Image creditJürgen Nefzger, “Nogent-sur-Seine, France” of the "Fluffy Cloudsk" series, 2003. © Jürgen Nefzger

At a glance

60–90 minutes

The bomb exploded in 1945. The Atomic Age never ended.

Why go

Art, politics, science and environmental history converge in what promises to be one of Barcelona's major winter exhibitions.

You'll see

Modern and contemporary art · Hiroshima · Nuclear culture · Science · Politics · Environmental histories

Pace of visit

Expect high historical and textual density.

Don't miss

The shift from the atomic bomb as historical event to radiation as a timescale extending far beyond human life.

Artlovers Tip

This isn't really an exhibition about 1945. It's about the world we still inhabit because of 1945.

Inside the exhibition

Key Movements

Contemporary Art

Genre

Political Art

Description

Co-produced with the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, the exhibition examines how nuclear physics transformed politics, culture and our experience of time. Its scope begins before Hiroshima, with discoveries in atomic physics, and extends through nuclear weapons, energy and contemporary environmental anxiety.

The show spans artists from the 20th and 21st centuries, using art as a way to understand an event whose consequences cannot be contained within conventional history.

Exhibition

The Atomic Age

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Barcelona, Spain

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