Exhibitions
The Joan Miró Foundation places architecture at the center of 2026
Reorganization of the Collection, contemporary exhibitions and large anthologies redefine the dialogue between art, space and visitor.
In 2026, the year in which Barcelona is World Capital of Architecture and the second part of the 50th anniversary of the Fundació Joan Miró is celebrated, the institution will make architecture the backbone of its programming. The aim is to position it as a way of life, a tool for organizing the territory and a driver of the future, while recovering the spirit of Josep Lluís Sert's legacy.
The reorganization of the Collection will be one of the highlights: based on Miró's work processes and inspired by the Circle folder, the exhibition will open the Cypress Garden and recover natural light, transforming the building into a central part of Miró's heritage.
Kapwani Kiwanga. Soft Measures: Flysch (2020).
Contemporary art will also play a prominent role with the first national monograph by Kapwani Kiwanga, Joan Miró Prize 2025, and the programming of Espai 13, which will explore the invisible processes that sustain built spaces through the works of Huaqian Zhang, Michael Kleine, Ghislaine Leung, Victor Ruiz Colomer and Camilla Wills. The cycle will think of buildings as living, sensitive and political ecosystems, and will expand the conversation between disciplines that underpins the 2026 programming.
In October, the Foundation will present the great anthology of Charlotte Perriand, a pioneer of modern architecture and design, which reveals her complicity with Sert and Miró and her vision of a more humane and transversal home.
Charlotte Perriand with Le Corbusier's hands holding a plate shaped like a halo, 1928. Photo: Pierre Jeanneret/AChP 2025.
The public and social programming will be transversal, with participatory laboratories, educational projects and activities that will redefine the museum as a living ecosystem. In addition, three international exhibitions in Washington, São Paulo and Shenzhen will consolidate Joan Miró's global legacy.
Finally, the Open the Archive project and the Museum Lobby will reinforce the dialogue between memory, photography and architecture, turning the Foundation into a space for creation, experience and reflection on art and architecture at all levels.
New presentation of the Collection Starting March 13, 2026
With the continued support of the Vila Casas Foundation, the reorganization of the Collection will place Josep Lluís Sert's building at the center of a renewed museum experience, where art, architecture and visitors meet with an unprecedented perspective.
Curated by Teresa Montaner and Marta Ricart, the new presentation starts from the inseparable binomial work-space that structures the tour and gives meaning to each room. Sert's architecture assumes an essential role: as it already happened with Miró, space determines rhythms, perspectives and thresholds that activate the gaze.
