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.
New York c.1940
© Film Documents LLC, courtesy Zander Galerie, Cologne
Helen Levitt
September 24, 2025 – February 1, 2026
Helen Levitt (1913–2009) began photographing her native New York in the late 1930s, capturing images that reflected life in the city’s poorest neighborhoods, particularly children and their street games. She did so with an unfailing instinct for conveying, beyond childhood scenes, everything in everyday life that contains emotion, mystery, or humor. Her work soon earned the recognition it deserved, and in 1943 MoMA in New York organized her first solo exhibition. Over the course of her career, she also devoted significant attention to film.
A socially engaged artist, Levitt was one of the first women to carve out a professional path in photography. The exhibition (nearly 200 photographs organized into nine sections) offers a comprehensive overview of her entire career.
Abril Coudougnan
Sin título, proyecto Tous les maux mots sont inventés, 2024
Fotografía digital
© Abril Coudougnan
KBr FLAMA’25
September 24, 2025 – February 1, 2026
KBr Fundación MAPFRE presents the fifth edition of its annual event showcasing the emerging talent of the new generation of photographers who are beginning their professional careers after completing their training at Barcelona’s leading photography schools: Elisava – Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny Serra i Abella, Idep Barcelona, and IEFC. This year, the exhibition brings together the works of Bernat Erra (Barcelona, 2003), Irina Cervelló (Martorell, 2001), Abril Coudougnan (Perpinyà, 1999), and Patrick Martin (Stockport, England, 1996), selected by a jury composed of Javier Martín, Arianna Rinaldo, and María Santoyo. All of them share a critical and sensitive gaze on the construction of memory, whether intimate, collective, or territorial.