The Fundació Joan Miró – CEAC (Centre for Contemporary Art Studies)
We promote transformative experiences of art
The Fundació Joan Miró is a museum and creative space as unique and inspiring as the artist who created it. Its main goal is to make Miró’s work, modern art and contemporary art accessible to everyone.
The institution was personally set up by Joan Miró, and its initial holdings consisted mainly of his private collection, in its desire to set up a living Miró space in Barcelona, open to the world and linked to young artists and the most contemporary practices.
’I want the Foundation to be like this notebook. I will write the first page and others the next pages.’ Joan Miró
The Fundació Joan Miró was opened to the public on 10 June 1975, and it has since become a reference point where Joan Miró’s art coexists with the artistic creation of today.
Besides staging pioneering exhibitions of 20th and 21st century art, the Fundació also organises public and social programmes and projects in collaboration with other institutions and organisations in the country and around the world, in its desire to promote creativity and critical thinking as well as to bring together artistic practices using innovative methodologies.
The Fundació is housed in a building designed by Josep Lluís Sert, and it is one of the few examples of museums in which the artist and the architect have established a collaborative dialogue between the work and the spaces that display it.
