On 5 November 2026 the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) opens “Aurèlia Muñoz. Beings”, a major retrospective devoted to the Catalan artist whose knots, embroidery and kite-birds turned fibre and paper into living forms. The exhibition runs until 2 May 2027 and is framed, on opening weekend, by the international symposium “Resonance and Confluence” (5–6 November 2026).
An artist of knots and flight
Aurèlia Muñoz treated textiles not as craft’s quiet cousin but as a language of structure, ritual and air. Her interest in Andean weaving traditions fed into works that feel both grounded and airborne: embroidered surfaces, knotted volumes and the celebrated kite-birds that seem ready to leave the gallery. MACBA presents these “beings” as a continuum — objects that behave less like finished products than like companions with their own presence.
Resonance and Confluence
The two-day symposium, organised with the Aurèlia Muñoz Archive and einaidea, gathers anthropologists, historians and artists around questions of material knowledge and cultural confluence. Speakers include Tim Ingold, Sophie Desrosiers, Emma Ingala, Esther Rivas Adrover, Laía Argüelles Folch, Mireia Molina Costa and Violeta Mayoral. Introductions come from Manuel Cirauqui, Sílvia Ventosa and Rosa Lleó.
Tickets for the symposium are priced at €10 for the full programme and €5 for a single day — an accessible entry point to a conversation that stretches from Catalonia to the Andes and from studio practice to anthropological theory.
Why Barcelona, why now
Muñoz’s work has long been admired by specialists, but a full institutional survey at MACBA places her firmly in the contemporary canon of the city that shaped her. For visitors, the show offers more than a chronological hang: it asks how soft materials can carry hard ideas about belonging, flight and the lives we weave around one another. Through May 2027, the “beings” will keep that question open.