KBr

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.

Current exhibitions

Considered a living legend of photography, William Eggleston (1939, Memphis, Tennessee, United States) is part of a generation of authors whose work, in the seventies, freed photography from many of the restrictive rules and concepts of the medium; One of the most relevant: that artistic photography could only be if it was made in black and white.

One more year, we give visibility to the work of new generations of photographers who begin their professional career after having trained in Barcelona. In this third edition of KBr Flama we have the works of Alan Balzac (Galicia, 1999), Ivette Blaya (Santa Margarida de Montbui, Barcelona, 2000), Rocío Madrid (Melilla, 1988) and Lucía Morón (Buenos Aires, 1997).

Untitled, c. 1970-1973. © Eggleston Artistic Trust. Courtesy Eggleston Artistic Trust and David Zwirner

William Eggleston
Untitled, c. 1970-1973. © Eggleston Artistic Trust.
Courtesy Eggleston Artistic Trust and David Zwirner

Rocío Madrid<br />
Mercedes, Melilla, 2021<br />
© Rocío Madrid
Rocío Madrid
Serie Melilla, 2021
© Rocío Madrid

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.