The Biennal B 2026 returns to Mallorca with a second edition that strengthens its presence in Palma and expands its reach with the incorporation of Marratxí. Promoted by the Consell de Mallorca and Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma, in collaboration with the Palma City Council and the Marratxí Town Council, the initiative will unfold across venues such as the Casal Solleric, La Misericòrdia and the museum itself, joined this year by Sa Refinadora in Marratxí.

Biennal B 2026 is conceived as a territory-wide cultural project that combines exhibitions and creative processes around the dialogue between contemporary art, place and traditional knowledge, with special attention to materials, crafts and practices linked to the local context.

From the underwater world to textile creation

One of the first milestones will take place on 30 April at the Casal Solleric, with the opening of Había en el fondo del mar (There Was at the Bottom of the Sea), the exhibition by Nuria Mora, which can be visited until 6 September. The artist transforms the space into an underwater setting through a series of interventions that engage with the architecture, the city and its maritime surroundings. Through these site-specific installations, the project evokes the seabed as a place of memory, where shipwrecks function as a metaphor for time and history.

Another of the main axes will be the group exhibition A media lumbre (In Half-Light), which can be visited from 23 July to 18 October. Co-produced with the IVAM and curated by Blanca de la Torre, in Mallorca it will unfold across Es Baluard, Casal Solleric and Sa Refinadora, where an individual proposal by Teresa Matas will also be integrated. The project brings together works that engage with materials such as ceramics, clay, wool and natural fibres, in connection with forms of knowledge linked to the territory.

The programme will continue in September at La Misericòrdia, where the chapel will host the exhibition by ceramist Joan Pere Català Roig. In the same venue, the courtyard will host from 10 to 30 September Llengua de foc (Tongue of Fire), a textile installation by Valeria Maculan in collaboration with Tèxtils Bujosa, conceived as a scenic device that integrates body, sound and matter through a choral action linked to Mallorcan tradition.

Contemporary culture from a territorial perspective

Biennal B 2026

Presentation of the Biennal B 2026 programme. Photo: Consell de Mallorca.

The director of Es Baluard, David Barro, underlines the scope of the project and points out that Biennal B “not only expands the exhibition spaces, but also the contexts of production and thought, connecting contemporary practices with traditional knowledge and local communities. In this sense, it reinforces Es Baluard Museu’s commitment to a critical, decentralised contemporary culture that is deeply linked to the social and cultural reality of Mallorca and the Balearic archipelago as a whole”.

Along the same lines, the vice-president of the Consell de Mallorca and councillor for Culture, Antònia Roca, stresses that “Biennal B is a strategic commitment by the Consell de Mallorca to promote contemporary culture from a territorial perspective, creating opportunities for artists and bringing contemporary art closer to the public”.

Biennal B 2026 programme

30 April – 6 September

  • Había en el fondo del mar, by Nuria Mora
  • Venue: Casal Solleric

23 July – 18 October

  • A media lumbre (group exhibition)
  • Venues: Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma, Casal Solleric and Sa Refinadora
  • Includes an individual proposal by Teresa Matas

10 – 30 September

  • Llengua de foc, by Valeria Maculan
  • Venue: La Misericòrdia
  • Includes an exhibition by Joan Pere Català Roig