WHO WE ARE
Palo Alto is a unique space in the city of Barcelona, born from the rehabilitation of an old factory from 1857 and surrounded by gardens that give it a unique character. An architectural and cultural heritage of the city, it now hosts fifteen companies from the creative sector
The Palo Alto Center for Artistic and Cultural Production Private Foundation, created in November 1997, aims to promote and manage cultural and artistic activities, promote the projection of Palo Alto with educational and institutional visits, provide spaces for exhibitions, create a cultural fund and ensure the preservation and rehabilitation of the factory complex. Currently, the Foundation is made up of the president, the vice president and eight members, with an executive director and a team of six professionals responsible for the management and maintenance of the space.
LOCATIONS
EXHIBITIONS
Current exhibition
- 10 de November de 2026
- 27 de November de 2026
Isabel Steva, known as Colita, was one of the leading figures in twentieth-century Catalan and Spanish photography. At Palo Alto Barcelona, we present an exhibition of photographs documenting the Roma settlements of Montjuïc and Somorrostro, images that have never before been exhibited in Catalonia.
Next exhibition
Capes
7 to 31 December
The exhibition proposes a reading of Poblenou as a territory in constant transformation, where the layers of the soil preserve the memories, relationships and tensions of the different stages of the neighborhood.
Previous exhibitions
Current exhibition
Next exhibition
Past exhibitions
Isabel Steva, known as Colita, was one of the leading figures in twentieth-century Catalan and Spanish photography. At Palo Alto Barcelona, we present an exhibition of photographs documenting the Roma settlements of Montjuïc and Somorrostro, images that have never before been exhibited in Catalonia.
Ex Machina proposes an itinerary through an everyday element such as the razor that acts as a cultural, material and technological condenser of the interactions of being human with their environment. A careful selection of objects explores how the idea of progress and the impact on the environment filter down to the most intimate actions of the body, and how design objects become vehicles of values, imaginaries and conflicts of an era.
