Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona

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  • Address
    Plaça dels Àngels 1, El Raval
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  • Phone
    93 412 08 10
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  • Transport
    underground rail: Universitat

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Lonely Planet review

The ever-expanding contemporary art collection of the Macba starts in the Gothic chapel of the Convent dels Àngels and continues in the main gleaming white building across the square. It shines as a stage for the best of Catalan, Spanish and international contemporary art. What's on show is in constant, restless flux, although in the chapel you are more likely to see established names such as Alexander Calder and Antoni Tàpies.

The ground and 1st floors are given over to exhibitions from the gallery's own collection, which counts more than 1600 pieces, only a portion of which is ever on show. They tend to change things here a lot so it is difficult to say what you will see. Works start with artists such as Antoni Tàpies, Joan Brossa, Paul Klee and Alexander Calder. Artists such as Miquel Barceló and Ferran García Sevilla, protagonists of neoexpressionism who emerged in the 1980s, also generally get a run.