MACBA presents an intriguing audiovisual journey between architectural utopia and speculative fiction. 🎨✨

Artist Anna Moreno explores the constructive legacy of Ricardo Bofill through the writings of James Graham Ballard.

🎨 ANNA MORENO. THE THIRD TORSION

📅 From February 5, 2026 to January 17, 2027

🕐 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday 11:00 am – 7:30 pm; Saturday 10:00 am – 8:00 pm; Sunday and public holidays 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

📍 MACBA - Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona

🎟️ From €10.20 (online €10.80, box office €12)

📖 Utopian architecture and desert memory

The exhibition centres on The Terminal Beach, the final chapter of a trilogy examining temporality through three architectural works by Ricardo Bofill and three stories by James Graham Ballard. Using a road movie format, Moreno documents the present-day state of a nomadic settlement built by Bofill in 1979 in the Algerian Sahara, commissioned by President Houari Boumédienne.

The unfinished complex, conceived according to modernist ideals when the RBTA studio brought together architects, poets, and painters, exposes the friction between utopian aspirations and lingering colonial legacies.

🎨 A hub for contemporary art

The Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona hosts this project linking historical inquiry, cinema, and speculative thought in Ciutat Vella.

ℹ️ Good to know: Closed on non-holiday Tuesdays. Reduced admission is available when booking online and during off-peak hours.

✨ A sharp inquiry into the traces and fractures of utopian architecture.