Andorra's Cultural Highlights: Art Exhibitions, Talks and Festivities

### Current Cultural Highlights Across Andorra

Andorra's cultural scene this week spans exhibitions on urban art, ancient Egypt, early photography and human-scale urban design, plus talks on innovation, literature and Egyptian family roles, alongside Sant Antoni festivities, live music and new theatre performances.

French street artist C215 (Christian Guémy) presents *Figures de l’Emancipació*, a series of portraits honouring key figures in France's fights for emancipation and liberty, at Espai Caldes in Escaldes-Engordany until 13 March.

The exhibition *Del Néixer al Renéixer: Vivències a l’Antic Egipte* displays archaeological pieces from Barcelona's Egyptian Museum, focusing on everyday life in ancient Egypt, at Centre d’Art in Escaldes-Engordany until 21 February. A guided nocturnal tour takes place tonight at 20:00, while a talk on women's roles in ancient Egyptian families—as daughters, wives and mothers—runs at 19:00 in the Escaldes-Engordany communal hall.

*Pioners 1884-1954: L’Andorra dels Primers Fotògrafs* draws from national archives to showcase works by 11 pioneers across nine collections, tracing 70 years of the Principality's modern history, at the government's exhibition hall in Andorra la Vella until 7 March.

Bici Lab Andorra in Andorra la Vella hosts *Ciutats a Escala Humana* until 28 February, employing Playmobil models and projections to depict four cities prioritising people over vehicles amid rising urban density.

*El Nu i l’Objecte Emocional*, examining interactions between the nude body and everyday objects in drawing, continues at Centre Cultural La Llacuna in Andorra la Vella until 27 February, with an event at 18:30.

Naiara Escabias's *Respirs de Canillo* remains on view at Cal Federico in Canillo until 31 March.

Talks at Hotel Roc Blanc in Escaldes-Engordany begin at 19:30, featuring *El Que Penses... Et Crea* on harnessing mindset for change, *LEINN: Emprèn, Lidera i Innova Mentres Viategies pel Món* on a global experiential degree blending entrepreneurship and teamwork, and *Lab d’Innovació i Emprenedoria* on Finnish-inspired collaborative problem-solving. At 19:00, Pere Augé Jr., founder of Circles House Andorra's first boutique coliving space, inaugurates *El Teler Daurat*.

Literature events include *Prosa de Combat* at 19:00 in Llibreria La Trenca, Andorra la Vella, with Àlvar Valls, Cerni Escalé and Júlia Ojeda discussing Manuel de Pedrolo, and *L’Ànima Separada del Cos*, the debut novel by Eva Arasa, at a 19:15 reading club in Encamp's communal library.

Sant Antoni festivities feature animal blessings and vianda handouts from 13:00 at Plaça del Telecabina in Canillo, with market stalls at Encants de Sant Antoni, plus escudella soups and encants in Encamp's Plaça de Sant Miquel.

Cota 1300 delivers ambient music and DJ sets outdoors from 16:30 to 21:00 at Ordino's Plaça la Closa. The theatre piece *Le Porteur d’Histoire* uses five actors, stools, costumes and imagination to explore personal and collective histories through time and space, at 20:30 in Encamp's sports and cultural complex party hall.