Exhibitions

Familia Real

Jesús Umbría

On view 14.05.2026-31.05.2026

Familia Real is a photographic project that dwells on the margins of mass society, on the periphery of the normative, in its shadows. Far from dogma and convention, it presents a series of portraits of post-pandemic youth identified with the counterculture surrounding punk music and its aesthetics: a mosaic of faces and expressions that seek themselves in the mirror of the past to shape their present. From there, the author weaves a dialogue between times and generations. This exercise in memory and exploration becomes a testimony, an act of resistance against oblivion.

Join the conspiracy

Thibault Tourmente & Quentin Euverte

On view 22.04.2026-13.05.2026

An exploration into the nature of images, repetition, and visual representation, framed as a "duo bookshow" and archival project questioning the truth of printed media.

Cubiertas redescubiertas

Marta Claret

On view 20.12.2025-10.01.2026

Artist, restorer and interior designer Marta Claret has been making watercolor paintings of the covers of every single book she's read for many, many years, filling hundreds of pages of personal diaries.

Recently, she's started to apply this to geometric pieces of ceramic that she bakes and vitrifies, creating a glossy, sturdy object that recreates the size and format of each book.

Terranova is proud to present Marta Claret's first ever exhibition, showing her watercolors and personal diaries in our gallery space and the ceramic works of both of our street windows.

Studio Cumbre

On view 24.11.2025-3011.2025.

Studio Cumbre launches its Summer 2026 collection through a photographic curation that captures the behind-the-scenes of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week 2025.

Volcano Dreams

Jeanette Mark

On view 01.11.2025-20.11.2025

The project revolves around the dream of the volcano: a dream in which the artist shapes a completely new world that emerges through the smoke and gradually opens its way until bursting into our reality. The publication brings together recent drawings alongside archival materials that the author has collected over the years. In addition, on the same day we will inaugurate in our exhibition room a small display of the original drawings.

¿Quién sabe?

Laura Sebastianes X Blau Eterea

On view 01.1025-25.10.25

Conceived through a year-long dialogue between Laura Sebastianes and Blau Eterea, ¿Quién sabe? is a hybrid object — contemplative and performative — animated through light and gesture.
A portable, intimate system that unfolds into an ever-changing scene.

And There Was The Night

Claudio Pogo & Magda Wysocka

On view 20.04.2025-15.05.2025

We invited Claudio Pogo & Magda Wysocka from Outer Space Press i Berli to join us for the annual celebration of Sant Jordi, the huge book festival in Barcelona.

They brought a new title dedicated to a real life vampire, and exhibited a beautiful large format silkscreened fabric sheet on the walls of out gallery space.

All photos of the exhibition by @claudiopogo

On the Path of Broken Bottles

Dani, Luna & Ricard

On view 01.03.2025-20.03.2025

Through a graphic essay, the visual codes of skinheads and their narrative at the intersection of fashion, politics, and femininity are explored. The exhibition features prints, silkscreens, and a piece created using an old Canon fax machine.

AP-7 Roadtrip

María Aucejo

On view 01.02.2025-20.02.2025

The Mediterranean Motorway, or AP-7, is the main route that connects all road traffic along Spain’s Mediterranean coast, stretching from Algeciras to France. Its first section, inaugurated in 1969, was widely featured in Francoist development propaganda as a symbol of progress and the starting point of Spanish consumer society. Today, the imagery surrounding this road is far removed from the optimistic fascination of the 1970s, and the landscapes and architectures along the way evoke a sense of strangeness. This archival and research project seeks to look beyond nostalgia in the narrative of progress and tourism in our country.

Tierra, camino, fruto

Eduard Sánchez Ribot

On view 01.12.2024-10.01.2024

On the occasion of his new book Tierra, camino, fruto, recently published by Handshake, young photographer Eduard Sánchez Ribot presents a selection of images from the book blown up and laid out on the walls of our small gallery space.

All photographs were taken during a visit to South Korea in 2023, and reflect Eduard’s multi layered approach to reality, landscape and evocative, eye-catching objects and shapes.

50 años de Pre-Textos

On view 01.11.2024-25.11.2024

On the occasion of the launch of Un erizo, tres juncos, dos rocas, Lucia Boned’s book (and the its film-format companion) and in anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of their practice, for a few days our whole bookshop is entirely devoted to the publishing house Pre-Textos.

The gallery space showcases very rare ephemera and first, totally sold out editions from their very early days, including never before seen personal documents, photographs and documents that shed light into the work of the three original members Manuel Borrás, Manuel Ramírez y Silvia Pratdesaba.

17 de octubre de 1998, Banyoles

Amara Nasira & José Manuel P.

On view 17.10.2024-31.10.024

Painters Amara Nasira and José Manuel P. team up to paint together a mural for the first time, covering the walls of our gallery space with a personal memory filled with evocative light and a mysterious quality enhanced by the specificity of the date and place given in its title, which happens to be exactly 26 years before the show’s opening.

Memento Vivere

Alberto Ámez

On view 01.09.2024-25-09.2024

Our little gallery space becomes a large museum room by exhibiting small format oil paintings by figurative painter Alberto Ámez.

The selection of tiny works still manages to capture the author’s personal and intimate recurring themes, such as the imagery from paradise, dreamscapes and utopia.

Together with his paintings, the exhibition showcases Pompita, a serialized little sculpture of a pink stone with flashy eyes.

La Ruta 1987-1990

Sara Oliva

On view 01.07.2024-20.07.2024

To celebrate the launch of the new book co-published by Ojos de Buey and Terranova, we are splashing the walls of our gallery space with over a hundred photographs from the book, all taken by Sara Oliva at the peak of what would come to be known as La Ruta del Bakalao, the extreme wild party lifestyle in and around the suburbs of Valencia in the 1980s.

The opening will include a chat from Vista Oral commissioners and book editors Maite Muñoz and Alicia Escobio, the presence of the photographer Sara Oliva, special “La Ruta” themed ceramics by underground pottery brand Sindicato del Barro and a very special nostalgic DJ set.

Fantazo

Valentina Silva

On view 01.06.2024-25.06.2024

The Greek root of “fa”—also found in “phantom” and “fantasy”—means “to bring to light.”

Everything revolves around light, and how pure imagination can create something. That was the premise: to bring to light anything I imagine.

La Melancolía

Cristian Bravo

On view 10.05.2024-30-05.2024

As a companion show to the presentation of his editorial project of the same name, Cristian Bravo exhibits a handful of large scale photographic prints in our small gallery space.

What's Color? - 3rd Edition

Claudia Valsells

On view 15.04.2024-05.05.2025

What’s color? is a very personal project started in 2020 in which artist iClaudia Valsells assigns a specific chromatic value to people she admires and asks them about their personal relationship with color.

For this third edition, she has selected a very eclectic group of local artists and creators, encouraging Terranova to conceive the shortlist of names with her.

Rabbits

Saba Casalta

On view 12.03.2024-28.03.2024

Rabbits invites viewers to contemplate the complexities of autonomy, destiny, and selfhood, prompting introspection and reflection upon the existential dilemmas inherent to the human experience. Through a synthesis of conceptual narrative and visual expression, the exhibition seeks to illuminate the enigmatic landscape of personal autonomy and transformation.

Dibujos 1968-1973

José María Albanell

On view 10.02.2024-10.03.2024

It was the artist Olivia Albanell who first told us about the very obscure and almost unseen drawings her father had done in his youth. Most of them were trapped inside the covers of numerous notebooks, some others in bigger, loose sheets of paper. They all reflect a time of psychedelic inner exploration, when Josep Maria Albanell was a young artist and designer participating in the underground subculture of Barcelona’s music and journalism scenes.

Terranova ended up having the privilege to show Albanell’s drawings to the public for the first time ever, in this exhibition at our bookstore in February and March 2024.

Falso paralelo

Pere Llobera

On view 01.12.2023-10.01.2042

Pere Llobera presents two almost antagonistic works in which he reflects on the contrast between the innocence of childhood and the cynicism that too often accompanies adulthood. In the small interior gallery, a piece of the house of his friend, the curator David Armengol, is recreated, almost like a small diorama. Pere gifted Armengol a small portrait of Michael Haneke, which coexists with the children’s drawings of Armengol’s daughters.

In the shop window, there is a large canvas of a girl alone in a forest, for which Llobera painted a real suit of armor that he made for his own daughter when she was only two years old.

The Library of Louise Remy

A tribute to our mother

On view 01.11.2023-25.11.2023

“Our mother, Louise Remy, was born in France into a family where culture and a thirst for knowledge were constant. Her father was a professor of zoology at the University of Nancy. Louise earned her degree in Art History at the same university and then went to Paris to further her studies. It was there that she met our father, Francisco Ballesta, a Catalan doctor who had come to expand his knowledge in cardiology. They married in 1951 and moved to Barcelona. She quickly learned Spanish and Catalan and realized that taking care of her home alone wasn’t enough for her. She began her teaching career at the French Institute of Barcelona, initially teaching language, and later art history. Over the course of about 40 years, she alternated between these two disciplines. Her last 20 years were dedicated to explaining various art history topics to an increasingly large group of what she called her ‘student-friends’ or ‘friend-students’; she wasn’t quite sure in which order to place the terms. These were individuals who found in her a combination of culture, art history, and French that catered to their interests, and she continued to inspire them with her enthusiasm even until the age of 86 or 87. Our mother truly enjoyed sharing her knowledge with others.

We could say that her extensive library was nourished by two sources: Firstly, books that were given to our father by numerous patients and friends. These books covered topics related to Catalonia, its culture, geography, and history, or, upon learning of our mother’s interest in art, books about specific aspects of art. These books could be considered part of her more scattered collection.

Secondly, very specific books that focused on specialized aspects of art history, directly related to her classes and the subjects she was going to teach. Our mother would visit libraries, initially the one at the French Institute, later the one at the National Art Museum of Catalonia, and she always appreciated the help she received there. She also purchased books. Her trips to Perpignan to acquire a specific book were quite frequent. These were the books from which she found the information to complement her explanations or illustrate her classes with numerous slides. It’s important to note that our mother was not a typical teacher: every year, she changed her program based on the interests of her students, her own knowledge, and, above all, taking into account the exhibitions that might be taking place that year in Barcelona or some corner of Catalonia, in Paris, or in some other European city. She could spend hours and hours at a table covered with open books, researching or photographing artworks until late into the night.

Two pieces of information that could summarize our mother’s attitude and interest in art books are that: she was unfamiliar with the possibilities of the internet, and she couldn’t comprehend how one could find excellent photos or comprehensive information online. Additionally, she had completed her studies in Art History between 1947 and 1950, using books with black and white photos of dubious quality. When comparing them with the quality of editions from recent decades and the books she collected, she was genuinely amazed.”

Astrid Ballesta Remy
Elvira Ballesta Remy

A Catalogue of a Young Country Ladies Library

Louis Porter

On view 01.09.23-25.01.23

A selection of early photographic postcards depicting women engaged in the act of reading, with the contents of a fictional library devised in 1712 by Anne Baker in response to the failure of The Spectator (the most popular periodical of its time) to produce a promised list of recommended reading for women.

Paloma Wool in Hong Kong

Joe Lai & Paloma Wool

On view 01.08.2023-25.08.2023

A collaborative body of work between photographer Joe Lai and Barcelona based brand Paloma Wool. Pictures of artists in the city of Hong Kong wearing clothes by Paloma Wool.

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Rese One

On view 01.07.2023-25.07.2023

A look inside the artist’s room is a look inside his world. A depiction of the room he used to live in and how things were distributed. You are able to touch, draw and even buy whatever you find in here.

Podar

Albert Cano

On view 01.06.2023-25.06.2023

A selection of collages worked directly using the cover and first pages from magazines intervened by layers.

Bon Repòs

Jeric Acuña

On view 01.05.2023-25.05.2023

Jeric Acuña’s photographic collection delves into the meaning behind the act of holding hands behind the back, a gesture often associated with the elderly and men. Through spontaneous photos taken with mobile devices or analog cameras, Acuña captures the quietness, calmness, and lack of danger conveyed by this posture. It represents a rejection of a defensive mindset, a resignation towards fate, or a deep trust in the outside world. The exhibition explores the cultural significance of walking with hands behind the back, showcasing diverse situations where individuals create something together without shared goals.

It is an ode to a serene and elegant lifestyle, appreciating life’s intricacies and defying the chaotic pace of modern existence. Furthermore, the project explores the nostalgic and bittersweet emotions tied to the gesture, reflecting on time and the overcoming of temporal dilemmas. Ultimately, Acuña’s work invites contemplation on the profound personal and socio-cultural meanings conveyed by this seemingly simple act.

Nieves Zines

Nieves

On view 01.04.2023-30.04.2023

We have the inmense pleasure to host as our special guest for 2023’s Sant Jordi day one of the publishers we most admire: Nieves Books.

Founded by Benjamin Sommerhalder in Zurich in 2001, Nieves has been publishing some of the most interesting books and zines by many authors that have come to re-define contemporary culture and the arts.

For three weeks, we will be showcasing in our small back room a selection of 160 zines spanning more than twenty years of Nieves’ publishing. The selection features the work of over a hundred artists including Raymond Pettibon, Dash Snow, Susan Cianciolo, Mike Mills, Takashi Homma, Nathalie du Pasquier, Tobin Yelland, Ari Marcopoulos, Elein Fleiss, Stefan Marx, Ed Templeton, Geoff Mcfetridge, James Jarvis, Rita Ackerman, Ken Kagami and Misaki Kawai.

Ensayo 3: Layer upon Layer

Mela Dávila

On view 01.03.2023-25.03.2023

In 1972, Christo and Jeanne-Claude managed to install the artwork Valley Curtain in Rifle (Colorado), which they had to take down the next day due to the threat of wind.

Valley Curtain was photographed by Harry Shunk and Janos Kender. The resulting photographs were printed on posters and postcards and eventually became the main visual record of the installation.

In 1975, the artwork was presented at the Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas, where the director, Miguel Arroyo, commissioned designer Álvaro Sotillo to create a publication based on the photographs by Shunk and Kender.

MBM-2

Guillem Celada Prior

On view 01.02.2023-25.02.2023

The video is a display of some of the anonymous restoration or dignification interventions that I have carried out in the public space since 2019.

The selected objects, based on their position on the threshold between the public and private buildings, become landscape configurators.

As landscape configurators, they connect with the idea of the growing degradation of our environment, a gradual but increasingly evident fact in various aspects.

The simple gesture that I repeat, an instantaneous and simple action, redefines the object and, by extension, the environment to which it belongs.

The exhibited lights are a display of the three size versions and different finishes (color or chrome) in which the MBM-2 or 20/53 model was produced (according to the manufacturer’s catalog).

However, they suggest the fate that objects can take, from conservation to degradation, and from intervention to restoration.

La Catedral del Marbre

Lola Bonet i Palop

On view 10.01.2023-30.01.2023

During the month of January we have Lola Bonet i Palop showing her work in both our left window and the interior gallery.

«Observe el marbre i m’hi endinse. Se’m descobreixen mars en calma, tempestes i onades. Boira, núvol, muntanya, llamp. Es com si el mineral hagués interioritzat el paisatge durant milions d’anys i ara s’expressés retornant-lo a l’exterior.»

“I look at the marble and dive into it. Calm seas, storms, and waves are revealed to me. Fog, cloud, mountain, lightning. It is as if the mineral had internalized the landscape for millions of years and now expresses it by returning it to the outside.”

Out of the Blue

Terranova

01.12.2022-07.01.2023

About ten years ago, Luis Cerveró, one of the two partners of Terranova, started collecting loads of posters, driven by his love of paper in front of an imperative virtual world. After some great convincing by Lucía, the other partner of this house, Luis decided to take this posters out of the Blue Space where they were dying of boredom and exhibit them while they are also in sale during the month of December.

A random yet super interesting selection of posters that include things from 1965 until 2012, and authors so far away from each other like for example Robert Crumb, Milton Glaser, Jiri Kolar, Shepard Fairey or Stanislaw Zagorski.

Drawing

Stéphane Roches

On view 2022.11.01-2022.11.25

During the month of November we present an exhibition of the graphic work of Stephane Roches, French stylist based in Barcelona, collaborator for years of Yohji Yamamoto and, more occasionally, of Carine Roitfeld.

Stephane’s drawings, very free exercises of line and color, somewhere between abstraction and figurative, are a little known facet of his work. They will occupy both our left window and the interior gallery.

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Irene Royo

On view 01.10.2022-28.10.2022

To celebrate the first anniversary of our bookstore, we wanted to do something different in our small gallery, so we asked the artist Irene Royo to paint directly onto the three walls, in a gesture that accompanies the fragile and intuitive nature of her work, which on the one hand acquires strength by the ambition of the dimensions and the aggressive nature of the intervention, but on the other hand contains the tragic component of the ephemeral, as it will be erased a month after its creation.

The exhibition is accompanied by the sale of small-format originals, as well as a series of enlargements of super 8 stills taken from the artist’s abstract experiments by directly intervening the celluloid with glass paint.

Per Cromwell

Fotogrames perduts

On view 01.09.2022-25.09.2022

In a new instalment of this travelling exhibition, Per Cromwell presents a short selection of diptychs from his book per_cromwell, published by Puigfaura.

Each diptych, selected in collaboration with Terranova, is a high-quality reproduction on the wall of a double spread from the book. That is, a conscious pairing of two totally distinct images from the artist’s vast archive put together side by side to create a dreamlike, poetic new meaning.

All photographs, and many others from the book, can be purchased as a pair or individually, inviting the visitor to create their own connection between single images.

Tres películas

Paula Giménez Monar

On view 01.06.2022-20.06.2022

Tres películasis the triptych of films by Paula Giménez Monar consisting ofVerano,Ante cosas asíandMe voy. Me Voy.

They will be in continuous projection in our exhibition space, presented by Temporal.

I'm okay

Anna Izquierdo Gilabert

On view 01.05.2022-24.05.2022

“I’m okay is the title of this project, and it is also what Itziar, my 14-year-old cousin, always says to me. She doesn’t add anything else, and it’s such an ambiguous “I’m okay” that I never know how to take it.”

With this installation that accompanies the launch of her book, the artist aims to create a sheltered and soft space to display these delicate images that she has taken of teenagers but also the ones that she took of herself at that age. 

The sheets, the refuge par excellence of the adolescent, transport us directly to that universe, to that vital stage, at the same time as it engages us to a more intimate process of viewing the moment that we enter the little space.

In short, this hut, this refuge, as well as being a metaphor for adolescent representation itself due to its fragile structure, aims to protect and give the importance that these portraits, which are normally quickly consumed on social media or in regular photographic displays, deserve.

Todos mis ojos

Amara Nasira

On view 01.04.2022-20.04.2022

Todos mis ojos is an exhibition of original paintings by Amara Nasira that compose Terranova’s new book, Sudokus.

A few months back, after a visit to her house, a friend of the painter left abandoned a cheap little sudoku booklet. Amara Nasira couldn’t help but complete it in her own particular way.

The book is a facsimile edition that reproduces the original without any interference. The exhibition consists of the torn-out pages nailed to the walls of our gallery. All original paintings are available for purchase.

Graffti

Antonio Xoubanova & David Mozzetta

On view 01.03.2022-25.03.2022

This exibition is a natural follow up to Graffiti, Antonio Xoubanova’s book published by Ca l’Isidret in 2021. The author and the book designer, David Mozzeta, take the book to a third dimension.

Besides painting the walls of our small gallery with drawings reminiscent of another photobook with the same title (Brassaï’s Graffiti from 1960), a few selves showcase Xoubanova’s book customized and transformed by a group of fellow artists and friends invited by the author and Terranova. The resulting books were on display and available for sale, together with other copies of Graffiti customized by Antonio Xoubanova and David Mozzetta live before the audience in the opening of the exhibition.

The full list of participating artists included Albert Cano, Oriol Enguany, Erik Von Frankenberg, Alejan dro Marote, Piereeno, Raquel Quevedo, José Quintanar, Giovanni Spera, Strike, Kentaro Terajima, Miguel Ángel Tornero e Irkus (m) Zeberio.

Raquel Quevedo’s transformed copy of Graffiti was on display at the left window of the bookshop.

Somos hijos de nuestro paisaje

Franc Fernández

On view 01.02.2022-25.02.2022

Celebrated architect Franc Fernández has been spending his summers in Greece for almost thirty years, always carrying in his pocket small notebooks in which he’s been drawings sketches of landscapes, buildings and other details he’s come across. For the first time he shows in public a selection of such private works, which were never meant to be shared, and putting them together in a small self-published booklet that surprisingly is his first ever output in paper format, since he’s always rejected publishing a monography about his work as an architect.

All three walls of our small back-room gallery were filled floor to ceiling with pages cut out from his notebooks, forming an overwhelming collage of dozens of the places he’s visited during his journeys in Greece.

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Olivia Albanell

On view 01.12.2021-10.1.2022

For the first time we gave both inside (gallery) and outside (shop window) spaces to the same artist, Olivia Albanell, to work on two parallel installations that were constantly evolving during the month long exhibition, that ended up being more of an artist residency than a regular show. Olivia splashed her work around in a free form logic that comes from her own personal instinct, changing it, adding and taking away elements that included everything from drawings and personal notebooks to tiny sculptures, organic pieces like wood and sea shells hanging from strings and found objects that she combines until it all makes sense.

For over a month, which included long visits, private tours and plain hanging around, she invaded parts of our bookshop transforming them into a physical output of her mind, her imagination and her soul.

Arcana Mayor

Mayte Nicole Esteban

On view 01.11.2021-30.11.2021

Dominican artist Mayte Nicole Esteban approached Terranova with the idea of publishing a set of Tarot cards, based on her illustrations of the twenty two main arcana figures from the Marseille tradition. The project soon evolved into an artist edition, consisting of big sized postcards screenprinted on white ink over black cardboard, a fold out poster with poems by Alejandra Smits and Julia Guzman, and a ceramic container made by designer and potter Robbie Whitehead.

The exhibition served as a presentation for the artist edition, with all original artwork on display, the boxed sets piling up against the corner, and a solitary wax candle by Krystel Cárdenas in the opposite wall. A small sized catalogue was published by Terranova with a reproduction of all twenty-two ink illustrations and an interview with Mayte Nicole Esteban by Alba Galocha.

Dutch Landscape 13

José Quintanar

On view 01.10.2026-31.10.2026

Since the moment he settled in Rotterdam, José Quintanar has been working around the concept of the Dutch landscape, mainly as a pictorial tradition in Art History, one based in the construction (and deconstruction) of the elements of a landscape, but also as an exploration of the idea of colonization of a given space.

For his 13th instalment in this series, Quintanar was invited by Terranova for the inauguration show of their new library and the back-room gallery devoted to installations around the editorial practice. The artist chose to adapt the idea of colonization by stamping a deconstructed drawing of a landscape into the pages of 91 different books bought in the second-hand bookshops found around the docks of Rotterdam.

As it’s common to his practice, he single-handedly did the whole process himself. He drew the landscape, deconstructed its lines, made 16 wooden blocks out of it (13 drawings + 3 title pages), personally selected and bought the books, stamped them with red ink, cut and folded all 91 jackets individually out of Dutch-orange paper, and numbered all books after previsualizing the position of each of them in the gallery space.

All 91 books, along the molds used to stamp them and all twelve previous publications from his Dutch Landscape series, were exhibited and up for sale, marking the first ever publication of an artist book from Terranova. A small catalogue was also published as a friendly companion to the exhibition, containing an in-depth interview with the artist by Terranova founder Luis Cerveró, together with a few samples of stamped pages from different books and a thorough bibliography of José Quintanar’s complete publications to date.