Activities
KBr is not just an exhibition venue. Our aim is also to offer a permanent educational program focused more on training future generations in the understanding of photographic language and its artistic dimension, than explaining a specific exhibition.
In addition, we will schedule gatherings and conferences with photographers, curators and experts in the field of photography who will share their experiences and knowledge.
We open the doors of KBr to you, your family, and all those interested in delving into the world of photography, in learning how to to look and feel. Take part in our activities.
KBr Guests
February 25th, 2025
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
February 14th, 2025
Workshop Get Real! (¡Open your eyes!)
November 20, 2024
Series of Conferences
October 29th and 30th, 2024
KBr Guests
October 15, 2024
On the occasion of the exhibition Henri Cartier-Bresson. Watch! Watch! Watch!, a major retrospective on view until 26 January 2025, Ulrich Pohlman (curator of the exhibition) will talk to Carles Guerra about the figure of the photographer and the key aspects of the exhibition.
KBr Guests
June 6, 2024
KBr Guests
June 5, 2024
Louis Stettner’s curator Sally Martin Katz will talk with Janet Stettner, the photographer’s widow, about Stettner’s figure and the important contributions of his work.
Conference Cycle
March 5 – 19, 2024
Coinciding with the exhibition The domestic camera. Amateur photography in Catalonia (c. 1880-1936), we present this series of seven talks about amateur photography, a phenomenon that emerged in the late nineteenth century and that is fundamental to understanding the role that photography plays in contemporary culture.
KBr Guests
February 14, 2024
In the occasion of the presentation of the exhibition Consulo Kanaga. Catch the Spirit, KBr Guests presents a conversation between Drew Sawyer, curator of the exhibition, and artist and independent curator Jorge Ribalta.
Performance
December 16th, 2023
Dancer Laia Camps presents a performance linked to the photographic project Simplemente cortando, by Ivette Blaya, which can currently be seen as part of the exhibition KBr Flama’23, which brings us the work of new generations of photographers who begin their professional careers, every year.
Conference Cycle
November 2nd – 4th 2023
Film-concert
June 16th, 2023
KBr Guests
June 13th, 2023
Isabel Tejeda, curator of the Tina Modotti exhibition (June 8 – September 3), reviews the figure of one of the most representative and interesting characters of the nineteen twenties and thirties, due to her work and her committed biographical career path.
KBr Guests
June 7th, 2023
Coinciding with the presentation of the exhibition Jules Ainaud’s Catalonia (1871-1872) and International Archives Week, Jep Martí Baiget (curator of the exhibition) recounts his experience of researching the figure of Ainaud in different archives, and explains the key points of the exhibition he is presenting at the KBr.
Workshop Get Real! (Open your eyes!)
April 12, 2023
Coinciding with the workshop that photographer Cristina De Middel will be giving at the KBr (April 13 to 16), we present this opening talk, in which the photographer -recognized with the National Photography Award in 2017- will review her trajectory from her dedication to photojournalism for a decade to her current photographic practice, which combines documentary and conceptual character at the same time.
Conference Cycle
February 28 – March 2, 2023
The three talks in this cycle belong to the program of activities organized for the Francesc Català-Roca Year, which commemorates the centenary of the photographer’s birth.
Directed by Laura Terré, the series invites three voices from different backgrounds to address Català-Roca’s legacy from a personal and creative point of view, contributing new readings of his work, understood by Terré as an open to interpretation.
KBr Guests
February 21, 2023
Juan Vicente Aliaga, curator of the exhibition Ilse Bing (February 16–May 14) presents the work of this German photographer, creator of a unique oeuvre spanning the central decades of the 20th century through which she achieved professional recognition exceptional for women in the field of photography.
KBr Guests
February 15, 2023
Anastasia Samoylova discusses Image Cities, the winning project of the inaugural KBr Photo Award. Launched in 2021, the award demonstrates KBr Fundación MAPFRE’s dedication to supporting new projects in contemporary photography.
Conference Cycle
October 11th 2022 – December 13th 2022
Directed by Joan Boadas, this cycle will discuss the relationship that is established between the act of photography and the conservation of the images that have been produced: the creation of image archives.
The program’s eight conferences propose a journey ranging from the birth of the archive to its possible death, highlighting its relationship with memory and with literary and artistic creation, among other matters.
Conference Cycle
November 2nd – 5th 2022
This cycle of conferences stems from the mutual collaboration between Panoràmic Festival and KBr Fundación MAPFRE. Under the direction of Joan Fontcuberta, five guests will address the notion of landscape as a representation and how it is influenced by history, culture, politics, and aesthetics.
Workshop Get Real! (Open your eyes!)
October 19
Opening talk of the first Get Real! (Open your eyes!)’s workshop, conducted by photojournalist Donna Ferrato this fall term in KBr (October 20-23).
Donna Ferrato reviews the different projects from her acclaimed career and the concepts and criteria that have guided her professional life.
KBr Guests
October 5th 2022
KBr Guests will host Carrie Mae Weems. On the occasion of the opening of A Great Turn in the Possible (KBr and Fundación Foto Colectania), this discussion between the North American artist and Elvira Dyangani Ose, curator of the exhibition, will cover the main facets of the show as well as several aspects of the artist’s entire body of work.
KBr Guests
7th June 2022
KBr Guests proposes a meeting where the artists and the curator talk about the exhibition in which they are the protagonists, Bleda y Rosa, one of this season’s exhibition proposals.
KBr Guests
25th May 2022
On this occasion, the KBr Guests section proposes a conversation to bring us closer to the exhibition Resonances. Fundación MAPFRE Collections, curated by Joan Fontcuberta.
Conference Cycle
March 8th 2022 – May 17th 2022
This cycle, directed by Carles Guerra, will address a main issue facing photography in terms of its relationship with its own tradition, through ten case studies. Each one investigates how to respond to claims made by those who identify as victims because of the unauthorized taking and use of their photographic image.
Restitutions at the Filmoteca
April 6,20 and 27, 2022
Filmoteca de Catalunya presents a special program dedicated to show some works related to three of the conferences of the cycle Restitutions. Photography in Debt with its Past: those pronounced by Hilde Van Gelder, Ana Longoni and Michaëla Danjé / Cases Rebelles Collective.
Jazz at the KBr
February 26th 2022 – May 7th 2022
On the occasion of the Lee Friedlander’s exhibition, and in collaboration with the Conservatori del Liceu and the Voll-Damm Barcelona Jazz Festival, KBr presents a program of 6 jazz concerts that will take place on different Saturdays in the exhibition space.
KBr Guests
February 22nd 2022
Within the KBr Guests series, which features programming dedicated to current exhibitions, this session will delve into Adolf Mas. The Eyes of Barcelona under the guidance of Carmen Perrotta, the exhibition’s curator.
Conference Cycle
October 5th 2021 – January 11th 2022
Conference Cycle
November 2nd – 5th 2021
KBr Guests.
Conversation with Paolo Gasparini.
September 29th 2021
Among the conversations and lectures scheduled in conjunction with the center’s exhibitions, to which this section is dedicated, we present a three-way conversation, including the photographer himself, which will allow us to gain crucial insights into his body of work. The conversation will focus on a selection of photographs on view in Field of Images.
KBr Guests. Dialogues and conferences about the exhibitions
2 May – 15 June
KBr Guests provides a new way of approaching the activities at KBr: The program includes discussions and conferences in which the protagonists of the exhibitions (photographers and curators), as well as experts within the national and international photographic scene (critics, writers etc.) share their impressions on the current exhibitions at KBr.
EXTIMACY
(public, private, secret)
4th-7th November 2020
Photography and exhibitions: cross-cutting knowledge
2 March – 27 April
Directed by Marta Dahó, this online cycle explores the different aspects of the complex and changing relationship between photography and exhibitions thereof over the years. The eight sessions complete a fascinating cross-cutting focus that embraces historiographic, theoretical and curatorial perspectives.
LOOP FESTIVAL
10th-22nd November 2020
Paul Strand in La Filmoteca
22th-26th December 2020
We invite you to enter our virtual daguerreotype workshop and learn all about the process of making a daguerreotype. You can also discover all the details of these little works of art in our 3D images.