MEAM · European Museum of Modern Art

Contemporary art museum

The first museum with living artists that promotes figurative painting and sculpture of contemporary art. The MEAM, exhibits the best contemporary figurative art.

It belongs to the Fundació de les Arts i els Artistes, the purpose is to promote and disseminate 20th and 21st century figurative art. The aim of MEAM is to find a new contemporary language that does not deny tradition but emerges from it to take a leap forward in the new century. In addition, the Fundació organizes the Figurative Painting and Sculpture Prize every year, and with the website Figurativas en Red it opens a window to the world of the works of contemporary figurative artists.

The MEAM is currently located in the Palau Gomis, between the narrow streets of the Born district of Barcelona, ​​a neighborhood in which culture is always present and where all the charm of the old town is reflected, an area that has managed to unite tradition and modernity and that has become a must for tourists interested in monumental and museum Barcelona.

MEAM differs from other contemporary art museums by supporting artists who practice figurative art. These works are not usually exhibited in other museums, collections of foundations or institutions more dedicated to abstractions, for which the concept of contemporaneity is more identified with experimentation, abstraction, video art, etc.