The Museu Tàpies, in collaboration with Eina, University Centre of Design and Art of Barcelona, and the Grec Festival, presents the 2025 edition of Extramuros (Extramural), a project that transforms the city into a space for artistic intervention and social reflection. With a multidisciplinary approach, Extramuros promotes dialogue between institutions, public space and the environment, inspired by the concept of situated knowledge to foster a more conscious and inclusive habitability.
This year, the guest artist is Elena del Rivero, who presents La Quema (The Burning), a proposal based on the symbolic burning of her first works as a gesture of healing and renewal.
This project, curated by Mateo Feijóo, is articulated through collaborative installations with students from Eina's University Master's Degree in Research in Art and Design (MURAD): Sofía Aguilar, Marta Casas, Clara de Sousa, Berta Esteve, Laura Fajardo, Lina Fernández, Lu Meng, Sofia Montecinos, Hong Xu.
La Quema is displayed in various spaces in Barcelona, such as the façade and interior of the Museu Tàpies, La Capella, Santa Maria del Pi, the gardens of the Teatre Grec, Senda/LAB36 and Loop Barcelona. The works include photographs, collages, objects and a luminous poster that invite us to reflect on the resilience of human and social structures, as well as on the dialogue between past and present.
The opening event, on 8 July at 8 p.m. in the Rubió i Lluch Gardens, will be the concert El espacio liberado by Llorenç Barber, a pioneer of sound art in Europe. This concert of bells, performed in collaboration with students from the ESMUC and the Barcelona Municipal Conservatory of Music, introduces the public to the universe of Del Rivero, establishing a dialogue between sound, memory and urban space.
In addition, during the Loop Festival, an audiovisual cycle will be screened that will include the film O carro e o home (1940) by Antonio Román and Xaquín Lorenzo, as well as a newly created documentary about La Quema, directed by Improfilms, with the participation of the anthropologist Cristiana Bastos.
Extramuros 2025 thus consolidates its commitment to art as a tool for social transformation, connecting individual and collective memory with public space and fostering new community narratives in the construction of the contemporary city.
Extramuros is an initiative of the Museu Tàpies in collaboration with Eina and the Grec Festival, and with the complicity of La Capella, Santa Maria del Pi, Senda/LAB36 and Loop Barcelona.
Highlights:
- La Quema of Elena del Rivero: 8 July to 26 October 2025.
- El espacio liberado by Llorenç Barber: 8 July 2025, 8 p.m., Jardines de Rubió i Lluch
Cover image: Elena del Rivero, La Quema.