Photo exhibitions in Barcelona
Fine art photography exhibitions in Barcelona
The KBr Barcelona Foto Center is Fundación Mapfre’s photography venue in Barcelona, a dynamic space dedicated to contemporary visual art of the highest caliber. Located in the iconic Olympic Port area of Barcelona, the epicenter of leisure and entertainment, it offers an enticing photography program that includes exhibitions by the great names of contemporary photography as well as historical photos and the emerging talent of young artists.
Its program, which regularly includes collaborations with leading institutions on the international photographic scene, promotes dialogue and interaction through educational activities, conferences and workshops that enrich the experience of its audiences, seeking ultimately to facilitate understanding and enjoyment of photography as part of our artistic heritage and as a documentary record of our time.
In its barely four years of existence, the KBr Fundación Mapfre has established itself as one of the main players in Barcelona’s cultural scene and an international benchmark in the field of photography.
![Walker Evans<br />
[Subway Passengers, New York], 1938<br />
Impresión vintage en gelatina de plata<br />
Colección privada, San Francisco<br />
© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://kbr.fundacionmapfre.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/walker-evans-768x508-1.jpg "Walker Evans")
Walker Evans
[Subway Passengers, New York], 1938
Vintage gelatin silver print
Private Collection, San Francisco
© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Walker Evans:
Now and Then
From February 26 to May 24, 2026
Walker Evans (1903–1975) is a central figure in modern photography and one of the great visual chroniclers of twentieth-century United States. His images, seemingly simple yet deeply complex, depict with clarity everyday life, urban landscapes, and the anonymous faces of a country in transformation. A pioneer of Documentary Photography, Evans combined a direct and austere gaze with an inexhaustible curiosity about the signs of popular culture, which allowed him to define an era while simultaneously questioning it.
The exhibition Walker Evans: Now and Then, curated by David Campany, Creative Director of the International Center of Photography in New York, offers a broad overview of his work and its lasting influence on generations of artists. It brings together key photographs and projects spanning his entire career — from self-portraits of the 1920s to his Polaroid experiments in the 1970s — along with books and periodical publications that reflect his tireless observational capacity. Together, the works reveal a creator who not only documented the world around him but also invited viewers to question the nature of photography and the perception of reality itself.
Carlos Pérez Siquier
La Chanca, Almería, 1960
Later print, silver gelatin
© Pérez Siquier, VEGAP, Barcelona, 2026
Pérez Siquier.
Fundación Mapfre Collections
From February 26 to May 24, 2026
Carlos Pérez Siquier (Almería, 1930–2021) was a central figure in Spanish photography and one of the major innovators of twentieth-century visual language. From his hometown, where he lived his entire life, he developed a modern and poetic body of work that reflects, with sensitivity and irony, the social and cultural transformations of Spain through an anthropological perspective. A pioneer of color photography and, together with José María Artero, founder of the Agrupación Fotográfica Almeriense and the magazine AFAL, he played a decisive role in establishing photography as an artistic discipline.
The exhibition Pérez Siquier. Fundación Mapfre Collections brings together the works added to the Foundation’s collection since 2022, a collection that provides a broad and significant overview of his career, thus resuming the extensive retrospective that the Foundation presented in February 2020, which was prematurely closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Through emblematic series such as La Chanca, Informalisms, and The Beach, the exhibition traces Pérez Siquier’s transition from black and white to color, highlighting his unique vision, his ability to transform the everyday into the extraordinary, and his decisive contribution to Spanish photographic modernity.