Barcelona Exhibition: Permanent Red

Flag in trees on Las Ramblas announcing Permanent Red exhibition about John Berger at La Virreina Centre, Barcelona

La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in Barcelona proposes a great exhibition from 13th of May to 22nd of October 2023.

Permanent Red exhibition © La Virreina Centre de la Imatge – Pep Herrero

Curated by Valentín Roma and Laura Valls, this exhibition presents John Berger’s commitments through his books, videos, drawings completed by Jean Mohr’s photographies and other archives. They well understood John’s work and succeeded to transcribe it into a clear museography, as much for the novices than for the connoisseurs.

We warmly recommend you this exhibition, you can even plan two visits because there is so much to discover. Furthermore it’s a free exhibition on the Ramblas.

The exhibition is in catalan and QR Code for castillan and english panels.

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JOHN BERGER

Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.

He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.

Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.