AR-DE

This event aims to bring the diverse offerings of art and design from participating spaces closer to the public, while also encouraging collecting and the acquisition of unique pieces.

Since its first edition in 2021, the biannual circuit has established itself as a key platform for giving visibility to these spaces and promoting art and design collecting and sales. With the goal of supporting the work of national and international artists and designers, it highlights the programming of the spaces that are part of this circuit.

This year, the circuit of art galleries, showrooms, and museums expands to include the Creative District’s gastronomic offerings, featuring special creations made exclusively for AR-DE by the best bars, restaurants, and cocktail bars in Poblenou.

PROGRAM

Ket Galeria

The smallest art gallery in Spain, located in a beautiful passage where you can enjoy interesting artistic and sensory experiences, focusing on promoting, exhibiting, and selling art.

Ket Galeria invites you to discover the exhibition “Watercolors” by Albert Alvarez Marsal.

• Friday from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
• Saturday from 12 pm to 2 pm and 7 pm to 9 pm
  Free entry

La Plataforma

An art gallery and creative production studio. Located in a former print shop in the industrial area of Poblenou, it collaborates with both national and international contemporary artists, offering a multifunctional space for the dissemination, creation, and promotion of contemporary art.

Since its inception, La Plataforma has focused on promoting and spreading the work of emerging and mid-career artists, whose works reflect the diverse realities of the cultural landscape.

In the seventh edition of AR-DE, La Plataforma proposes “Meet the Artist,” a series of talks with selected artists who will present their work to the public. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet the artists personally and explore part of the gallery’s artwork archive.

• Friday from 5 pm to 8 pm
• Saturday from 11 am to 2 pm and 4 pm to 7 pm
• Sunday from 11 am to 3 pm
  Free entry

Unfolded – The experiential space by blit.studio

Explore Unfolded, the experiential space of blit.studio, where you can experience the latest virtual reality projects or immerse yourself in the innovative interactive multi-user virtual reality experience; DREAMS. Step into our creative lab where we explore with AI or discover our portfolio of digital scenographies and projection mapping, such as Nocturna, a multisensory experience. Discover our Naked EYE 3D content or our interactive ephemeral installations, where you become part of the creation. It’s a space where we share our art, projects, and ideas, a place where creativity takes center stage, and where opportunities and talent thrive.

• Friday and Saturday from 12 pm to 8 pm
  Free entry

Piramidón, Centre d’Art Contemporani

Piramidón, Contemporary Art Center opens the doors to its studios for AR-DE. On Friday, October 4th at 5 pm, you can visit the studios of two artists and get a first-hand look at their creative spaces.

Limited spots, to reserve your spot, send an email to info@piramidon.com

• Friday at 5 pm
  Free entry

Disseny Hub Barcelona

Disseny Hub Barcelona is a reference space for the recognition and projection of creative industries, the dissemination of the city’s heritage and culture on a global scale.

Disseny Hub offers a variety of permanent exhibitions and two temporary shows for all audiences: from the history of decorative arts in Catalonia, the functionality and symbolism of objects, to the implications of fashion on the human body.

• “Common Objects. Local Stories, Global Debates”
• “The Dressed Body. Silhouettes and Fashion (1550-2015)”
• “Do You Design or Work? The New Visual Communication (1980-2003)”

You can also visit the pop-up “Enjoia’t Awards – CON-X-IÓ,” which focuses on sustainability, traceability, and recycling of materials used in contemporary jewelry. The open call invited artists to imagine possible futures of jewelry through reuse, creation of biomaterials, and re-signification of this year’s pieces.

• Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 10 am to 8 pm

MIETIS

Espai Mietis is the first flagship store of the brand in Barcelona, designed to offer a complete creative experience diving into the world of Mietis. It was created to provide fashion and culture in the Mietis community, offering a creative experience tailored to each customer’s interests. You can visit the brand’s flagship store, gallery, atelier & studio, featuring Memphis-style decor known for its geometry, color, and creativity.

You can visit the exhibition by artist José Alcañiz, who uses color and shapes to evoke emotions and transport viewers through portals to colorful dimensions.
Free entry

Rosapalo Bcn

The studio and art gallery of resident artist Inés @vallsfortuny presents the new painting exhibition “SENTIR”. This exhibition is an invitation to experience ambiguous sensations, to stop, observe, and feel. It’s a journey through the coastal paths of the Costa Brava, expressed in the artist’s abstract work.

A constant movement of intense blues, crystal greens, and pure whites intermingle with coarse sand, flanked by eternal rocks and Mediterranean pines, forming the essence of the Costa Brava, now and forever. Light through expression.

The centerpiece, “Between the Sea and the Sky, it’s Just You and Me,” a large mixed-media work, begins the journey and ends with a composition of six pieces that form a single abstract work, longing for a fresh and clear gaze from the viewer.

• Friday from 5 pm to 8 pm
• Saturday from 11 am to 2 pm and 5 pm to 8 pm
• Sunday from 11 am to 2 pm
  Free entry

Museu Can Framis

Can Framis is the latest project of the Vila Casas Foundation, inaugurated in Barcelona in April 2009, where around 300 works are exhibited, dating from the 1960s to the present and belonging to various artists born or residing in Catalonia. Temporary exhibitions are held in the A0 space of Can Framis.

The permanent rooms of the Can Framis Museum in Poblenou present, under the title Monologue, Dialogue, and Concept, a look at the Vila Casas Foundation’s painting collections. Through a broad and heterogeneous selection, it highlights notable examples of Catalan painting from the mid-20th century to the present, with works by valued artists such as Antoni Clavé, Amèlia Riera, Niebla, Vilató, Jo Milne, Jordi Fulla, Mar Arza, Mario Pasqualotto, or Sabine Finkenauer.

• Saturday from 11 am to 6 pm
• Sunday from 11 am to 2 pm
  Reduced entry fee

AMAGATS

AMAGATS is an art gallery and space to discover the research of artists and showcase the hidden aspects of their creative processes.

For this edition of AR-DE, they are opening a new cycle, “La cuina d’Amagats,” dedicated to solo exhibitions focused on the process of gestation and creation of the works. This is where all the hidden parts of the process, which are normally not shown to the public, will be displayed: the phases of exploration, experimentation, and decision-making that over time shape the unique style of each artist.

The first exhibition in La cuina d’Amagats is “Out of Time, the Reduction of Chaos” by Plácido Romero. His work explores the relationship between time, chaos, and redemption. In this exhibition, the artist reveals his creative process, spanning more than twenty years, showing how what was once diffuse and chaotic has found its meaning over time.

There will be guided tours on October 4th at 7 pm with the artist Plácido Romero explaining his creative process. Additionally, on October 5th at 6 pm, there will be a practical demonstration of his painting technique and the research process of “The Redemption of Chaos”. Maximum capacity: 7 people.
Reserve your spot at: info@amagats.com

• Thursday from 5 pm to 8 pm
• Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 11 am to 2 pm and 5 pm to 8 pm
  Free entry

FEOS Poblenou

Concept store, tattoo studio, and clothing store dedicated to streetwear, which arrived at the end of 2022 to revolutionize the neighborhood. They will present an exhibition by the artist @lavirtudes, where you can purchase original work and prints. Additionally, you can check out the new clothing and accessories collection and meet their tattoo artists through the “flash day” with special-priced designs.

• Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 11 am to 8:30 pm
  Free entry

Museu Terra – Fundació Carulla

The Museu Terra brings the voice of the rural world to Barcelona through temporary exhibitions and an artistic and educational project aimed at promoting debate and reflection on sustainable social transformation.

Sign up for the free guided tours of the new exhibition “Plastic. Brilliant or Pernicious?” An opportunity to talk about the pros and cons of plastic, a material that has enabled great advancements in society but has also become a serious environmental problem directly affecting health.

Guided tours (with prior registration). Sign up here:

• Friday: 5:30 pm and 6:30 pm
• Saturday: 11 am, 12 pm, 5:30 pm, and 6:30 pm
• Sunday: 11 am and 12 pm
• Friday from 11 am to 2 pm and 4 pm to 7 pm
• Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm and 4 pm to 7 pm
• Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm
  Free entry

Moryarty Posters

Vintage poster and frame store with a selection of over 2,000 posters: photography, botany, vintage advertising, classic art, oriental paintings…

During the AR-DE circuit, you can discover the latest additions to their vintage posters: advertising, oriental, Bauhaus, black and white photography… all while enjoying good music and a free beer!
Free entry

Noak Room