Godard, Frederic Amat and Juana Dolores' love for Lenin

BarcelonaFilmmaker Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022) will be the central figure in the programming at the Virreina Centre de la Imatge in Barcelona. The venue on La Rambla will dedicate an exhibition to him from March 28 to October 4, curated by Manuel Asín, coordinator of the film department at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and, between 2021 and 2025, artistic director of the Punto de Vista festival in Pamplona. Asín constructs the exhibition with previously unseen material, shooting notebooks, recordings, photographs, and paintings that form part of the director's personal archive.At the end of the getaway and ContemptMasterpieces of cinema and leading figures of the Nouvelle Vague. To gather and select the exhibition material, the curator has relied on the support of Godard's personal and professional circle, as well as several collectors.

At the presentation of the program this Wednesday, Valentín Roma, the director of La Virreina, summarized what it will offer in 2026: "Seminal cinematographies, institutionality without institutions, the blind spots of history, and words to disrupt the world." It will all begin with Economic agreement (from February 27 to June 28), an exhibition by Oier Etxeberria on "the political links between sound, landscape, and economy." Politics is also central to the Declaration of love in Lenin which Juana Dolores Romero Casanova will present from July 11 to November 1. Curated by Valentín Roma himself, Juana Dolores's proposal "takes a historical and theoretical journey through the concept of love in the revolutionary tradition" while "comparing its class resentment and hatred with its sentimental resentment and hatred." The Marxist theoretical framework is consistent with the trajectory of the poet and artist from El Prat de Llobregat, who a year ago starred in the performance He who calls fire, calls fire. at the Joan Brossa Foundation's Centre for Free Arts.

Frederic Amat's 'conversations'

On the same dates as Declaration of love in LeninBut on the ground floor, there will be EightThe exhibition brings together the "dialogues" that Frederic Amat has held over the years with poets, playwrights, novelists, and philosophers. These "conversations" are translated into pieces such as the short film On the edge, created specifically for the Virreina exhibition, and dialogues with JV Foix, Octavio Paz, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante, among others.

The exhibition will also be on view A lot of unanswered questions (March 28 to June 28), by Alex Reynolds and Robert M. Oscherson, working from questions posed at U.S. State Department press conferences between October 3, 2023 (shortly before the Hamas attack of October 7) and the end of the presidency.

The 2026 program at the Virreina Centro de la Imagen is completed with An American Story (from October 24 to March 28, 2027), by Marion Scemama and David Wojnarowicz, which addresses themes such as the conservative revolution of the Reagan era in the United States; and, from November 14 to March 28, 2027, a tribute to the thirty years of the Gràcia Territori Sonor project and the exhibition Of Heat (1993-1996), an exhibition curated by Jorge Luis Marzo about the magazine From Heat.