The LOOP Festival in Barcelona celebrates its 20th edition

The Barcelona LOOP Festival will celebrate its 20th edition from November 8 to 20, with a wide program of exhibitions, screenings and performances in different spaces of the city.

The program has been made thanks to the commitment of an ever-growing community of artists, curators and museum directors, under the artistic direction of Carolina Ciuti. Many creators who live and work in Barcelona, or who have developed a strong relationship with the city, participate in this edition, among them: Eugènia Balcells, Clàudia del Barrio, Xavier Bassas, Natalia Carminati, Ricardo del Conde, Fito Conesa, Carles Congost , CritTeam, Domènec, Arash Fayez, Raquel Friera, Siddharth Gautam Singh, Natalia Lucía, Anna Malagrida, Gabriel Millán, Iván Pintor Iranzo, Miguel Puertas, Eulàlia Rovira, Bárbara Sánchez Barroso, Adrian Schindler, Albert Serra, Sindihogar / Sindillar, Pedro Torres , Adriana Vila Guevara, Martín Vitaliti, Zónula.

Collaboration of local and international institutions

Associazione Culturale Urbs Picta (Verona, Italy), Esther Schipper (Berlin), the Filmoteca de Catalunya (Barcelona), the Antoni Tàpies Foundation (Barcelona), Haut et Court Doc (Paris), Galerie Krinzinger (Vienna), Anna Lena Films ( Paris), the French Institute (Barcelona), the MACBA-Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, and with the complicity of curators such as Pascale Cassagnau, Claudia Segura, Emiliano Valdés, Marina Vinyes Albes (among others), the program will feature also with the participation of artists such as Black Quantum Futurism (Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips), Dominique González Foerster, María Teresa Hincapié, Ange Leccia, Chiara Marcon, Basim Magdy, Franco Piavoli, Cemile Sahin and Hans Schabus, Anna Ronchiato & Angela Laci .

The curatorial proposals of Gerard Borràs, Eulàlia Bosch, Arash Fayez and art\collisions, Lesly Fonseca Tundidor, Carla Gimeno Jaria, Eva Paià, Jaume Reus and Marta Pol Rigau, can be seen at the Center Excursionista de Catalunya, at the Fundació Enric Miralles, at the Real Cercle Artístic, at La Pedrera-Casa Milà, at the Vila Casas Foundation's Can Framis Museum, at the Frederic Marès Museum, at the Barcelona Music Museum, at the Picasso Museum, and at various shops in the Raval district.

The tour is extended with a series of proposals in collaboration with El Born Center for Culture and Memory, Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc, Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya, L'Alternativa-Barcelona Independent Cinema Festival, CASA SEAT, CCCB-Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, the Soledat Sans Serafini Civic Centre, the Tecla Sala Art Centre, the Joan Miró Foundation, the Pavilion of the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, The Chapel, Santa Monica, and the Zumzeig.

To enrich the festival's programming, and under the general coordination of Laura Arensburg, the LOOP City Screen will show several moving image proposals along the circuit of commercial galleries and alternative spaces in the city.

Highlight of the program the artist Alex Reynolds, awarded at the 8th edition of the Video Creation Award of the Territorial Centers of the Public System of Visual Arts Equipment of Catalonia, Santa Mònica, the Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia and LOOP . The artist presented his work Billie y Nilo [Billie and Nilo] last October 29 at the M|A|C Mataró Art Contemporani.

The purpose of the Video Creation Award is to promote the work of artists who stand out for their innovative approaches to the creation process in the world of Visual Arts. With this award, we want to promote the co-production of a project in the field of contemporary arts that incorporates video as a single or partial element in the proposal as a whole. The objective is to formulate strategic actions that can be developed in a network, increasing visibility in the territory and international presence.