The exhibition, co-produced by the museum, focuses on the trajectory of Club 49, a group that between 1949 and 1970 organized over five hundred activities spanning music, painting, cinema, theatre, dance, and photography.
Curated by Muriel Gómez Pradas and Joan Maria Minguet, the exhibition examines how Club 49 became a hub for cultural resistance and connection with international avant-gardes, despite the censorship and surveillance of the Franco regime. Inheritors of the ADLAN spirit, they were instrumental in keeping an open and innovative culture alive.
The exhibition draws on extensive research in public and private archives, featuring documentation, invitations, photographs, publications, and artworks by artists such as Joan Brossa, Antoni Tàpies, Juan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Juan Poncio, José Guinovart, Magda Bolumar, Eudald Serra, Moisés Villèlia, Juan Josep Tharrats, as well as international music figures like Louis Armstrong and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
The exhibition also highlights Club 49's connections with the Lleida-based photographer and filmmaker Ton Sirera, who was honored with a monographic session in 1964. The exhibition includes a work by him from the MORERA collection.
