OKRA   Netherlands   The reconstruction of this canal of Utrecht (Netherlands), carried out by OKRA, has won the 11th European Prize for Urban Public Space. Created by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), the award has since the year 2000 biennially h

Convinced that the ethical duty of every artist is to question the pillars of the dogma with the tools of uncertainty, ambiguity, and contradiction, William Kentridge (South Africa, 1955) has built a varied creative discourse that has turned him into

Estrella de Diego   With a major show full of shocking images, Barcelona‘s CCCB addressed architecture‘s all too often silenced relationship with eroticism and sex. 

The constant generation of data through daily-use objects like mobile phones expands the information networks, which become a valuable tool in participatory processes and have a great potential as marketing instrument. These advantages and also the r

Although the management difficulties involved in any kind of urban transformation are sometimes unsurpassable, at other times public space serves as material for the undertaking of extraordinary projects directed at serving the citizenry. Recognizing

Hasta el 24 de mayo se puede visitar en el Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (CCCB) la exposición ‘Atopía. Arte y ciudad en el siglo XXI’, una muestra que aborda el sentimiento de malestar del individuo frente a una ciudad contemporánea mu

Barking and Dagenham, London Awarded every two years and given jointly to the institution that promotes the project and to its author, the European Prize for Urban Public Space, organized by the CCCB with the Cité of Paris, the NAi of Rotterdam, the

Sea Organ/A8ernA Awarded every two years and organized by the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, together with other European institutions, this award puts emphasis on public space as a necessary element for the vitality of cities, and it p

Juan Antonio Ramírez   Estos tiempos, ya lo sabemos, tampoco son propicios para la lírica. Demasiadas atrocidades y manipulaciones. Los primeros años del siglo XXI están siendo especialmente ominosos, con la principal superpotencia del planeta empeñada en una guerra feroz

Juan José Lahuerta   La exposición ‘Fantasías del harén y nuevas Sherezades’ nos propone un recorrido extraordinariamente complejo, nada habitual dentro del panorama de exposiciones —más bien sencillas e inmediatas, tan ‘didácticas’—al que estamos acostumbrados. En la lí