Exhibitions
The Girona Art Museum presents the 2026 exhibition schedule
New exhibition projects, artistic tributes and a new look at Gothic altarpieces mark the year, with exhibitions dedicated to Concha Ibáñez and the Altarpiece of Sant Pere de Púbol.
The Girona Art Museum has presented its exhibition schedule for 2026, which consolidates the small-format exhibitions that take place in Area 2. Some of these exhibitions can already be visited, such as the one dedicated to the artist Francisca Rius i Sanuy , a discovery for many visitors that is receiving a very good reception from both the public and critics.
At the same time, the Museum will participate with a small exhibition in the tribute that the city of Girona pays to Vicenç Huedo, artist and drawing teacher at the La Mercè Art School. Of the seven exhibitions scheduled in different spaces, the one at the Art Museum will focus on his most atypical and singular production, the so-called calamicleos. Likewise, the Museum will be integrated into the exhibition project Instruments of the soul. Matter and spirit in medieval Catalonia , jointly promoted by the MEV, the Medieval Museum of Vic, the Museum of Lleida, the Diocesan and Regional Museum of Solsona and the Girona Art Museum itself.
However, the action that will particularly mark the year will be the renovation of the roof of the Throne Room, an intervention that has required the protection of the large 15th-century altarpieces that are exhibited there through packaging, for reasons of safety and conservation. Far from being an impediment, this situation has become an opportunity to offer a new way of approaching Gothic altarpieces. After their digitization with high-resolution images, visitors will be able to navigate them digitally and discover details almost imperceptible to the naked eye. In addition, a mapping with surprising scenes and details of the work will be projected onto the packaging of the Altarpiece of Sant Pere de Púbol, almost five meters high. This unique experience will also become a permanent resource within the Museum's itinerary.
Concha Ibáñez. The evocation of the landscape is the exhibition that the Museu d'Art de Girona presents in Àmbit 3 from June 16, 2026 to January 10, 2027, curated by Elina Norandi, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of the artist Concha Ibáñez (Canet de Mar, 1926 – Barcelona, 2022). The landscape becomes the central axis of the exhibition and of her artistic career, approached from a very personal working method: during her travels, the artist made numerous studies and sketches that, upon returning to Barcelona, she later developed into pictorial series.
Far from traditional landscaping, Ibáñez constructs an original vision of the places she visits, marked by the synthesis of forms and a reduced chromaticism that become distinctive features of her language. Her landscapes, which in some cases border on abstraction, captivate with their capacity to transform reality and offer an intimate evocation of it, a reflection of her way of being in the world. The exhibition also delves into this personal universe through the exhibition of engravings, original documentation and objects that belonged to her, enriching the reading of her work and career.
The altarpiece of Sant Pere de Púbol
The Altarpiece of Sant Pere de Púbol, one of the masterpieces of the Museu d'Art de Girona, will be on display in Area 2 from 18 May to 24 September 2026. Made in 1437 by Bernat Martorell, one of the most prestigious artists of the time, it was the result of a private commission from Bernat de Corbera and Margarida de Campllong, barons of Púbol. The Museum preserves the original document of the commission, an exceptional testimony that precisely details all aspects of the work, from the iconographic program and the scenes represented to the pigments used and the amount of gold that the artist had to apply, which allows us to delve deeper into the creative process and artistic practices of the 15th century within the context of Catalan Gothic.
