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This year is the 125th anniversary of the birth of Pablo Ruiz Picasso, one of the most outstanding geniuses of the 20th century and of the field of contemporary art. Fittingly, the Picasso Museum of Barcelona and the city council have organised Picasso 2006 BCN which shows the close link between the painter from Malaga and the Catalan capital.

Picasso 2006 BCN also marks the centenary of Picasso's stay in Barcelona and in the village of Gósol in the Pre-Pyrenees of Catalonia, in the foothills of the Pedraforca Mountain. The artist stayed in both places after arriving from Paris, just a year before painting one of his most important works, 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon', a precursor to the Cubism movement.

Picasso 2006 BCN includes, amongst other events, exhibitions, performances and lectures. There are six main exhibitions: 'Picasso. The Passion of Drawing', 'The Picassos of Antibes', 'Picasso and the Circus', 'The Picasso Museum Collection, A New Look', 'Picasso, Man of a Thousand Masks', and 'Picasso's Barcelona'. The first of the exhibitions closed last month, while the others are already open or will be opening over the coming months.

Picasso 2006 BCN has three objectives: to make the public more aware of Picasso's relationship with Barcelona (and with other parts of the country), to highlight the purpose of the Picasso Museum, and to commemorate an artist who revolutionised 20th-century art.