Exhibitions
The Miró Foundation celebrates 50 years with its doors open to the future
This June, with the support of the Generalitat of Catalonia and other institutions, the Miró Foundation began its 50th anniversary celebrations with a view to a future where this institution will continue to be a local, national, and international benchmark for contemporary art.
It was on June 10, 1975, when the Foundation opened its doors to the public on Montjuïc, in an iconic building designed by architect Josep Lluís Sert. The anniversary kicked off on June 11, with the inauguration of the Foundation's exhibition , "Poetry Has Barely Begun. 50 Years of Miró ," which showcases both the past and present of the cultural institution and is open to the public until April 6 of next year. The exhibition unfolds across seven different areas, allowing visitors to learn about the Foundation's genesis, its early years, and its present. It concludes with artistic proposals created by four local artists based on the museum's archive collection.
The exhibition's title evokes a verse by Joan Maragall, a poet admired by the painter. Miró himself also wrote poetry, and in his desire "to murder painting," he applied lyrical style to television. "I try to apply colors like words that form poems, like notes that form music," he explained.
© Fundació Joan Miró. Photo: Pep Herrero
An anniversary “For the people of tomorrow”
Under the motto "For the People of Tomorrow ," Miró's 50th birthday will be celebrated over the course of a year, with the participation of the public—who were able to get their first taste of the work last Sunday at an open house—and various cultural stakeholders. It will feature significant moments that will highlight the Foundation's role as a living center dedicated to contemporary art, full of synergies with its surroundings, but also with the past, present, and future.
© Fundació Joan Miró. Photo: Pep Herrero
This fall, the Foundation will present the exhibition Miró and the United States , an intergenerational dialogue between Joan Miró and American artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko, which will explore his relationship with the United States, a key element in the artist's international projection and artistic evolution. The exhibition brings together an extraordinary selection of paintings, sculptures, prints, and archival material from American and European collections and is accompanied by a large-format publication with new contributions from renowned scholars.
Furthermore, in March 2026, the Joan Miró Foundation will also present a new arrangement of its collection, allowing visitors to approach Joan Miró's work from a different perspective. This presentation, which will continue to occupy the exhibition spaces designed by Josep Lluís Sert, will not be based on formal or historicist criteria, but rather will reflect the artist's working processes.
Finally, to mark its half-century of existence, the Foundation will reopen the Cypress Garden next March, a space previously closed to the public. The garden's original layout will be restored and integrated into the Collection's exhibition layout, in keeping with Miró and Sert's conception of the Foundation's original project.
