Unpolished, inexplicable, absurd, full of colour… So many animations, collages, memes and renderings that reach our eyes every day from socials. However, this almost unwanted material is sometimes used as a tool for organisation and social activism. Daniel Moreno Roldán explains it to you in ‘Caca banal’, an exhibition with an explicit title that you can see at La Capella from 28 January to 20 April.

The exhibition, which is part of Barcelona Producció programme, opens the activity of 2025 at La Capella. The many exhibitions you will see this year are structured around three main axes: virtuality, identity and meta-discourse.

As a first, Moreno Roldán will deliver an artistic creation that questions the use of low-quality digital material for activism, but he also studies how it is used in the corporate world.

You will meet a Barcelona-born artist and musician who has shown his work in Barcelona, Marseilles, Vienna and Madrid and who, in addition to his creative side, spreads his work on social networks (@danielmoreno_roldan on Instagram) using Humour language code. He is part of a video game club that considers it to be more than just forms of entertainment. He also works as a music producer and sound designer for musical and stage projects and audiovisual productions.

Moreno Roldán’s exhibition occupies the Espai Capella, but in the neighbouring Espai Rampa you can also see another exhibition, also between 28th January and 20th April, entitled ‘Demà serà un altre dia’ (Tomorrow will be another day), which speculates on possible natural disasters. This immersive proposal, also part of the Barcelona Producció programme, asks whether the imminence of a catastrophe might not be a good driving force for urban renewal. The author is Pol Clusella Arimany, who moves between artistic creation, architecture and music. If you are familiar with his name, perhaps it is because he has worked on some of Berta Prieto’s and Belén Barenys’ shows, such as the one we saw last season at the Auditori.

These are the first two exhibitions of 2025, but there will be many more, including individual exhibitions, La romeria dels cornuts, by María Alcaide (Espai Capella) and La pantalla mutant, by Pol Merchan (Espai Rampa), both from 29 April to 6 July; Repetir Corbar Coincidir, by Milena Rossignoli (Espai Capella) and Insània, by Heidi Valda (Espai Rampa), from 15 July to 28 September.

Among the commissioned exhibitions, Nostàlgia de futur: travessant el col-lapse, by Luca Carrubba, Eurídice Cabañes (Arsgames; at Espai Capella) and Caixa sorpresa, by Grup d’Estudi (Espai Rampa), from 23 October to 18 January.

Performances by Júlia Barbany, Alba Rihe and Dania Shiha (from 7 to 9 October) are also part of Barcelona Producció’s 2025 programme, as are publication projects by Orne Cabrita and Alex Palacín; research projects by Ona Bros, Édouard Decam and Théophile Seyrig; and off-site projects by Xavier Acarín Wieland and Rubén Sánchez Salas.

If you want to start 2025 with contemporary art made in Barcelona, come to La Capella to see the new programmed exhibitions, but first check the website for all the information about it.