Acquisitions programme2026
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Fundació Vila Casas
Fundacio Vila Casas. The Collector is Present 2025. Photo: Cecilia Díaz Betz
Eurostars Hotel Company
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Colección Manuel Expósito
Manuel Expósito. The Collector is Present, 2023. Photo: Eva Carasol
With the 12th anniversary of Barcelona Gallery Weekend comes a new edition of the Acquisitions Program, through which companies, foundations, and private collections commit to acquiring works presented by participating galleries for their collections. At the moment, this year's program already has the commitment of two organizations:
Fundació Vila Casas. Faithful to this initiative since its first edition in 2017, is a non-profit institution founded by businessman Antoni Vila Casas (Barcelona, 1930-2023) in 1986 to promote Catalan contemporary art, and currently has four exhibition spaces and the programme Punts de Fuga, which takes contemporary art beyond them.
Eurostars Hotel Company: through its hotel chain, Grupo Hotusa demonstrates its cultural sensitivity with various initiatives. The aim is to contribute to society through culture, linking hotels with their destinations. The chain's hotels host exhibitions, cultural events, and artistic activities, establishing themselves as a platform for the promotion and dissemination of the current art scene. Eurostars Hotel Company, which participates for the first time in the programme, has an outstanding art collection, which is enriched by a programme of acquisitions of works by renowned contemporary artists.
Manuel Expósito Collection, which began in 1996, is characterised by an eclectic approach, both in terms of artistic genres and artist profiles. It brings togethes mainly pictorial and scultpural works by mid-career national artists, born in the second half of the 20th century, as well as ultra-contemporary emerging creators, with a focus on the new urban avant-garde, hyperrealism, pop and neo-baroque conceptualism, and a strong interest in ironic, paradoxical and critical discursive proposals.