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On the occasion of ArtsLibris MACBA Barcelona 2026, Galería RocioSantaCruz will remain closed from Friday, October 30, through Sunday, November 1.

The 17th edition of ArtsLibris Barcelona, International Fair of Artists’ Books, Photobooks and Self-Publishing, will take place on October 30 and 31 and November 1 at MACBA, Convent dels Àngels. This year, more than 110 national and international publishers will participate, making the fair a meeting point for contemporary artistic creation and publishing.

We look forward to seeing you at ArtsLibris MACBA Barcelona 2026!
We look forward to seeing you at ArtsLibris MACBA Barcelona 2026!
More information: www.artslibris.cat

The newspaper La Vanguardia devotes prominent coverage to Mariaelena Roqué’s exhibition at Galería RocioSantaCruz, as part of Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2026, one of the most significant events on the city’s art calendar.

In the article entitled Veteran Artists Take Over the Galleries, published on September 17, 2026, in the Culture section, journalist Teresa Sesé highlights the return to Barcelona’s exhibition scene of established artists such as Mariaelena Roqué and Eulàlia Valldosera, whose work features in this year’s programme.

The article includes a photograph of Mariaelena Roqué alongside the central installation of her exhibition at Galería RocioSantaCruz, offering a glimpse into the artist’s visual and sculptural universe. Through this coverage, La Vanguardia highlights the presence of established figures in contemporary art and their participation in an edition of Barcelona Gallery Weekend that reaffirms the continued relevance of their artistic practices and their ability to explore new languages and forms of expression.

Artists Marina Núñez and Gonzalo Elvira are participating in the group exhibition Fragmentos de una constelación privada. Obras de la colección de arte de José Luis Serzo I, which will be on view from November 6 to December 13, 2026, at the Centro Nacional de Fotografía José Manuel Rotella in Torrelavega (Cantabria).

The exhibition brings together works by numerous artists from different generations and backgrounds, offering an exploration of the diverse artistic languages, sensibilities, and practices represented in José Luis Serzo’s private collection. Participating artists include Antonio Saura, André Gill, Hans Lemmen, Che Marchesi, and Eduardo Gruber, alongside Marina Núñez and Gonzalo Elvira, among others.

Fragmentos de una constelación privada brings together different creative worlds through a selection of works that highlights the diversity of perspectives and forms of expression found in contemporary art.

Dates: November 6 – December 13, 2026.
Venue: Centro Nacional de Fotografía José Manuel Rotella, Torrelavega (Cantabria).
Address: Paseo Julio Hauzeur, 14, Torrelavega.

Antón Lamazares will inaugurate his exhibition Na Canella. 1973–2026 on October 29 at the Palexco Municipal Exhibition Hall in A Coruña. Organized by the A Coruña City Council (Concello da Coruña), the exhibition will remain on view until January 17, 2027, offering a journey through more than five decades of artistic creation, with memory, childhood, and the rural Galician landscape as its central themes.

The exhibition brings together paintings from different stages of his career, from his earliest works to recent creations, establishing a dialogue between past and present. Through his distinctive pictorial language, characterized by the expressive use of materials, textures, and color, Lamazares revisits memories, experiences, and scenes connected to Maceira, his native village, which has remained an essential reference point throughout his artistic practice.

Na Canella. 1973-2026 offers an insight into the personal universe of one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Galician painting, whose career has unfolded between Galicia and cities such as Madrid, New York, Paris, and Berlin..

The exhibition opening will take place on Thursday, October 29, at 7:30 p.m., at the Palexco Municipal Exhibition Hall in A Coruña.

Exhibition Information

Na Canella. 1973-2026 — Antón Lamazares
Sala Municipal de Exposiciones Palexco, A Coruña
October 29, 2026 – January 17, 2027
Opening: October 29, at 7:30 p.m.

On October 16, 2026, Viaje al centro de la Tierra, an exhibition by Marina Núñez, an artist represented by Galería RocioSantaCruz, and curated by Isabel Durán, opened at the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC) in Badajoz.

The exhibition brings together recent works alongside earlier pieces by the artist, offering an exploration of the relationships between humanity, nature, and the cosmos. Through installations, sculptures, and digital creations, Núñez continues to develop an artistic practice in which science, technology, and imagination converge.

This opening coincides with two other solo exhibitions by the artist. Since July 10, the Museo de Palencia has been presenting Terra ignota, curated by Pedro Gallego de Lerma. Conceived specifically for the museum’s spaces, the exhibition takes the Roman mosaic Océano y las Nereidas as its starting point, establishing a dialogue between archaeological heritage and contemporary artistic creation through a series of installations and audiovisual works.

Meanwhile, La Térmica Cultural in Ponferrada has been hosting Tantos mundos en este, also curated by Isabel Durán, since June 20. The project features a large-scale installation comprising 288 digitally printed ceramic tiles, accompanied by a sound composition by Luis de la Torre and the sculptural series Cosmos.

Exhibition Dates:

• Viaje al centro de la Tierra— MEIAC, Badajoz. October 16, 2026 – March 28, 2027.
• Terra ignota— Museo de Palencia, Palencia. July 10, 2026 – April 4, 2027.
• Tantos mundos en este — La Térmica Cultural, Ponferrada. June 20, 2026 – January 17, 2027.

Today, 16 October 2026, Fundación Juan March in Madrid opens La transición estética. España, 1960-2020 , a group exhibition featuring Lluís Hortalà and Pilar Aymerich, artists represented by Galería RocioSantaCruz.

The exhibition revisits six decades of artistic and cultural transformations in Spain, focusing on the reception of international modern and contemporary art and the different ways in which audiences have encountered, interpreted and experienced works of art.

Through a selection of artworks, photographs, documents, publications and audiovisual materials, the exhibition traces the evolution of Spanish visual culture since the 1960s, against a backdrop of cultural isolation during the dictatorship, the transition to democracy and the gradual opening up to the international art scene.

The participation of Lluís Hortalà and Pilar Aymerich brings two distinct artistic perspectives to this exploration: Hortalà’s investigation into representation, architecture and visual perception, and Aymerich’s documentary photography, closely linked to historical memory, feminism and social movements.

Curated by José María Parreño, Manuel Fontán del Junco, Germán Labrador Méndez and Aida Capa, the exhibition will be on view at Fundación Juan March in Madrid until 10 January 2027.

More information: La transición estética. España, 1960-2020

Tate Modern in London opens Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography today, 14 October, an international exhibition featuring works by Marcel Giró and Palmira Puig, two key figures in Brazilian modernist photography, whose works are part of the Tate collection.

The exhibition offers a reassessment of Pictorialism as a global photographic movement, tracing its development from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s. Bringing together more than 200 photographs by over 80 artists from different continents, the exhibition explores the evolution of photography as an artistic medium and its potential for experimentation with light, composition and darkroom processes.

The inclusion of Marcel Giró and Palmira Puig places Brazilian modernist photography within this international narrative. Both artists, associated with the Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante in São Paulo, developed a body of work characterised by formal experimentation, contrasts of light and a fresh perspective on everyday life.

Through this exhibition, Tate Modern broadens traditional perspectives on the history of photography, bringing into dialogue different generations and geographical contexts that contributed to its recognition as an artistic discipline.

Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography will be on view until 21 February 2027.

More information: Tate Modern – Light and Magic

Galician photographer Vari Caramés (Ferrol, 1953), an artist represented by Galería RocioSantaCruz, has been awarded the 2026 National Photography Prize by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. This recognition celebrates a career spanning more than four decades, dedicated to exploring the expressive possibilities of photography and developing a deeply personal visual language.

The jury highlighted the distinctive and contemporary nature of his work, as well as his contribution to the renewal of artistic photography and Galician culture since the 1980s.

Vari Caramés’ photography is characterised by a poetic vision and a particular sensitivity to light, movement and atmosphere. Through blurred imagery, reflections and compositions that approach pictorial abstraction, the artist transforms everyday scenes into evocative images that explore the relationships between reality, memory and perception.

We would like to extend our warmest congratulations to Vari Caramés on this well-deserved recognition, which celebrates his distinctive artistic vision, his sensitivity and his remarkable contribution to contemporary photography.

Congratulations, Vari!

The international contemporary art magazine FAD Magazine has published an article on the twelfth edition of Barcelona Gallery Weekend, held from 17 to 20 September 2026, exploring the diversity of artistic proposals presented by the participating galleries and highlighting UnaDonaUna · AutoRetratRetratat, de Mariaelena Roqué, en la Galería RocioSantaCruz.

In his article, titled Barcelona Gallery Weekend finds the city at a cultural crossroads, art critic Tabish Khan places Roqué’s work among the standout exhibitions of this edition. The author pays particular attention to the social and feminist dimensions of her practice, which addresses the realities of women in different contexts, and highlights the operatic performance that accompanied the exhibition’s presentation.

The exhibition offers a journey through the creative universe of Mariaelena Roqué, whose interdisciplinary practice spans sculpture, costume-as-character, visual arts, and performance. Through these artistic languages, Roqué explores the relationships between body, identity, and representation, challenging social conventions and gender roles from a critical and feminist perspective.

UnaDonaUna · AutoRetratRetratat will be on view at Galería RocioSantaCruz until 21 November 2026.

The full FAD Magazine article can be read at the following link: FAD Magazine

On 7 October, the Foto Colectania Foundation inaugurated the exhibition «Emancipations. Foto Colectania Collection» , curated by Florian Ebner, Head of the Department of Photography at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The exhibition offers a new reading of the institution’s collection through a journey that connects the social, cultural and political transformations of contemporary Spain with the evolution of photography as a medium of artistic expression.

The exhibition is structured around two parallel processes of emancipation: that of Spanish society, which, particularly following the end of the Franco dictatorship, underwent profound changes in its structures and identities, and that of a photographic language that progressively expanded its expressive possibilities, moving beyond its documentary function to embrace new conceptual and artistic dimensions.

The exhibition also brings together works by Ouka Leele, Colita, Pilar Aymerich, Miguel Trillo and Francisco Ontañón, artists represented by Galería RocioSantaCruz, whose careers offer different perspectives on photography and its relationship with social and cultural transformations.

The exhibition is structured into three chapters exploring humanist photography, the representation of communities and social movements, and the re-examination of the boundaries of documentary photography. Through these perspectives, Emancipations presents the photographic image not only as a testimony to an era, but also as a tool for critical reflection on memory, identity and forms of representation.

The exhibition places particular emphasis on the materiality of photography and its different modes of presentation, incorporating press prints, albums, test prints, fanzines and other documents that invite a reconsideration of the relationships between image, medium and exhibition context.

The exhibition will be on view at the Foto Colectania Foundation in Barcelona until 7 February 2027.

For further information, please visit the following link: Emancipaciones. Colección Foto Colectania