / Lois Patiño (represented by RocioSantaCruz) / Pep Vidal (represented by ADN Galeria) / Martín Vitaliti (represented by etHALL)
D’esquenes a la galeria
BGW parallel programme also includes D’esquenes a la galeria, an exhibition curated by Joana Hurtado Matheu which shows the private collections of the participating galleries.
This year the exhibition has been entitled Under Suspicion and will take place at the former art school Massana, a space “where the artworks are not legitimized yet. Likewise, almost every collection contains works that, as well as in the classroom, the authorship and the value are under suspicion.”
BGW is a project by Art Barcelona.
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