Contents: Sculptures, installations and photographs produced between 1973 and 2002 by nineteen contemporary artists who take different attitudes to the concept of space.
Sponsored by the Fundación BBVAContents: The first ever retrospective exhibition in Barcelona of Arp’s work, with more than 140 paintings, collages, reliefs and sculptures produced between 1912 and 1965.
Irony, selected by Ferran Barenblit, contains works by different contemporary artists with very different discourses and dealing with different subjects, but having in common the use of irony in their work.
The exhibition will offer the most comprehensive view yet of the experimental, rebellious, magical, lyrical universe of one of the most important Catalan avant-garde creative artists.
Mark Rothko, curated by Rosa Maria Malet and Oliver Wick, containing works produced from 1935 until shortly before the artist's death in 1970, pays special attention to the configuration of a singular style and to the importance that Rothko attached to the arrangement of his paintings in space as items for meditation.
Art in Central Europe. 1949-1999" aims to offer a rational, historical overview of the various styles in employed from the end of the Second World War down to the present day by "unofficial" artists in Central Europe, i.
Sigmar Polke. Die Alten. Selected by Gloria Moure, the 50 or so pieces produced by this German artist between 1982 and 1997 are all based in some way or another on the work of Francisco Goya and in particular on his well-known painting Time and the Old Women (1812).
Around 100 paintings and drawings by Paul Klee, Yves Tanguy and Joan Miró from the Gallery K. AG collection in Switzerland. A simultaneous look at the work of three of the most significant artists of the twentieth century through such a classic genre as landscape.
Exhibition of new figurative art, curated by Enrique Juncosa and containing pieces by Gerhard Richter, Vija Celmins, Alex Katz, Malcolm Morley, Francis Alÿs, Stephan Balkenhol, Thomas Schütte, Marlene Dumas, Susy Gómez, Perejaume, Marina Núñez, Antony Gormley, Guillermo Kuitca, Kiki Smith and Mark Tansey – artists who all use figuration to speak of identity, sexuality, reality or even art itself.
Si seguim, segur que riurem (If we go on, we’ll surely laugh) is a collection of photographs of Tortell Poltrona, the Catalan clown who founded the NGO Clowns Without Borders.
Coinciding with the 1999 Spring Design Show in Barcelona, this exhibition curated by Oriol Pibernat and Pedro Azara showed the work of André Ricard, a pioneer in the theory and practice of industrial design in Catalonia.
An exhibition of over 100 works by the Scottish visual artist, poet and philosopher, many of them designed and produced exclusively for the Fundació Joan Miró’s exhibition spaces.
