From 9 April to 11 October 2026
Between 1908 and 1930, the Galeries Dalmau were one of the most important art exhibition venues in Barcelona. Over those years they staged more than 160 exhibitions and showed, at a conservative estimate, more than 2,000 works.
In 1912 the Galeries Dalmau held a Cubist exhibition at which Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase was shown for only the second time anywhere in the world. They also welcomed the avant-garde artists who took refuge in Barcelona during the First World War and staged the first exhibitions of Joan Miró and Salvador Dalí… Even so, too little attention has been paid to their sustained work in programming Catalan artists of every tendency and ability.
What has become of the works that, at a key moment in the history of Catalan art, were exhibited at the Galeries Dalmau? Local collectors missed the opportunity to acquire works by the foreign avant-garde artists Dalmau exhibited. On the other hand, we have been able to identify some two hundred works in public and private collections in Catalonia that were shown there at the time, and there are surely more.
The exhibition «Reconstruint les Galeries Dalmau (1908-1930)» (Reconstructing the Galeries Dalmau) brings together nearly a hundred of these works, either as originals or —where a loan could not be obtained— as reproductions, in order to show the debate between tradition and modernity that was unfolding in Catalonia in those years.
Free admission.
More information:
Tel. 93 544 50 99
museuabello@molletvalles.cat