KBr is the new Photography Center with which Fundación MAPFRE begins a new stage in its intense dedication to artistic photography, one of its main areas of cultural activity since 2009.
With two exhibition areas, a bookstore, an area for educational activities and a multi-purpose auditorium, KBr becomes a national and international reference in the field of photography.
Exhibitions
José Guerrero. Concerning Landscape
The work of José Guerrero (Granada, 1979) proposes a poetic and cultural reflection on landscape and architecture. This exhibition spans over 20 years of his career to date.
Felipe Romero Beltrán. Bravo
Bravo is the winning project of the second edition of the KBr Photo Award. A suggestive visual essay on the idea of waiting and border identity.
![Hwy-80 (House near Wendover), UT, 2011 [Interestatal 80 (Casa cerca de Wendover), Utah] De la serie «After the Rainbow» Colecciones Fundación MAPFRE © José Guerrero, VEGAP, Madrid, 2025](https://kbr.fundacionmapfre.org/media/2024/11/jose-guerrero-768x576-1.jpg "José Guerrero")
Hwy-80 (House near Wendover), UT, 2011
From the series “After the Rainbow”
Fundación MAPFRE Collections
© José Guerrero, VEGAP, Madrid, 2025
El Friki’s friend and pink wall
Bravo
© Felipe Romero Beltrán
KBr today
At KBr things happen. Here we are developing a permanent educational program, focused more on training future generations in the understanding of the language of photography and its artistic dimension than on explaining a specific exhibition. We share knowledge about photography through meetings and conferences.
All our activities aim to contribute to the dynamism and projection of Barcelona through an area – artistic photography – closely associated with the cultural excellence of contemporary Catalonia.
KBr Guests
Colombian artist Felipe Romero Beltrán, winner of the second edition of the KBr Photo Award, will talk to Victoria del Val, curator of the Bravo show, which can be seen until 18 May. The exhibition is a visual essay on the idea of waiting at the border, specifically between Mexico and the United States.
KBr Guests
Artist José Guerrero will talk to curator Marta Gili about the exhibition José Guerrero. Concerning Landscape, curated by the latter and on view at KBr until 18 May. Artist and curator will discuss an exhibition that presents landscape as an entity where meanings and layers converge, which both will help to elucidate.
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