Exhibitions
The Miró Foundation premieres 'Circles', a renewed tour of its collection
A new presentation explores the artist's creative processes and opens the Cypress Garden to the public after 50 years.
The Miró Foundation has decided to rethink the way it explains its collection and is inaugurating a new exhibition presentation that breaks with the traditional route under the title of Circles . This reorganization, which can now be visited, proposes a different look at the work of Joan Miró and also incorporates six pieces loaned by the Museo Reina Sofía.
The project starts from a very specific idea: a working folder that Miró created between the second half of the 1950s and the early 1960s. Inside this folder, marked in pencil with the title Circle and the dates “1955-1962”, the artist kept newspaper clippings, images of the cosmos and various visual references that he connected with circular representations of human culture, such as a sardana. This set of materials revealed a reflection on space, time and ways of perceiving art.
Joan Miró, L'Étoile matinale. The morning star March 16, 1940 , Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona. Donation of Pilar Juncosa de Miró, © Successió Miró, 2026.
Drawing inspiration from this archive, the Foundation now proposes an exhibition that moves away from chronological or strictly thematic readings. Instead, the tour focuses on the artist's creative processes and the relationships established between the works, the architectural space and the visitors.
In this new reading, the architecture of Josep Lluís Sert regains an essential role. Miró and the architect had already conceived the building as a space designed to dialogue with the works, and this idea is once again at the center of the project. The arrangement of rooms, the changes in perspective and the entry of natural light set the rhythm of the visit and condition the way of looking.
One of the most outstanding elements of this transformation is the opening to the public of the Cypress Garden, an outdoor space that had remained closed since the inauguration of the Foundation in 1975. This opening reinforces the dialogue between interior and exterior, allowing the exhibition experience to extend towards the landscape and natural light.
Joan Miró, Poem Poem (III), May 17, 1968 , Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona. © Successió Miró, 2026.
In this restored courtyard, Woman (1970), a bronze sculpture by Miró that represents a female figure crowned with a kind of gigantic snail shell, finds new prominence. The work, which until now had gone largely unnoticed in a space near the Fundació bar, is now presented outdoors, where the light and the environment enhance its presence.
The new presentation brings together more than a hundred works and has been possible thanks to the founding generosity of Joan Miró, his family and numerous collectors and institutions that have donated or lent pieces over the years.
As highlighted by the director of the Foundation, Marko Daniel, during the presentation of the project, this reorganization generates “a new relationship between the works, between us and the works, and between the works and their environment”. A renewed way of approaching Miró's universe that highlights not only his artistic creation, but also the way in which space and the public's gaze can transform it.
