Ona Balló. The Reverse Journey: A Sound Fresco at MNAC

The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya hosts a sensory project returning the soundscape and environment of origin to its Romanesque mural paintings. 🎨✨

Artist Ona Balló intervenes in the museum's permanent Romanesque galleries, building an acoustic bridge between Montjuïc and the Pyrenean valleys.

🎨 Ona Balló. The Reverse Journey. A Sound Fresco in the Romanesque

📅 From November 12, 2026 to April 30, 2027

🕐 Tuesday to Friday at 1:00 PM, 4:00 PM, and 5:00 PM; Saturday and Sunday at 11:00 AM and 12:00 PM

📍 Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

🎟️ Admission fee applies (price not specified)

📖 An acoustic bridge between the Pyrenees and the museum

For eight hundred years, Romanesque mural paintings were an integral part of the Pyrenean churches for which they were created. Their removal and transfer to Barcelona safeguarded them, but severed their link with their living soundscape and original surroundings.

Ona Balló introduces a journey through the museum's Romanesque rooms composed of sounds recorded today in Pyrenean churches and valleys. Moving through the apses of Santa Maria d'Àneu, Sant Pere del Burgal, Sant Pere and Sant Pau d'Esterri de Cardós, Santa Maria de Ginestarre, Santa Maria de Taüll, and Santa Eulàlia d'Estaon, the experience summons what cannot physically be transported.

🎨 Contemporary sound within medieval art

This exhibition opens a direct dialogue with the iconic collections at the MNAC, aiming to briefly reconnect the medieval murals with their foundational spirit.

✨ A unique auditory journey rediscovering medieval masterpieces through the living sounds of their native valleys.