Thinkers and artists from various fields reflect on 21st century culture with the aim of opening a global dialogue on creativity, imagination and knowledge. In an Open Field is now available in bookstores and will be presented on Thursday, 26 September in Barcelona as part of the Catalan Book Week.
Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana opens on 8 September and will run until 24 November 2024. The decentralization of this edition, which is the most geographically extensive in the history of the European Nomad Biennial, responds to the candidacy presented by Barcelona jointly with 11 cities in the metropolitan region to lead the event.
From September 4 to 8, the Austrian city of Linz is hosting a new edition of the most influential international digital culture festival, which features proposals by Marc Vilanova, Maria Arnal, Albert Barqué-Durán, Marc Marzenit and Azahara Cerezo.
The new line of support for international programming of the performing arts has positioned Catalan and Balearic artists and companies on the main stages of the world, making 235 performances possible.
The 19th International Architecture Exhibition will take place in Venice (Italy) from 10 May to 23 November 2025, under the direction of the Italian architect and professor Carlo Ratti, who has chosen Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective., as the central theme.
This commitment is a response to the high status of universities that offer Catalan studies. Catalan language and culture are taught in 10 out of the 25 most significant universities worldwide.
On July 28, the New York SummerStage festival and the Institut Ramon Llull present a new edition of the Catalan Sounds on Tour, a musical initiative that offers Catalan artists the opportunity to perform on major international stages.
Opera in Catalonia will be the main artist at the Saaremaa Opera Festival (Estonia), from 23 to 27 July, and will offer a performance as part of the Tartu programme, European Capital of Culture 2024, on 21 July. 150 people – including choir, orchestra, soloists, flamenco ballet company and technical and production teams – will travel to Estonia in what is the company’s greatest challenge to date.
The three Catalan writers will be residents this year at two international literary centres in Switzerland and the United States as part of a collaboration agreement with the Institut Ramon Llull.
This year's official programme features Baró d'Evel, a Franco-Catalan company, presenting Qui som (Who we are), a production combining circus, dance, and poetry. The Institut Ramon Llull is supporting the programming of these two works at the prestigious French festival.
Kortrijk (Belgium) transforms into a contemporary art hub from 29 June to 6 October, with its streets becoming exhibition spaces for the third edition of this international event. Laia Estruch's Trena installation takes centre stage at the Triennale.
As part of an exhibition on the revolutionary Catalan psychiatrist at the American Folk Art Museum, MoMI presents a series of films on mental health, which includes the New York premiere of The Potential History of Francesc Tosquelles, a film by Mireia Sallarès.
The commencement of this year's edition of the UK's foremost festival of contemporary European poetry was marked by a recital of Catalan poetry on 19 June.
The piece is the result of the first edition of the Randa Art|Science residency, organized by the Ramon Llull Institute, and is now being presented in Barcelona by the NewArtFoundation.
The Institut Ramon Llull has started the selection process of a curatorial project to represent Catalan culture in the Eventi Collaterali at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia. Proposals must be submitted by 2:00 pm on Thursday, 20 June.