Ahead of the fair this week, Max Andrews highlights seven exhibitions in the Spanish capital

At Cordova, Barcelona, the artist's backwards-running wristwatch evokes a well-worn sci-fi conceit to explore desire, consumerism and remembrance

From an extensive Chiara Fumai retrospective to Lucía Bayón’s denim sculptures, Max Andrews selects the exhibitions not to miss in the Spanish capital

For the inaugural exhibition at Hauser & Wirth’s island outpost, the artist has created a new series of paintings and sculptures that span from the European discovery of the New World to racialized urban zoning 

At Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida, the artist reflects on our changing relationship to the land through sculptures that disintegrate over time

At etHALL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, the artist pays homage to the thresholds between life and death

The artist’s new works at La Virreina, Barcelona, predict that the culture industry will never be automated

Ahead of the fair this week, contributing editor Max Andrews picks the exhibitions to see in the Spanish capital

The challenges faced by the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern have involved a form of firefighting that many museums outside of capital cities seem in thrall to

At Bombas Gens, Valencia, a retrospective of the terrestrial geographies of the overlooked painter

Domènec’s show at adn galeria, Barcelona looks to the fraught legacies of Spain’s mass communal housing

‘Released following the musician’s death in 1993, the album is an extraordinary swan song: morose, comical and utterly preposterous’

A survey exhibition at LUMA Arles captures the history of mechanically-reproduced imagery from the 19th century to the present

Two exhibitions in Barcelona and Sabadell explore the artist’s ever-changing styles and painterly references

On the Spanish artist’s magmatic morphologies, currently on view at Haus der Kunst, Munich, and Matadero, Madrid

At Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles, a crepuscular glow lends acute poignancy to simple forms and materials   

The artist explores the politics of the female voice that speaks out, or is shut up, at àngels barcelona, Spain

At La Panacée, Montpellier, Nicolas Bourriaud’s manifesto for a new movement and attempt to demarcate an artistic peer group

Contributing editor Max Andrews looks back on 2017, from turbulence in the Catalan capital to Pierre Huyghe’s masterwork in Münster

Espai 13, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona