The Miró Foundation, a unique center in the world, created following the important donation made by the painter to the city of Barcelona in 1968, will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary in 2025, remembering some of the most outstanding episodes of its history but with an eye on the future. Hence the chosen motto, For the people of tomorrow, because, as its director Marko Daniel maintains, the institution, like its founder, wants to be a space in “constant transformation”, “a living place”. The anniversary, which will begin on June 10, will feature prestigious guests, including Louise Bourgeois, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.
Exchanges: Miró and the United States, the major exhibition for the anniversary, will propose an intergenerational dialogue between the painter and American artists, showing how “New York artists measured themselves against Miró's work, while he himself incorporated elements of American art to evolve his own practice”. The exhibition, which will bring together 160 works and give special relevance to the contribution of women artists, will focus on the period defined by Miró's two retrospectives in New York, between 1941 and 1959, and the seven visits that the artist made to the country, where in the twenties he forged an important network of friendships. It will be on display in Barcelona from October 16th to February 22nd, 2026, and in March it will travel to the Phillips Collection in Washington, co-organizer of the exhibition. According to Daniel, it will be the most important exhibition of Miró in the United States.
The center, which claims to be a “living place”, will remember its past with an eye towards the future
Framed within this same desire to project the artist's legacy internationally, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum will host the largest retrospective of Miró in the Japanese capital, featuring around a hundred works, with fifty of them belonging to the collection of the Barcelona center. Internally, the event will officially kick off on June 10 with the opening of Painting the Sky: 50 Years of Stories from the Miró Foundation, a “multifaceted narrative” that will explore everything from the circumstances and people that drove modernity in Barcelona, the 75th anniversary of Joan Miró, the exhibitions dedicated to him in Barcelona in 1968 and 1969, as well as the construction of the building designed by Sert, its expansion, and the changes brought about by the Olympic Barcelona. The exhibition will also pay tribute to the artists that have been part of Miró's history, with some areas being designed based on the proposals of creators who have collaborated with the center, such as Lúa Coderch, Anna Moreno, Àngels Ribé, and Antonio Ortega.
Fina Miralles, Susana Solano, and Eva Lootz will be honored with the reconstruction of three historical projects
Another outstanding exhibition of the year (from February to May) will be the tribute to three artists, Fina Miralles, Susana Solano, and Eva Lootz, who had their first opportunity to present their work in an institutional space at Espai 10 (predecessor of the current Espai 13, a reference in supporting creation and experimental art) and now have widely recognized and established careers. It is titled Between Two Courtyards and will consist of the reconstruction of the projects presented in the seventies and eighties. The Miró Foundation will also present the projects of the Taiwanese artist Musquiqui Chihying and the Indonesian artist Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, winners of the grant awarded in collaboration with the Han Nefkens Foundation and Loop, and in May will announce the winner of the 9th Joan Miró Prize, one of the most important in Europe, endowed with 50,000 euros.
