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.
![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
José Guerrero
Concerning Landscape
From 15 February to 18 May 2025The work of José Guerrero (Granada, 1979) unfolds as a continuous exercise in reflecting on the representation and perception of landscape and architecture through photographic imagery. His images, organised in series on places rich in iconographic and historical significance (La Mancha, Carrara, Sierra Nevada, the Thames…), transform the landscape into a living, dynamic entity, upon which the viewer’s cultural background and the photographer’s meaningful use of light, colour and atmosphere ultimately construct a poetic reading -laden with meanings and connotations- of the space.
This exhibition spans over 20 years of his career to date.
Felipe Romero Beltrán
El Friki’s friend and pink wall
Bravo
© Felipe Romero Beltrán
Felipe Romero Beltrán
Bravo
From 15 February to 18 May 2025
Bravo, by the Colombian Felipe Romero (1992), is the winning project of the second edition of the KBr Photo Award, launched by Fundación MAPFRE in 2021. Like many of his other works, Bravo offers a reflection on a scenario of tension and conflict: a stretch of the Rio Grande (known as the Río Bravo in Mexico) that forms part of the more than one thousand kilometres of border between Mexico and the United States that coincide with its course. Through images of people, landscapes, and architecture, Bravo constructs a visual essay, sober and poetic, centred around the idea of waiting and border identity.