What about freedom of expression?

Conversation on the violation of human rights

A conversation between Daniel Canales, researcher, expert in freedom of expression and member of Amnesty International and Agus Morales of 5W magazine (specialized in explaining what is happening in the world) on the relationship between the absence of human rights and freedom of expression.

Since December 10, 1948, when the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights so that the horrors of World War II would never be repeated, the world has continued to accumulate conflicts and humanitarian crises that violate freedom of expression and creativity.

An activity organized with the collaboration of Amnesty International, and that will allow attendees to enjoy the selection of 50 posters, produced by this association and designed with the collaboration of artists from around the world, such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, Fernando Botero and Alexander Calder.

Free admission until full capacity is reached.

Activity in Spanish.

Not this song! The forbidden concert

Conversation between censored songs

On the occasion of the publication of the book Aquesta cançó, no! by Maria Salicrú-Maltas, the Museum of Forbidden Art in collaboration with the publisher Comanegra invites you to a conversation between censored songs by the author of the book, and the singer-songwriters Meritxell Gené and Arnau Aymerich.

During Franco's regime, the job of censor could seem like a way of making a living. The cultural movement of the Nova Cançó was one of the main targets of the regime's inquisitorial obsession, and the persecution suffered by the musicians was savage.

To know who exercised the repression, how and why: this has been the object of Maria Salicrú-Maltas' research for more than twenty years, and that we can now read in a chronicle full of unpublished contributions and revealing personal experiences, where even some of those censors speak for the first time.

Free admission until full capacity is reached.

Activity in Catalan.

RADICAL CUTENESS 

Subliminal estrategies, beyond prohibition

Performative conference

Wednesday, November 6 at 7:30 p.m

A conference with performance included to reflect on the messages designed to modify our consciences. In the digital space circulate a lot of subliminal proclamations created to enter directly into our subconscious, and that use tenderness or vulnerability to achieve it. Do you know how to detect the mechanisms they use?

The activity will start with the screening of the video Nation Estate (2011) by the artist Larissa Sansour; and will continue with a performative lecture by the artists Noura Tafeche and Alex Quicho. The event will end with a Q&A section by A*DESK's directors, Montse Badia and María Muñoz-Martínez. The master of ceremonies will be the cultural researcher Nuria Gómez Gabriel.

El Museu de l’Art Prohibit hosts and collaborates with A*LIVE 2024, a proposal that this year reaches its eleventh edition and is promoted by the critical thinking magazine A*DESK.

Activity in English and Catalan. 

Free entry until capacity is reached.

Activity in English and Catalan.

TRASGRAFFITI, FROM VANDALISM TO THE AVANT-GARDE

Conference and debate

A journey through the history of graffiti, from its origins to the emergence of trasgraffiti, a movement born from the illegal creative practice in public space as a reaction to urban art.

The first part of the activity will be a lecture on the subject by the artist and researcher Louis-Pierre Boivin, and will continue with a debate with the participation of artists Bertrand Main, Marti Sawe and Alsino Skowronnek, moderated by the cultural manager Marc Mascort Boix.

Their testimonies will offer us a complete vision of trasgraffiti, from theory to practice, and will present this trend at an international level for the first time.

An activity carried out in collaboration with fritz-kola and based on the research of Dr. Louis-Pierre Boivin “The fusion of artistic practices: graffiti and transgraffiti art”. 

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Activity in Spanish. 

THE MOST FAMOUS MISSING PERSON IN THE WORLD

Eugenio Merino with Víctor Fernández

The journalist and expert on the figure of Federico García Lorca, Víctor Fernández, and Eugenio Merino will talk about historical memory and the manipulation of the past, in connection with the artist's latest project Banco Público, as well as other pieces such as Always Franco, exhibited at the Museu de l'Art Prohibit.

Federico García Lorca will be the guiding thread of this conversation that takes its title from a phrase by the Hispanist Ian Gibson about the murder of the poet, and his status as a symbol of the more than 114,000 disappeared and murdered during Franco's repression. The place where Lorca was buried is still unknown, a controversy that persists and for which there is no answer.

Banco Público can be visited at ADN Galería in Barcelona, and is curated by the historian Semíramis González, and has the collaboration of Juan Diego Botto and Víctor Fernández himself.

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Activity in Spanish.

THE PRIDE VISITS THE MUSEU DE L'ART PROHIBIT

From censorship to sex-affective and gender liberation in sport: Is inclusive physical education possible?

Inclusive education is one of the themes of this year's Pride, and from the Museum of Forbidden Art we join the Pride celebration, hosting a round table on how to make sport a safe space free of LGTBIQ+phobia. From the collective they consider that education in sex-affective and gender diversity is a pending subject that must be claimed, so we will ask ourselves if sport is a hostile place for the collective, how femininity is lived within sport, or if it is possible to compete in sport outside the binary system? After the round table we will listen to the new FUTURACHICAPOP song, and we will go up to the terrace to share some beers, courtesy of Moritz.

Free admission until full capacity is reached.

Activity in Spanish and Catalan  

ART AND CENSORSHIP: A LOOK FROM THE GALLERY WORLD

Conversation between Carles Taché and Llucià Homs.

The transformations that prevail in the digital era also affect the art world and collecting. Precisely, to talk about the changes in collecting, we have the cultural consultant and art market analyst, Llucià Homs and the gallerist Carles Taché. They will reveal a range of new opportunities in a context in which geographical boundaries are fading away.

Free admission until full capacity is reached.

Activity in catalan.

FORBIDDEN LANGUAGES

Organized with European Institute of Design.

The Museum of Forbidden Art will host the exhibition of the final thesis projects of the Graphic Design students of the European Institute of Design (IED). Entitled Forbidden Languages, the proposal consists of objects, icons, codes and messages that reveal through visual communication and interpret the forbidden from a variety of cultural perspectives and readings thanks to the visual arts.

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Activity in english.

OCAÑA, A TRANSGRESSOR AGAINST THE TIDE

A conversation between Pedro G. Romero, Nazario and Jordi Mayoral.

The character of Ocaña as a defender of rights and freedoms is inseparable from his figure as an artist. He was a brave and controversial character who symbolized the desire for freedom in the Barcelona of the seventies of the last century. Beyond strolling in drag along the Ramblas (as can be seen in the documentary by Ventura Pons), Ocaña declared himself an anarchist (he gave performances during the International Libertarian Days of the CNT in 1977 in the Parc Güell), and above all, a libertarian.

Thanks to the exhibition 'La Ocaña' at the Mayoral Gallery, from the Museum of Forbidden Art we also want to vindicate this artist who came up against censorship and prohibitions on several occasions. That's why this conversation between the artist and art critic Pedro G. Romero; the artist and friend of Ocaña, Nazario; and the gallery owner Jordi Mayoral.

Free admission until full capacity is reached.

Activity in Spanish. 

DANIEL GARCÍA ANDÚJAR

Art that defies the algorithm.

Critic with the new information and communication technologies, Daniel García Andújar, will talk about how these new tools, suppose a greater control and inequality, although they often promise a free choice and a democratization of access to information. A talk in which the artist will reveal secrets to challenge the algorithm.

Digital artist and philosophy professor David Casacuberta will be in conversation with Daniel G. Andújar. At the end of the talk, there will be beer courtesy of Moritz.

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Activity in Spanish.

THE ARCHITECTURE OF SAGNIER

Conversation between the journalist and essayist Lluís Permanyer and Antonio Sagnier, grandson of the architect Enric Sagnier i Villavecchia.

Recognizing the legacy of Enric Sagnier i Villavecchia is the objective of this conversation between the journalist and essayist Lluís Permanyer and the businessman Antonio Sagnier, grandson of the architect.

The mark of Enric Sagnier in Barcelona is very significant, some of his most emblematic buildings are the Port Customs, the Palace of Justice, the Royal Maritime Club, but also the Rodolf Juncadella house, the Arnús house and the Garriga Nogués house, current headquarters of the Museum of Forbidden Art, just to cite a few examples. Enric Sagnier was the most prolific architect of Barcelona in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Activity in Catalan

QUÈ PASSA AMB L'ESTATUT DE L'ARTISTA?

The working conditions of cultural professionals need a new legal framework in order to protect the sector from precariousness.

To discuss the issue we will have Alberto González Pulido (Intellectual property consultant, advisor on commercial law and compliance and specialist in cultural law and freedom of expression), Carmen Páez, the Director General of Cultural Industries, Intellectual Property and Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture, Anna Villaroya, a graduate in Law and Economics from the University of Barcelona and PhD in Public Sector Economics, and co-author of the report on the working and living conditions of cultural professionals commissioned by the Fundació la Caixa, and the singer and composer Gerard Quintana.

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Activity in Spanish.

VERMUT PROHIBIT

Joan Fontcuberta and Jorge Carrión present 'Forbidden', the catalog of Museu de l'Art Prohibit.

Journalist and writer Jorge Carrión has coordinated the writing of the Museu de l'Art Prohibit catalog. With texts by Joan Fontcuberta, Graciela Esperanza, Boris Groys and Tatxo Benet, among others, the volume is an added value to the museum's proposal. Undoubtedly, the conversation between Carrión and Fontcuberta will bring new perspectives to the Museu de l'Art Prohibit.

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Activity in Catalan

LIBERTAD, ARTE Y CULTURA

Presentation of the book Libertad, arte y cultura: reflexiones jurídicas sobre la libertad de creación artística by Jesús Prieto de Pedro and Roger Dedeu Pastor.

Clarifying the legal framework in which the artistic collective develops its activity or defining the guarantees and protections offered by the Law to the professionals of Culture are some of the topics to be discussed with the book coordinators, the artist Núria Güell and the art historian and cultural advisor Manuel Borja-Villel. (Event co-organized with the Fundación Gabeiras para el Derecho y la Cultura).

Free admission until full capacity is reached.

ABEL AZCONA

Performance La clausura by Abel Azcona.

The artist Abel Azcona will close the Proyecto Amén and the piece Pederastia with a performance where the main theme is the cases of sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic Church.

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ANDRES SERRANO

Conversation between Andrés Serrano and journalist Toni Ribas, with the introduction of Tatxo Benet.

Controversy has accompanied Andrés Serrano's photographysince the beginning of his career. The author of Piss Christ will review the themes that have shaped his career, such as sex, death and religion.

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Activity in English.