#LUMINICFESTIVAL
EXHIBITIONS
KONTROL
Ángel Biyanueba
Time:
Tuesday to Saturday: 10:30 to 13:30, 17 to 20
Sunday: 19:30 to 14:30
Monday closed
“Kontrol” exposes how mass surveillance exercised by the state modifies the behaviour and limits the will of citizenry. Moulding free actions and seeking to influence those individuals that power consider undesirable. Using the fear of punishment, a scenario where the individual is considered a potential criminal is created.
PELO MALO
Nuria López Torres
Time:
Tuesday to Saturday: 10:30 to 13:30, 17 to 20
Sunday: 19:30 to 14:30
Monday closed
“Pelo Malo” is a project about Afro pride in which Cuban hip hop singers with anti-racist discourses and civil activists claim their African heritage. Afro hair has become a tool for Afro-descendants in Cuba to claim their identity. The expression ‘Pelo Malo’ perpetuates racist stereotypes that associate beauty and social acceptance with Eurocentric characteristics.
USUS FRUCTUS ABUSUS
_La Blanche et la Noire
Gloria Oyarzabal
Time:
Tuesday to Friday: 10:30 to 14, 17 to 20
Saturday: 10:30 to 14:30, 17 to 20
Sunday: 10:30 to 14:30
Monday close
Roman law defined ownership as the absolute, full, exclusive and perpetual enjoyment of an object or corporeal entity. Museums as repositories of colonial plunder, are not neutral spaces: they reinforce imaginaries of exoticism and distinction linked to supremacist ideologies. Is returning what has been looted, both in terms of objects and identity, an urgent, universal and feasible question?
Prize Art Photo BCN 2024
ASHES OF THE ARABIAN'S PEARL
Valentin Valette
Time:
Monday to Saturday 9:30 to 20:30
Sunday close
"Ashes of the Arabian’s Pearl" explores Oman’s new economic, political, and social directions amid declining oil and gas resources and Sultan Qabus’s death. The project highlights the relationship between foreign workers and local entrepreneurs, central to this evolving dynamic.
ENERGIA SUBMERGIDA
Paula Artés
Time:
Tuesday to Sunday 10 to 15
Monday closed
This research proposes a reflection on the network of power relationships that link the activity of one of the largest construction companies globally with state management. More specifically, the development of the Castor platform, an artificial natural gas storage built by the Spanish company Escal UGS, off the coast of Catalonia and Valencia.
DONA, FOTOGRAFIA I PRESÓ
Fundació Setba
Time:
Monday to Saturday: 10 to 14, 17 to 20.
Sunday closed
The Setba Foundation leads “Traspassant l’objectiu” (“Beyond the lens”), a photography project for incarcerated women in Catalonia. It fosters self-esteem, visibility, and job opportunities. Culture as a tool for change, inside and beyond the walls.
1st Winner of the Lumínic 2025 Open Call
ERODING FRANCO
Jordi Jon
Time:
Monday to Friday: 8 to 14. Thursday: 17 to 19
Saturday 7.06 and 12.07: 10 to 13 h
Saturday and Sunday closed
Presentation with the artist: 5 de june, 18:30 h
Exhibition until July 3
“Eroding Franco” is a visual journalism project that explores how Francoism (1939-1975), through mass tourism, construction, and industrial agriculture, laid the foundations for the desertification that now threatens 80% of Spain. The project uses archives and documentary photography to examine a legacy that has remained largely unquestioned by society. This project was developed thanks to the Joana Biarnés Scholarship for Young Photojournalists, awarded by the Photographic Social Vision Foundation.
2on Winner of the Lumínic 2025 Open Call
CIUDAD SECRETA
Javier Arboledas
Outdoor and indoor exhibition
Time:
Monday to Friday: 9 to 13:30, 16 to 20
Saturday: 10 to 13:30, 17:30 to 20
Sunday closed
“Ciudad secreta” tells the story of the memory of a Soviet city that was purposefully created in the late 1950s for the development of atomic energy. It does so through the recollections of an inhabitant who represents that intermediate generation of the city—those who experienced perestroika and the dissolution of the USSR firsthand. Ultimately, it invites us to reflect on what has become of the homo sovieticus, who once dreamed of becoming the new Soviet man.
ACCESSIONS OF THE IV
CALL FOR ARTISTS OF
THE LUMÍNIC FESTIVAL
Time:
Monday 17 a 20
Tuesday to Friday: 10 to 14, 17 to 20
Saturday: 10 to 13:30
Sunday closed
Sara Munari, Jose Lorente, Enrique Freaza Viera, Laura Aranda, Felipe Fontecilla, Hugo Kevelaer i Miriam Montano
TRANSMET TRANSICIÓ
Carlos Bosch
Arxiu Nacional Catalunya
Time:
Monday to Friday: 8 to 15
Saturday and Sunday closed
This series of 60 photographs by Carlos Bosch covers from 1976 to 1981, a key period in the history of Spain. Photojournalism showed the massive social mobilizations in the street and helped to politically bury the Franco regime, although today it is still rooted in the actual powers of the Spanish State.
The curator, Manel Sanz, has set the criterion of showing the complete series that he published in La Agenda de la imagen, a magazine published by the UPIFC Image Union, and that were given by the photographer to the National Archive of Catalonia, as guarantor of Catalonia's cultural heritage.
ENTRE LA MULTITUD
Jordi Pol
Arxiu Fotogràfic de Barcelona
Time:
Tuesday: 11:15 to 14, 16 to 18
Wensday: 13 to 14
Thursday: 13 to 19
Friday: 12 to 14, 16 to 21
Saturday: 10 to 13
Monday and Sunday closed
From a chronology that goes from 1966 to 1987, Jordi Pol's photographs document the Barcelona of the last Franco regime, the Transition and the years prior to the proclamation of Barcelona as an Olympic city. Revisited now, in Jordi Pol's photographs two natures that are apparently incompatible clearly emerge: nostalgia and historical time.
EL PODER DE LA IMATGE I LA IMATGE DEL PODER: REPRESENTACIÓ DE LA DICTADURA FRANQUISTA AL FONS CABANAS DE L'AMSCV
Fons Cabanas
Time:
Monday to Thursday: 8 to 18:45
Friday: 8 to 14
Saturday: 9 to 13
Sunday closed
In January 1939, Sant Cugat was incorporated into the "New State”, where the military dictator wielded absolute power, an authoritarian regime with fascist elements. Joan Cabanas's camera captures social life on the streets, where Franco's portrait, Falangist symbols, and the Catholic cross are omnipresent, images that conceal a reality of hunger and repression.
SCHOOLS EXHIBITIONS
ELISAVA
Paula Mateu
Outdoor exhibition
Recognize yourself in other people's albums, see your memories through theirs, and yourself through them. About family, the kind that presents itself without choice or option. I grew up happy in an unhappy family, shaped by social norms, by having more than wanting. When my mother decided to embark on a new path in search of a different family reality and my father was left alone at home, I began to question everything I had been taught until then. The life I had been promised disappeared, and I began to explore isolation.
EAD Sant Cugat
STUDENTS EAD
Outdoor exhibition
The Sant Cugat School of Art and Design is once again participating in the Lumínic festival with a selection of photographs by students from the 1st year of Higher Education. The result is a collective exhibition that brings together 6 photographic projects that have a common denominator: they reflect on power relations and how they affect identity, love, sexuality, religion or social class, generating situations of abuse, control or gender inequalities. With the hope of highlighting situations that need urgent transformation.
Sanae Mouka, Mariona Bolibar, Lisa Manubens, Jules Traveset, Dasha Fornieles, Marian Manzano
IEFC
KILA
Time:
Monday to Saturday: 10 to 14, 17 to 20
Sunday closed
“Seda de Plata” alludes to the fluidity and fragility of the image: a surface that folds, deforms, and escapes like a liquid, evoking the silver base of photography and the distorted reflection of a mirror. The project explores how dysmorphia affects self-perception, generating helplessness in the face of beauty standards and the internal struggle of those who fail to recognize themselves. Through altered images, it invites reflection on the power relations that social norms and digital culture exert on our identity and self-esteem.
EL OBSERVATORIO
Helena Palau i
Berta Camprodon
Outdoor exhibition
The Observatory participates in the sixth edition of the Luminic Festival with two students where they will show work in the street. These students are:
Helena Palau with the project ""No sé si soy lo que esperábamos""
Berta Camprodon with the project "Interior/Exterior"
FINE ARTS STUDENTS UB
Lucía Cruz
Time:
Monday to Saturday: 10 to 14, 17 to 20
Sunday closed
"No soy ultra" is an audiovisual project that investigates the ultra universe within neighborhood football, between songs, fans and contradictions. Through photographs, interviews and the sound recording, he goes into the stands to portray aspects such as gender roles, power and identity, both in the stands and on the field. Men and women share a space where routine, violence and passion coexist.
INS LEONARDO
Students from INS Leonardo
Time: Monday: 15:30 - 20:30
Tuesday to Friday: 10 - 14, 15:30 - 20:30
Saturday 10 to 14. Sunday close
One of the fundamental pillars of the Lumínic platform is its Educational Plan, which aims to generate spaces for experimentation, knowledge, and reflection around photography. For this reason, Lumínic collaborates with several educational centers, conducting workshops and hosting exhibitions of artwork. In 2021, Lumínic began collaborating with the Leonardo Institute of Secondary Education (INS) to hold an annual series of workshops with 4th-year ESO students. In these four editions, students have had the opportunity to take photographs with digital cameras, participate in selection sessions, photo editing, and exhibition design. The common thread running through this year's workshops has been experimentation with images, seeking to document and portray power relations with what we find around us, whether in the classroom or in the urban environment. This exhibition shows the results of the students' creations throughout the 2024-2025 school year.