Miró and the United States at Fundació Joan Miró 2025/26

This exhibition places Joan Miró in an expanded transatlantic framework: rather than focusing solely on his Catalan and Parisian periods, it explores the multiple visits Miró made to the United States between 1947 and 1968, his exhibitions in New York and his dialogues with American abstraction, action painting and minimalism.
Curators Marko Daniel, Matthew Gale and Dolors Rodríguez Roig have assembled some 160 works from Europe and the United States — paintings, sculptures, prints and archival documents — in order to show how figures like Jackson Pollock, Louise Bourgeois and Mark Rothko both influenced and were influenced by Miró.

Set within the striking architecture of the Fundació — designed by Josep Lluís Sert — the show invites visitors to move through a layered narrative of modern art: from early Surrealist impulses to his later experiments with material and colour. The exhibition emphasises the theme of “contact across cultures”, presenting Miró’s journeys to the U.S. not as peripheral episodes but as key moments in his creative evolution. Alongside iconic works by Miró, the gallery spaces feature American paintings and prints that reflect the same spirit of abstraction, gesture and visual liberation. This contextualisation provides visitors with a deeper understanding of how modern art became a global rather than solely European phenomenon.