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MACBA’s artistic fonds includes works of a very diverse typology, reflecting the variety of supports in contemporary art. The community Artistic Fonds of the Digital Repository contains all the material relating to the works in the MACBA Collection, either digital in origin or subsequently digitalised.
This collection includes digital archives relating to videos, films and audiovisual documents in the MACBA Collection. It contains works in film and video, as well as recordings of performances and artistic actions. MACBA digitizes and preserves the audiovisual works in the Repository for its best preservation. In order to offer the maximum number of works for public consultation, the Museum is managing the cession of intellectual property rights. For this reason, the total name of digitized files may be higher than the files that can currently be viewed in the Repository.
This collection includes digital archives relating to works based on sound: from musical compositions to sound recordings of voices or ambient sounds. MACBA digitizes and preserves the sound works in the Repository for its best preservation. In order to offer the maximum number of works for public consultation, the Museum is managing the cession of intellectual property rights. For this reason, the total name of digitized files may be higher than the files that can currently be viewed in the Repository.
This collection includes the digital archives relating to photographic works in the MACBA Collection. MACBA digitizes and preserves the photographic works in the Repository for its best preservation. In order to offer the maximum number of works for public consultation, the Museum is managing the cession of intellectual property rights. For this reason, the total name of digitized files may be higher than the files that can currently be viewed in the Repository.
This collection includes digital archives relating to elements of installations in the MACBA Collection capable of being digitalised. The constituent elements are of a very diverse nature. In every work in this collection you will find digital files related to it. MACBA digitizes and preserves the works in the Repository for its best preservation. In order to offer the maximum number of works for public consultation, the Museum is managing the cession of intellectual property rights. For this reason, the total name of digitized files may be higher than the files that can currently be viewed in the Repository.
This collection includes the digital archives relating to graphic components such as publications, plans, posters, documents and other materials that need to be produced and preserved. These are elements that belong to works in the MACBA Collection. MACBA digitizes and preserves the works in the Repository for its best preservation. In order to offer the maximum number of works for public consultation, the Museum is managing the cession of intellectual property rights. For this reason, the total name of digitized files may be higher than the files that can currently be viewed in the Repository.
This collection brings together elements of media installations in the MACBA Collection capable of being digitalised. It includes digital archives relating to audiovisual and sound recordings, graphic material, digitalised photographs, still images for projection and software belonging to installations with audiovisual elements. Being of a very diverse nature, the constituent elements are grouped according to the works to which they belong. MACBA digitizes and preserves the works in the Repository for its best preservation. In order to offer the maximum number of works for public consultation, the Museum is managing the cession of intellectual property rights. For this reason, the total name of digitized files may be higher than the files that can currently be viewed in the Repository.
This collection includes computer applications belonging to works in the MACBA Collection. The software may be an integral part of the work, or specific elements required for the presentation of the work. MACBA digitizes and preserves the works in the Repository for its best preservation. In order to offer the maximum number of works for public consultation, the Museum is managing the cession of intellectual property rights. For this reason, the total name of digitized files may be higher than the files that can currently be viewed in the Repository.
This collection includes the digital archives of works in MACBA’s artistic fonds based on the projection of one or several still images. MACBA digitizes and preserves the works in the Repository for its best preservation. In order to offer the maximum number of works for public consultation, the Museum is managing the cession of intellectual property rights. For this reason, the total name of digitized files may be higher than the files that can currently be viewed in the Repository.
The documentary fonds in the digital repository includes all the materials from the Archive and Library of MACBA’s Study and Documentation Centre, either digital in origin or digitalised for reasons of preservation.
The documentary collections in the Archive – factitious sets of documents brought together after their creation – include artists’ publications, vinyls, publicity material and posters, among others.
You will find more documents at Fons Joan Brossa .
You will find more documents at Fons Joan Brossa .
MACBA’s Historical Fonds contains all the documentation generated by MACBA in the course of its activities from its opening to the present. The Fonds is indispensable for documenting the evolution of the Museum, its history, the Collection, the exhibitions and programmatic activities. The repository preserves and gives access to audiovisual recordings of activities and seminars, sound recordings of guided visits and interviews, publicity material, photographic records of exhibitions, among many others. The Fonds is constantly growing and represents the historical memory of the institution.
All the contents of this collection are accessible in the MACBA Library reading room. Plaça dels Àngels, 8 08001 Barcelona. From Monday to Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Please contact to arxiu@macba.cat for further information.
Restricted contents of this collection are accessible in the MACBA Library reading room. Plaça dels Àngels, 8 08001 Barcelona. From Monday to Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Please contact to arxiu@macba.cat for further information.
The Archive of MACBA’s Study and Documentation Centre contains documentary material generated by the activity of persons or bodies linked to contemporary artistic practice. Some of the contents in this Fonds, such as negatives and photographs, correspondence, personal diaries and other mostly unique documents, have been digitalised and can be consulted through the digital repository.
The Joan Brossa Fonds is housed in the MACBA Archive in the framework of a 25 year loan agreement between the Brossa Foundation, Barcelona City Council (which inherited the contents of one of the poet’s studios after his death) and MACBA. Brossa’s personal archive contains around 52,000 documents; this fonds includes a wide variety of materials. You will find more documents related with Joan Brossa at other fonds and documentary collection .
The Joan Brossa Fonds is housed in the MACBA Archive in the framework of a 25 year loan agreement between the Brossa Foundation, Barcelona City Council (which inherited the contents of one of the poet’s studios after his death) and MACBA. Brossa’s personal archive contains around 52,000 documents; this fonds includes a wide variety of materials. This collection contains digitalised correspondence from Brossa’s fonds.
The Joan Brossa Fonds is housed in the MACBA Archive in the framework of a 25 year loan agreement between the Brossa Foundation, Barcelona City Council (which inherited the contents of one of the poet’s studios after his death) and MACBA. Brossa’s personal archive contains around 52,000 documents; this fonds includes a wide variety of materials. This collection contains the digitization of the films and video recordings pertained to Brossa’s fonds.
The Joan Brossa Fonds is housed in the MACBA Archive in the framework of a 25 year loan agreement between the Brossa Foundation, Barcelona City Council (which inherited the contents of one of the poet’s studios after his death) and MACBA. Brossa’s personal archive contains around 52,000 documents; this fonds includes a wide variety of materials. This collection contains the digitalization of sound recordings belonging to Brossa’s fonds.
The Joan Brossa Fonds is housed in the MACBA Archive in the framework of a 25 year loan agreement between the Brossa Foundation, Barcelona City Council (which inherited the contents of one of the poet’s studios after his death) and MACBA. Brossa’s personal archive contains around 52,000 documents; this fonds includes a wide variety of materials. This collection contains digitalised photographs from Brossa’s fonds.
The Joan Brossa Fonds is housed in the MACBA Archive in the framework of a 25 year loan agreement between the Brossa Foundation, Barcelona City Council (which inherited the contents of one of the poet’s studios after his death) and MACBA. Brossa’s personal archive contains around 52,000 documents; this fonds includes a wide variety of materials. This collection brings together the digitalised manuscripts of Brossa’s artistic and literary work, documents produced during the preparation of editions, and other documents.
The fonds donated to MACBA was created by exchanging cards with different artists from around the world, following a call for presentations by Merz Mail and, above all, from Sousa’s correspondence with a smaller group of artists with whom he maintained a certain friendship and affinity, such as the South American creators Edgardo Antonio Vigo (Argentina), Clemente Padín (Uruguay) and Guillermo Deisler (Chile, at the time resident in Germany); the Americans John Held, Gerard Barbot, Jas W. Felter and Ray Johnson; and the Europeans Vittore Baroni, Guy Bleus and Ruud Janssen. The fonds contains diverse material from the Merz Mail archive related to mail art, including correspondence, postcards, envelopes, graphic material and objects belonging to Edgardo Antonio Vigo and Ray Johnson, among others, as well as publications and artist stamps. This collection contains digitalised works of mail art from his fonds.
The fonds donated to MACBA was created by exchanging cards with different artists from around the world, following a call for presentations by Merz Mail and, above all, from Sousa’s correspondence with a smaller group of artists with whom he maintained a certain friendship and affinity, such as the South American creators Edgardo Antonio Vigo (Argentina), Clemente Padín (Uruguay) and Guillermo Deisler (Chile, at the time resident in Germany); the Americans John Held, Gerard Barbot, Jas W. Felter and Ray Johnson; and the Europeans Vittore Baroni, Guy Bleus and Ruud Janssen. The fonds contains diverse material from the Merz Mail archive related to mail art, including correspondence, postcards, envelopes, graphic material and objects belonging to Edgardo Antonio Vigo and Ray Johnson, among others, as well as publications and artist stamps. This collection contains digitalised works of mail art from his fonds.
The fonds donated to MACBA was created by exchanging cards with different artists from around the world, following a call for presentations by Merz Mail and, above all, from Sousa’s correspondence with a smaller group of artists with whom he maintained a certain friendship and affinity, such as the South American creators Edgardo Antonio Vigo (Argentina), Clemente Padín (Uruguay) and Guillermo Deisler (Chile, at the time resident in Germany); the Americans John Held, Gerard Barbot, Jas W. Felter and Ray Johnson; and the Europeans Vittore Baroni, Guy Bleus and Ruud Janssen. The fonds contains diverse material from the Merz Mail archive related to mail art, including correspondence, postcards, envelopes, graphic material and objects belonging to Edgardo Antonio Vigo and Ray Johnson, among others, as well as publications and artist stamps. This collection contains the publication P.O.BOX.
This archive collection was created as a result of the group activity between 1977 and 1983. It brings together documents that allow us to discover the various social video projects they took part in, as well as its internal organisation. It includes an extensive selection of photographs of the group’s filming and work sessions.
The Xavier Miserachs Fonds, housed in the MACBA Archive under a commodatum or gratuitous loan of 25 years, is formed by around 80,000 photographic images (negatives, transparencies, contact sheets), documentation related to Miserachs’ professional activity and publications from his personal library. Through the repository you may consult over 2,000 contact sheets, some 750 negatives and transparencies and 300 textual documents.
The Xavier Miserachs Fonds, housed in the MACBA Archive under a commodatum or gratuitous loan of 25 years, is formed by around 80,000 photographic images (negatives, transparencies, contact sheets), documentation related to Miserachs’ professional activity and publications from his personal library. Through the repository you may consult over 2,000 contact sheets, some 750 negatives and transparencies and 300 textual documents. This collection contains the digitalised contact sheets in the Fonds, as well as a selection of negatives, slides and transparencies. It also contains digitalised correspondence and other textual documents belonging to the Fonds.
The Xavier Miserachs Fonds, housed in the MACBA Archive under a commodatum or gratuitous loan of 25 years, is formed by around 80,000 photographic images (negatives, transparencies, contact sheets), documentation related to Miserachs’ professional activity and publications from his personal library. Through the repository you may consult over 2,000 contact sheets, some 750 negatives and transparencies and 300 textual documents. This collection contains digitalised correspondence and other textual documents belonging to the Fonds.
Contents from the various collections on the MACBA Digital Repository that have been selected thematically in order to offer new readings of the exhibitions, activities and general programmatic lines of MACBA.