Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2017
Art Galleries united
Barcelona Gallery Weekend is a 4-day annual event that focuses on contemporary art and avant-garde galleries in the city of Barcelona and its metropolitan area. This year the event returns on September 28 and lasts until October 1. For an amazing stay in Barcelona, take a look at beautiful apartments by Two Sisters Apartments in the neighborhood of Sant Antoni.
Organized by Art Barcelona, the program presents the projects of the selected galleries and 2 parallel programs: Compositions and D'esquena a la galeria. Barcelona Gallery Weekend seeks to reinforce art collecting in the city and to value the work of galleries as cultural spaces open to all. It is a event for art professionals and, above all, art lovers, collectors and artists. The event was born in 2015 with the will to become the annual modern art reference in Barcelona.
This year's edition of Barcelona Gallery Weekend has 24 galleries selected by a jury and a parallel programme for professionals, as well as an exhibition of art pieces owned by the private collections of the participating gallerists.
The participaiting galleries are: A|34, ADN Galeria, àngels barcelona, Artur Ramon Art, Galeria Balaguer, Sala Dalmau, Galería Carles Taché, Galería Estrany – de la Mota, etHALL, Galeria Joan Prats, Galeria Barbié, Galeria Marc Domènech, Galeria Marlborough Barcelona, Ana Mas Projects, Mayoral, Nogueras Blanchard, Palmadotze, ProjecteSD, Galeria Senda, Galeria Sicart, Galeria Trama.
The schedule of Barcelona Gallery Weekend is as follows:
Thursday, September 28, 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (professional preview), 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (inaugurations)
Friday, September 29, 11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 30, 11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 1, 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Barcelona Gallery Weekend will be a unique weekend to discover a wide program organized in the most outstanding galleries of the city, artistic interventions in emblematic places, exhibitions, guided tours and special activities. If you´ve decided to visit Barcelona you can always stay in Two Sisters Apartments in the popular and comercial neighborhood of Sant Antoni.
