The Free Arts Center presents the 25-26 season with a program open to the city – Fundació Joan Brossa

• The Liberal Arts Center closed the 24-25 season with a total of 14,480 visitors and one 74.11% occupancy.

The 25-26 season presents 39 live and visual arts proposals in a program that calls artists and citizens to social and political reflection from the perspective of risk and experimentation.
with 13 unpublished proposals of a total of 28 shows, the stage program stands out for the presence of the visual and object theater.
The visual arts program presents 8 new exhibitions and installations and unfolds in three lines: heritage, production support and exhibitioni research
Losinformalls have been the protagonists of the opening party of the 25-26 season with Informal stagean ode to informality, experiment and error.

Barcelona, ​​September 23. Yesterday, Monday 22 September, the Liberal Arts Center of the Joan Brossa Foundation held an opening day for the 25-26 season with a press presentation in the morning and a party in the afternoon. This was the start of a program that will fill the space on Calle Flassaders between September 2025 and June 2026 with 39 proposals – shows, exhibitions, installations and performances – as well as the second edition of the special program of Exorcisms, Heritage and Performativity; 28 educational activities and a new edition of Escola Brossa.

Experiments for the city

This season, the Joan Brossa Foundation wants to locate the Liberal Arts Center in the city and turn it into a open space close to citizens. A place to come to find experimental proposals and to feel at home inhabiting the various spaces and activity formats offered by the Centre. The graphic image created by Irena Visa for the communication campaign of the season pursues this desire, all the while featuring pigeons, also inhabitants of the city of Barcelona, ​​accompanied by messages that define with an ironic look what the Liberal Arts Center is and what it offers in every sense (theatre, free wi-fi, toilets, exhibitions… and rare things).

Contemporaneity in a social, political and artistic key

With 28 shows and 8 exhibitions and installations, this new program consolidates La Brossa as a space for risk, experimentation and the hybridization of artistic languages, with projects that exude protestant attitudes and against immobility. In the words of the artistic director, Maria Canelles i Georgina Oliveit is “a collective demonstration that highlights non-conformism in the face of uniformism and its derivations”, proposals that drink from contemporaneity in a social, political and artistic key.

Performing arts

The stage program, marked by an accentuated presence of visual theatre, objects and puppets thanks to the collaboration with the IF Barcelona Festival, stands out for 13 premieres: The international: an archaeological sandwich from Barcelona, ​​from Laia Fabre i Liminal; Dark Times of David Espinosa; Leshi ofATRESBANDS; I already told you ofAgnés Mateus and Quim Tarrida; Cruelty exercise for children ofArnau Sanromà i Enric Marzà; a car of Pau Masaló; I trust you of Vivian Friederich; The politicians of Leo Granados; This is another film about a man of Thomas Aragay; Blattodea of Laura Cabello Escofetand the performative conferences Petrochemistry of Maria Alejande, Pau Ferran, Judith Pujol i Barbara Roig; We needed the ulcers of Luca Calderó i I transform myself! Strip conference of Spherical Band.

For its part, the program also includes: Lilianae #Am ofAlbert arrives; Romantic dances/ Antena Ghost of Montdeductor; kill me psychosis of Lucia del Greco; So many of Patrick Blenkarn i Milton Lim; To move in time of Forced Entertainment within the High Season; Melodama “the revenge of a Russian orphan” of Jordi Prat and Coll; ASS ofscarlet; Manual for living beings of The Mule, Cannibal map of Maria Camila Sanjinés; Fasting Girls of Marta Azparren; Weltschmerz (working title) of Ferran Dordal; arrow of Javier Aranda; Kinematics of yum yum concrete matter of The detectives; guerilla ofThe Count of Torrefiel, as well as the two performances Fire walks with me of Co. Loneliness i Instructions for slowly disappearing of Marga Socias i Nico Roig.

visual arts

The branch of visual arts continues to generate the same question with the desire to inventory multiple answers: what makes Brossa Brossa, what is the “Brossa gesture” and where can we find it? A way of approaching the poet’s legacy that forces us to interrogate him from the point of view of strict contemporaneity. That is why, this autumn, a new exhibition focusing on the object-oriented work of Joan Brossa, curated by Marc Navarro, Say whatwhich will bring the Brossian object poems into dialogue with pieces by other contemporary Catalan and international artists.

The season begins, however, with the last week of the exhibition Astral Summarycurated by Catherine Admiral with the collaboration of Claudia Elias. Following the same desire to search for those artists who maintain radical attitudes towards artistic creation, this year’s Postbrossa call (the support line for the production and exhibition of visual arts in La Brossa) has two projects: Fables for an animal economy ofAdrian Julian i dysfunctional of Tanit Plana. Finally, the line of research is consolidated with projects that allow the creation of a Brosian geneology from a contemporary perspective: with the Exhibition of anti-fascist varieties curated by Marcelo Expósito i Beds and mummies (or trace a letter to be able to cut the shadow) in care ofHelena Laguna, Biel Llinàs i Mireia Molina and result of the PIC (Curatorial Research Program) with the collaboration of the Sala d’Art Jove. Finally, pursuing the goal of internationalizing the figure of Brossa, the Foundation presents the exhibition in Manchester The mental feeling of complete happiness curated by Anna Llopis and which could be seen until June at the Liberal Arts Centre.

Exorcisms and Pere Portabella

The Joan Brossa Foundation is preparing the second edition of the special program ofExorcisms, Heritage and Performativityof which one of the proposals has advanced: the exhibition A little noise (from the livable poems) of Merce Soler. On the other hand, the spring will have as its protagonist the cinema with the cycle Portabella, agent provocateur, which starts from the artistic relationship and friendship between Joan Brossa i Peter Portabella to highlight Brossa as a “provocative agent” for the filmmaker, in the words of Portabella himself. The cycle has as its central axis theExhibition of anti-fascist varietiesin care of Marcelo Expósito and with works by artists like Paula Artes, Mabel Palacin, Abel Jaramillo, Núria Güell or Daniel Ortizand also groups the proposals of Marta Azparren, Tomàs Aragay, Banda-Esfèrica and Nyamnyam.

A party for improvisation

As a preamble to the 25-26 season, the Fundació Joan Brossa held a party at the Center de les Arts Lliures in which Losinformalls and his Informal stage they have been the protagonists. Peter Joseph i Luis Garcia have invited the public to demonstrate on stage alongside three special collaborators: Lizard Tranis, Núria Martínez Vernis i Martí Solé. A space in which the art of trial, trial and error has opened up as a collective performance.

Today, Tuesday 23 September, the public will be able to demonstrate again alongside the collaborators Star Boada, Paola Gay i Acid Axelan event that is already sold out.

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