The Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona presents an exhibition exploring video as an experimental tool for counter-information and political action during the Spanish Transition. 🎨📹

The show is part of the project "El gest de filmar. El vídeo a la Col·lecció MACBA" and focuses on the collective Video-Nou and its subsequent transformation.

🎨 CONTRAINFORMACIÓ: VIDEO-NOU / SERVEI DE VÍDEO COMUNITARI

📅 From July 9, 2026 to January 11, 2027

🕐 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 10:00 to 20:00 (June 25 to September 24) and 11:00 to 19:30 (September 25 to June 24); Saturday from 10:00 to 20:00; Sunday and public holidays from 10:00 to 15:00

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

🎟️ €13.50 online / €15 box office

📖 Video as political and social intervention

During the Spanish Transition, a group of young practitioners established a working platform using video as an experimental medium for political engagement and social counter-information. Active across Catalonia between 1977 and 1983, Video-Nou challenged official narratives at a time when media institutions still operated under structures inherited from Franco's dictatorship.

The exhibition also covers their evolution into Servei de Vídeo Comunitari, consolidating video as an on-site communication and social intervention service. Here, footage was not an end in itself, but part of a process grounded in continuous feedback and community debate.

🎨 Video in the MACBA Collection

Linked to the ongoing study of the museum's video holdings, this display highlights grassroots community media and alternative practices developed in Barcelona.

ℹ️ Good to know: Closed on non-holiday Tuesdays. Free admission for MACBA Friends.

✨ An essential look at early community video and alternative media practices in Catalonia.