Exhibition 'Kapwani Kiwanga. Changing States'
30 April 2026 – 13 September 2026 · 10:00
Museu, el Poble-sec, Sants-Montjuïc
This is Kapwani Kiwanga's first major solo exhibition in Spain, focusing on her critical reading of architecture, space and structures of power, while reinforcing the international and interdisciplinary vocation characterising the Fundació's 50th-anniversary celebrations. Although Kiwanga was not selected specifically for an architectural connection, her work displays an internal architecture of exceptional precision and coherence. Her consistent and deeply structured practice engages organically with architecture: it investigates materiality, resource flows, exchange economies and the power structures organising territories and bodies. She has researched architectural designs and systems for the circulation of materials and, in recent years, broadened the paradigm towards transhuman temporalities such as geology, allowing spaces and systems to be understood on scales beyond human time. The exhibition brings together a selection of existing works and a significant body of new work produced specifically for the Barcelona exhibition, exploring these themes in greater depth and focusing on three central lines: materiality and systems of exploitation; economic exchanges and their…
Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona · checked on 8 September 2026