Brain(s) it takes us both into the anatomy of the brain and into everything it generates: consciousness, abstract thinking, language, imagination, dreams and memory. The exhibition also investigates other minds beyond the human: artificial, animal and collective intelligences, and those of organisms without a brain.

Why are there brains? Where does consciousness come from? And creativity? What happens when the mind gets sick? Can intelligent machines be created? What can we learn from the collective intelligence of ants?  Brain (s ) explores these questions and many others by looking at the rich landscape of cognition and its historical development, from natural systems to human-made systems. Through a route that combines historical, scientific and artistic material, and that poses open questions to the visitor, the exhibition questions our understanding of conscious experience and explores what can happen when this experience is interrupted or damaged.

Curated by physicist and biologist Ricard Solé and Emily Sargent, curator of the Wellcome Collection, the exhibition presents  around 300 pieces , among which there are seventeen immersive installations of contemporary art, audiovisual works, pieces from historical collections and results of scientific research projects on the brain.

Place : Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB)

Dates : From July 27 to December 11, 2022

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