Loop Festival 2016

Loop is an international gathering for the video art community – artists, gallery-owners, curators, collectors and researchers – and also a festival that brings challenging contemporary art to the heart of the city. The three-day Loop Fair is a curated selection of artists' films presented by galleries; Loop Studies offers panels and professional meetings at which experts share knowledge; and the Loop Festival shows video art in venues all over the city, from museums to cinemas. In 2015, Antoni Miralda took over a stall at La Boqueria market to show works as part of his FoodCultura project (see No 47), and in the Hotel de Catalunya, 45 invited galleries displayed one video per room, with festivalgoers roaming the corridors to take in the whole show.