The Trafalgar Space, well known for hosting the exhibition “The World of Banksy”, now becomes the Bansky Museum, after welcoming more than 100,000 visitors.
Thanks to his strong and personal artistic proposal, Banksy has become one of the most internationally recognized artists.
It is the best example of protest art that managed to mark a whole generation. Above all, of those who grew up watching on the news when his works appeared showing the conflict, the graffiti, the war. A kiss, a bouquet of flowers, a bomb.
Banksy Museum in Barcelona
Now Barcelona will have a Banksy Museum that will definitely occupy the Trafalgar Space (C/Trafalgar 34), which for three years had already hosted the exhibition “The World of Banksy”.
It is one of the most ambitious exhibitions in the world that managed to become a museum dedicated to the artist.
The museum then becomes a permanent exhibition that seeks to expand as the artist creates his works. For now and on the occasion of the opening of the museum, about 30 works dedicated to the war in Ukraine will be incorporated. In this way, Barcelona will be positioned as a reference center for the artist worldwide.
The works are life-size reproductions made by ten artists, as many of them were painted on street walls in the form of graffiti.
The curator of the exhibition, Hazis Arvard, said how important it is to have museums like this one in a city as multicultural as Barcelona. With that, none of these murals will be forgotten.
The museum will be open from Monday to Sunday from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm.
Who is Banksy?
Banksy is the pseudonym used by the popular English street artist to identify his works. However, most of the data related to his identity is unknown.
Some research indicates that he was born in 1974 in a town near Bristol. He is reportedly the son of a photocopier technician who had trained as a butcher.
He turned to graffiti during the period known as the “aerosol boom” during the 1980s.
The vast majority of his works are visible in London and in some cities around the world, such as Barcelona. They are satirical pieces that allude to pop culture, politics, morals, racism, consumerism.
His style is the perfect integration between graffiti and stencil with great influence from Blek le Rat (French urban artist) and the punk band Crass (known for promoting anarchism as a political ideology, resistance movement and lifestyle).
In the 1990s he was part of an art collective that made artwork without getting arrested for vandalism.
